Special Collections Graduate Intern Exhibits

Now through May 21, patrons can visit the Special Collections reading room to view exhibits curated by UWM Art History graduate students Kate Lytvynenko and Olivia Young, who spent their spring 2026 fieldwork experience in Special Collections.

Lytvynenko’s exhibit showcases her interest in Ukrainian art, history, and culture, and her selections offer a perspective of Ukraine as viewed through the lens of those who would control it, highlighting the history of that country’s long struggle for sovereignty. Young’s focus is on the Pre-Raphaelites and late 19th-/early 20th-century European art — her exhibit presents turn-of-the-century decorative trade book covers by some of the most noted designers of the time. Both exhibits demonstrate some of the many lines of inquiry that can be followed through the original printed sources preserved in Special Collections.

Special Collections is located on the fourth floor of the Golda Meir Library and is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.