Audubons on Display

Friday, October 14, 2005
3 to 4:30 p.m.
John Hay Library, Lownes Room

The John Hay Library will host an "open house" to display the Library's copy of John James Audubon's double elephant folio "Birds of America." Leslie Bostrom, Associate Professor of Art in Brown's Program in Visual Arts and an avid birder, will be on hand to talk informally with visitors about the Audubons, the birds represented in the images, and the artistic processes that were used to make the prints. This event is part of the Parents Weekend festivities at Brown.

Feldman Book Arts Studio Dedication

Saturday, October 15 , 2005
3 to 4:30 p.m.
John Hay Library

The Library will honor Walter Feldman, Professor of Art and John Hay Professor of Bibliography, with the dedication of the Feldman Book Arts Studio (located in the basement of the Hay). The studio supports the work of Professor Feldman's students in the book arts, providing them with the space and materials to creatively explore the book as an art form. More than 300 books created by Professor Feldman's students are in the permanent collection of the John Hay Library. This event will include a welcoming reception (in the lobby of the Hay) as well as tours of the Book Arts Studio along with a display of works by Professor Feldman's students.

Tours of the Lincoln Collection

Saturday, December 10, 2005
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
John Hay Library

The Charles Woodberry McLellan Collection of Lincolniana was donated to Brown University in 1923 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ( Class of 1897 ) in memory of John Hay ( Class of 1858 ), one of Lincoln's White House secretaries. The collection is housed in the John Hay Library and includes more than 30,000 items (including manuscripts, broadsides, prints and photographs, sound recordings, sheet music, and museum objects) of materials by and about Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, and about the historical and political context of his life and career, chiefly the U.S. Civil War and its causes and aftermath. Special tours of the Lincoln Room will be offered in conjunction with the traveling exhibit at the Providence Public Library, "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation."

Lecture by Professor Philip Gould

February 9, 2006
7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
John Hay Library, Lownes Room

This event is part of the series of special events held in conjunction with the traveling exhibit at the Providence Public Library, "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation." The exhibit reexamines President Lincoln's efforts toward the abolition of slavery during the Civil War.