This has been an incredibly busy semester, and one of the many activities I've participated in includes my first experience co-curating an exhibit. The exhibit centers on the Benson Political Protest Collection in the Special Collection Library at Penn State, and was collected by one of my favorite professors at Penn State, Dr. Tom Benson.
The collection is available online here, and we are also hoping to bring it to Flickr in the near future, to enable more community-oriented commenting and sharing of the posters.
If you are in the State College area, please join us Tuesday, November 29 at 4 pm. in Foster Auditorium or live on MediaSite at http://live.libraries.psu.edu for a gallery talk by Dr. Benson on the collection.
This presentation centers on the Special Collections Library's Benson Political Protest Collection---student-created posters from the late 1960's University of California Berkeley campus. Personally collected by Dr. Benson, these posters capture the tumult of student voice during an incendiary time period and provide food for thought on the rhetoric of more recent student participation in political activism, including the Occupy Movement.
The gallery talk complements an exhibit featuring political protest art from the Thomas W. Benson Collection, on display from Nov. 18 to Feb. 1, 2012, in the Diversity Studies Room, 203 Pattee Library.
For more information, please visit http://live.psu.edu/story/56333
I hope that you can join us!
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