Events & Exhibits

This exhibition highlights the works of six prominent South Asian American women authors including two Seattle based women authors.

Date/Time: August 8th, 2008 - October 30th, 2008
Location: Allen North Balcony/ Suzzallo Allen Libraries first floor

The exhibit features artist Linda Petchnick's watercolor paintings of the orchids in the teaching collection at the University of Washington's Botany Greenhouse. The collection consists of 50 paintings in all.

Linda Petchnick graduated with a BFA from the University of Washington majoring in Industrial Design and Painting. She has worked as a product designer, muralist, and watercolorist. Linda is a frequent contributor in the "Orchids in Art" section of Orchids Magazine. She has illustrations in two volumes of The Genus Paphiopedilum: Natural History & Cultivation and Paphiopedilums by Dr. Guido Braem, noted orchid taxonomist from Germany. Linda's orchid paintings won silver medals when exhibited by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2005 and 2006. Her paintings have been exhibited at orchid conferences in France, Japan, Canada, and in the US. She lives and works in Enumclaw, WA.

Date/Time: August 7 – October 5, 2008
Location: Suzzallo Library Exhibition Room 102

A display highlighting maps and books from the Natural Sciences Library's collection to help you explore the natural resources, wildlife, geology, and history of our state and national parks.

Date/Time: Summer Quarter 2008 (through Aug. 22)
Location: Natural Sciences Library Reference Area (Allen South Library)

50 photographic images using historical printing processes such as saltprint, vandyke brown, aluminotype, lith, palladium, cyanotype, with displays of processing materials.

Date/Time: through August 28,2008
Location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library - first, second and third floors