Exhibitions and Events

2024, Bryn Mawr College
Printed ink on Japanese paper
Measurements variable

"The wonderful lesson we learn as we read the wishes is that we have a constant as human beings -- which is the need for tenderness, compassion, good health, love, and peace." - Cecilia Paredes

In February 2024 Cecilia Paredes added one more artwork to the exhibition, Not ~ At Home: Cecilia Paredes (October 25, 2023 – June 2, 2024). Wishes in the Air is a collaborative piece that consists of wishes for the future collected from members of our campus community. These are interspersed with wishes that Paredes has collected when producing similar iterations of the piece around the world. Not only does the artwork include the words of our community, but it was made in situ with members of our community.  

October 25, 2023 - June 2, 2024
Mon - Fri, 10am - 4pm, and by appointment 

1912 Gallery, Special Collections, Bryn Mawr College
1st floor of Canaday Library

Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 25, 6pm
Event parking at Merion Hall and Radnor Hall. See campus map.

Not ~ At Home features the work of Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Cecilia Paredes in conversation with archaeological materials from Peru in special collections. The themes of domesticity, gender, and diaspora across her practices of photography, performance, and sculpture also prompt questions of restitution and repatriation – where home is and might be for these artifacts.

This exhibition is presented with (re)FOCUS, a Philadelphia festival recognizing women-identified and BIPOC artists through exhibitions, panels, lectures, workshops, and more.

October 25, 2023 - June 2, 2024
Hours shared with Canaday Library
Coombe Suite Gallery
Canaday Library, 2nd Floor

This exhibition, organized by Grace Foresman (BMC '24) and Yihan Liu (BMC '23) as the newest contribution to the Who Built Bryn Mawr? project, explores the early history of Japanese and Chinese students at Bryn Mawr, a history colored by prevailing stereotypes about East Asian people that were circulating on Bryn Mawr’s campus, Philadelphia, and the country at large. At the turn of the 20th century, Bryn Mawr began accepting Chinese and Japanese students through designated scholarship programs. But were these programs actually intended to benefit Asian students? What would their experiences have been like?​

March 17 - May 28, 2023
Class of 1912 Rare Book Room, Canaday Library
Mon - Fri, 10am - 4pm, and by appointment 

Artist Bethany Collins (American, b. 1984) exhibits new and recent work at Bryn Mawr College this spring. This will include the College's recent acquisition, The Odyssey: 1990/1851/1980/2002/2000 (2022). 

Friday Finds is a series of informal lunchtime chats about historical and cultural objects held in Bryn Mawr's Special Collections. Events begin at noon in the 1912 Gallery, on the first floor of Canaday Library, and last about an hour, unless otherwise specified.