“A Love for Everything: Education Untied at Westphal College of Media Arts & Design”
The Drexel Archives is hosting the exhibition “A Love for Everything: Education Untied at Westphal College of Media Arts & Design” now through Friday, May 14, 2010 at W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets). The exhibition, on display through May 14, 2010, highlights the developments that have shaped the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design and in turn Drexel University.
Anthony J. Drexel envisioned the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry as a place for rapid, intensive and practical business and industrial education. Initially, his idea was to establish an industrial college for women, but later decided that the Institute would be open to all, declaring, “I know that the world is going to change, and, therefore, the Institute must change with it, and I do not want to tie it up.” It would come as little surprise to him that what had begun in 1891 as the Department of Domestic Economy has evolved into the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design which now offers 14 majors, 12 minors and four graduate programs.
As a founding board member of Breastcancer.org, Antoinette Passo Westphal ‘59, Hon. ’02, the college’s namesake, felt that, “There is a love for everything.” As this exhibition demonstrates, her passion for life and Anthony Drexel’s educational vision are realized in the College.
An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Wednesday, April 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. in W.W. Hagerty Library. For more information about the University Archives, visit http://www.library.drexel.edu/