Unions' Public Art Blog

"Celebrating LGBTQ Pride at Mizzou" display in the Lower Lair Lounge of the MU Student Center. In recognition of LGBTQ Pride at Mizzou, there is currently an exhibition on display in the Lower Lair Lounge of the MU Student Center featuring notable moments, individuals, and organizations from the University's history. Stop by to check it out when you have the chance! In the meantime, here are some highlights:  Thomas Lanier Williams (aka Tennessee Williams), (1930 Savitar)  Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as the Pulitzer winning playwright Tennessee Williams, attended the University of Missouri in the early 1930s. He won the Pulitzer in 1948 for "A Street Car Named Desire" and again in 1955 for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Both plays were later adapted in to films. Williams began living openly as a gay man in the late 1930s after moving to New York. In 1957, Missouri Workshop students put on a production of Tennessee Williams&#

There is currently a new exhibition in the MU Student Center chronicling the history of the MU periodical ShowMe . The exhibit is located in the display case just outside of Mort's on the main level and features a large number of ShowMe magazines from the Unions' collection.  The ShowMe was a student run humor magazine published at the University of Missouri from the early 1920s through the early 1960s. The monthly magazine was edited, managed, and staffed entirely by MU students. The first issue of the periodical premiered in October of 1920. In its early years ShowMe struggled to meet its financial obligations and it disbanded in 1925. It was briefly replaced by The Outlaw , but in February 1930 Sigma Delta Chi, a national professional journalistic fraternity, purchased The Outlaw and revived ShowMe . Publication of ShowMe would be suspended again in the early 1940s due to World War II, but the magazine resurfaced in January 1946.  These covers are from ShowM