Mr. Oliver P. Franklin

Description: The HRC's, Executive Curator for Public Programs, Oliver Franklin, will be hosting an exploration of the HRC and also giving an overview of its rich art collection.

Thanks to Oliver Franklin, Curator of Public Programs, and his wonderful team, the Harry Ransom Center has become such a vital part of the Austin cultural scene.

Tour of the Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin - Saturday, March 6, 9 am-1pm; Special behind-the-scenes tour with curator of public programs, Oliver Franklin and lunch at Mansion at Judge's Hill; Orientation to the Ransom Center; Tour of exhibit "Make it New": The Rise of Modernism, Ransom Center Galleries; Tour of preservation and conservation floor.

Oliver Franklin, Executive Curator for Public Programs, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Oliver Franklin '79 at the Harry Ransom Center

Oliver is the Executive Curator for Public Programs at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the University of Texas campus in Austin.The Center is currently presenting two exhibitions: The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age and Technologies of Writing.

Read more about the Ransom Center at www.hrc.utexas.edu.

Oliver Franklin '79 at the Harry Ransom Center

Oliver is the Executive Curator for Public Programs at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Read more about the Ransom Center at www.hrc.utexas.edu.

Sherlockians who wish to see some of the rarer items should contact Mr. Oliver P. Franklin.He is the Executive Curator for Public Programs and he is well aware of the way Sherlockians regard anything related to The Master or his literary agent.Another person that might be able to help out-of-town Sherlockians is Sarah Ann Robertson.She is the recruitment secretary for The Sherlock Holmes Society of Austin.She can be reached through the society's web page: http://www.realtime.net/~revenant/sherlock.html.

"Many teachers are interested in Gutenberg, his invention and the historical influences and consequences of the first book printed with movable type, but they don't have a vehicle for their students to explore these subjects," said Oliver Franklin, executive curator of public programs.

Oliver Franklin, Curator of Public Programs at the Harry Ransom Center, says what you'll see is different from other silent films.

"When one thinks of a silent film, one often has an image in mind, often it's a Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton or something like that.There's often a paradigm in one's head, but what you'll see here is very different that what you'll normally experience," explains Franklin.

The movies are shown at the Alamo Drafthouse downtown on Thursday nights through March 11.