Ahmanson Lab: Scalar - 2021-2022

The Thing About Religionis a gallery containing four interrelated collections of Religious Things drawn from diverse cultures around the globe and across time. Each gallery was curated by a student in REL 401, taught by Prof. Lisa Bitel in Spring 2021. Students researched and selected the items in their galleries in response to a particular problem or theme in the study of material religions, then composed an interpretative essay and a label for each item.

2 Lewis Carroll Would Approve is an exhibition containing 42 curated submissions from the first 15 years of the USC Libraries’ Wonderland competition. These submissions may be vastly different in look and feel, but they share a common bond—a love of polymathy, whimsy, attention to detail, and admiration of all things Carrollian. The objects seen here form only a small portion of the Wonderland Award archive.

Form and Power: Black Murals in Los Angeles is an online exhibition that uses digital images from USC’s Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002 collection to explore African American muralism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition was collectively curated by Dr. Ellen Macfarlane and the freshman students enrolled in Form and Power in African American Art (GESM 110g) during the Spring 2021 semester at USC.

Chinatown(s) Neighborhood brings together a series of essays researched and written by students in CORE 450 Los Angeles: A Polymathic Inquiry, using primary materials from the Los Angeles Public Library, the Huntington Library, and the USC Digital Library

The Silk Roads, 300 BCE to 1700 CE: Connecting the World for Two Millennia is the digital companion for a physical exhibit by the same name to be displayed in Doheny Library in spring 2022. This digital exhibit was curated by students in EALC 485 Material Culture of the Silk Road, taught by Sonya Lee, in Spring 2021.