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Arts-lending program invites campus community to borrow original works

By Public Affairs

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The UC Berkeley Library’s Graphic Arts Loan Collection allows students, staff and faculty to borrow original lithographs, etchings and woodblock prints during the academic year. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Cade Johnson)
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Art from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection includes an Alexander Calder lithograph (far right), which hangs on the walls of the Ryder Art Gallery in Berkeley’s anthropology building in September 2022. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Jami Smith)
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Kathryn Field (left) and Nigel Jones look at artwork during the Art for Your Apartment event in 2018. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Cade Johnson)
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Art from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection program hangs on the walls of the Ryder Art Gallery in Berkeley’s anthropology building in September 2022. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Jami Smith)
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Corners on a piece of artwork get protection at the Art for Your Apartment event in Morrison Library in 2018. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Cade Johnson)
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Art from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection program hangs on the walls of the Ryder Art Gallery in Berkeley’s anthropology building in September 2022. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Jami Smith)
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Art from the Graphic Arts Loan Collection program hangs on the walls of the Ryder Art Gallery in Berkeley’s anthropology building in September 2022. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Jami Smith)
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Kathryn Field looks at artwork during the Art for Your Apartment event in Morrison Library in 2018. (UC Berkeley Library photo by Cade Johnson)

In 1958, UC Berkeley professor Herwin Schaefer started what is now the UC Berkeley Library’s Graphic Arts Loan Collection. Schaefer believed that the best way to foster an appreciation of art is by living with the original prints. Through the arts-lending program, Berkeley students, staff and faculty can borrow a collection of original lithographs, etchings and woodblock prints. Each person can check out up to two prints each academic year beginning in the fall.

Browse the Graphic Arts Loan Collection.

Learn more about the collection.