Duke Divinity School Library » Exhibits

New Exhibit: The Vision of Isaiah

Andrew Keck — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:05:21 +0000

The painting, The Vision of Isaiah, by Luke Allsbrook, is on exhibit in the Divinity School Library until December 31, 2012. The exhibit is sponsored by the Arts and Aesthetics committee, chaired by Prof. Jo Bailey Wells. Read more…

Fall 2010 Newsletter

Andrew Keck — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:05:45 +0000

Welcome to the Divinity School Library, and best wishes to you for fall 2010! We thought you should know about some changes we’ve made to improve the library and to make it easier for you to use. Please read on!

1. Research help @ the Divinity School Library

2. York Room changes

3. ePrint software upgrade required

4. Save money, avoid fines

5. Divinity School Library Kindles available

6. Dave Munden takes a turn at our Reference Desk

7. Disappearing periodicals?

8. Theological Library Month in October

9. What to do with books you don’t need? Donate them to the library

Illustrating the Hebrew Bible: An Exhibit from the Collections of the Duke University Libraries

Andrew Keck — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:39:33 +0000

The Duke University Libraries invite you to an exhibit of artists’ visual interpretations of the Hebrew Bible exemplified in a facsimile of a 15th century illuminated manuscript, a traditional Torah scroll, and a selection of modern artist books and lithographs. This exhibit is available through August 1st in the Perkins Gallery and online. An opening reception will occur on Tuesday, April 20, 4:30-6:30pm in the Biddle Rare Book Room of Perkins Library with remarks by Eric Meyers, Bernice & Morton Lerner Professor, Department of Religion, and Kalman Bland, Professor, Department of Religion.

Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

“Mary: The Paper Doll Project”

Luba Zakharov — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:12:51 +0000

The Divinity School Library is proud to display an interactive art exhibit by artist, Carole Baker, consisting of four life-sized cultural depictions of Mary: Our Lady of Lourdes, Byzantine Theotokos, Virgin of Guadalupe, and Madonna and Child of Soweto. Participants will interchange pieces of each “doll” resulting in a fascinating exploration of the universality and particularity of Marian imagery. The exhibit will run from March 13 – May 3, 2010 during regular library hours.

This project is sponsored by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and the Women’s Center of Duke Divinity School. Fiscal Sponsorship provided by the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South.

New Library Exhibit

“I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms,” a Traveling Art Exhibition

Andrew Keck — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:07:53 +0000

The Duke Divinity School Library and the Freeman Center for Jewish Life are sponsoring and hosting a free exhibit by the acclaimed Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band. The exhibit, “I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms,” employs Hebrew and English calligraphy onto calfskin vellum, with gold leaf and powder using ink and gouache. Band will speak about her work at a reception held at the Divinity School Library in the Baker Methodist Research Center on September 30th at noon. The artist has graciously permitted use of the adjacent image from a work inspired by Psalm 28.

Illuminations: A Book of Hours

Andrew Keck — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:19:21 +0000

Lee Gruber Clark‘s new exhibit, Illuminations: A Book of Hours, runs from September 15 – October 31st in the Divinity School Library during library hours. An artist reception and remarks will be held on October 29th at 12:20pm.

Clark’s work exhibits an understanding of the spiritual connection and physical link between all aspects of life. She is currently a full-time, working artist with a studio in Raleigh’s ArtSpace and both sells and exhibits her work from Studio 208. Her work coincides with October as Theological Libraries Month by drawing attention to a historically visual book, the “Book of Hours.”

Screening of “The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun”

Luba Zakharov — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:42:36 +0000

Duke’s Divinity School and Special Collections Libraries will present the free screening of “The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun” on Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. in Room 0016 of the Westbrook Building in the Divinity School. A panel discussion will follow.

The film is about an 86-year-old bachelor and a Russian nun who becomes part of his life as he continues a lifelong quest to turn his castle into a Russian orthodox monastery. View the trailer.

“Alternately bemused, confused and fussy, Mr. Vig gives his Danish castle to the Russian Orthodox Church for a monastery,” according to a review by Robbie Roberts, a former film critic. “When the church accepts and sends a nun to seal the deal, Mr. Vig finds out there’ll have to be a few changes around the house. A beautifully shot and witty meditation on the peevish merging of life and faith.”

The film won two awards at the Full Frame Film Festival: the Full Frame Grand Jury Award and the Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award.

For more information about the screening, call 919-660-3491 or email Luba Zakharov.

Then & Now – Eight South African Photographers

Andrew Keck — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:49:14 +0000

An exhibition of 160 photographs mounted in 5 venues at Duke University. South African photographer Paul Weinberg conceived and curated Then & Now which is comprised of black and white and color photographs from eight South African documentary photographers during the apartheid and then after the historic democratic elections of 1994. Weinberg’s introduction to the exhibit, information about the other exhibit venues, and online exhibit can be found here. The Divinity School Library segment of this exhibit closes on August 1, 2008.