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Artful inspiration
Danek brings nearly 25 years experience to exhibit designs
Janet Danek hit the ground running as the recently hired CMU Libraries’ coordinator of exhibits and projects.
Danek is leading the effort to transition Park Library’s Extended Hours Study Room to the Extended Hours Study Room and Student Gallery. In the future she hopes to see more collaboration between students from other departments who would like to exhibit their work.
Danek’s favorite feature of her position is working with the arts and artists.
“I consider my job to make it as easy as possible for patrons of Park Library to feel as inspired by art as I am,”she says.
Currently living in Midland, Danek has designed museum exhibits for nearly 25 years.
She has designed exhibits for the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing, Oil and Brine Museum in Smackover, Ark., three exhibits for the American Bar Association in Chicago, First Division Museum in Wheaton, Ill., and Midland County History Gallery at the Doan Center in Midland.
Danek earned her bachelor of science degree in art and industrial and interior design from the University of Wisconsin, where she also taught design.
Janet Danek hit the ground running as the recently hired CMU Libraries’ coordinator of exhibits and projects.
Danek is leading the effort to transition Park Library’s Extended Hours Study Room to the Extended Hours Study Room and Student Gallery. In the future she hopes to see more collaboration between students from other departments who would like to exhibit their work.
Danek’s favorite feature of her position is working with the arts and artists.
“I consider my job to make it as easy as possible for patrons of Park Library to feel as inspired by art as I am,”she says.
Currently living in Midland, Danek has designed museum exhibits for nearly 25 years.
She has designed exhibits for the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing, Oil and Brine Museum in Smackover, Ark., three exhibits for the American Bar Association in Chicago, First Division Museum in Wheaton, Ill., and Midland County History Gallery at the Doan Center in Midland.
Danek earned her bachelor of science degree in art and industrial and interior design from the University of Wisconsin, where she also taught design.
Science and fiction
National exhibit and campus-based events celebrate ‘Harry Potter’s World’
Magical creatures, fantastic beasts and potions are coming to Park Library in the form of an exhibit titled “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine.”The exhibit will run from April 10 through May 22 on the third level of Park Library.
The American Medical Library Association and the American Library Association co-produced the three- panel display that informs patrons about natural medicine, philosophy and herbology.
While Harry Potter is about fantasy and magic, it is partially based on Renaissance traditions that played an important role in the development of Western science.
Park Library was awarded the exhibit partly because of the events envisioned to coincide with it, and it has had a great response from the CMU community. The English and philosophy departments have made commitments for events along with the Harry Potter Alliance, a registered student organization on campus. Writers and illustrators from as far away as England will come together at CMU for the closely related, but previously scheduled, “Imagining the Fantastic” conference, sponsored by the Department of English.
“We’re very excited because of the collaboration opportunities,”says Janet Danek, coordinator of exhibits and projects. “There is a lot of interest in Harry Potter.”
With the second part of the seventh movie – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” – hitting theaters this summer, many believe that it will be the end of an era. However, by bringing many different areas and interests together on the CMU campus, perhaps it is true that Harry Potter always will have a little bit of magic for everyone.
Magical creatures, fantastic beasts and potions are coming to Park Library in the form of an exhibit titled “Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine.”The exhibit will run from April 10 through May 22 on the third level of Park Library.
The American Medical Library Association and the American Library Association co-produced the three- panel display that informs patrons about natural medicine, philosophy and herbology.
While Harry Potter is about fantasy and magic, it is partially based on Renaissance traditions that played an important role in the development of Western science.
Park Library was awarded the exhibit partly because of the events envisioned to coincide with it, and it has had a great response from the CMU community. The English and philosophy departments have made commitments for events along with the Harry Potter Alliance, a registered student organization on campus. Writers and illustrators from as far away as England will come together at CMU for the closely related, but previously scheduled, “Imagining the Fantastic” conference, sponsored by the Department of English.
“We’re very excited because of the collaboration opportunities,”says Janet Danek, coordinator of exhibits and projects. “There is a lot of interest in Harry Potter.”
With the second part of the seventh movie – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” – hitting theaters this summer, many believe that it will be the end of an era. However, by bringing many different areas and interests together on the CMU campus, perhaps it is true that Harry Potter always will have a little bit of magic for everyone.
