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Lunchable: View the Eggheads Inside the Cool Library

Exhibit Features Aggie Stories and Photos Over the Years

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Three people stand in front of library exhibit on Robert Arneson
Sandy Shannonhouse, Robert Arneson's widow, Bill Garrity, University Librarian, Shields Library, and Kirk Arneson, Robert Arneson's son, discuss an exhibit at Shields Library this spring. The exhibit on view through November celebrates the Eggheads and Robert Arneson, the late art professor who created and sculpted the Eggheads. (Alysha Beck/嘿嘿视频)
Bookhead Egghead in front of library at 嘿嘿视频
The Bookhead is one in a series of five site-specific sculptures on campus, this one located in front of the 嘿嘿视频 Shields Library. It was the first Egghead installed. Inside the library is an exhibit that features the history of their installations through the pages of the campus newspaper. (嘿嘿视频 photo)

Lunchable is an occasional Arts Blog feature that shows readers how to take in a small exhibition of art during a lunch or short break. 

While taking a self-guided live tour of Robert Arneson鈥檚 Eggheads that dot the 嘿嘿视频 campus seems like a good idea (see below) it might get a little toasty in the hotter days of summer. Like now.

There is a cooler way to take one version of a 鈥渢our.鈥  And you鈥檒l get a bonus history lesson too.

For temperatures in the more comfortable range, you can 鈥渢our鈥 them yourself inside the 嘿嘿视频 Shields Library thanks to the archives of the Aggie student newspaper housed there. The exhibit is 鈥淓gg-xtra, Egg-xtra Read All About It.鈥 It is viewable through the fall.

The library staff researched and retrieved photos and articles from the library archives collection of Aggie newspapers from the 1990s and blew them up to join in the campus celebration of the Year of the Eggheads 鈥 the 30th anniversary of the final installation of what are five, site-specific Egghead sculptures. The library exhibition was curated by Library Communications in partnership with Archives and Special Collections.

Notably, the actual three-dimensional version of Bookhead 鈥 the first Egghead installed 鈥 greets visitors just outside the the library. Inside, the Egg-xibit makes up a virtual tour hanging on the walls just inside the air-conditioned front entrance. Turn to your left after you enter, and you can see a series of photos that guide a viewer from the first installation, or "hatch" of Bookhead (including the large bronze Egghead being transported on a flatbed truck) 鈥 to the last installation of the final Egghead sculptures in 1994. 

Displayed prominently on another wall located directly opposite the front entrance is an article about Arneson鈥檚 death from cancer in 1992. A photo of his widow, ceramics artist Sandy Shannonhouse, and his then-young daughter standing at a lectern at the 1994 final Egghead dedication ceremony is also on view. 

Together, these images offer a snapshot of the Eggheads and their creator through newsprint reproduced in high-quality images.

The stories and photos you see mounted on the walls can also be found in the library鈥檚 .

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For more on the Year of the Eggheads, the history of Arneson and the Eggheads and ways to buy Egghead-related merchandise go to the special Egghead website at

 

 

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