Her hope is to re-invigorate interest in the works and introduce library users to the important art movements of that era. The reshuffling of artwork at OUGL is one attempt by Kurt Kiefer, campus art administrator, to make sense of the collection in the context of the University. Until the late 1980s, artwork was collected to either memorialize a person or to decorate the campus. As the works age, the significance of each individual object is often lost on the contemporary campus community. As time and money permits, Kiefer will look for additional changes in the way work on campus is displayed.
Temporary installations offer another means of re-addressing the way art is exhibited on the campus.
Recently, the first-floor Suzzallo hallway has been home to two exhibitions of photographs from the Libraries Special Collections and Preservation Division, and a series of wall constructions by artist Doris Chase. Richard Engeman, photographs and graphics librarian, has prepared a series of new photo exhibitions to expand upon the two already in place. The fourth floor of Allen Library houses two works of art loaned to the University by Seattle's FUEL Gallery. In the hallway leading to the Petersen Room is John Gierlich's Longhouse , and near the entrance to the Libraries administrative offices is Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid's Head of the Worker . Longhouse is a series of constructions meant to be a cross section of a long building.