ASU Library’s Black Collections, a new archival repository within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative, is committed to empowering and centering the lived experiences and knowledge of Black and African American communities who are breaking cycles of erasure. This two-day symposium on April 20 and 22 will bring together ASU faculty, students, archivists and community memory keepers to reimagine 21st century archives as spaces of inclusion and justice.
ASU Library’s Black Collections, a new archival repository within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative, is committed to empowering and centering the lived experiences and knowledge of Black and African American communities who are breaking cycles of erasure. This two-day hybrid symposium on April 20 and 22 will bring together ASU faculty, students, archivists and community memory keepers to reimagine 21st century archives as spaces of inclusion and justice. The symposium is free and all are welcome to join.
Join Jessica Salow, assistant archivist of Black Collections at the ASU Library, Dr. Marshall Grigsby, artist Clottee Hammons and Senina Woods Harris for an online conversation about the stories behind the exhibit, “Black History at ASU: The Legacy of Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr.” Please register to receive the Zoom link.
You’re invited to celebrate the opening of “Black History at ASU: The Legacy of Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr.” a new exhibit at ASU’s Hayden Library on the Tempe campus.
ASU Library’s Black Collections is honored to present a new exhibit featuring renowned artist, educator and community activist Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. (1918-2013) and his impact on Arizona’s Black art scene.
ASU Library’s Black Collections presents a new exhibit featuring renowned artist, educator and community activist Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr. and his impact on Arizona’s Black art scene. “Black History at ASU: The Legacy of Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr.” features incredible works of art by local Black artists who were mentored and influenced by Grigsby including Clottee Hammons, Leonard Wilson, Dee Dee Woods and Roosevelt “Rip” Woods.
Join the ASU Library for Archives Wednesday, an open house inside Hayden Library’s Wurzburger Reading Room. At this month’s event, explore selections from the library’s Design and the Arts Special Collections with Harold Housley, archivist for design and the arts. Take a look at materials on Gammage Auditorium and other Frank Lloyd Wright projects, the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and the work of mid-century modern Arizona architects such as Blaine Drake and Alfred Newman Beadle.
At West campus, the Labriola Center at Fletcher Library will be hosting an Indigenous Film Series at the end of each month.
At West campus, the Labriola Center at Fletcher Library will be hosting an Indigenous Film Series at the end of each month.
This documentary interweaves the reality of Inuit life with the story of their challenge to both the anti-sealing industry and those nations that mine resources on Inuit lands while simultaneously destroying the main sustainable economy available to the people who live there. The film screening is limited to ASU students only.
At West campus, the Labriola Center at Fletcher Library will be hosting an Indigenous Film Series at the end of each month.
The Literature Program in the Department of English at ASU hosts this in-person lecture, reading, and Q&A with Diane J Rayor, professor emerita of classics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan and translator of "Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works" (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
All are welcome.