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The Power of Place: Home with My Sisters

As part of the Museum’s new focus on The Power of Place, we are asking members of the community to submit to us a short blurb about a place of importance in their lives – whether it’s their childhood home, … Continue reading

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The Power of Place: An Institution of Growth

As part of the Museum’s new focus on The Power of Place, we are asking members of the community to submit to us a short blurb about a place of importance in their lives – whether it’s their childhood home, … Continue reading

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Considering Collecting: An Interview with Shannon Robinson

By Georgina Kolber, Curator of Exhibits, Collections & Programs The first installment of our Denver Collects program series will go out with a bang, as we experience the boundlessly energetic Shannon Robinson [President of the Colorado Dominican Vocation Foundation (CDVF) … Continue reading

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Surrender: An Inspiring and Uplifting Interview with Dona Laurita

By Lisa Rimmert, Director of Marketing American theologian Frederick Buechner described a person’s calling as “where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Dona Laurita, teaching artist for the Mizel Museum’s upcoming adult creativity workshop, has definitely found … Continue reading

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Quenching Our Thirst for Knowledge and Healing

By Lisa Rimmert, Director of Marketing Beginning last month, the Mizel Museum staff has scheduled monthly Working Lunches, during which we learn about and discuss issues that are relevant to our work. In December, we watched three stories from our … Continue reading

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Artist and Israel Trip Spotlight: Adi Nes

By Georgina Kolber, Curator of Exhibits, Programs and Collections Internationally lauded Israeli photographer Adi Nes is represented by galleries in New York, Paris and Tel Aviv, and exhibits in Europe, the US and Israel. We’ll visit his Tel Aviv studio … Continue reading

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Unveil Israel with the Mizel Museum

By Georgina Kolber Curator of Exhibits and Programs As our third annual New Israeli Cinema series, produced in collaboration with the Denver Film Society comes to a close, I am happy to unveil Mizel Museum’s second Israel trip, scheduled March … Continue reading

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Science Inspires Art and Learning

by Jan C. Nadav Director of Education and Interpretation When I inherited the Mizel Museum camp program as the director of education, it was time for a conceptual overhaul—something entirely new and different. It was the fall of 2009 and … Continue reading

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The Art of Life: Art & Culture Tour of Israel, Days 6 & 7

By Alyssa Kapnik We begin our Monday with a trip to the Negev Museum of Art in Be’er Sheva.  Another former Arab city, Be’er Sheva is heavily populated with Bedouins and Palestinians, and for the first time on the tour, … Continue reading

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Moving South: the Art & Culture Tour of Israel Continues…

By Alyssa Kapnik Saturday we slept in.  We awoke to the same view we’d left the night before, but even on the second day, a panoramic look at the Old City of Jerusalem manages to overwhelm.  Breakfast on the terrace, … Continue reading

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