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The Nature of Creation: Joseph Haydn's Oratorio and Beyond: Exhibit Homepage

The exhibit explores the nature of Creation through human imagination and creativity, as depicted in visual arts, music, cosmological narratives, utopian writings, maps, and scientific work.

Introduction

The Nature of Creation: Joseph Haydn's Oratorio and Beyond exhibit is part of a yearlong project at Arizona State University, culminating in a free performance of Joseph Haydn's Creation oratorio (April 29, 2015). For more details, see The Creation Project.

The exhibit explores the nature of Creation through human imagination and creativity, as depicted in visual arts, music, cosmological narratives and diagrams, utopian writings, and scientific work. The exhibit consists of three physical cases and five poster sections and is displayed on the upper concourse at Hayden Library.

Navigating the Online Exhibit

Book Videos: Leaf through that pop-up book in the exhibit case and watch videos of other materials we could not fit in the exhibit cases.

3D Dioramas: View fossil plants in action! Download a free Augmented Reality app and start interacting. 

ASU Fossil Plant Collections: Land Plant Evolution: View and download high quality photos of fossil plants and watch videos about plant evolution. Prepared by Dr. Kathleen Pigg of ASU Natural Collections, School of Life Sciences. 

Exhibit Materials: Access digitized versions and learn where to view our Special Collections materials used in the exhibit. 

Music to Your Ears: Readings, music pieces, and videos related to the exhibit.

Curator's Note

It is my pleasant duty to thank the many people who helped me in the process of creating the exhibit:

David Schildkret, director of the Creation Project, for inviting the ASU Library to collaborate on the project. Kathleen Pigg, Curator of the Fossil Plant Collections, Collections Manager Elizabeth Makings, and Community Outreach Leader Melody Anne Basham of the Natural History Collections, School of Life Sciences. 

Special thanks to Jacob Sahertian, Director of the ASU Vislab, for designing the poster section of the exhibit. 

Research assistance: Ben Aloe, Anne Feldhaus, Tsafrir Mor, Laura Tohe.
Design: Jacob Sahertian.
Video production and graphic services: Mimmo Bonanni, Dreylon Dupas-Vang, Josh Eberhard, Matt Harp, Suzy Morgan, Beverly Schlee, Matt Trobaugh.
Display cases: Karrie Porter-Brice
Communication and outreach: Jennifer Duvernay.

Rachel Leket-Mor
Exhibit Curator

The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.