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Established in 1993, DU ART! Is a volunteer membership organization that supports the School of Art and Art History. Through member contributions and fundraising events, DU ART! provides art scholarships, special equipment, a newsletter, educational experiences and an endowment for ongoing support of SAAH programs.
Upcoming Event
Next event is the annual meeting on Thursday June 19 at Peter Durst's studio
(1571 south Broadway).
Membership
We are a diverse group of DU alumni, art educators, artists, art lovers, students and business people.
Please join us. Application for Membership (PDF or Word)
Contributions are made annually for the membership year, September1-August 31. Suggested categories are listed on the application, but you may join through a donation in any amount. Please become a member today and support future artists and art historians.
DU ART! Board
President Barbara Kelly
Vice President Julie Anderies
Treasurer Judy Carroll
Secretary Sally Story
Patricia Aaron
Lee & Jennifer Ballentine
Mort Blager
Toby Bowlby
John Canney
Judith Cassel-Mamet
Susan Coombe
Angela Hottinger
Harriet Kelly
Leslie Kelly
Jack Kunin
Elizabeth Labrot
Mary Lanius
Helen Littlejohn
Nina Saks Robinson
Steve Savague
Dr. Jerry Schultz
Betty Seibert
Juila Shepherd
Dr. Raymond Wood II
Holly Victor
Board members communicate through the closed list, duart-board@du.edu
DU ART! Scholarships
The following artists have been supported through DU ART! Scholarships:
2007-2008 DU ART! Scholars
Alexandro Rojas-Sanders, MFA in eMAD
2006-2007 DU ART! Scholars
Matt Jenkins, MFA in eMAD
2005-2006 DU ART! Scholars
Kristin Fleischmann, BFA Studio Art
2003-2004 DU ART! Scholar
Lindsay Smith, BFA Studio Art
2003-2004 Jan Mayer Scholar*
Heather Richardson, BFA Studio Art, pre-conservation
*a scholarship funded by DU ART! in honor of Jan Mayer
2002-2003 DU ART! Scholars
Ameet Patel, BFA Studio Art, education concentration
Heidi Lucas, BFA Studio Art, pre-conservation concentration
Past Events
Unveiling the John Thompson Shakespeare Mural: Art Conservation at DU
Little Theater in Margery Reed Hall University of Denver on Sunday, April 6, 2008, at 3 p.m. to see a conservation project in progress and learn about the mural, its creator, and theater history.
John E. Thompson, one of the region's most important modern artists, painted the proscenium mural in 1929 while he was an art professor at the University. It was completely hidden by a coat of paint just two years later and was only rediscovered last year. Now art conservators and pre-art conservation students at DU are uncovering it, inch by inch.
Visual presentation by art conservation students.
Panel of experts.
Refreshments in the lobby.
DU ART! thanks the Theatre Department and Daniels College of Business for their generous support of this event.
Denver’s New Museum of Contemporary Art
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tour by Museum Director Cydney Payton
Wine, Cheese and Chocolate- Rooftop Café-
An exclusive tour of
Art in Public Spaces in Downtown Denver conducted by art educator and lecturer
Jack Kunin
• Lawrence Argent, DU Professor of Sculpture,
will speak on the process of public art - from concept to installation of the Blue Bear
• Davis Coombe, local film maker, will present his documentary 'The Big Blue Bear'
• Other tour sites include:
–The New Telephone Building (ca.1915-1930) featuring
murals by Allan Tupper True (1881-1955)
–The Convention Center Art Collection
–The Hyatt Regency at the Colorado Convention Center
–The Chambers-Grant Lounge at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House
The Timeless Bead Event
Collectors and beaders will revel in the multitude of activities planned for the day-long bead event to be held in Sturm Hall and the Shwayder Art building on December 3, 2005 from 9:00 to 4:00 PM. The event, The Timeless Bead: Personal Expression in Art and History, will include beading classes, art bead sales, lectures, the showing of an award-winning film The Eternal Bead: World on a String and appraisals by international bead expert, Jamey Allen.
Inside the Creative Process: an evening with Amie Knox
Lindsay Auditorium, Sturm Hall
University of Denver Campus
2000 East Asbury Avenue
Monday, October 24th, 6:30-9:00 pm.
Lecture by Dr. Phillip Conisbee
Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Presented by FOPAS (Friends of Painting and Sculpture) of the Denver Art Museum and by DU ART!
The Historic Arapahoe Acres Neighborhood in Denver:
Lecture and Walking Tour
Saturday, April 23, 2005
11:10 am Lecture by Diane Wray, author of the newly published Historic Denver Guides: The Arapahoe Acres Historic District.
12:00 noon Box Lunch (included)
1:00 - 4:00 pm Walking Tour & Garden Reception, Arapahoe Acres
Cracking The Da Vinci Code:
Leonardo, Mary Magdalene, and the Sacred Feminine
Cable Center Theater, 2000 Buchtel Blvd.
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
6:30 pm Wine and light hors d'oeuvres followed by presentation.
A lively examination of the premises behind Dan Brown's best-selling novel with three distinguished DU professors: Scott Montgomery, Greg Robbins, and M.E. Warlick.
Truth or Consequences: Remington, Russell, and the Burden of Pictorial Truth
University of Denver, Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium, 2000 E. Asbury Ave.
Thursday, March 3, 2005
6:30 pm Cocktail reception followed by the lecture hosted by Dr. Peter Hassrick, DU alumni and scholar on Charles M. Russell and western American art.
Presented by the Institute of Western American Art of the Denver Art Museum and by DU ART!
Art in the Afternoon
A tour of Two Private Art Collections for DU ART! Members Only
Wednesday, February 22, 2005
2:00 - 4:30 pm
Michelangelo Lecture
University of Denver, Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium
Thursday, October 14, 2004
5:30 pm - refreshments and socializing
6 pm - lecture
The lecture is free of charge and is supported by the Berger Education Fund at the Denver Art Museum.
Dr. Spike's lecture is a joint presentation of FOPAS (Friends Of Painting And Sculpture), a support group for the Denver Art Museum, and DU ART!, a support group for the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver.
Dr. John T. Spike is a noted historian of Italian art of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1979. In the course of his career, Dr. Spike has organized many exhibitions of Italian art and has lectured at museums around the world, including the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Museé du Louvre, Paris; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He has recently published two works on the Florentine Renaissance: Massaccio and Fra Angelico . Dr. Spike has resided in Florence with his wife, Michele and their son, Nicholas since 1989.