Category: Archive & Past Events

In honor of Veterans Day, the Veterans Resource Center and EWU Libraries has a display in the JFK Lobby from November 10th through 14th, focused on art as a medium for processing the armed services. The display includes photographs, graphic novels, and other materials from the Global War on Terror or GWOT era veterans. There…

EWU Libraries is honoring Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month, September 15-October 15. We have a curated heritage resource display in the JFK Lobby: recent fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels and children’s books. All materials are available to check out!

This collection includes materials documenting the development of the Cheney campus, starting from the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy in 1882. Contact Jennifer Griffith at jgriffith6@ewu.edu.  

Her new work “Knots” is a semiautobiographical graphic novel (that takes place in Cheney, WA!) that was named a School Library Journal Best Book of 2024.   Cartoonist Colleen Frakes | Image by Lee Scheinbeim Series Events: Cartoonist Colleen Frakes at EWU’s JFK Library | Wed., May 21,  2 pm – 3 pm Refreshments will…

Where does truth lie? Artists enrolled in ART 313: Art Through Time explored the notion of hidden truth–a conceptual thread referencing the Hermeneutics of Suspicion that weaves throughout Modernism. Painting, sculpture, photography, collage, digital illustration, and textile-based practices were employed to navigate this theme. Additionally, the artists engaged in scholarly research as a creative process…

The Curriculum Center collection serves not only EWU Education and Children’s Studies students and faculty, but also local teachers, homeschooling families, and other members of the community.

We need your opinion! Visit our “furniture lab” demo space, and try out various seating and writing surfaces. Provide your feedback by completing a short survey accessible via QR code. This  experience closes on January 30, 2025. Have questions or need an accommodation? Call 509.359.6201.  

EWU’s Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Department (GWSS) invites all to experience the return of the Activist in Residence (AiR) program in Winter 2025. AiR programming consists of four workshops, and related art exhibit in JFK’s Secrist Gallery, January 15 to February 19, 2025. 2025 Activist in Residence is Jacob Johns, a Hopi and Akimel…

Students investigated the many written components necessary to create text for art shows, gallery exhibits, and museum collections. Throughout this project, students created their own narratives to describe the visual art in the exhibit, understanding that narratives take both visual and textual form.   On display now through January 10, 2025.

Wed., Nov. 13 | JFK Library, Lower Level, AUX Classroom | Noon – 1:30 Watch this thought-provoking and timely lecture  by Dr. Mark Finney, Executive Director of Thrive International. As the number of displaced people hits historical levels around the world, Dr. Finney presented how local communities are essential in creating solutions. Displacement is driven…