Mary “Marty” McGuigan (BA ’92) and John McGuigan Jr. (BA ’89, MA ’97) joke that the past 10 years of their lives have been “like Indiana Jones without the Nazis chasing us.” Their adventure began during a 1998 blizzard in Denver. Stuck in their home, they randomly pulled down a […]
Annette Stott, director of the School of Art and Art History, has spent years researching the cemeteries of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Montana to highlight the work of sculptors in Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West (University of Nebraska Press, 2008). “I’m most interested in what everyday people […]
The Newman Center for the Performing Arts will begin selling new subscriptions for the 2009–10 season May 15. The center’s seventh season brings 15 performances of music, dance and theater to the stage of the June Swaner Gates Concert Hall. “The theme is the power of community, and we have […]
Hugh Grant, director of the Kirkland Museum, has received the 2009 Arts and Humanities Prize for his work preserving the artistic legacy of Colorado artists, including former DU art school director Vance Kirkland. The prestigious prize is presented annually by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation in the categories of science and medicine and […]
Classically trained cellist Maya Beiser will wrap up the 2008–09 Newman Center Presents series on Saturday, May 9, with a 7:30 p.m. performance of the eclectic work Provenance. Beiser grew up on an Israeli kibbutz at the base of the Galilee Mountains in a region where Muslim, Jewish and Christian villages […]
The University of Denver student organization Never Again!, along with the Holocaust Awareness Institute, has organized a week’s worth of activities for Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week April 19–24. The 2009 theme is “Resist” and is meant to educate the community on past acts of resistance. “Whether through actions during the […]
When Allison Horsley (BA ’94) was an undergraduate at DU, she had no idea how she’d combine her love of Russian with her love of theater. But now, as an assistant professor of theater at DU, Horsley has found a way to do it all. She translates and adapts Russian […]
Westword’s annual “Best Of” collection of the weird, wacky and wonderful in Denver is on the streets, and as usual, DU hasn’t been left out. For 2009, the University has garnered meritorious mention in two distinct categories: ceramics and cookbooks. The culinary citation offers praise to Penrose Library for the 9,000 […]
The Aquila Theatre Company will deliver three performance of Homer’s The Iliad as part of DU’s Newman Center Presents series. The first performance will be March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Byron Theatre. Prior to the performance, the company will give a master class for theater students at 2 […]
The Academy of Ancient Music will perform J.S. Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos 1-6” at the Newman Center on Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m in June Swaner Gates Concert Hall. The Academy of Ancient Music, formed by Christopher Hogwood in 1973, performs classical and baroque music in the original style by […]
The Newman Center Presents series will host the David Dorfman Dance Company for a performance of the politically charged piece, underground, on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Dorfman created underground after watching a documentary about the Weathermen, an organization also known as the Weather Underground. Founded in 1969 as […]
A rare performance will take place on Saturday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m., as Boston’s Either/Orchestra shares the stage of DU’s June Swaner Gates Concert Hall with one of Ethiopia’s most famous vocalists, Mahmoud Ahmed. Either/Orchestra began collaborating with Ahmed in 2006, but the jazz ensemble and singer have only […]
As part of Colorado’s celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln, a University of Denver audience will get a sneak preview of the new PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. in Davis Auditorium. “The documentary examines the way Americans have shaped and reshaped Lincoln’s historical […]
An exhibition by celebrated Colorado ceramicist Paul Soldner is open at the Victoria Myhren Gallery. The show features 45 works by Soldner, who is often called the father of American raku — a technique he developed that relies on the experimental use of non-traditional materials following the traditional Japanese quick-firing […]
Anyone who loves the guitar should see the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet perform on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the June Swaner Gates Concert Hall, says Stephen Seifert, executive director of the Newman Center. The quartet has performed for 27 years, recorded over a dozen albums and won […]