Glassblowing to Community Building: Sunnyside’s Changing Cultural Landscape features student collaboration and photography. An opening reception will be held Jan. 18 at 5 p.m. on the 6th floor of the Downtown Campus Library. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. Ken Fones-Wolf, WVU Department of History’s Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair, will present a brief overview on community and local history research.
Glassblowing to Community Building is a collaborative exhibit inspired by a proposal from West Virginia University Professor Jenny Boulware's Local History Research Methodology class in the Department of History. This exhibit provides a brief overview of the Sunnyside neighborhood through photography. Five themes are featured including the industrial era, culture and society, student life, WVU football and the neighborhood we see today. WVU History Department alumni Pamela Curtin (MA, 2016) Chelsea Elliott (MA, 2016) and Eliza Newland (MA, 2014), current graduate student Steven Semmel and current undergraduate students Askar Salikhov and Elizabeth Satterfield contributed content.
This exhibit is a collaboration between WVU Libraries, WVU's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience and the Department of History and with support from the West Virginia and Regional History Center.
The exhibit will be on display near the sixth floor Davis Reading Room of the Downtown Campus Library from January through May. For more information, contact Jenny Boulware jenny.boulware@mail.wvu.edu.
For more information visit the Department of History website.