Exhibit: Shelter and the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo
Dates: Spring 2009
Location: Luhrs Gallery, Hayden Library, 4th Floor, Tempe campus
Description:
Shelter and the Storm: Agnes Smedley at Yaddo is an exhibit about ASU Alumna Agnes Smedley, advocate for the oppressed, radical, war correspondent, and spy. Agnes Smedley had the longest residency at the artists’ colony Yaddo in Saratoga springs, NY. The ASU Libraries’ exhibit, drawn from the University Archives, briefly reviews her life and the controversy she faced after returning from post-war China. Concurrent exhibits about Yaddo and its other notable artists-in-residence are found at the New York Public Library, Harvard University’s Houghton Library, University of Maryland Library, and Stanford University Library.
Image Information: Agnes Smedley Collection Photographs, ASU Libraries’ University Archives
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Who do I contact for visiting Smedley archives? I live in Phoenix and I did arrange a visit to the archives several years ago with Gary Pettett, M.D., President of Edgar Snow Memorial Fund located in Kansas City. Unfortunately, a recent computer failure lost my contacts and communications prior to 2008. I am vice president of Edgar Snow Memorial Fund, UMKC, and am needing information for making visitation again to archives, available study space, etc.
Thank you for whatever help you can provide me. Nancy Wilson