Previous ExhibitsElevating Practices: The Lifework of Two Rural Librarians: An Artifact ExhibitArtifacts from the Country Doctor Museum - 4th floor Evelyn Fike Laupus Gallery of the Laupus Library Exhibit ended November 4th, 2012 Humble Beginnings: A History of the Division of the Health Sciences & Eastern North Carolina (Art as Avocation Series)Watercolors by Lou Everett, EdD, RN, Professor Emeritus, College of Nursing Artistry in Wood: Reflections of Past and Present, Preserved Forever (Art as Avocation Series)Relief carvings by Dr. Leonard Trujillo, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy in the College of Allied Health Sciences Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War MedicineBinding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries looks at the men and women who served as surgeons and nurses and how their service as medical providers challenged the prescribed notions of race and gender pushing the boundaries of the roles of African Americans in America. - On display August 15, 2011 - September 24, 2011 The Literature of PrescriptionOn display in the Evelyn Fike Laupus Gallery on the 4th floor January 24 - March 6, 2010 “Weak Female? Medical Justifications Behind Restrictions on Women in the Late 19th Century” Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic SurgeonsA Traveling Exhibition Celebrating the contributions of African American academic surgeons to medicine and medical education On display in the Evelyn Fike Laupus Gallery on the 4th floor May 1, 2009 – July 28, 2009 Old Age and Death: Selected Books from the Laupus Library History Collections: Inspired by “The Last Year” & “Surrounded by Family and Friends” Exhibit at the Greenville Museum of ArtOn Display through July 31, 2009 on the 3rd Floor The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic: July 18-September 9, 2008The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic is an exhibit based on the contents of hundreds of abandoned suitcases that were found in the attic of Willard Psychiatric Center in Willard, New York when it closed in 1995 after 126 years of operation. Contents of the suitcases allowed exhibit curators to interpret and present stories from the lives of people who were removed from their communities and institutionalized. The exhibit offers historical insight and inspires compassion for those with mental illness today. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic was developed by The Community Consortium and is circulated by the Exhibition Alliance, Inc., Hamilton, N.Y.” |
