Current Exhibits
A Life Without Limits: Faricita Hall Wyatt
March 18 – May 31, 2024
5th Floor, Special Collections & Archives Foyer,
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
Join SJSU Special Collections & Archives and the African American Museum & Library at Oakland for a journey through the life of SJSU alumna Faricita Hall Wyatt, ‘35 Speech, revealing her endeavors in the realms of poetry, art, civil service, education, and computer programming. This exhibit is a continuation of the Black Spartans Project, representing ongoing research to surface documentation of Black experiences throughout SJSU history. Learn more at library.sjsu.edu/black-spartans.
South Asians in Silicon Valley
April 1 - May 31, 2024
5th Floor, AAACNA Studies Center,
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
Program organizers will host an exhibit and symposium showcasing the experiences and contributions of South Asians in the area. Artifacts selected by and collected from community members will demonstrate, teach, and highlight their rich legacies. This will be the first-ever platform at SJSU to welcome the South Asian community to discuss the preservation of their legacies
Coming Soon
Ukraine: Children Draw War Not Flowers
May 8, 2024 - June 24, 2024
2nd Floor, DiNapoli Gallery,
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Library
This exhibition features Ukrainian children’s artwork created in the Fall of 2022, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine lasted for over 6 months, and caused thousands of deaths and millions of persons displaced from their homes.
The artwork depicts experiences of children (ages 4-16 years old) during the military conflict, their fears, hopes, and perceptions of war.
Musical Instruments of South Asia
July 2 - August 29, 2024
2nd Floor, DiNapoli Gallery,
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Library
The organizers of South Asians in Silicon Valley will host an exhibit Explore the wide variety of musical instruments of South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), through paintings and photographs.Accompanying audio clips will bring the sounds of South Asia come alive.
Find out about the ‘rubab’ from Afghanistan and its probable descendant, the ‘sarod’ of India. Many of these instruments are cultivated by the South Asian diaspora in Silicon Valley. The month-long ‘Musical Instruments of South Asia’ exhibit will culminate with a half-day music program, "Sounds of South Asia," on the second floor of the library where local musicians will demonstrate vocal and instrumental music traditions.
Endangered Places in an Urban Setting
September 4 - October 31, 2024
2nd Floor, DiNapoli Gallery,
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Library
Gabriel Ibarra will showcase color and black and white photographs from around the San José area highlighting what they call "endangered buildings and sites" from around the area. The photographs will include various landmarks and signs from across San José that hold historical and architectural significance.
Gabriel Ibarra is a local photographer who has photographed the Bay Area for over 30 years.
Begin Again
November 5, 2024 - January 5, 2025
2nd Floor, DiNapoli Gallery,
Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Library
Everyday, we begin again. Yet all beginnings are not equal. We emerge from a pandemic differently than we do from a break up, we step into revelations about the self differently than we step into our cars to go to work each day. The impact of change varies, but the process is strangely similar—release, anger, grief, discovery, and the awkward joy that’s possible in the new.
Begin Again, is a series of mixed media works that draw from a period in my life that was chock full of change. In eight years I’ve understood myself as a physical being, left a career that was killing me, started a career that brings me joy, received my autism diagnosis, weathered a pandemic, stepped into my gender expression, and that’s just the ‘big stuff'. I needed a visual language full of shocking color, movement, and texture to express the immediacy and complexity--both personal and utterly universal--of these times.
As you walk through the DiNapoli Gallery, I hope you’ll engage with your own feelings about change. Where are you ready to let something go and where are you ready to begin again?
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