For a rare and fascinating look at pages from early 20th and late 19th century student engineering portfolios, drop in at the Wikoff Student Gallery.
“Another dimension,” curated by Exhibitions Assistant Kara Jefts, is an exhibition of hand-drafted descriptive geometry drawings selected from the Schaffer Library Special Collections holdings of Union College student portfolios.
“While helping to catalog and organize oversize items over the summer, I felt lucky to have access to so many amazing documents,” Jefts said. “Some are really quite beautiful, and they’re also attractive from a cross-disciplinary perspective. I was excited to share them with the whole campus community.”
As Jefts noted, the carefully constructed drawings in “Another Dimension” suggest that “the technical precision of mathematics and visual arts provides for many overlaps.”
Among the alumni represented in the show are H.P. King, Class of 1873, Vincent Allen Sheals, Class of 1921, and E.S. Godfrey, Class of 1880.
The exhibition, which runs through Sept. 26, was made possible through support from Schaffer Library Special Collections and the Mandeville Gallery, with special thanks to David Lublin.
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