2015 Exhibits at the Strauss Health Sciences Library
Table of Contents:Trepanation or Trepanning Human Topography
NanoNephron Dress
Stories & Seasons in Woodcut
Great Moments in Medicine and Great Moments in Pharmacy Art from CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus Community 2015
Trepanation or Trepanning
Trepanation or trepanning, the surgery of opening the skull, may be one of the oldest surgeries that mankind has performed, and performed
successfully. This exhibit included a selection of trepanation instruments.
View these items and other artifacts online in our digital collection. Trepanation or Trepanning
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Trephine kit
Trephlne blade
Human Topography
Exposing the intricate beauty of human anatomy through artistic interpretation Artist: Penny Oliver
On exhibit: October 1 to 27, 2015
DiagnosisART by Penny Oliver
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Lakewood Business Focus: DiagnosisART
The Denver Post, Seth McConnell, January 14, 2014 Interview with Penny Oliver, owner-artist:
Along with images of the natural world, I use medical and research diagnostic imagery such as CT, MRI, histology, pathology and other microscopy to create my paintings...Although my business name DiagnosisART harkens to the medical field, people are often surprised that my works represent the
anatomy of the human body. Read more
Inner Landscapes: An interview with Penny Oliver
The Sterile Eye: Life, death and surgery through a lens, Øystein Horgmo, August 10, 2010
If I choose to paint something that is very much like the diagnostic image, I always seek permission to do so. I have found that most of the people I contact for permission to use their research images are very excited at the prospect of their hard work being turned into a dynamic piece of art. Really, this is what first inspired me to begin DiagnosisART; the joy and pride I could extract from the physicians, professors,
and researchers who spend so much of their lives generating these images in the pursuit of helping others! Read more
NanoNephron Dress
Artists: Georgia Charkoftaki, PhD, Melanie Joy, PhD, Lilian Kong
On exhibit: April to September 30, 2015
The Strauss Health Sciences Library hosted an exhibit that featured a runway dress that was created
based on research being done at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. Descience Runway 2014 was an
event organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in September 2014. The event paired science researchers and fashion designers to collaborate and create garments based on the researchers’ area of study.
Georgia Charkoftaki, PhD is a researcher at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical
Sciences. She and pharmacy faculty member Melanie Joy, PhD were paired with designer Lilian Kong. Dr. Charkoftaki’s research area is treatments for lupus nephritis, a disease of the kidneys. Ms. Kong learned about the work that Drs. Charkoftaki and Joy were performing and then she created a dress inspired by their research. The dress, named NanoNephron, represents the kidneys, aspects of lupus nephritis and the new treatment that Dr. Charkoftaki is investigating.
The NanoNephron dress and matching jewelry were on display on the 3rd floor of the library from April through end of September 2015. There was a poster describing the research and aspects of the dress in more detail.
Sixty-one teams participated in the runway fashion show. Even though NanoNephron did not win, Drs. Charkoftaki and Joy enjoyed the experience.
School of Pharmacy's Pharmacy Perspectives: Research on the runway: Fusing science and
Stories & Seasons in Woodcut
Artist: Michael Keyes
On exhibit: July 1 to September 23, 2015
Michael Keyes (Artist's website)
NEWS
Printmaker Mike Keyes Gets Back to Nature, Then Gets Serious about Woodprint
Westword, Jamie Siebrase, May 27, 2014
Family is important to Keyes, and it was his oldest son who brought the artist to Denver about two years ago. Keyes and his wife, both newly retired, were happy to move west to spend more time with their grandchildren. Another happy occurrence: "Actually, retirement has enabled me to get into art more full-time," says Keyes. He's a member of the Red Delicious Press, a printmaking co-op in Aurora, and has also started doing oil paints again at the Art Student League of Denver. Printmaking, though, is his forte.
Great Moments in Medicine and Great Moments in Pharmacy
Artist: Robert Thom On exhibit: June 2015
These 14 prints represent a small sample of the Great Moments in Medicine and Great Moments in Pharmacy series that was produced by the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company.
The entire series consists of 85 paintings done by Robert Thom, who has been described as the ‘Norman Rockwell’ of medicine. Thom began work on the paintings in 1948, with the collaboration of Parke-Davis pharmacist George Bender.
The paintings were meant to highlight the outstanding people and moments in medicine and pharmacy and to explain ‘what advances in medicine, throughout the centuries, meant to the better health and welfare of our modern civilization.’ (George Bender, 1951)
The prints were delivered to doctors, pharmacists and pharmacies beginning in 1951. Parke-Davis also released them as magazine
advertisements, brochures, and as facsimiles that could be removed from magazines for framing.
The paintings and prints were produced to fit into the Parke-Davis corporate identity and to be used as advertising. They were meant to connect moments of medical and pharmaceutical innovation with the Parke-Davis name. Because of this motivation, Thom and Bender have been criticized for focusing only on single ‘great men’ while ignoring the complexity of medical innovation.
Learn more: Jonathan M. Metzel, MD PhD and Joel D Howell, MD, PhD, “Making History: Lessons from the Great Moments Series of Pharmaceutical Advertisements,” Academic Medicine 79 (2004): 1027
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Art from CU Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus Community 2015
Artists: Faculty, Staff, and Students of the University of Colorado Denver On exhibit: January 7 to March 31, 2015
An exhibit of artwork created by faculty, staff and students of the University of Colorado Denver. There are many talented artists among the faculty, staff and students on our campuses. This juried exhibition is an opportunity for us to learn about our talented co-workers, teachers, and
students.
• CU Connections: Art show returns to Health Sciences Library
• 2014 exhibit: Pinterest page
