Exhibits at MPAL serve an educational purpose and are intended to help disseminate knowledge while sharing unique materials in the Library’s collections. MPAL also accepts submissions from students to design exhibits that facilitate the sharing of their research and creative activity.
Student Exhibits
Are you a student that just completed a research or design project? Did you use several of MPAL’s resources to prepare for a recital or complete a thesis or dissertation? MPAL is interested in displaying student work and their creative and research process in the Library’s first floor exhibit area. See our page on Student Exhibits for more information.
Instructors interested in having their students develop an exhibit as part of a class project should contact Kate Lambaria at lambari1@illinois.edu.
Current Physical Exhibits
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Digital Exhibits
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- Broadside Ballads: Influences of Composers and Social Change
- History of the Music & Performing Arts Library
- MPAL’s Player Piano
- Spanish Gradual (digitized and now at Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Student Exhibits
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- “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary”: British Song in World War I
- Listening Between: Finding Choreographic Traces and Meanings in the Stacks
- For Ukraine: An Exhibit of Arts & Culture
- Messages for Peace
- Liturgical Jazz: the Lineage of the Subgenre in the Music of Edgar E. Summerlin
- 2015 Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Exhibits
Past Exhibits
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- MPAL Exhibits 2022-2023
- MPAL Exhibits 2021-2022
- MPAL Exhibits 2020-2021
- MPAL Exhibits 2019-2020
- MPAL Exhibits 2018-2019
- MPAL Exhibits 2017-2018
- 2015 Ethnomusicology Graduate Student Exhibits
- 2015 Faculty Showcase
- Tuesday Morning Musical Club 100th Anniversary
- Happy Birthday Mr. Liszt!
- Media at the Music & Performing Arts Library
- Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence in Musicology at the University of Illinois
- 2013 Faculty Showcase
- NABSMA 2012 Conference
- 2011 Faculty Showcase
- A Happening Place: John Cage’s Multimedia Collaborations at the University of Illinois, 1967-1969
- 65th anniversary of the Music and Performing Arts Library
- Michael Filerman
- Apollo Moon Landing 40th Anniversary
- Rappaccini’s Daughter
- Lincoln’s Birthday
- Fall and Winter 2008: Romeo et Juliette
- Fall 2008: Music and Performing Arts Library
- April 2008: Jazz
- February 2008: Special Collections Month
- December 2007: Festival Dance
- November 2007: American Music Month