On Display: January 24 - May 8, 2023
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
Charting Diverse Pathways explores the lives of the first three Asian ancestry women to attend William & Mary: Hatsuye Yamasaki Kajiwara ‘37, Margaret Lee Masters ‘45, and Beatrice Fujiwara Sakai ‘53.
On Display: February 9 - April 22, 2023
Location: Special Collections Lobby
Recent scholarship offers new insights and interpretations about the Brafferton Indian School’s history and legacy. Interrogating the extant documents from the era demonstrates the role of both the…
On Display: April 26, 2022 - January 25, 2023
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
The William & Mary Linguistics program was founded in 1978 to provide students the opportunity to explore language as both a faculty of mind and a social institution. This exhibit highlights the…
On Display: November 17, 2022 - January 9, 2023
The magic of Christmas morning begins the night before, on Christmas Eve. Clement Clarke Moore probably had this in mind when he wrote "A Visit from St. Nicholas" in 1822. By opening his poem with…
On Display: April 12 - September 30, 2022
Location: Special Collections Lobby
This exhibit seeks to demonstrate the many ways in which black votes in Virginia were used and suppressed to maintain the status quo.
On Display: April 7 - May 6, 2022
Location: Read & Relax
This interactive collage was inspired by Take What You Need, Leave What You Want boards. If you see something that resonates with you, take it to keep! Want to contribute? Add something of your own…
On Display: September 8, 2020 - January 16, 2022
Location: Marshall Gallery, 1st Floor Rotunda
This exhibit analyzes the ways in which changing market and race relations intersected with Virginia families throughout the burgeoning New South, the economic and cultural developments that occurred…
On Display: October 7 - December 31, 2021
In 1921, Pu Kao (P. K.) Chen, a Chinese international student from Tsing Hua College in “Peking” (Beijing), boarded the steamship China to come study at William & Mary. In doing so, he became the…
On Display: November 10 - December 3, 2021
Though early women veterans were prohibited from direct combat roles or assignments, and even officially banned from serving in combat from 1994-2013, women have always served as crucial members of…
On Display: August 23, 2018 - November 30, 2021
Location: Kaplan Arena
Game Changers highlights the significant history of women’s athletics at William & Mary, celebrates its game-changing athletes, and anticipates its bright future.
On Display: September 19, 2019 - September 30, 2021
Location: 3rd Floor Rotunda Gallery
Through the wide-ranging, eclectic materials of William & Mary Libraries' Special Collection Research Center, this exhibit highlights the era's conflicts and compromises from a firsthand perspective.
On Display: September 19, 2019 - September 26, 2021
Location: Bright Gallery, 2nd Floor Rotunda
Almanacs are annual guidebooks, used as a calendar and sometimes as a diary, for looking up astronomical data or astrological signs, and even as a weather forecast.
On Display: December 1, 2017 - September 18, 2021
Location: Botetourt Gallery
Alejandro Rodríguez Fornés “Alucho,” is a prolific graphic designer and an important figure in the use of emerging technologies and digital art in Cuban graphic design; this is his first solo exhibit…
On Display: April 23 - September 12, 2021
Before social media gave users the freedom to share their lives and perspectives, zines radically challenged the publishing industry’s standards, providing a way to spark dialogues about unaddressed…
On Display: February 26 - April 21, 2021
Location: Swem Lobby
In this exhibit, we have centered on more private aspects of the lives of Black Americans based on source materials housed in Special Collections with the hope that it will help challenge ideas of…
On Display: October 2 - 29, 2020
Location: Swem Lobby
Healthy Together is not just social distancing, it is also about finding and maintaining a community in the midst of upheaval and uncertainty that help you feel safe and seen.
On Display: December 2, 2019 - January 6, 2020
Location: Swem Lobby Exhibit Case
This year’s exhibit considers the changing role of Christmas symbolism, including Moore’s poem, within the developing New York City publishing scene during the nineteenth century.
On Display: April 19 - December 31, 2019
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
GSWS faculty confront existing ideological frameworks in which women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and other underrepresented groups are marginalized.
On Display: March 14 - August 18, 2019
Location: Special Collections Lobby
This exhibit highlights the history of W&M women through the artifacts they owned, created, and used during their time at the university.
On Display: September 22, 2018 - July 7, 2019
Location: Swem Entrance Gallery
Narrating Herstory is a dynamic exhibit featuring the complex, inspiring stories of women who experienced these inaugural years firsthand and who transformed campus for the generations to come.