Exhibition from January 25, 2019 through March 30, 2019. In 2017 over 70,000 people died from a drug overdose in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of these deaths were a result of heroin use and exposure to the fatal synthetic opioid fentanyl. For Philadelphians, the crisis descends over just about every neighborhood, carrying a varied impact. Philadelphia’s overdose rate is horrifically high – in 2017 alone, 1,217 people died from an overdose, an estimated 1,100 people were lost last year.

Exhibition from December 14, 2018 through March 15, 2019. By looking at materials under a microscope, scientists can understand how things work at very small scales and even at the atomic level. Sometimes, researchers see a scientific image that resembles a piece of art or has a beautiful feature. These images are often captured using electron microscopes and are in gray-scale. Scientists will then colorize the images using photo editing software to emphasize the unique features captured at the nanoscale. All of the images in this exhibition are from the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute NanoArtography Competition (established in 2016 by Babak Anasori, PhD) an international competition which helps broaden the public’s understanding of the world at the atomic level and brings attention to Drexel’s groundbreaking materials science research.

Exhibition from August 9, 2018 through December 14, 2018. Tokujiro Nishi, a Japanese artist who blended eastern and western painting styles, will be exhibited by The Drexel Collection for the second time. Tokujiro Nishi, who was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1929 and spent his entire life using a blend of Eastern and Western styles and techniques in his art. Nishi was a student of Matsao Hao, who was inspired by the Japanese style of art he learned at the Tokyo Fine Arts School and the Western art being introduced to Japan in the early 20th century. Nishi joined Hato’s artist group Sakujitsu-Kati in 1949, when he first had his art exhibited as a 20-year-old. Since then, Nishi’s art has been exhibited at the Tokyo Modern Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, as well as in exhibits across the world.

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.