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Table layout of 10 white cards that show swatches of color, ranging from blues, yellows, purple. In front of the standing cards are open plastic cylinders containing ground pigments in a range of colors, used to make paints. At lower left is a white paper with some brush strokes of sample colors--four green, four purple, and one yellow

Hands-on learning: Three student curators explore color in theory and practice

November 14, 2022
An inspiring art history class—taught with objects from special collections—leads to a colorful exhibition curated by three classmates.
Three students pose before leaded glass gothic-style windows: man at far left has reddish hair and wears a blue hooded sweatshirt that reads in white lettering on front "Yale Education Studies"; the man at center has short dark hair and wears a round-neck shirt, black belt and black jeans and has his thumbs hooked into his front pockets; the short woman at right has curly black hair to her shoulders, wire-rimmed glasses, wearing a white turtle-neck and blue jeans

Quicksearch and beyond: Students teach students how to navigate library resources

November 3, 2022
Students are teaching their peers what they wished they had known sooner about navigating the library’s vast resources.
Tall young man with wavy brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a blue shirt, white pants, and short necklace, stands next to small woman with dark hair, black and white flowered dress and red sweater. In the background are ornate wood-carved panels and they lean against a long, dark wood-carved surface that had once been the library's circulation desk..

Librarian helps Senior Exhibit Fellow navigate an unusual collection

September 9, 2022
Jessica Quagliaroli mentored Chucho Martinez Padres ’23 as he researched art historian George Kubler PhD ’40.
Screenshot that shows photo of Rachel Wessel at computer and three maps from her project Map of Life

Telling the stories of science: Rebecca Wessel ’24 explores digital narratives

September 2, 2022
Rebecca Wessel ’24 spent her summer as Marx Library’s climate change technologies fellow. After completing three data-driven, interactive projects—two of her own design—Wessel came away with critical new skills in her field and plenty of potential topics for her senior thesis.
17 young male and female science students pose, wearing black t-shirts with white lettering that reads "Wright Laboratory"

Undergraduates explore Yale Library’s collection of great scientific works

August 12, 2022
Seventeen undergraduates, from Yale and beyond, visited Beinecke Library this summer to study selected works of eminent scientists of the 16th through 18th centuries.
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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