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Percussion @ Peeler
No full textThe DePauw Percussion Ensemble presents its annual program of contemporary solo and chamber works for percussion, composed and improvised, in a non-traditional concert setting. Directed by Dr. Ming-Hui Kuo, the one-hour performance fuses contemporary art and music in the galleries at Peeler. Refreshments will be served following the event.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1005/thumbnail.jp
Artist Talk: Claudia Bernardi
No full textIn a fresco, the pigments are not painted on the wall they are embedded in plaster in such a way that the pigments become the wall. In my work, I depart from the same principle: the pigments become the paper. I use pure pigments that are embedded in the paper by the pressure of a printing press. No binder, oil or medium is used in this process allowing the pigments to maintain their purest intensity. Each fresco on paper is the result of multiple runs through a printing press where layers of pure powdered pigments are pressed into wet paper. The coloration, often times, is a process of subtraction, a scraping away from the layers, a patient uncovering of colors reacting among themselves alchemically. For the last thirty years, I have collaborated with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in investigations of violations of Human Rights. The task of the AFAT is to perform exhumations of mass graves investigating crimes against civilian population. I participated in exhumations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, and Ethiopia. My artwork is profoundly influenced by these experiences. Not only in the narrative aspect of the piece but, most importantly, in the conceptual realm of finding images through the searching of layers of colored dust. I scratch the surface of the piece identifying human figures that interact with the world of the hidden images. The pigments convey the essential material prima. The intensity and the fugitive condition of pigments, so fragile yet persistent, are metaphors of the elusiveness of life and the never-ending determination of hope. The installations are frequently created upon testimonies recovered during the exhumations. I conceptualize each installation as a documentary, departing from the reports presented by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to the Supreme Court of the country where the investigation takes place. The reports narrate, chronologically, the findings of human remains and associated objects constructing a historical account of the massacre. The creation of artifacts and associated objects resembling the actual findings convey my visual response to the violence that I had witnessed. My intention goes beyond political criticism. It is a way of retaining the communal memories of the survivors. The limited-edition of 12 books entitled “Palabras de Arena/ Words of Sand” was inspired by the stories I heard, and what I saw in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. In 2013, the International Committee of the Red Cross invited me to conduct and facilitate a collaborative and community-based project with youth affected by the effects of violence. Many of the participants were sons and daughters of the disappeared women in Juarez. The poems and the artworks meet upon the line that divides the vastness of the desert, ample with secrets that no one dares to address, the many layers of truth that can only be whispered, the presence of the missing women in their absence. The desert becomes an open wound that holds the lives and deaths of the countless Mujeres de Juarez. -Claudia Bernardihttps://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1007/thumbnail.jp
Senior Art Exhibition: Artist Talks and Opening Reception
No full textAn annual exhibition featuring the work of graduating senior studio art majors.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1010/thumbnail.jp
Artist Talk: Professor John Berry
No full textThe paintings in Arboreta draw inspiration from the history, structures, and resilience of the Schrebergarten in Leipzig Germany, exploring the implications for how we organize our images, ourselves, and our communities. Hovering between landscape and abstraction, flat shapes compartmentalize space into different surfaces, barricades, and hiding spots. The artifice and ambiguities of spatial illusion are out in the open, weaving a seemingly wider range of frequencies into a smaller, simpler encounter. This event is free and open to the public.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1003/thumbnail.jp
Livening Beyond Homeless Inc. Outdoor Space
No full textI served at Beyond Homeless Inc. womens\u27 and childrens\u27 shelter as my volunteer placement for the Bonner scholarship, and found a canvas for environmental impact for my practicum. While Beyond Homeless is far more than an assignment to me, this project is an effort to uncover the many underlying environmental challenges Putnam County faces as well as the community outside of DePauw University. While serving the homeless shelter, I attended our private University just two blocks away and straddled two vastly different worlds weekly. I found myself facing the complications between different socioeconomic statuses, privileges, experiences and aspirations. Beyond Homeless supplemented my DePauw education with real life -- outside of my classroom, away from my greek house, and off campus. I learned and lived pieces of these womens\u27 life and found a place I could work to improve the community: by building garden beds to produce fresh produce without needing transportation, money or time. This project includes the construction of two garden beds as well as a complimentary mural on the side of the shed that stands in the shelter\u27s green space. By giving these women and their children a little more accessibility, the project aims to address food desserts, the price of nutrition and the populations that are most affected surrounding the Greencastle community.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1137/thumbnail.jp
Phenotyping of Acute Nicotine Response Behavior in Larval Zebrafish
No full textThe alpha 3 (chrna3), alpha 5 (chrna5), and beta 4 (chrnb4) receptor genes of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine have been connected to both the onset and heavy smoking in humans. Zebrafish represent a model system for studying the role of genes in behavioral responses to nicotine. The goal of this project was to develop behavioral tests for the characterization of zebrafish gene-knockout mutants that we are developing using CRISPR/Cas9 and zebrafish from the Sanger Mutation Project. Larval zebrafish were used to look at differences in behavior between the wild types and mutated larval zebrafish at different concentrations of nicotine. The different concentrations allowed us to study nicotine sensitivity and acute nicotine response in the larval zebrafish. The acute nicotine response tests and pharmacological treatments with different nicotine cessation drugs and acetylcholine receptor blockers were carried out to determine the effect of the knockout mutation. Overall, the larval zebrafish showed higher movement activity when placed in higher concentrations of nicotine.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1125/thumbnail.jp
Investigating rare genetic variants of unknown significance in LDHA
Get PDFThe exponential expansion and advancement of genetic sequencing has revealed the molecular basis of many genetic diseases. However, many genetic mutations are still classified as variants of unknown significance (VUS). Our lab focused on eleven missense variants in Lactate Dehydrogenase A (LDHA), an enzyme vital in anaerobic respiration. The intent with our research is to produce data on the kinetic functionality of wild type LDHA and compare this to its mutants of unknown significance. This data, supplemented with the structural information of the mutants can help reduce the ambiguity in the diagnosis of genetic disorders involving the LDHA enzyme. Currently, we have recorded the baseline kinetic function of the wild type LDHA based on its ability to convert the coenzyme NADH to NAD+. While we have a general understanding of the kinetic function of our mutant variants, A320T, T309P, L190F, E55K, D46V, P139L, G282R, K119R, T95M, G103E, and I94F, further tests need to be conducted to reduce variability.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1116/thumbnail.jp
The Ambush Podcast - Met Gala with Zartasha Mushtaq.
No full textTHE AMBUSH PODCAST - Created by students in Renee T. Woods’ COMM 235 Electronic Journalism Spring 2023 at DePauw University