Category: Visitors

  • 8 Reasons Why Everyone Should Visit an Art Museum
    February 19, 2018 by

    Written by: Jessica Lindsey, Public Relations Intern Looking at and analyzing artwork releases dopamine in the brain New research by Semir Zeki, professor of neuroesthetics at University College London, shows that looking at artwork releases dopamine in the brain, the same neurotransmitter that allows us to feel love. Looking at art really makes you fall in […]

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  • Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year!
    February 17, 2015 by

    If you were in the museum on Sunday, February 8th you may have wondered why you heard drums, laughing, and noise makers coming from the Asian Gallery. All the noise was coming from a group of children led by docents Barbara Alvarez Bohanon and Suzanne Walker welcoming the Chinese New Year with a bang. As […]

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  • Friday with Friends: 5 December, 2014
    December 18, 2014 by

    The museum was dressed up in holiday style for the Friday with Friends event on December 5th. There was food and music as members of the Friends of the Museum and presenters mingled around the Marjorie Petty Harper Sculpture Court. To start off the program, Micaela Basilici sang the aria Quando M’en Vo’ from La Bohème, an […]

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  • The Infinite Museum Web Application
    December 16, 2014 by

    The David Owsley Museum of Art now has a new, free tool for museum visitors to use in the galleries. The Infinite Museum project, led by Dr. Timothy Berg and created by Ball State students, was unveiled to the public last week. Dr. Berg and fourteen students of differing educational backgrounds along with members of […]

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