Arts & Culture

Seeking Grace: A new exhibit highlights black women throughout DU’s history

Seeking Grace: A new exhibit highlights black women throughout DU’s history

In 1908, the University of Denver saw its second black female student graduate. Her name was Grace Mabel Andrews. Andrews was born in Missouri in 1886. She had two younger siblings, Jesse and Clyde, and her father died before her 15th birthday. Sometime before 1905, her family made the long […]

“Ghost Of,” Diana Khoi Nguyen's debut collection of poems, was shortlisted for a National Book Award. Photo: Wayne Armstrong

A National Book Award nod for PhD creative writing student

With “Ghost Of” (Omnidawn, 2018), her debut collection of poems, Diana Khoi Nguyen found herself blinking in the literary limelight. In September, just months after her book’s publication date, Nguyen learned that “Ghost Of” had been longlisted for a National Book Award. A few weeks later, the collection had advanced […]

Lamont ensemble shines at Monterey Jazz Festival

Lamont ensemble shines at Monterey Jazz Festival

With two performances to overflow audiences at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival — and standing ovations from each — the Lamont Jazz Orchestra (LJO) gave notice to the music world in September that DU is home to some of the finest college jazz musicians on the planet. Made up of […]

Shelf-discovery: Great reading from the DU community

Shelf-discovery: Great reading from the DU community

Whether you read for pleasure or edification or both; whether you thumb through a hardcover or swipe through a device, you’re no doubt in the market for new titles to enjoy. The University of Denver’s community of writers is happy to oblige, producing good reads that raise questions and change […]

Nina Weiste, the woman whose photograph album changed Roddy MacInnes' life. Photo courtesy of Roddy MacInnes

Photography professor’s book connects lives on either side of a century

Roddy MacInnes’ new life began in 1993 with a trip to a Denver antique store. Struggling with substance abuse and longing for a greater sense of community, MacInnes — now a DU photography professor — happened upon a family album filled with photos taken around 1917 by a woman in […]

Talking with DU’s artistic ambassador

Talking with DU’s artistic ambassador

Kendra Whitlock Ingram became executive director of DU’s Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts in November 2016, after serving as vice president of programming and education for Omaha Performing Arts. A big part of Ingram’s job is overseeing Newman Center Presents, the venue’s annual slate of touring […]

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Dubly  Games  Table

  (c.  1927)  

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Drouant  Chairs

  with  original  upholstery  (1924)  designed  by  Émile-Jacques  Ruhlma

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6-Panel  Lacquered  Wood  Screen  by  Jean  Dunand  (1925  or  before)  fea

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  Daum  Lamp  (c.  1928)

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Photo  by  Wes  Magyar.

Denver’s Kirkland Museum makes a major move

In spring of 1981, the 76-year-old Vance Kirkland lay dying in a Denver hospital. Knowing his days were dwindling, the city’s most famous modern artist wanted nothing more than to paint. Enter his longtime friend Hugh Grant. “I set up his hospital room as a studio,” Grant recalls, noting that […]

Alumni help DU professor coordinate groundbreaking exhibition on female artists

Alumni help DU professor coordinate groundbreaking exhibition on female artists

Gwen Chanzit, director of the museum-studies program in DU’s School of Art and Art History and curator of modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, made history in June with “Women of Abstract Expressionism,” the first museum exhibit to focus on the female artists of the postwar art movement.

DU Archives home to a rare set of 19th-century Native American prints

DU Archives home to a rare set of 19th-century Native American prints

The archives are home to a rare set of photographs by Edward Curtis, the 19th-century artist and ethnographer known as the “Shadow Catcher,” a moniker he was given by the Native Americans whose visages and culture he captured in his internationally celebrated works.