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Enjoy the inaugural issue of the IU College of Arts and Sciences online magazine, THE COLLEGE.
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Celebrate Limestone Month at the IU Art Museum
Now-Aug. 31, various times, IU Art Museum, 1133 E. Seventh St., Bloomington -- The Indiana University Art Museum celebrates "Limestone Month" with the work of noted Indiana artists in two special installations in the first floor Gallery of the Art of the Western World through the end of August. A rare series of four, large-scale watercolors depicting the quarrying of Indiana limestone by "Hoosier Group" painter Otto Stark are currently on public display for the first time. Hoosier Group refers to Indiana impressionist painters in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, including Stark, T.C. Steele, Richard Gruelle, William Forsyth and J. Ottis Adams.
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College of Arts and Sciences initiates IU's first themed semester, 'Evolution, Diversity and Change'
IU Bloomington will commence its first-ever themed semester this fall with "Themester 2009: Evolution, Diversity and Change." More than 40 related courses will tie in with the themes of diversity and evolution to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection. Themester, an initiative of IU Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences, is grounded in the undergraduate curriculum and will draw parallels between different disciplines by offering a range of courses, performances and discussions surrounding related topics.
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Activist art comes to Indiana University Bloomington in September when the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery presents "The Canary Project: Works on Climate Change 2006-2009," a new exhibit that opens Friday, Sept. 4, and runs through Friday, Oct. 9. The Canary Project produces visual media and artworks about climate change.
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Gangster John Dillinger, the 1930s thug played by Johnny Depp in this summer's Public Enemies, may not be a Hoosier favorite son, but his life and legend cuts a swath through the state of Indiana -- in the north from East Chicago, Crown Point and South Bend to his Mooresville boyhood home in the southern part of the state. The release of Dillinger: The Untold Story and an exhibit at the Indiana State Library are summertime "musts" for both crime buffs and Hoosier history afficionados.
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To usher in the new 2009-2010 school year at Indiana University, the IU Department of Theatre and Drama will present the collegiate premiere of The Rockae, an edgy, rock musical adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae. In this '80s glam rock version of the classic story, the mortal King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his female groupies -- rejecting Dionysus' claims to divinity -- when the god of wine and theater returns to Thebes.
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Herron Art Library, part of the IUPUI University Library, has partnered with the Harrison Center for the Arts to sponsor "Bookish," an Indianapolis Downtown Artists & Dealers Association First Friday event. The free exhibit is on display now through Aug. 29.
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Rachel Berenson Perry, the fine arts curator for the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, talks with Live at IU about her new book, T. C. Steele and the Society of Western Artists 1896-1914 (IU Press, 2009).
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From the start of new student move-in day at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, Indiana University will strive to make incoming freshmen and returning students feel at home on campus through "Proud Traditions: Welcome Week 2009," coordinated by the IU Office of First Year Experience Programs. Welcome Week is designed to connect students with the people, places and services of Indiana University and help make the transition to college life a little smoother.
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In the Aug. 6, 2009, issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on PATHE, an outreach program for precollege Latino students; Jacobs School of Music stories about a student composer who recently won an award from the BMI Foundation and new Jacobs faculty member Jeffrey Smith, an acclaimed organist; IU and Clarian Health partnering to offer free health screenings at the Indiana State Fair; Bloomington Sound, a new student group that will kick off with a campuswide guitar competition; and an Intensive Freshman Seminar titled "Shakespeare and the Law" that will culminate with a mock trial featuring IU faculty members playing the parts of Hamlet, Macbeth, and other Shakesperean figures.
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