Past Exhibits
Handmade: Sculpture from Wake Forest Art Collections
September 8, 2021 – June 30, 2022
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR Library Room 625)
Curated by Quinn Whitman
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Comacina: Improvisations and Variations
January 19, 2021 – August 27, 2021
ZSR Library Special Collections & Archives (Room 625)
Curated by Paul Bright
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Books, Authors, and Readers in 18th Century England
January 20, 2020 – June 26, 2020
ZSR Special Collections & Archives (Room 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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50 Years of Caged Bird: An Exhibit from Dr. Maya Angelou’s Film & Theater Collection
October 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019
Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Rebecca Petersen May
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The Book as Art Object: Local Artists Share Their Work
June 1, 2019 – September 27, 2019
Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Tanya Zanish-Belcher
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Paper Roads: Cultural Exchange in the Age of Print
February 5, 2019 – May 31, 2019
ZSR Library Special Collections & Archives, Room 625
Curated by Megan Mulder
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Bible Versals
October 15, 2018 – January 31, 2019
Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Craig Fansler
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Ronald Watkins and Shakespeare's Globe
October 1, 2018 – October 13, 2018
Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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Past exhibit: Documenting Change at Wake Forest: Dr. Edwin Wilson’s Papers
October 1, 2018 – February 1, 2019
Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Rebecca Petersen May
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The Art of Documentation: From the Field to Publication
June 1, 2018 – September 28, 2018
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (625)
Curated by Tanya Zanish-Belcher
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Still I Rise: Selected Items from the Dr. Maya Angelou Collection
February 1, 2018 – August 31, 2018
Room 625, ZSR Library
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Testaments of War: World War I in Literature, Art, and Memoir
September 1, 2017 – May 21, 2018
ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives Research Room (625)
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Caring For Our Collections: A Day in the Life of a Preservation Librarian
March 6, 2017 – July 31, 2017
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (625)
Curated by Craig Fansler
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Deep Into that Darkness Peering: Gothic Literature from the ZSR Rare Books Collection
October 17, 2016 – March 2, 2017
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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Piedmont Craftsmen Presents: Bound in Craft
August 10, 2016 – October 7, 2016
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (625)
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Books and Bibliophiles at Wake Forest
April 8, 2016 – July 31, 2016
Special Collections & Archvies Research Room 625 Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Curated by Megan Mulder
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African American Poetry Pamphlets
February 1, 2016 – February 29, 2016
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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What's In A Name?: The Legacy of Ed Christman
December 7, 2015 – March 28, 2016
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Stephanie Bennett, Rebecca Petersen May
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Bags of America
August 17, 2015 – November 30, 2015
Special Collections & Archives Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Leigh Ann Hallberg
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W.B. Yeats and His Books
February 2015 – August 2015
Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections & Archives (Room 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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Worth a Thousand Words: Ken Bennett's Photographs of ZSR
August 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625)
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Dream Big: Commencement at Wake Forest University Through the Years
May 2014 – July 2014
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625)
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Letters in Lead: Moveable Type and the Books It Created
February 2014 – April 2014
Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625)
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North Carolina Archives Week 2013
October 21, 2013 – October 27, 2013
ZSR Entranceway
Curated by Brittany Newberry
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Hawthorne Hill Treasures: Objects from the Wake Forest Medical Historical Archives
October 2013 – December 2013
Special Collections Research Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Dianne Johnson
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Books in Fiction: Deborah Harkness and Charlie Lovett
August 2013 – September 2013
Special Collections Research Room (ZSR 625)
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Samuel and Sally Wait
November 2012 – December 2012
ZSR Atrium
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Faithully English'd: Classical Literature in Translation
August 2012 – February 2013
Special Collections Reading Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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Writers' Lives From the Archives
March 2012 – June 2012
Special Collections Research Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder
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God’s Sacred Word Amongst Us: Historic Bibles from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Rare Books Collection
September 2011 – January 2012
Special Collections Research Room (ZSR 625)
Curated by Megan Mulder