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Month: January 2021

Jan 27 2021

Sackner Archive Exhibit Virtual Tour Launched

Posted on January 27, 2021April 8, 2022 by Sara J. Pinkham
An image of some of the cases in the Main Library Gallery. They are filled with items from the Sackner collection.
Image from the Sackner Archive exhibition virtual tour, Main Library Gallery.

For those who did not get a chance to visit the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery during the Fall 2020 semester, you’re in luck! The virtual tour of the exhibit is now ready to view.

The tour features 360° photos of the Main Library Gallery, which allow the viewer to move from area to area. The text panels and the cases containing the objects on display are clickable, meaning close-up views of the items are available along with narrative from the curators. Blog articles and videos relating to the works in the exhibit are also included, such as curator commentary and short recordings of a few of the pieces in motion. A clickable exhibition guide is located near the gallery’s virtual front doors, and also on the Main Library Gallery website.

An immersive reader option is readily available in each section of the virtual exhibit to read the detailed image descriptions for each piece on display. Videos with sound include closed captions.

Visit the virtual Sackner Archive exhibit here.

For more information about this past exhibit, including a LibGuide and PDF of the exhibition guide, visit lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/exhibit/sackner.


Thank you to the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums for partnering with the Main Library Gallery to make this virtual experience available.

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Margaret Gamm stands in an aisle between long bookstacks filled with black and teal document boxes.
Jan 05 2021

Sackner Archive: Building a ‘Home Sweet Museum’

Posted on January 5, 2021April 8, 2022 by Sara J. Pinkham

In this short video, Margaret Gamm, Head of Special Collections and co-curator of the Sackner Archive exhibition in the Main Library Gallery, gives insight about the correspondence between Marvin and Ruth Sackner and the artists whose work they admired, commissioned, and joyfully collected. The personal correspondence archive within the Sackner Archive is something of a roadmap to how their “home sweet museum” came to be.

Items featured in this video appeared in the Fall 2020 Main Library Gallery exhibition. Objects on display in Sackner Archive were from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Special Collections, The University of Iowa Libraries.

The Sackner Archive exhibition was curated by Timothy Shipe, Peter Balestrieri, and Margaret Gamm.

Additional information about this past exhibition and the Main Library Gallery, including additional videos, curator highlights, guide, and much more can be found here: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gallery/

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