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In
the fall of 1980 as the Emory community explored ways
to bring the important Judaica exhibition “Danzig
1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community”
to the campus, Dr. William Schatten, an alumnus of Emory
College and Emory Medical School, was part of an interested
group looking for an appropriate venue to host the exhibition
of precious silver, tapestries and documents. Dr. Schatten
asked what would be needed to create an acceptable gallery
space on the university campus. When the lobby level
of
the Woodruff Library was identified as a potential location
and renovation design and estimates were in hand, Dr.
Schatten and his wife, Barbara provided the funding to
transform the library’s lobby into a gallery space. This
contribution from Dr. and Mrs. Schatten remains a lasting
gift of great value and importance to Emory University.
On the occasion of the opening of the Danzig exhibition
and the inauguration of the gallery within Woodruff Library,
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One of the functions of a university is to provide all … students the means with
which to learn about the past …
By providing a setting
for significant exhibits to be shown at Emory
University,
Barbara and I envision this gallery
will play a role
in this educational process.
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In
December 2005 and continuing into 2006, the gallery
begins a celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary,
and acknowledges the nearly two hundred and twenty exhibitions
that have been mounted in its spaces over the years.
Culture & Education on Campus: Celebrating
25 Years of Schatten Gallery Exhibitions
provides a glimpse of these, as items from most all
of the exhibitions are represented in over 750 digitized
documents from the gallery’s archives that have been
arranged in four very broad subject categories. Exhibitions
focus on African, African-American Studies and Civil
Rights issues; Literary Collections, Book Arts and University
Archives; the Holocaust, Jewish Studies and Judaica;
and lastly, other collaborations with numerous academic
departments and programs across the university.
The gallery’s primary mission is to provide a creative
venue for exhibitions of an educational nature that
enrich the scholarly life of the university. Schatten
Gallery has been exceptionally successful in doing just
that for the past quarter century, as is evidenced here
in this sampling of its rich history.
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