Category: History

  • Visitor, Visitor What Do You See?
    August 5, 2019 by

    By: Sophie Edens, Public Relations & Marketing Intern Visitor, visitor, what do you see? I see…uh, something?  Here at the David Owsley Museum of Art, we have an unusual sculpture titled Scholar’s Stone located in the Frank and Rosemary Ball Gallery.  It might not look like a scholar nor like a sculpture — that is because […]

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  • Why is Silverware Considered Art?
    July 22, 2019 by

    By: Sophie Edens, Public Relations & Marketing Intern   “It’s just a room of chairs, right?” The sheer number of times I heard this question as a guard at DOMA was both understandable and saddening. Off the West Gallery and the Ball Brothers Foundation Gallery, there lies a pink hallway with two rooms called the […]

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  • Scarabs and Gods – What’s the Connection in Art?
    July 15, 2019 by

    By: Sophie Edens, Public Relations & Marketing Intern Scarab, Unidentified Craftsman (Egyptian), 1938.500.057 The scarabs shown in Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy are not quite the right depiction of the scarab beetle the Egyptians worshiped. The scarab beetle (Scarabaeus sacer) never ate human flesh; rather, they ate the dung off the ground. That’s right. They eat […]

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  • Hungry Dream Eater: Baku
    July 2, 2019 by

    By: Sophie Edens, Public Relations & Marketing Intern “Baku-san, come eat my dream. Baku-san, come eat my dream. Baku-san, come eat my dream.” Dream Eater (Baku), Unidentified Artist (Japanese), 2010.002.000   In Chinese and Japanese folklore, whispering these words after waking up from a nightmare will summon a great chimera-like creature called a baku. The […]

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  • Exploration Through Art
    June 24, 2019 by

    By: Sophie Edens, Public Relation & Marketing Intern In 1957, Russia launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik. This initiated what became known as the “Space Age.” According to History.com, Sputnik was launched during the ideal solar period called the International Geophysical Year. This period of time was ideal for launching satellites into space to […]

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