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With regular new exhibitions and guests joining us from around the world, there's always something happening here to inform and inspire your creative spirit.
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Lanius Lecture
The Lanius Lecture series brings to the DU campus distinguished artists, scholars, and curators working in areas formerly marginalized by art historical and museum institutional narratives. By shifting our attention to these areas of focus, particularly the global south, diasporic communities, and indigenous communities, this lecture series reaffirms the DU School of Art and Art History’s commitment to amplifying these voices.
Photo: 2023 Lanius Lecturer Lee Aeryung (center) with DU professor Sarah Magnatta and translator Minsoo Song.
Photo by Antonio Martinez.
About Professor Emerita Mary Lanius
Mary’s interest in art history started as an undergraduate at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire in the 1950s. She continued her studies at DU, graduating with a BA in Humanities in 1954. Mary then spent time traveling throughout Asia where she was especially drawn to the art and architecture of India and Southeast Asia.
Siddhartha Shah, the John Wieland 1958 Director
of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.
She received a Fulbright scholarship to return to India in 1961 and lived in Kolkata (then, Calcutta) while working at the Asutosh Museum of Indian art at the University of Calcutta.Mary returned to the U.S. to attend graduate school at the University of Hawaii where she continued her art history studies.
The Denver Art Museum, building on earlier acquisitions, opened its Asian Art department in 1956. Two years later, Mary joined the department, thus working at the DAM both before and during her education at DU and then in Hawaii.
Her curatorial work at the DAM brought forth the stories of the South Asian collection, mainly sculpture, and Mary’s lasting impact at the museum can be found in several catalog essays, entries, and label information.
After leaving the DAM in 1969, Mary began her 35-year teaching journey, first at the Colorado Women’s College, and then at the University of Denver.
Her courses included surveys of Indian art, Southeast Asian art, Chinese art, Japanese art, and Korean art (she received a Fulbright foundation grant to support research in Korea).
Mary’s research has been published in the Arts of Asia amongst other journals, and she continued in her role as advisor to the Denver Art Museum for several decades. The Lanius Lecture series, started in 2012, continues Mary’s legacy as a supporter of the arts and art history.
A note from Sarah Magnatta, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Art History:
I was one of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of students fortunate enough to have Mary as a professor during her 35 years at DU. I vividly recall Mary’s stories of various temples, their art historical information interspersed with her lively tales of travel (in fact, I was inspired to travel to Angkor Wat and surrounding temples after a particularly fascinating class on Southeast Asian Art in the early aughts). I’m so thrilled that we have remained friends in the decades since. Thank you, Mary, for your ongoing support and for this wonderful lecture series!
