{"id":6006,"date":"2024-08-31T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2024-11-05T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T20:17:05","slug":"exhibits-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/news\/exhibits-2024","title":{"rendered":"New Exhibits Featuring Shuart Women’s Research Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two new exhibits featuring selections from the Carey Shuart Women\u2019s Research Collection<\/a> open in September at University of Houston Libraries.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Houston Comets Memorabilia Collection<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Nevertheless, She Persisted! Women as Historic Influencers<\/em> will be viewable on MD Anderson Library Floor 2, while Leagues of Their Own: Representing 60 Years of Women\u2019s Athletics Achievement<\/em> will be on display on Floor 1.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Claire Keck, graduate assistant curator for the Carey Shuart Women\u2019s Research Collection, selected materials for Nevertheless, She Persisted!<\/em> depicting influential women in the Houston region who effected changes in society, politics, and artistic expression.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The process of curating an exhibit involves exploration of what Special Collections<\/a> preserves through the use of finding aids, and choice of visually appealing items. Selections include a variety of primary source materials, including correspondence, artwork, scrapbooks, photos, certificates, banners, and video footage that illustrate an overarching theme. Keck\u2019s tasks also involve generating social media, designing posters, and helping curate a digital exhibit.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

In choosing materials, Keck\u2019s goal was to engage Gen Z, focusing on historical activism of women’s suffrage and the pro-choice movement, women’s clubs and organizations, women’s art, women of color, and LGBTQ+ women throughout the 20th\u202fcentury.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Keck encourages other students who are interested in working with archival material to visit exhibits wherever possible. \u201cWhether that means visiting museums when you can (by the way, Houston museums have a student discount on Thursdays), studying digital exhibits, or looking at the several exhibit cases in the MD Anderson Library, you will continue to learn from all of them and gain a greater understanding of history and the use of archival materials,\u201d Keck said. \u201cBe sure you like to work with old things and that you like to read.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Stephen F. Austin High School Scottish Brigade<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Leagues of Their Own<\/em> features archives from two collections within the Shuart Women\u2019s Research Collection. Vince Lee, archivist for the Shuart Women\u2019s Research Collection, curated items representing the Stephen F. Austin High School Scottish Brigade, which, founded in 1937, promoted scholarship, discipline, respect, leadership, social skills, and fitness at a time when girls\u2019 sports teams were rare or nonexistent. James Burke, PhD student in US History, selected items from the Houston Comets Memorabilia Collection. The Comets, founded in 1997, set the standard for excellence in the early years of the WNBA and paved the way for future generations of players.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

“These exhibits are components of a year-long engagement generously supported by Carey C. Shuart to promote our research collections which preserve the histories of women\u2019s clubs and organizations in the Houston area,” said Lauren Gottlieb-Miller, associate dean for Special Libraries and Preservation. “In spring 2025, we look forward to hosting a culminating event featuring a multi-generational panel and celebratory program to bring alive the stories related to the materials presented in the exhibits.”<\/p>\r\n

Collaboration among Libraries departments is essential for successful exhibit production. These and all UH Libraries exhibits illustrate the collective effort and expertise of teams in Special Collections, Preservation and Reformatting, Resource Management and Metadata, Technology Services, and Administration. UH Libraries thanks Carey C. Shuart for her wonderful support of the Shuart Women’s Research Collection and related exhibits and programming.<\/p>\r\n

Visitors are welcome to view the exhibits during regular building hours<\/a> between September 6, 2024 and May 31, 2025. Visit Entering MD Anderson Library<\/a> for details on quick and secure building access.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new exhibits featuring selections from the Carey Shuart Women\u2019s Research Collection open in September at University of Houston Libraries.\u00a0 Nevertheless, She Persisted! Women as Historic Influencers will be viewable on MD Anderson Library Floor 2, while Leagues of Their Own: Representing 60 Years of Women\u2019s Athletics Achievement will be on display on Floor 1.\u00a0 […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,36,44,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-exhibits","category-featured","category-spaces","category-special-event-or-display"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6113,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.uh.edu\/special-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}