Exhibition History
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2024
Fragments: Artist Residency with Lynne Huffer
March 20-22, 2024
Campus Center
2023
Not ~At Home: Cecilia Paredes
October 24, 2023–June 2, 2024
1912 Gallery, Canaday Library
Disoriented: The First Asian Students, 1894-1923
October 24, 2023–June 2, 2024
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
March 17, 2023–May 28, 2023
1912 Gallery, Canaday Library
2022
A Rough Draft in Stone: A Rough Draft in Stone: Founding Bryn Mawr College, 1872-1894
September 16, 2022–December 16, 2022
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
2021
September 24, 2021–December 17, 2021
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
October 18, 2021–December 17, 2022
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
2020
The Girl's Own Book: Selections from the Ellery Yale Wood Collection
September 14, 2020–June 30, 2021
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Spring 2020 Digital Exhibition
2019
All-Over Design: Lockwood de Forest between Ahmedabad and Bryn Mawr
October 24, 2019–February 28, 2020
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Bauhaus at Bryn Mawr: Marcel Breuer's Furniture for Rhoads
October 24, 2019 June 9, 2023
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
ReconTEXTILEize: Byzantine Textiles from Late Antiquity to the Present
April 18–June 2, 2019
Canaday Library (Coombe Suite and Lobby), Park Science Center
Bryn Mawr College's Legacy in Egyptology
April 11–June 2, 2019
Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library
Temperamental! Prints in the Collection of Bryn Mawr College
March 20–June 2, 2019
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
2018
Camp Pause by Dictaphone Group
Sept. 12–Dec. 14, 2018
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
May 3, 2018–April 12, 2019
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
April 24, 2017–May 1, 2018
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
Feb. 28–June 3, 2018
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Seriously Irreverent: Selections from the Collection of Judith Masur (BMC, Class of 1968)
February 10–September 30
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
2017
Fragmentary Excess: Body, Text, Receptacle
GradGroup Symposium Exhibition
Nov. 3–Dec. 22, 2017
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms
Sept. 28, 2017–Jan. 28, 2018
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Mirrors & Masks: Reflections and Constructions of the Self
March 23–June 15, 2017
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Fenghuang Landscape and Miao Culture: Photographs by Bode Wang
March 13–June 15, 2017
Lobby, Canaday Library
Re-Vision: Archiving Black Experiences at Bryn Mawr
Feb. 23–Oct. 31, 2017
Enid Cook '31 Center
Exhibiting Africa: Ways of Seeing, Knowing and Showing
Jan. 25–March 5, 2017
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
On Selecting: Profiles of Alumnae Donors to the African Art and Artifacts Collection
Jan. 25–Sept. 25, 2017
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
The Tale of Genji from Princesses to Pop Culture
Jan. 25–March 5, 2017
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
2016
Kris Graves: The Testament Project
Sept. 21–Dec. 18, 2016
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Fair Photographs? Portraits and Types from the World's Columbian Exposition
Jan - March 20, 2016
Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library
Beyond All Repair: Language and Vision
Spring Semester, 2016
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
2015
Red and White Quilts. Infinite Variety.
December 2015
Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library
Trisha Brown. In the Body: (Re)Framing Collaboration
Sept. 28–Dec. 11, 2015
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Fall semester, 2015
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
Enid Cook '31 Center Grand Opening Exhibit
Fall semester, 2015
Enid Cook '31 Center
April 30–June 1, 2015
Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library
March 30–June 1, 2015
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Backtalk: Exposures, Erasures, and Elisions of the Bryn Mawr College African Art Collections
Feb 5, 2015 – Jun 1, 2015
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
Creative Dissent: Art of the Arab World Uprisings
Jan. 22–March, 2015
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
2014
Sept. 30–Dec. 12, 2014
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
A Curious Group: A Cabinet of Curiosities
In Celebration of Ten Years of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art at Bryn Mawr College
Kaiser Reading Room, Carpenter Library
April 4–June 1, 2014
A Century of Self-Expression: Modern American Art in the Collection of John and Joanne Payson
Feb. 28–June 1, 2014
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Disasters and Rebuilding in Japan: Perspectives and Testimonies from the Tri-Co Collection
Spring semester, 2014
Eva Jane Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery, 2nd Floor, Canaday Library
2013
Beneath the Printed Pattern: Display and Disguise in Ukiyo-e Bijinga
Sept. 25–Dec. 20, 2013
Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery
2012
Colors of Greece: The Art and Archaeology of Georg von Peschke
March 19–May 27, 2012
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
2011
Double Take: Selected Views from the Photography Collection at Bryn Mawr College, 1860s-present
Sept. 2011–Feb. 2012
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Beyond the Text: Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century French Novels
April–December 2011
Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery
2010 and earlier
mAwRTyrS: Bryn Mawr Women in the Arts
Sept. 2010–April 2011
Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery
Colonial Perspectives: Works from the Louise Bulkeley Dillingham Collection
October 2009–February 2010
Darwin’s Ancestors: Tracing the Origins of the “Origin of Species”
October 2009–February 2010
"The Best Thing in a Girl's Life": Early Women's Colleges in Fiction and Fact
January–May 2009
Intimate Devotion: The Book of Hours in Medieval Religious Practice
January–May 2008
Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generation of Women Archaeologists
September–December 2007
Pointing Fingers: Women Sin, Crime and Guilt
September–December 2006
Luxuriant Nature Smiling Round
January–May 2006
Building Muscles While Building Minds: Athletics and the Early Years of Women's Education
September–December 2005
Mapping New Worlds: The Cartography of European Exploration and Colonization, 1450–1750
January–May 2005
September–December 2004
Bryn Mawr Plays: Dramatic Productions at Bryn Mawr College 1889-1920
2002–2003
Jeannette Jehanne Jeanne Joan: Shepherdess Soldier Savior Saint
January–June 2003
Dedicated to the Cause: Bryn Mawr Women and the Right to Vote
Sept. 26–Dec. 20, 2002
The Very Best Woman's College There Is: M. Carey Thomas and the Making of the Bryn Mawr Campus
Sept. 21–Dec. 20, 2001
The Sargent Portrait: M. Carey Thomas and John Singer Sargent
Sept. 21–Dec. 20, 2001
Books, Printers, and the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe: 1450-1600
Feb. 22–June 1, 2001
It's the Ticket: Nineteenth-Century Bookbinding in the British Isles and the United States
1998
Leading Bryn Mawr: An Exhibition in Honor of Nancy J. Vickers
1997
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