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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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DU Bookstore: Fall Quarter Textbook Buyback
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DU ID Required to participate in buyback program |
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7:30 AM - 9:30 AM |
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Obstacles to Peace: Stories from Israel/Palestine 11/6-11/7
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The Association of Students for Human Rights presents “Obstacles to Peace,” a film festival taking place November 6th and 7th in Ben Cherrington Hall, SIE 150. Please join us to view eight unique and informative films which view the situation within Israel and the Occupied Territories through a lens of Human Rights. The films explore issues of identity between a variety of groups: Palestinian and Israeli, immigrant and native, homosexual and heterosexual, religious and secular, adult and child, highlighting the potential for abuse and hatred between each group.
Please visit our website for more info: http://studentsforhumanrights.org |
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Noon - 4:00 PM |
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John Edward Thompson: Colorado Modernist
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John Edward Thompson:
Colorado Modernist opens at the University
of Denver (DU) Myhren Gallery Nov. 12, 2009. It is the first of three exhibitions
curated this season by students in a museum studies class at DU’s School of Art
& Art History (SAAH). Thompson (b. 1882) was a
pioneering artist who served on the DU faculty from 1929 to his death in 1945. This
exhibition gathers together paintings, sketches and drawings by Thompson from
DU’s permanent art collection and other regional collections, including those
of the Harbaugh family and of Deborah and Warren Wadsworth.
It also highlights the ongoing
restoration of an important mural by Thompson on the DU campus, rediscovered more
than 70 years after it was painted over in 1931. His 350 square foot
Shakespeare-themed mural in Margery Reed Hall, which was finished in 1929 and
painted over in 1931, was largely forgotten until its rediscovery in 2007. It
is now being restored with the participation of SAAH students enrolled in the
pre-conservation Bachelor of Fine Arts program.
Thompson’s
influence on Colorado art was felt soon after he moved to Denver in 1917. Modernist
works by Thompson and his followers incited heated debates about modern art in
the newspapers of the time after they were included in a 1919 exhibition at the
Denver Public Library. In the early 1920s, Thompson became a founding faculty
member of the Chappell House School. When DU acquired the School in 1929
Thompson, along with most of its faculty, transferred to the University’s
School of Art (now SAAH). He remains one of Colorado’s
best-known and most avidly collected painters. |
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Final Exams
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Final Exams |
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