Exhibition from August 16, 2018 through November 21, 2018. In 1867, the U.S. government funded four surveys — known as the “Four Great Surveys of the West” — to ultimately determine whether the area west of the Mississippi River (now Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, California, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah and Idaho) could be exploited for natural resources and used for further settlement.

Exhibition from May 4, 2018 through July 20, 2018. Explore a collection of recent photographs by the Philadelphia based photographer, Jason Varney '01, who has been shooting food, travel and lifestyle photos for over a decade. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, GQ and The New York Times. The exhibition was made possible with the generous support of Hazem D. Maragah, PhD and Drexel Alumni.

Exhibition from April 2, 2018 through July 27, 2018. Nowadays, selfies are everywhere. As a global digital genre, the selfie “expresses, develops, expands and intensifies the long history of the self-portrait,” according to visual theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff. The self-portrait has been called the defining artistic genre of modernity, growing in popularity and importance since the 15th century. It has been at the forefront of cultural development, influencing society’s and individuals’ sense of identity and selfhood. But the nature of the self-portrait remains elusive.

Exhibition from October 6, 2017 through March 30, 2018. Artwork from Asia constitute about one quarter of The Drexel Collection focusing on global design arts. The earliest pieces acquired by the collection, many of which represent the materials and techniques from the Middle East, China, Japan and Southeast Asia, were selected both as aesthetic objects and as a way to teach students good design and fabrication in art, science and industry. These artifacts and the early Drexel Institute’s purpose for collecting them demonstrate how ideas, artistic forms and design circulated across cultures through the mobility of people and products contributing to the creation of productive cultural exchanges.

Exhibition from December 8, 2017 through March 16, 2018. Drinking is a necessary human activity, whether for survival, pleasure, socializing, or rituals. But have you thought about what we drink from?

These two exhibitions BADGES: A Memorial Tribute to Asbestos Workers and LIFE'S WORK: A Fifty Year Photographic Chronicle of Working in the U.S.A., demonstrate the breadth of Earl Dotter's work in occupational photography and how important the documentation is for the improvement of working conditions across the United States. The exhibitions were brought to Drexel University through the generosity of Arthur Frank, MD, PhD, professor and chair emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Dornsife School of Public Health.

Exhibition from April 4, 2017 through June 18, 2017. Howard Pyle, His Students & the Golden Age of American Illustration was an exhibition featuring oil paintings, works on paper, and accompanying artifacts that highlight the work of Howard Pyle, the father of American illustration, and the generation of celebrated illustrators he taught. Pyle was an instructor at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University) from 1894 to 1900. During his time at Drexel, Pyle taught many notable illustrators, including Maxfield Parrish, Frank E. Schoonover, and Harvey Dunn. He was also a pioneer in educating female illustrators, most notably “the Red Rose Girls”: Jessie Wilcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Violet Oakley.

Exhibition from April 14, 2017 through June 19, 2017. The Drexel Collection was founded in 1891 as one of the original departments of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry. The museum was intended to showcase good design in the decorative and industrial arts both for study by students and for the “popular education of the city.”

Exhibition from January 27, 2017 through March 31, 2017. This exhibition displays pieces from the Frank Fox Polish Poster Collection and the Kenneth F. Lewalski Polish Posters Collection, housed in Westphal’s URBN Center at Drexel University, which together represent one of the largest surveys of Soviet-era Polish posters in an institution in the United States.