Browse Exhibits (15 total)
El día de los muertos: La reunión de las almas/ Day of the Dead: The Reuniting of the Souls- CMLL
This exhibits invites you to learn more about the Día de los Muertos as it is celebrated in Oaxaca and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Esta exibición te invita a aprender más sobre el Día de los Muertos y cómo se celebra en Oaxaca y San Miguel de Allende, México.
Black Heroes of Mississippi
Meet some of the extraordinary men and women from Mississippi who fought for justice, excelled in the arts, and led the charge for human rights.
Each day of February 2024, the library will feature a new person. Click on their names to learn more!
AI Art with Ardith
AI Art in the Classroom
The Bell Grant from the Bulldog Experience Office at Mississippi State University funded the AI Art with Ardith workshops held during the Spring 2024 semester in MSU’s main library as an experiential learning opportunity for students. The grant supplied the funds to bring Ardith Goodwin, Mobile, AL and access to Midjourney for students. We paired Ardith's workshop with our very own Megan Bean, Copyright and Information Policy Specialist, for a presentation on copyright, Fair Use, Ethics, and AI. Ms. Goodwin was thrilled to have this opportunity to work with students in a creative way & engage them in a discussion about AI and ethics in art. Classes who worked with Ms. Goodwin includes Global Contemporary Art, Visualizing Resistance in the Global South, and Digital Drawing, as well as an open workshop offered to faculty, staff, and students across campus. This digital exhibit is a culmination of student’s work in response to the workshop using the Bulldog Experience prompts for experiential learning and their creative process.
Copyright and AI
Most undergraduate art students have given little thought to the implications of copyright law. They’ve had little reason to, since thus far they’ve operated within the low-risk cocoons of education and/or non-commercial social media. But given that these art majors will soon graduate and enter the commercial world as employees or independently selling their art works, it’s time they start thinking about how copyright and fair use might apply.
The Copyright portion of the AI Art with Ardith Workshops presented a wonderful opportunity to get the students’ gears turning about a range of relevant issues, such as:
- Is it fair use to use individual artworks in training Midjourney/LLMs?
- Are the outputs from Midjourney “safe” to use?
- How can we use the principles of copyright law to use or own Midjourney’s output?
- How can we use licenses to let others know how they can or cannot use our own artwork?
Exploring William Wells Brown's Clotel
William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853) tells the story of two daughters of Thomas Jefferson and an enslaved woman named Currer, based on Sally Hemings. In February 2024, students in Ted Atkinson's AAS/EN 4343 course, "Studies in African American Literature," analyzed the history of the novel, some of its major themes, and the background of its author. Their work is presented here in honor of Black History Month.
VOTE! Revisiting Freedom Summer
This exhibit will highlight items related to Freedom Summer of 1964.