Exhibits

Both a physical and digital exhibit, “Building a Barrier-Free Campus” explores how UTA began to become a model accessible campus for students with disabilities starting in the mid-1960s—a time when disabled students had no right to attend K-12 schools or college. The exhibit covers:

Celestial Wonders: Medieval Thoughts on the Night Sky covers the evolution of scientific thinking and religious views from the Medieval period into the Scientific Revolution, with special focus on solar eclipses. 

This project focuses on three themes of the celestial charts produced…

This timeline examines the history of the university’s Faculty Senate as an elected legislative and deliberative faculty body whose primary purpose is to represent the faculty to the University administration, UT-System administration, the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, and…

UT Arlington Library’s Special Collections exhibit “Howdy, Mr. President!” showcases over 80 intriguing photographs taken by Fort Worth Star-Telegram news photographers. The Star-Telegram JFK collection contains almost 3,000 photo negatives taken during the…

By day they are factory workers, retail clerks, stay-at-home mothers, and students. But once a week, enveloped in a funk of cigarettes, spilled beer, and french fries, they become a crush of thousands screaming for blood and cheering for Texas and the American Way. It’s Monday night in Fort…

UTA Libraries Special Collections presents what promises to be an exciting and provocative exhibit titled “The Shifting Shapes of Early Texas” which will feature some highlights from its extensive collections of maps, prints, and manuscripts. Beginning with the earliest European and Indigenous…

Since 2003 the materials of Special Collections have been highlighted in a weekly feature, first in the Arlington Star-Telegram and now the Fort Worth addition of the newspaper. Time Frames regularly spotlights a photograph, map, or document drawn from a broad spectrum of subjects in our…

This research develops a cross-cultural design project using a People-Centered Design (PCD) approach to promote cultural sustainability and education about historical sites in Colombia. The project focuses on the city of Cartagena, with a particular emphasis on fortifications and their…

More widely read in Mexico than any other form of cheap print, comics provide a window into the archetypes, stories, and cultural scripts that influenced generations of readers, rich and poor. This exhibit explores the spectacular rise of comic books in twentieth-century Mexico and how the…