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  • New Summer Intern
    May 28, 2014 by

    Hello my name is Amanda Knigga, and I am the summer intern here at DOMA. My focus for the internship is student and community engagement. I will be involved in organizing Final Friday later hours for the 2014-2015 school year, Quad Bash on Friday, August, 22nd, and Community Day on Saturday, September, 13th, and of […]

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  • Remembrance
    May 23, 2014 by

    New, and currently on display in the Brown Study Room at DOMA is a series of twelve serigraph prints by Post-Abstract Expressionist, Larry Rivers. The body of work, Larry Rivers and the Boston Massacre (1970), juxtaposes historical events that occurred two hundred years apart to re-examine the pursuit of civil liberties and personal freedom. Rivers […]

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  • The 25th Edmund F. Petty Memorial Lecture
    April 23, 2014 by

    Wednesday, April 16th was an exciting day at the David Owsley Museum of Art, as we welcomed supporters, students, and faculty to the museum for the 25th Petty Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture, “Houdon’s Bust of Buffon: On Science, Art, and Politics in Eighteenth Century France” was given by Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., Professor of […]

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  • New Acquistions
    April 1, 2014 by

    We are excited to share some recent acquisitions on display at DOMA with our readers! New works are on display in the Asian Art Gallery on the main level and in the North Galleries upstairs thanks to patron, David T. Owsley, who lent Kannon, Rape of Europa, and Waterfall, Greenwich. The museum often receives gifts […]

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  • Chemical Analysis of Christ, 1225
    March 31, 2014 by

    Department of Chemistry Chair Dr. Patricia Lang and Ball State student Heidi Noneman have been working on taking paint samples from the Christ sculpture in Museum of Art’s west gallery of Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque art. These samples will be used to identify which pigments on the sculpture are original as well as which […]

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