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New voices added to Yale Library's collection of music oral histories

November 8, 2022
Two gospel artists—Donald Lawrence and Vincent Bohanan—will be filmed in interviews this month.
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Model Research Collection showcases lyric poetry at Bass Library

October 10, 2022
Lyric Thinking: Poetry in the World, the 2022-23 Model Research Collection in Bass Library, features more than 1,000 volumes from Yale Library collections. The collection explores lyric poems across diverse languages, communities, and spaces throughout the historical record.
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Library helps add new voices to Music and the Black Church program

October 3, 2022
Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music grows its collection of interviews with gospel greats.
In a color film still, three young men walk in a line across an overgrown field with trees in the background. The middle one is pushing a wheel barrow.

Film Archive receives grant to preserve second film by pioneering Black director Kathleen Collins

August 18, 2022
The National Film Preservation Foundation grant will help preserve Collins’s short film, The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy. The archive is also preserving the director’s only feature film, Losing Ground .
Young man with sandy brown hair and large amber-framed glasses, waring a dark shirt and jacket, smiles broadly and poses in front of carved column in the exhibition corridor of Sterling Memorial. The small carved figure is of a crouched man reading a book, one page of which has the carved word "Joke."

Chucho Martinez Padres ’23 awarded Senior Exhibit Fellowship

June 13, 2022
For his Senior Exhibit Fellowship, Chucho Martinez Padres ‘23 will explore the methods of art historian George Kubler, PhD ‘40, scholar of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art.
Curator Gabby Colangelo stands in front of open display case in Exhibition Corridor. She wears a short-sleeve black top, wire-rim glasses and long rectangular earrings. Her brown curly hair is tied back. She has a tattoo of a Greek vase with flowers on her forearm and reaches into the case, looking at the camera.

Student curator Gabrielle Colangelo ’22 brings obscured lesbian histories to light

June 6, 2022
For her exhibition, “We Are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive,” now on view in Sterling Memorial Library, student curator Gabrielle “Gabby” Colangelo ’22, began by asking questions.
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Interview with gospel great Kurt Carr leads expanded collection focus on Black church music

April 21, 2022
An April 20 oral history interview with gospel music luminary Kurt Carr is a milestone in the ongoing evolution of a key music library collection to support Yale’s new interdisciplinary program in Music and the Black Church.