Jane Alexandroff was a vital part of the Columbia College community for nearly 40 years. She worked at the College, was the wife of president Mike Alexandroff, and founded Chicago Artists Abroad, a granting agency designed to support Chicago artists performing and exhibiting outside of the United States.
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Title: Chicago Journalists Association: Early 20th Century Illustrations
Location: Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd floor east
Contact: CADC (cadc@colum.edu )
Dates: Jan 23 through May 5, 2012
Twentieth Century Cover Designs
September 19 – December 23
Keeping It Together: Paper Clips & Paper Fasteners
September 19 – December 23
Veterans Administration Research and Guidance Center at Columbia College Exhibit
Library, 2nd Floor
August 10th - December 23, 2011
After World War II, Columbia College was an important education center for the Veteran Administration. The GI Bill had far reaching effects at the College that still resonate today. The display features material from the time period, 1945 to 1956, including information about students, disciplines introduced, and alumnae who attended Columbia on the GI Bill, including one of our current trustees. The exhibit is in the Library, 2nd floor west and runs from August 10 until December 23, 2011.
The Archie Lieberman Black Star exhibition features a selection of Lieberman’s photographs during his time with Black Star, a photographic agency offering photojournalism and stock photography services. It is an important supplier of photographs to Life and other magazines. Culled from thousands of negatives, most of the photographs shown in the exhibit were not chosen for their original publications. Despite the variety of content, these striking photographs reveal a sense of humor and an interest in the unusual. Lieberman worked with Black Star for nearly a decade.
The Archie Lieberman Black Star exhibition is part of the Archie Lieberman collection, a generous gift from the Lieberman family to the Archives and Digital Collections at Columbia College Chicago. Lieberman taught photography at Columbia College during the 1960s. Curated by Thatiana Oliveira, a graduate student in Photography at Columbia College Chicago, the exhibit runs through September 30, 2011. An exhibit reception will be held Tuesday September 13, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Library, 3 North.
A collection of photographs by Archie Lieberman are on display in the library through January 25th. The collection is viewable on the Library 2nd Floor West, 3rd Floor West, and 3rd Floor North. 
The Columbia College Chicago Archives holds the definitive collection of Archie Lieberman material that chronicles the professional, creative life of this working photographer and author.
The Archie Lieberman Collection contains the work of a professional photojournalist from the 1950s to the early 2000s. His photographs appeared in magazines such as Look, Life, and Time and he worked for Black Star Agency and for corporations like Land’s End, Acme Steel, and Inland Steel. His photographs have been exhibited in the United States and abroad and he also was author of or photographer for over twenty books. The job notebooks he kept allows access to the many prints, slides, negatives, correspondence, and photographs in his collection.
His passion for his work is best seen in two the multi-decade photographic projects, Farm Boy and Neighbors, that capture American farm life in Illinois. He also worked with Ray Bradbury to produce The Mummies of Guanajuato, with his photographs of the preserved corpses in that Mexican town that accompany Bradbury’s text, and with novelist Meyer Levin on The Story of Israel.
View and listen to the Library exhibit highlighting his career from the 1960s to the present.
Drop in to the Columbia College Chicago Library and acquaint yourself with Music Department faculty member Doug Lofstrom – who celebrates a milestone birthday this year – and his musical compositions. On display are items and images from his career dating from the late 1960s to the present. Also enjoy the electronic exhibit and take time to hear Doug Lofstrom’s music at the listening station.
Formerly composer-in-residence for the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra and musical director of Chicago's Free Street Theater, Lofstrom plays bass and has composed and arranged orchestral, chamber and theatrical music. His works have been performed by the St. Louis, Indianapolis and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, Present Music, Tales & Scales, and the Revolution Ensemble. In 2001, Lofstrom formed The New Quartet, a versatile chamber ensemble that performs modern classics, jazz and world music.
This display also celebrates his donation of manuscript materials to the Columbia College Chicago Archives. Now his music, notes, sketches, poetry, and original works will be housed at the College for research and classroom use in support of primary resource use and curriculum. The exhibit is being held in conjunction with the Doug Lofstrom and the New Quartet April 9th concert at noon in the Music Department Concert Hall, 1014 S. Michigan Ave.
The exhibit is on the first floor of the Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan Ave. It runs through April 17, 2009 and can be viewed during normal Library hours.
