Kennedy Library’s Creative Works department supports alternative approaches to scholarship with a commitment to amplify underrepresented topics and voices. We do this by shaping, sharing, and fueling stories with collaborators in art, exhibits, and digital publishing. We do this on the lands of yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini, the Northern Chumash tribe, upon which we are grateful guests.
Image from: “Pressing Forward: The Book Club of California at 100” exhibition. Photo: Kaori Funahashi (Art ‘12) /Kennedy Library
Submissions from 2023
A Look Back at the Past: 20 Years of Kennedy Library Exhibits, Robert E. Kennedy Library
Submissions from 2020
Calm Your Thoughts With Tater Tots: a tater tot casserole recipe coloring book, jaime ding, Catherine Trujillo, Jett Witlin, Sasha Menshikova, Isabela Presedo-Floyd, Russ White, Natalie Priest, and Laura Sorvetti
Digital Publishing at Robert E. Kennedy Library: Project Blueprint, Catherine Trujillo, jaime ding, and Adriana Popescu
Here for a Reason: 1969 to 2019 - Fifty Years of Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly, Grace Yeh and Catherine Trujillo
Impact: The Visual Communication of Information, Jennifer Shields, Mark Cabrinha, Sasha Menshikova, Catherine Trujillo, Emily Chung, Miles Young, Hope Golden, Laura Akatsu Kuffner, Markus Rogne, and Aimie Olson
Integrated Visionaries, David Ocelotl Garcia, Eden Knapp, and Catherine Trujillo
Submissions from 2019
25–35, Anna Teiche
Cal Poly FrankenReads: An All-Day Public Reading of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Robert E. Kennedy Library
Submissions from 2018
Between the Bars, Unique Shaw-Smith Dr, Eliese Maxwell, Victoria Otero, Catherine Trujillo, and Habib Placencia Adissi
Don’t Believe the Hype: The Radical Elements of Hip-Hop, Jenell Navarro, Catherine Trujillo, Jeremiah Hernandez, Logan Kregness, John Duch, and Anna Teiche
Submissions from 2012
Strive and Struggle: Documenting the Civil Rights Movement at Cal Poly, 1967-1975, Josh Harmon, Laura Sorvetti, and Catherine Trujillo
Where We Stand: 1975-2011, Laura Sorvetti, Catherine Trujillo, and Josh Harmon