FGCU Library

A conversation with Norwegian artist and self-taught letterpress typesetter Ane Thon Knutsen about her installation at the FGCU Library’s Archives and Special Collections that adapts the writings of prominent modernist 20th century author Virginia Woolf.

On a normal day, exhibits at the FGCU's University Archives and Special Collections are hushed affairs, with students or visitors wandering between presentations. That changed one afternoon in April, when a wide ranging group of women converged to experience the exhibit for themselves.

Earlier this month the Florida Gulf Coast University Library Archives and Special Collections’ hosted a virtual panel discussion in conjunction with their current digital exhibition titled, “Fight for the Ballot: Voting Rights in the 20th Century.”The panel discussion called, “The Right to Vote – Under Attack Again!” was moderated by WGCU’s John Davis and included legal and voting rights experts C. Ronald Ellington, Howard Simon and Jennifer Scuteri all discussing voter suppression, gerrymandering and the impact of elections.With just over a week until the Nov. 3 General Election, we present that panel discussion.

Voter turnout in the U.S. typically trails behind voter participation rates in other developed nations even as the history of efforts to expand voting rights in this country has been a long, often bloody battle. On the heels of Florida’s primary elections this week, we explore the new virtual exhibition at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Wilson G. Bradshaw Library titled, “Fight for the Ballot: Voting Rights in the 20th Century.”

We listen back to our conversation from earlier this year about an exhibition at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Wilson G. Bradshaw Library documenting…

As we mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi-era concentration camps, a new exhibit at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Wilson G. Bradshaw…