Exhibits

    AMERICAN CIVICS

    Illustration created by Shepard Fairey of Jim Marshall’s photograph of Cesar Chavez during Chavez’s 300-mile march to the California State Capitol in Sacramento

    Famed street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey partnered with the estate of rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall to create fine art prints from Marshall’s original photographs. Each piece as crafted by Fairey is named after a civic-engagement topic and is based on an original photo taken by Marshall. The display includes five original photographs by Marshall and the five prints created by Fairey.

    The exhibit is free.

    Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building
    2nd Floor, Room 318
    914 Capitol Mall
    Sacramento, CA 94814
    MONDAY - FRIDAY
    8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
    Illustration created by Shepard Fairey of Jim Marshall’s photograph of Cesar Chavez during Chavez’s 300-mile march to the California State Capitol in Sacramento
    Portrait of woman with U.S. flag head scarf.
    Greenwich Village street scene: a boy resting after playing 'good guys vs. bad guys.' (Jim Marshall, 1963)

    Images of the Industrial Revolution: From the Crystal Palace to the locomotive, 1851-1895

    Pictured is a steam locomotive with 11 men and one teenage boy standing in front.

    Explore the making of the modern world. On display will be illustrations and photographs of the technology, machinery, and culture of the nineteenth century. Exhibit runs through the end of July 2019.

    The exhibit is free.

    J. Paul Leonard Library – Sutro Library, Fifth Floor
    San Francisco State University
    1630 Holloway Avenue
    San Francisco, CA 94132-4030

    MONDAY - FRIDAY
    10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

    Shows a man standing in a three piece suit and top hat holding a cane. The caption underneath reads, 'the quack doctor.' He is standing in front of a sign: 'The wonder of the age, Drake pills.'
    In his opening speech, Prince of Wales said 'may the Franco-British Exhibition encourage rivalry and stimulate interchange of ideas, strengthen the brotherhood of nations….and promote peace and prosperity throughout the world.' Image on program shows a French woman pinning a poppy to a man's lapel.
    Shows women and men gathered in a drawing room each of whom is on the telephone.



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