Past Exhibits

The student-led strike of 1968 didn’t just inspire the creation of SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies. It also inspired some amazing works of art — art that, fortunately, has been collected by the very institution it once criticized. The SF State Strike Collection, located in the Special Collections & Archives unit of the J. Paul Leonard Library, includes works by faculty members and graduate students who would go on to acclaim in the art world. The Images of Protest exhibit...

Visit the Thomas Bentley Rue Platinum and Golden Age Comic Book and Adventure Strip Archive, new to the Historic Collections in the Leonard Library. Thomas and his older brother Sonny Rue amassed and preserved comic books during the 1940s.

February 28-August 31, 2019, Monday-Friday, 1-5 pm. Leonard Library, Special Collections Reading Room 460. A Historic Collections exhibit.

In honor of World AIDS Day, the University Archives invites you to visit a display of selected materials from the campus-wide AIDS Coordinating Committee that developed SF State’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis beginning in 1985. Come explore how SF State exemplified its social justice mission in the classroom, on campus, and in the community with classes, workshops, peer-education programs, and events organized by the Committee and student groups.

Open November 30, 2018-January 31,...