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Farm Worker Solidarity Summit: Colegio César Chávez Exhibit, Film Screening, and Panel Discussion

The Colegio César Chávez exhibit was featured at part of the March 2, 2026, Farm Worker Solidarity Summit hosted by the University of Oregon’s Multicultural Center. The event was a celebration of historical and current day contributions that farm workers make to not only Oregon’s economy but our culture as Oregonians. The stories shared through this celebration are more important than ever to understanding and depicting the challenges that domestic and immigrant farm workers face today. Students, faculty/staff, and community members were invited to engage in these conversations.

Farm Worker Solidarity Summit Story Sharing Sessions

Workshop Session 1 (Film and Discussion and Exhibit): Colegio César Chávez — Moderator Natalia Fernández with panelists José Romero, Anthony Veliz, & Alicia Avila
Session 2 (Presentation & Exhibit): “Stories from the Farm Workers’ Rights Movement” with focus on UFW, EFFW in the community and on campus — speaker Nancy Bray, Eugene Friends of the Farm Workers
Workshop Session 3 (Presentation): “The Power of the Boycott: Windmill Mushroom Boycott” — speaker Collin Heatley, UO PhD Student, History
Springfield High School Mariachi del Sol Performance
Keynote by PCUN President Reyna Lopez

To begin the event, summit organizer Dinorah Ortiz-Carté, Program Director, University of Oregon Multicultural and SSWANA Centers, shared the UO’s land acknowledgement as well as a labor acknowledgement:

University of Oregon Labor Acknowledgement

Colegio César Chávez: Film Screening, Panel Discussion, and Exhibit

The session “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” included a screening of OPB’s Oregon Experience documentary “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” and was followed by a panel discussion with documentary producer Alicia Avila, Colegio César Chávez co-founder José Romero, and PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network President Anthony Veliz. “Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo” exhibition curator, Natalia Fernández moderated the panel discussion. The speakers shared their thoughts on the history and legacy of the Colegio César Chávez and the need for continued advocacy for educational opportunities for the Latino/a/é community. About 30 people were in attendance for the session.

The questions posed to the panelists included: What are some lessons learned from Colegio’s community organizing experiences that continue to be applicable today? Can you share the importance of mentors and how your mentors helped shape you and your advocacy work? How can we continue to center the need for educational opportunities for the Latiné community?

Photo of the Panelists, photo by Arya Surowidjojo / OPB

Colegio César Chávez: The Legacy Lives On / El legado sigue vivo — Exhibit Photos!

Springfield High School Mariachi del Sol Performance

Keynote Speech by PCUN President Reyna Lopez

The Summit concluded with a keynote speech by PCUN President Reyna Lopez. PCUN is the largest Latinx organization in Oregon and has been on the forefront of fighting detention and deportation of immigrants and farm workers across the state.

Lopez spoke about the work PCUN is engaging in to support immigrant communities and the fight against ICE. She shared information about the history of May Day and PCUN’s plans for Day without an Immigrant events as well as May Day 2026 and how folks can get involved!

Dates for the Day without an Immigrant and May Day events in 2026

Solidarity in Action: Boycott Windmill Mushroom products!

Current and former workers from the Windmill Mushroom Farms in Sunnyside, WA rallied to formally announce a UFW boycott of Windmill Mushroom products. One of the three sessions shared information about the boycott and how community members can support the farm workers involved and impacted:

Information about the boycott of Windmill Mushroom products

Boycott Windmill Mushroom Farms: Ways to Support

For over three years, workers at a mushroom facility in Sunnyside, WA, run by Windmill
Mushroom Farms and owned by private equity firm Instar, have been fighting for union
recognition. Under Washington State Law, agricultural workers are excluded from the right to organize and there is no legal mechanism to force companies to recognize labor unions
regardless of the wishes of a majority of the workforce. Many pro-union workers at
Windmill Mushrooms have faced adverse actions, including terminations and conditions that have pressured them to leave their jobs. After repeated demonstrations, petitions, and other demands for union recognition, the United Farm Workers in December, 2024 announced its first official boycott of the decade against Windmill Mushrooms, until the company agrees to recognize the union.

On Aug. 15, 2025, the UFW and PCUN announced the expansion of the boycott into Oregon. Windmill mushrooms are sold at Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer, WinCo and Market of Choice in Eugene/Springfield. They are often sold bulk and include organic varieties so check the box label before buying. If the box has no label, ask the produce manager what brand they are. Organically Grown doesn’t buy from Windmill Farms so any mushrooms sold in natural food stores in Eugene are OK to buy.

Actions for individuals and organizations:

1) Don’t buy Windmill mushrooms or any mushrooms grown in Sunnyside, WA
2) Sign the petition to Instar: https://act.seiu.org/a/windmill_instar and ask your friends to sign as well
3) Tell your friends about the boycott and ask them to sign the petition
4) Ask organizations in which you are a member to endorse the boycott – contact Eugene Friends of the Farm Workers for information and sample endorsement statements
5) Check if Windmill mushrooms are sold at other grocery stores in the area and let us know
6) If you would like to get more involved in Farm Worker Rights and the Windmill mushroom boycott, contact Eugene Friends of the Farm Workers: braynj@gmail.com

Eugene Friends of the Farm Workers

For more information about the Windmill mushroom boycott: https://www.fwm-nw.org/ and https://ufw.org/windmillboycott/

The Impact of SCARC Instruction Sessions: ED 219 Social Justice, Civil Rights, & Multiculturalism in Education

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During fall term 2025, College of Education instructor Carrie Pilmer reached out to Natalia Fernández to develop an activity using archival materials for her ED219: Social Justice, Civil Rights, & Multiculturalism in Education course. In winter term 2026, SCARC hosted a total of 170 ED 219 students (2 sections of the course) in the SCARC Reading Room to engage with materials from the OSU Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program Records (note: the program is now called Difference, Power, and Oppression).

The purpose of ED 219 is to examine equity and injustice based on socially constructed groupings such as race, gender, language, religion, class and ability through history and current times. The course explores asset-based approaches and power in systems and institutions of society (e.g., schooling, curriculum, educational policy) and how to actively make change. The course emphasizes self-inquiry and contemplation of multiculturalism and personal experiences through a resilience-focused wholeness approach.

ED 219 is a Difference, Power, and Oppression (DPO) designated course. It fulfills the requirement to engage students in the critical reflection on the complexity of the structures, institutions, and ideologies that sustain systemic oppression, discrimination, and the inequitable distribution of systemic power and resources within and across communities. Such examinations enhance and promote responsible, ethical, and anti-racist engagement by preparing students to understand and disrupt these systems as they manifest in their field.

Because of the DPO requirement fulfillment and the course’s subject matter – the history of education – Carrie and Natalia decided to use the history of the DPO program as a local history case study for the students to analyze. Even better, because the spark for establishment of the DPO was BIPOC student activism, Natalia and Carrie wanted to emphasize the power of student voices to create change at OSU.

In addition to Carrie’s course, we invited Ana Ramírez’s course section as well, and during week four of the winter term, SCARC hosted four sessions (the two classes were split into two groups) of ED 219 students.

The College of Education wrote a piece about the collaboration; that article and accompanying photos are included below!

Ana M. Ramírez, M.Ed. (she/her/ella), Education Instructor, College of Education

Natalia Fernández, SCARC and Ana Ramírez, College of Education

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A Trip to the Archives: An Education Class Explores the Impact of Student Activism at Oregon State

Published February 27, 2026

Do you know how the Difference, Power, and Oppression program was created at Oregon State? In Ana Ramírez’s ED 219 class, students explored the rich history of student organizing that led to the DPO program and other institutional changes.

Instructors Ana Ramírez and Carrie Pilmer collaborated with Natalia Fernández, Curator of the Oregon Multicultural Archives and the OSU Queer Archives, to bring students to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center . The class worked with primary source documents to learn about the history of the DPO Program and participated in group discussions, sharing their thoughts on the role of student voices in shaping coursework and their campus.

The class found the archive activity to be engaging and came to a strong consensus that it should be included in the course going forward. Student Waleed shares, “The archival materials made these experiences feel real, not just theoretical. It helped me understand that the struggles were ongoing and that change only happened when students spoke up and organized together.”

Several students noted that it was powerful to hear student voices directly from the source. When asked about the most impactful part of the activity, Molly says, “the proposal from the students felt the most impactful to me because I can only imagine the amount of courage and strength it took for these students to speak up. It also shows how something such as a letter or proposal can snowball into a whole new program that creates change for generations.”

Many also remarked that it was interesting to examine history and civil rights from a local perspective—that it was especially engaging to learn about this history of their university in particular. Student Aubrey says, “The large group discussion we had at the end of today’s class in the Archives really helped me tie in how we can learn from past OSU student activism and use it in a real, modern day context. Hearing my peers explain in their own words how we need to take ownership over issues at OSU helped me grasp the concept of real student activism, and in some ways even inspired me.” The class drew connections between the primary source accounts and current political and social issues.

The trip to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center proved to be a success and fulfilled Ramírez’s goals for the activity. She tells us, “We wanted our students to be engaging directly with the archival materials on the history of the DPO Program at OSU. We facilitated helping them see student activism, institutional change, and historical memory as central to their academic journey—not abstract concepts, but lived and ongoing commitments.

Special thanks to Natalia Fernández and the OSU Libraries Special Collections for this opportunity.

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And, the article was shared across multiple outreach platforms!

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From the Page: Transcribe-a-Thon Event, Underground Newspapers at OSU Collection

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Photo of the archival materials table with the event presentation in the background

The OSU Libraries, in collaboration with SCARC, hosted its first Transcribe-a-Thon Event via the From the Page platform!

What is a Transcribe-a-Thon Event? An opportunity to engage in transcription work, together and in-person!

What is From the Page? From The Page is a crowdsourcing transcription platform that allows archival institutions to post documents for transcription. While AI tools can be used for transcription purposes, some documents require human review to meet best practices for transcription for remediation purposes.

OSU’s SCARC has a number of projects available via From The Page: OSU SCARC for anyone to work on online from the ease and comfort of their own computers. In January 2026, we decided to host an event to engage in this work in-person with some selected materials for a special Transcribe the Archives milestone project.

What is the Transcribe the Archives milestone project? We want our archives to be open to all, which means we need help from our community members! We have been transcribing our archival materials so that the documents are searchable and screen reader-accessible. As a special pilot project for hosting in-person events, we selected materials from our Underground Newspapers collection that needed human transcribers (and at the time of the event, was almost completely transcribed) and planned an in-person event to see how many pages we could transcribe and review in a couple hours to get us that much closer to completing the project.

About the Underground Newspapers collection: The Underground Newspapers collection consist of publications, primarily written and produced by Oregon State University students, that were intended as alternatives to the mainstream press. Most of the publications were issued during the period of student unrest in the 1960s and early 1970s. The predominant topics are civil rights, specifically racial incidents at Oregon State University, and the war in Vietnam. All of the items in this collection are available online in the Oregon State University Student Protest and Underground Publications digital collection.

From the Page Collection: OSU Student Protest and Underground Publications

About the Transcribe-a-Thon Event: The event took place noon to 2 p.m., Monday Jan. 20th in the Valley Library’s Autzen classroom. All were welcome and we provided all the training needed as part of the event.

Over the course of the 2 hours we had 8 people (1 community member, 1 student, and 5 faculty/staff) join us. Participants were encouraged to work on documents within the OSU Student Protest and Underground Publications, but were able to work on any OSU materials in need of transcription, and over the course of the two hours, 91 pages were transcribed!

Transcription by Humans vs AI Tools

Original Document: image of The Scab Sheet

Human-Transcribed Output: image of The Scab Sheet

Do you want to work on this project with us? Please do!

Instructions for engaging in a From the Page project

Photos from the Event

Event welcome table and whiteboard to tally participants

Pins! The “I can read cursive” pins were especially cute!

Archival materials table: items from the Underground Newspapers collection

Selection of materials from the Underground Newspapers collection: The Scab Sheet

OUR NEXT TRANSCRIBE-A-THON EVENT!

Transcribe the Archives: Happy Birthday, Linus Pauling!
Feb 27, Friday 1 – 3 p.m. @ Autzen Classroom

Happy birthday, Linus Pauling! Help make our archives accessible by transcribing his notes and journals. All are welcome!

OSU Faculty and Administrators Oral History Interviews, SOC 318 Assignment

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During fall term 2025, SCARC collaborated with Dr. Dwaine Plaza’s course SOC 318 Qualitative Research Methods on an assignment for students to conduct oral history interviews with Oregon State University Faculty and administrators. Early in the term, the students came for an instruction session held in the SCARC Reading Room and we shared the SCARC resource Oral History Interviewing Methods & Project Management. We now have 6 new oral history interviews available for public access!

Additions to the Voices of Oregon State University Oral History Collection

Alix Gitelman – Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Andrew Valls – Professor, Political Science, School of Public Policy
Anne Gillies – Director, OSU Search Advocate Program
Joan Gross – Professor Emeritus, School of Language, Culture and Society
Kevin Dougherty – Dean of Students & Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs
Larry Rodgers – Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of English, School of Writing, Literature & Film

Be sure to check out the interviews the 2024 students conducted: OSU Faculty Oral History Interviews, SOC 318 Assignment, Fall Term 2024

Add Glitter to the Archives! A Crafternoon with the OSU Queer Archives and the OSU Pride Center

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The OSU Queer Archives was delighted to collaborate with the OSU Pride Center for the Center to host the event “Add Glitter to the Archives”!

The crafternoon event “Glitter in the Archives” began in 2016 as part of Oregon Archives Month and OSU’s Queer History Month celebrations to feature copies of materials from the OSU Queer Archives to use for craft-making. It was hosted in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center’s 5th Floor Reading Room in the Valley Library from 2016-2019, and in 2023-2024, we collaborated with the Libraries’ Crafternoon series and the event was hosted in the main lobby of the Library — hence the new name “Add Glitter to the Archives.”

Hosting the event at the Pride Center was extra special because the event was an opportunity for many new students to come to the Pride Center for the first time as part of the start to the academic year. It was an event by and for the community in a safe community space. And, it was a great opportunity to get to know the Pride Center staff!

For information and photos from past events, see the blog posts for Glitter in the Archives, 2016-2019 as well as Add Glitter to the Archives 2023.

Below is the crafternoon setup featuring lots of glittery collaging supplies and copies of OSQA archival materials ~ about 12 students, plus Pride Center student staff, joined us for the event!

Event Space Set Up

Crafting supplies, including button-makers!

Copies of archival materials available for craft-making

Event space set up – supplies and crafting materials

New for this year: posters the Pride Center is not retaining, and OSQA documented via photographs, were made available for crafting

Event Participants

Photos of some of the beautiful crafts!

A collage made by the same artist who crafted the buttons

Be sure to visit the Pride Center!

OSU Pride Center, located at 1553 SW A Ave, Corvallis, OR 97333

The OMA at the National REFORMA Conference 2025

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SCARC’s anti-racist descriptive activities were represented by Oregon Multicultural Archives curator Natalia Fernández at the National REFORMA Conference with a poster presentation titled “Moving from Words to Actions: Anti-Racist Description Projects of Archival Materials Pertaining to Oregon’s Latinx Community History.”

About the Conference

The National REFORMA Conference is the premier training and networking event for those dedicated to library services for Latinos and Spanish-speaking communities. It is hosted by REFORMA, established in 1971 as an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), as a national association to promote library and information services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. The conference theme for this year was “Moving Forward Together: Empowering the Latino Community” and the conference took place September 18-21, 2025, in Long Beach, CA.

Poster Abstract

Archivists are actively engaging in anti-racist work, especially regarding how we describe the materials and collections we steward. This poster shares the Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center’s collaborative process for developing and completing anti-racist description projects. As examples, two projects pertaining to Oregon’s Latinx community history are featured: highlighting materials pertaining to Indigenous communities from Mexico present in the Erlinda Gonzales-Berry Papers and remediating the description for our online Braceros in Oregon Photographs collection.

Fernández spoke to 12 attendees during the 1 hour poster session to share SCARC’s work. Many attendees were not members of the special collections and archives community and were delighted and inspired that repositories across the county are engaging in anti-racist descriptive activities.

Digital Access to the Poster via ScholarsArchive@OSU: Moving from words to actions : anti-racist description projects of archival materials pertaining to Oregon’s Latinx community history

Poster as presented at the National REFORMA Conference poster session on September 20, 2025

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Highlights from the National REFORMA Conference 2025

Keynote Speaker: Maria Hinojosa

In 1992, Hinojosa launched Latino USA, “the longest-running public radio Latino news and cultural program,” and in 2010, she founded Futuro Media Group which “creates multimedia content for and about the new American mainstream in the service of empowering people to navigate the complexities of an increasingly diverse and connected world.” (from Latino USA and Future Media Group about pages)

Tour! Chicano History & REFORMA Archives

Description: Explore the REFORMA Archives and uncover Chicano history in Los Angeles. Begin at the REFORMA archives at California State University, Los Angeles, to learn about the organization’s role in preserving and advocating for Latino library services. Then, visit the Chicano Resource Center at the East Los Angeles Library, a vital hub for research on Chicano heritage and activism.

REFORMA archives at California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Los Angeles, Special Collections and Archives

REFORMA newsletters from 2001-2002 featuring information about the need for mentorship within the profession and advocating for language rights nation-wide

Reports from the 1980s on topics still relevant to this day: the lack of representation of people of color in the library profession

The Chicano Resource Center at the East Los Angeles Library

The Chicano Resource Center, external view

The Chicano Resource Center, internal view

Resources Featured During Conference Sessions

Bibliopolítica: A Digital History of the Chicano Studies Library ~ at the intersection of Chicana/o/x Studies, Digital Humanities, and Library History, this online exhibit chronicles the history of one of the first Chicana/o/x collections, the Chicano Studies Library (CSL) at the University of California, Berkeley. Viewers are invited to explore the digital exhibit, listen to recorded oral histories, browse digitized archival items, or explore on their own path.

Cinco Books ~ making available the classic and also the newest from the Spanish speaking world / acceso a las obras clásicas de la literatura del mundo hispano hablante.

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves ~ a session partially inspired by this article which defines vocational awe as “the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique.” The author states: “I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.”

Celebrating 2025 Latiné Heritage Month!

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The Oregon Multicultural Archives participated in 4 events this month to celebrate 2025 Latino/a/x/é Heritage Month!

To kick off the month, we were invited to feature the Colegio César Chávez exhibit as part of two Latinx community celebration events, the Festival Latino in Albany and the PODER Hispanic Heritage Month Summit, Salem.

On October 8th, we were invited to introduce the OPB film The Living Legacy of the Colegio César Chávez at Portland State University for a film screening and panel discussion. To close out the month, on October 12th we were invited to host a table at the 2nd annual OSU Latina Luncheon.

Festival Latino, Albany, OR on September 14th at Monteith Riverpark

The event included musical acts, art and history exhibits (including Colegio!), activities for children, and plenty of food vendors. It was hosted by the Linn-Benton Hispanic Advisory Committee.

Event Photos of the Exhibit and Information Table

About 150 people viewed the exhibit and about 75 event attendees stopped by the information table to ask questions and learn more during the 5 hour event!

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PODER Hispanic Heritage Month Summit, Salem, OR on September 15th

PODER, Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network is a nonprofit organization made up of over 3,200 Latino leaders, organizations, businesses, public employees, community members, and allies across Oregon. Oregon’s premier Hispanic Heritage Month Breakfast & Summit brought together hundreds of leaders, executives, and changemakers to celebrate and lead.

This is the 3rd year the Summit has featured the exhibit! About 50 event attendees viewed the exhibit during the pre-breakfast 1-hour resource fair.

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Film Screening and Panel Discussion of the OPB film The Living Legacy of the Colegio César Chávez at Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, on October 8th

The event featured a panel of speakers which included Alicia Avila, a multilingual journalist and documentary producer based in Portland, Oregon, who produced the film; Sonny Montes and José Romero, the co-founders of the Colegio César Chávez; and Anthony Veliz, the founder of PODER: Oregon’s Latino Leadership Network. There were about 25 attendees.

While the event was not recorded, it was similar to the January 2025 film screening and panel discussion that took place at the Oregon Historical Society; this event was recorded: “The Living Legacy of Colegio César Chávez” Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion

This event was organized and hosted by PSU’s Global Diversity and Inclusion office which “offers robust diversity programming that serves and empowers student populations whose success, retention, and academic success are most challenged by historical factors and contemporary inequity” (GDI website). PSU was designated as an “emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution” (HSI), a distinction provided to institutions in which Hispanic students make up between 15 and 24 percent of full-time undergraduates and was awarded the 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. In the summer of 2025, is was announced that GDI was being dismantled as part of a broader university restructuring process and this was the office’s final HSI event.

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2nd Annual OSU Latina Luncheon at Oregon State University, Corvallis, on October 12th

The OSU Foundation and Alumni Association hosted the 2nd Annual OSU Latina Luncheon to honor the resilience and fortitude of the Latine/Hispanic community while offering a stage for distinguished Oregon State and community Latina leaders to share their remarkable journeys of overcoming challenges and achieving success.

Of the two hour event with over 100 visitors, there was about 45 minutes of mingle time before the formal program began. We had the opportunity to talk with about 15 event attendees to share information about the Oregon Multicultural Archives, specifically, our Latino/Latina community archival materials.

The space was decorated beautifully and the event concluded with a couple lively rounds of Lotería.

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Exhibit on Exhibits! “Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Retrospective of Exhibits in the Special Collections & Archives Research Center”

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SCARC is delighted to share a behind-the-scenes look at the how and why of exhibit curation through the lens 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 Cases (open during SCARC’s open hours, Monday – Friday 10am-4pm)

Bonus! Across the avenue, in the exhibit alcove is a complimentary exhibit featuring the title posters.

Exhibit Curation: Tiah Edmunson-Morton & Natalia Fernández

Graphic Design: Amber Taylor

Introductory panel to the exhibit “Looking Back, Looking Ahead: A Retrospective of Exhibits in the Special Collections & Archives Research Center”

A Look Behind the Curtain!

Throughout the exhibit we answers many common questions about the exhibit curation process:

Who Creates an Exhibit?
How Is an Exhibit Organized?
Where Do Exhibit Ideas Come From?
How Do We Choose Exhibit Titles?
Who Designs SCARC’s Exhibits?
How Do We Design for Different Audiences?
What Makes It Into an Exhibit (and What Doesn’t)?
How Has the Exhibit Space Changed Over Time?
Do you have exhibit spaces beyond the cases in this foyer?
How Do We Promote Exhibits?
Do You Ever Reuse or Reinterpret Past Exhibits?

More Images of the Exhibit!

Exhibit Posters!

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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!

SCARC’s Anti-Racist Description Work Featured in Archival Outlook

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SCARC’s anti-racist description work, specifically our 2024-2025 exhibit “Anti-Racist Description Activities in OSU’s Special Collections and Archives Research Center”, was featured in the July/September 2025 issue of the Society of American Archivists’ bimonthly magazine Archival Outlook!

The article includes information about the exhibit, the exhibit curation process as well as its promotion and community response, and plans for next steps.

View the digital issue online: Archival Outlook July/September 2025

The issue was featured in the September 17, 2025 “In the Loop” digital newsletter mailed to members of the Society of American Archivists (the image below is a screenshot from the digital newsletter):

Be sure to check out all of SCARC’s anti-racist activities via the blog posts tagged “Reparative Description” and the SCARC anti-racist actions website.