Nebula Gallery
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UTD Campus Aerial View late 1960s / early 1970s.<hr /><strong>Collection</strong>: F.W. Rick Biddenstadt University Photograph Collection
The Nebula Gallery is the newest addition to the Eugene McDermott Library. It is located in the lobby of our Special Collections and Archives Division on the 3rd floor in 3.504. If you would like more information, please contact Jennifer Ottinger at Jennifer.Ottinger@utdallas.edu.
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On Exhibit July 8th through August 18th
Undercover Beauties: The art of marbled papers from our Rare Books Collection
Curated by Jennifer Ottinger
Before dust jackets and printed covers, books made their first impression with marbled paper—sometimes on the outside, often just inside the covers. These swirling designs were created by hand, using floating inks and careful technique to transfer patterns to paper.
Undercover Beauties showcases examples from UTD’s Rare Books Collection, highlighting centuries of styles and methods—from Turkish and Nonpareil to French Curl and Fantasy. Some even combine multiple techniques on a single sheet, mixing tradition with bold experimentation.
Explore the colors, techniques, and visual flair that once marked a book as something special—inside and out.
On Exhibit August 19th through September 14th
Required Reading: Sci-Fi edition
Curated by Jennifer Ottinger
As students return to campus and settle in for the semester, we’re heading back to class—sci-fi style. Required Reading: Sci-Fi Edition launches a new school year with bold, imaginative cover art pulled from UTD’s Rare Books Collection. The exhibit showcases 1950s pulp science fiction magazines that imagined the future with rockets, robots, and atomic-powered possibilities.
With vivid cover art and wildly imaginative plots, these stories capture a generation’s excitement about the future—alongside growing unease about where science and society might be taking us.
Whether you’re a sci-fi reader, a design lover, or just taking a study break, Required Reading: Sci-Fi Edition invites you to explore the roots of science fiction—when imagination pushed the limits of what science could become.