Fondren Library Exhibits

1st floor
Room 156

"Replica of William Blake's Star Wheel Rolling Press created by Michael Phillips," presented by Woodson Research Center in anticipation of this item coming to Fondren Library and available for demonstrations in Spring 2023

1st floor Hobby Information Concourse

"Houston's Black Women Storytellers," featuring Carroll Blue and Naomi Carrier and their archives here. 

1st floor exhibit cases at front left of Fondren Library East Entrance
 

"Pen and Ink Treasures: Newspaper Comic Art from the Lewis & Vera Kaminester Gift," created by Christopher Sperandio, Assoc. Prof. of Painting and Drawing, and his Fondren Fellows student team: Irene Wang, Sophia DeLeon-Wilson, and Jenn Nguyen. 

This is part of the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop archives, accessible at the Woodson Research Center.

1st floor exhibit cases at front right of Fondren Library East Entrance
 

"Pen and Ink Treasures: Newspaper Comic Art from the Lewis & Vera Kaminester Gift" - continued 

Inside Woodson Research Center

1st floor flat cases outside Woodson Research Center

"Hip-Hop in H-Town" - This was assembled as an anticipatory exhibit in support of Black Houston(s): Research, Policy and Activism-Past and Future Symposium occurring March 23-24, 2023. Using materials that were collected from Rice University's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL), this exhibit aims to highlight archival collections that represent Houston's Hip-Hop culture.

1st floor single case
by elevators

3rd floor
Lovett Lounge

"Book Arts in Fondren" - Examples of original handmade books, including two from the Limited Editions collection (a portfolio of short works by a Houston writer and the accompanying printed illustrations created by a class at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice) and one facsimile of a unique manuscript created by Carl Jung.

6th floor
exhibit cases

"Jewish Youth Organizations" - The exhibit features materials from the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives housed at the Woodson Research Center, including items from JCC Maccabi Games and North American Federation for Temple Youth. 

Rice Memorial Center trophy case 

"T-Shirts from the Vault" - This exhibit features a selection of student organizations' t-shirts from our Historic Clothing Collection.