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SUMMARY:Art\, Education and the Built Environment. - Dr. Sylvia Rhor\, Ass
 ociate Professor of Art History at Carlow University 
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Art\, Education and the Built Environment.\n\nSeminar Book Lau
 nch February 26th\, room 2S8\, DMB\n\n\nDr Catherine Burke\, Faculty of Ed
 ucation and Sylvia Rhor\, Carlow University\, USA.\n\n\nThe seminar will p
 resent Dr Burke’s recently published book ‘A Life in Education and Arc
 hitecture. Mary Beaumont Medd 1907 – 2005’.\n\nProfessor Rhor will tal
 k on the subject of  \nOutstanding American Women: \nShaping Chicago's Pub
 lic Schools through Murals in the early 20th Century\n\nDr. Sylvia Rhor is
  Associate Professor of Art History at Carlow University. Her doctoral the
 sis focused on the recently restored murals in Chicago's public schools. S
 he became involved with this collection while directing "Chicago: A City i
 n  Art" at The Art Institute of Chicago. In that capacity\, Dr. Rhor was p
 art of a large-scale effort to locate\, preserve\, document and re-integra
 te historic murals into contemporary school life. After leaving the Art In
 stitute\, she was hired by Chicago Public Schools as a consultant for the 
 mural collection. She also contributed research and an essay to Heather  B
 ecker's Art for the People and served on the curatorial team for To Inspir
 e and to Instruct: The Art Collection of Chicago Public Schools\, an exhib
 ition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Rhor will be drawing on her wor
 k on the historic murals in Chicago public schools in this presentation.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ in r
 oom GS5
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