We have 2 great exhibits up on the 6th floor which opened this fall. Impressions of the West: Works of Art from Special Collections features over 30 paintings, sculptures, and prints which showcase how the American West has been viewed by artists and popular culture. The exhibit will look at how artists interpreted the land and peoples of the southwest and west. Focusing on artists who worked during the twentieth century, Impressions of the West will explore whether western art is a truthful recording of a bygone era, or an idealized version of history, or merely kitsch created for the popular market.
Featured in the exhibit will be works by such greats as Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell, who epitomize western art, as well as Bert Phillips, one of the founding members of the Taos School. Works by other well know western artists such as Olaf Wieghorst and Fremont Ellis are also on display.
Also, on display is Life and Death in the Northern Pass: The Photography of Dominic Bracco II which features images from Ciudad Juárez taken by photojournalist and UT Arlington alumnus Dominic Bracco II.
Both exhibits run through January 14, 2012 and are free and open to the public. Our hours are Monday 9-7, and Tuesday-Saturday 9-5.
Sorry, this is a bit late (the exhibit opened August 23rd) but we’ve got a new exhibit up in Special Collections. Charting Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies as Mirrored in Maps, 1600-1900 is a wonderful Map exhibit which explores companies and how they influenced regions, history, and cartography.
In the 1960s, J.W. Jackson began compiling and cataloging multiple boxes of labor records stored in the basement of the Wichita Falls Labor Temple; in the 1980s, when he retired, his purchase of the Carpenters Local 977 union hall prevented the destruction of all of these historic records. This collection was donated to the university in 2009, culminating a 40-year effort to acquire these materials. The records of the numerous Wichita Falls labor unions, as well as J.W. Jackson’s personal papers, provide a window into the impact of labor in a small Texas town. 
The exhibit was curated by Claire Galloway,and in the near future Claire will be organizing a tour of the exhibit. Anyone are welcomed to attend and I’ll be sure to post it here we get it scheduled. If you need anymore information on the exhibit you can contact me at 817-272-2179 or Claire at 817-272-7511.
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The University of Texas at Arlington Library Special Collections is proud to announce the opening of the exhibit “For All Workers: The Legacy of the Texas Labor Movement, 1838-2010″, featuring the personal papers of labor and political activist John “J.W.” Jackson, as well as numerous items from the Texas Labor Archives at UT Arlington. Inspired by J.W. Jackson’s generous donations of labor archive records and personal papers, it explains what labor unions are and why they are important, shows the importance of the labor movement as seen through the life of J.W. Jackson, and concludes with accounts of labor events that have impacted Texas history. The labor movement, a little-known aspect of Texas history, is nevertheless inextricably intertwined with the legacy of what it means to be a Texan, shaping the makeup of who we as a state are today. 
This spring the sixth floor will be inundated with images of the Mexican Revolution. To celebrate the centennial of this momentous event the sixth floor will host an exhibition of three photographic collections in Special Collections, the Parlor, and even the Atrium. The Mexican Revolution, more than any other event, lead to the modern Mexican nation-state. It was also the impetus for the flight of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Mexico to the United States which changed the demographics of the American Southwest and Texas in particular.
