
As a complimentary exhibit to “Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Retrospective of Exhibits in the Special Collections & Archives Research Center” featured in the SCARC Exhibit Gallery, the exhibit alcove features the title posters of the 18 exhibits we have hosted since 2012.
When: The 2025-2026 academic year (Fall 2025 – Summer 2026)
Where: The Valley Library 5th Floor SCARC Exhibit Alcove (across from the SCARC Reading Room and open during The Valley Library’s open hours)
SCARC’s Exhibits, 2012-2025
- Manuscripts to Molecules: The Four Signature Collecting Areas of SCARC (2012-2013)
- Benjamin A. Gifford: Chronicler of Oregon’s Natural Beauty (2013)
- Activism in Action: Voices from the Collection (2013-2014)
- Applause! An Exhibit Showcasing Two Performing Arts Organizations in Oregon (2014)
- The Rural World: For the Farmer, Orchardist, Gardener, Poultryman, Dairyman, Apiculturist, Brewer, Housewife, and the Children (2014-2015)
- The Art of Beer: What’s on the Outside (2015)
- The Nuclear Age: Seventy Years of Peril and Hope (2015)
- Heartwood: Inquiry and Engagement with Pacific Northwest Forests (2016)
- Catching Stories: The Oral History Tradition at OSU (2016)
- Beautiful Science, Useful Art: Data Visualization through History (2017)
- Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps during World War II (2017)
- Community – Collaboration – Craft: A Glimpse of Art at OSU (2018)
- Women’s Words / Women’s Work: Spaces of Community, Change, Tradition, Resistance at Oregon State University (2018)
- Catching Birds With a Camera: Finley, Bohlman, and the Photographs That Launched Oregon’s Conservation Movement (2019)
- Piles to Files: Behind the Scenes at the Archives (2019)
- Legacy of an Oregonian Photographer: the Chuck Williams Photographic Collection (2020-2023)
- Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo (2023-2024)
- Anti-Racist Description: Activities in the OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center (2024-2025)
Photos of the Exhibit!



