Exhibition on Display: Jan. 28–March 16, 2025 Tues.–Fri. 9 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. Noon–6 p.m. Widely recognized as a pioneer of photography in the 20th century, Willoughby was the first outside photographer invited by studios to take photos on film sets. Willoughby's career took off in 1954 when Warner Brothers asked him to photograph Judy Garland during the filming of A Star is Born. Life magazine published a feature with over a dozen of Willoughby's candid photographs of Garland working on set, and a close-up photograph of her appeared on the cover. Willoughby's career took off, and his photographs became instantly recognizable, featuring naturalistic images of actors and directors in intimate moments of vulnerability. The magazine Popular Photography has called Willoughby "… the man who virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still." Responding to the many logistical challenges of working on film sets, he was a technological innovator, creating the silent blimp for 35mm still cameras so that he could photograph silently on set, capturing intimate moments of the stars. The exhibition features photographs from the sets of seventeen iconic Hollywood films, including Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Marnie, Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby, and Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love. A Program of Exhibits USA with Texas Commission on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.

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Presenters:Edudzi Sallah, Ph.D. Candidate | English "Providence and the Preacher: A Transatlantic Black Religious Discourse" Juan Alonzo, Associate Professor | English "Centering Mexican American Women's Narratives in Rolando Hinojosa's Fiction"Abstracts: Sallah This dissertation examines the transatlantic history of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ) and its implications for Black transnationalism. It argues that a Black transnational consciousness, in which the Church's continental African members have an equal power relationship with their African American counterparts, is yet to be actualized. It approaches the AMEZ mainly in its identity as "The Freedom Church," probing its religious values in its engagements in Africa as a venture shaped by the specters of the Black American past and present racial experiences. This work seeks to understand how the politics of race functions intra-racially, specifically, how African and African American bodies and cultures become sites of contestation within Black communities and nationalities.AlonzoRolando Hinojosa'sKlailCity Death Trip Series—encompassing fifteen novels—is celebrated for creating an expansive fictional history of a Mexican American community in south Texas.Yet because most of the novels are focalized through two major male characters, critics have seldom explored the lives of female characters.My research and rereading of the later novels in the series reveal that Hinojosa was interested inrenderingthe community in its totality by also narrating women's stories in all their richness.Hinojosasoughttorepresentthe histories, tragedies, and triumphs of Rio Grande Valley Chicanas.My colloquium will focus on the novelBecky and Her Friends(1990) as I complicate both Hinojosa's and the critics' reckonings with the stories of women in his oeuvre.   Chair: Sirsha Nandi | English  Please note that this is not a lecture, and thus, is not suited for class attendance. The Colloquium Series is intended to provide the presenter with a forum to discuss their research and receive feedback from colleagues and peers.

Reception 5:15 p.m.Lecture 6-7:15 p.m. Central TimeLive streaming will be available.PANELISTSAlexandra Winkler: Senior Associate for the America's Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies and Former Deputy Mayor of El Hatillo, one of the five municipalities of the capital city of Caracas, Venezuela.Carrie Filipetti: Executive Director of the Vandenberg Coalition, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cuba and Venezuela in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Former Deputy Special Representative for Venezuela at the U.S. Department of State.

The annual Spring Concert held on Family Weekend of the Women's Chorus and Century Singers on Friday, April 4, in Rudder Theater. Tickets available at boxoffice.tamu.edu (http://boxoffice.tamu.edu) or 979-845-1234.