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San Francisco Mission District-based artist Ester Hernandez (b. 1944) is a celebrated Chicana printmaker and storyteller. In iconic works such as Sun Mad, she deftly weaves urgent, incisive commentary with a bold visual language. This single-gallery presentation highlights a selection of artwork, writing, and other ephemera from the artist's archive at Stanford Special Collections. The grouping of material reveals that Hernandez's artwork and sociopolitical convictions have walked in lockstep since the very beginning of her career, shaped by her family's background as farmworkers in...

Edmonia Lewis: Indelible Impressions is an intimate, single gallery exhibition featuring three marble sculptures carved by the acclaimed 19th century American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907). Born in the New York, Lewis, who was of Ojibwe and African descent, left the U.S. for Europe in 1866 to build a career in art, eventually opening her own studio in Rome, Italy. Soon after, the international press began heralding Lewis’s talent as a sculptor. President Ulysses S. Grant, Pope Pius IX, Frederick Douglass, and many well-known authors, abolitionists, actors, and art critics visited her...