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Popular Demand — OUMA to Offer Second Four-Lecture
Series on the Spiritual Arts |
Glen
Mullin to lecure on April 10 |
Thanks to all
who participated in our very successful January 2002 Spiritual
Arts Lecture Series. Based on your positive feedback we have
added four new lectures during Spring 2002. Glen Mullin will
launch the series on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:00 pm, speaking
on "The Sixth Dalai Lama: Tibet's Mystical Casanova
Poet." The lectures are open to all, and are free
for OUMA members, $5.00 for non-members.
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Spring 2002 Skylight Gallery
Spiritual Arts Lecture Series Schedule
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Click
Here
to visit our Programs page for more details.
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Lecturer:
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Topic:
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Wed,
4/10:
7:00 pm
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Glenn
Mullin
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The
6th Dalai Lama: Tibet's Mystical Casanova Poet |
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Thurs,
4/18:
7:00 pm
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Dr.
Paul Kaiser
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Religion,
Identity & Politics in Tanzania |
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Wed,
4/24:
7:00 pm
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Dr.
Jason Wirth
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Time,
The World Destroyer: Philosophical Meditations on Krishna |
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Thurs,
5/2:
7:00 pm
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Dr.
Jeffrey Collins
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St.
Francis & Kabir: Flowers of the West, Sacred Pools
of the East |
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| Leland
Bell Exhibition to Open April 7 with Guided Tour |
Portrait
of Temma, Leland Bell, 1972 |
The Exhibition Changing
Rhythms: Works by Leland Bell, 1950s - 1991 will open
at OUMA on Sunday, April 7. Jointly organized by Swarthmore
and Haverford Colleges, this exhibition highlights 20th century
painter Bell's portraits, figure groups and still lifes.
Andrea Packard, Exhibition Curator
and Swarthmore's List Gallery Director, will give a guided
tour of the exhibition on April 7 at 12:30 pm. The tour is
free and open to the public.
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| OUMA
Harpsichordist in Residence David Buice to Perform in
OUMA's Skylight Gallery on April 16 |
David
Buice |
Harpsichordist David
Buice is joined by guest artists Diana Pusey on flute,
and Robert Givens on violin
in the Museum's Skylight Gallery on Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30
pm. The concert will include series of delightful works by
Dario Castello, J. S. Bach, and François Couperin. Admission
is $5.00 for OUMA members, $10.00 for non-members. Click
Here for more details.
Hear Live David Buice Music Tracks
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| Zen
Master Fukushima Lectures at Oglethorpe University Museum
of Art |
 Keido
Fukushima, Head Abbot of Tofukuji Monastery in Kyoto,
Japan, and internationally renowned calligrapher, lectured
to a full house in OUMA's Skylight Gallery on Wednesday evening,
February 20. On the following evening he returned to give
a demonstration of the art of Japanese calligraphy to OU students
and faculty, as well as numerous visitors from the community.
An exhibition of Abbot Fukushima's calligraphic works will
be presented at OUMA during the Spring of 2003.
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| Frank
Hunter Donates Special Photographic Work to OUMA's Growing
Permanent Collection |
OUMA is very pleased to add
to our Permanent
Collection the 1998 photographic work "Oglethorpe
Tree" by Frank Hunter. It was given to the Museum
by the artist, who after twelve years of teaching photography
at Oglethorpe, recently joined the faculty of Duke University.
The photograph is of an area on the Oglethorpe campus behind
the Museum.
Other recent acquisitions
include the 1986 watercolor, "Keepsakes"
by Sondra Freckelton, originally shown in our 2000 exhibition,
Four Objects, Four
Artists, Ten Years, as well as the 1875 watercolor "Marine
Coastal Scene" by Francis Augustus Silva, exhibited
in 2001 as a part of the Fritzi
Collection.
| David
Buice Named OUMA Harpsichordist in Residence |
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David
Buice at OUMA |
In Fall 2001,
accomplished harpsichordist and organist David
Buice was named Oglethorpe University Museum of Art's Harpsichordist
in Residence. David frequently performs on the Museum's hand-crafted
harpsichord, which was built by Ron Carlisle, and decoratively
painted by OUMA Museum Director Lloyd Nick. For details on David's
upcoming performance at the museum, Click
Here.
David Buice's recently released CD,
La Sylva, and
Other Seductions, is now available for purchase at the
OUMA Gift Shop.
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| Drepung
Loseling Monks Build Healing Mandala in Response to
9-11 Tragedy |
A group of Tibetan monks from Drepung
Loseling Monastery recently received national news coverage
for a special sand mandala which they constructed at Smithsonian
Institute's Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. for the
purpose of offering healing and protection in the aftermath
of September 11. Both the mandala building process and the
regathering ceremony are captured in an outstanding photographic
presentation on the web site of Sackler
Gallery.
In the Summer of 1996, Drepung
Loseling monks built a beautifully elaborate sand mandala
in OUMA's Skylight Gallery as a part of the launching
of the Mystical Arts of Tibet
Featuring Personal Sacred Objects of the Dalai Lama
exhibition, which was originated and began its national
tour at our Museum.
| New
for View on the OUMA Web Site... |
We hope you'll enjoy these
recently added or expanded online image galleries of works
from OUMA's past exhibitions...
Please keep
in mind that providing high quality online images requires
that the file sizes sometimes be fairly large, so if you
don't have a fast internet connection, you may have to
wait briefly for the images to download to your browser.
To access all of our online image galleries, visit our
main Exhibitions page.
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