Changes to evening library access

Summoning all artists, poets, graphic designers, life coaches, therapists, and fairy godmothers...we need your words, wisdom, illustrations, incantations, or some combination thereof to take material form as our fall 2026 Welcome Banners. What would you want to share with someone new to LC and making their way? Or what do you wish someone had said (or drawn) for you in your first days and weeks?

This exhibit showcases the works of Phyllis Yes, an artist and emerita professor at Lewis & Clark. Yes’s art encourages viewers to challenge their perceptions of societal gender norms. The collection features prints, sketches, and articles related to her work. Curated by L&C student Zainab Hamib ’29. On display on the top floor of Watzek Library.

The Impossibilists—or Imps—were a group of artists, writers, and performers living in Portland and cohering around an artistic commitment to the new, the experimental, the bold, and, fittingly, the impish. This exhibit includes material from the Impossibilists and others that document the literary scene in Portland from the mid 1970s through the 1980s.

On display in Watzek Library beginning March 15, 2026.

Watzek Library hosts Shaping the Soul, Portland’s first medieval manuscript exhibition in decades. Featuring 30 rare manuscripts, the exhibition provides a unique connection to medieval Europeans and their intimate relationships with books.