During a career at SUNY Geneseo lasting over 51 years, Dr. Thomas Matthews saved hundreds of posters. In the fall of 2021, students in Dr. Monica Hershberger’s section of MUSC 100 (Making Music History at SUNY Geneseo ) took these posters and transformed the Lederer Gallery in Geneseo’s Brodie Fine Arts Building into five dorm rooms. Visitors to “Dorm Rooms through the Decades at SUNY Geneseo” in the Lederer Gallery begin in the 1970s and conclude in the 2010s. Moving through the rooms, visitors see posters plastered on the walls, advertising many of the events that took place on campus during that decade, and can read about the posters that particularly interested the students of MUSC 100.
In collaboration with Dr. Hershberger, the SUNY Geneseo Center for Digital Learning has created this website as a companion to the live exhibit. You’ll find a landing page here for each decade, and a link from each poster to a student essay exploring its significance.
Credits
Exhibit director
Monica Hershberger, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, SUNY Geneseo
The writers
Samantha Andolina
Alison Bohlen
Lucas Capobianco
Dante Coccia
Amanda Daum
William Dungate
Alec Eng
Tanner Erdman
Misha Firstein-Rudder
Allison Flanagan
Alexandra Galle
Katie Haefele
Joseph Jablonski
Ryan Lajoie
Qing Li
Jada Lucarelli
Phoebe Maxwell
Joey Morgan
Rahim Pirmuhamedov
Lily Qian
Jovahn Roumell
Jake Steffen
Nick Widman
Collection curator
Tom Matthews, Associate Dean of Leadership and Service, SUNY Geneseo (retired 2018)
Web design + layout
Amanda Schmidt, Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator, SUNY Geneseo
Exhibit digitization
Center for Digital Learning, SUNY Geneseo
