The University of Colorado Heritage Center will celebrate the opening of a new temporary exhibit "Institutionalized: Student Life Through Student Eyes" with a reception on Friday, March 14.
The reception from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the third floor of Old Main is free and open to the public.
The exhibit features 30 black-and-white photographs of CU-Boulder life taken by a group of undergraduate photojournalism students over a six-month period. They explore such topics as academia, social and political life, housing, sports and sexuality.
"This exhibit makes the Heritage Center more relevant to the lives of students today," said Tori Peglar, the museum's outreach coordinator and co-curator of the exhibit with Kevin Moloney, CU-Boulder photojournalism instructor.
"Institutionalized" features the works of 10 photojournalism students: Garrett Cortese, Matt Crawford, Barton Glasser, Patrick Kelley, Peter Lockley, Zack Martin, Matt Nager, Jacob Pritchard, Silvia Razgova and Kara Starzyk.
"The object of the project was to give these students cause to shoot anything and everything they might see," Moloney said. "The strange world of being a student is a great subject for an extended documentary project."
The exhibit will close Aug. 30 and the photographs will become part of the museum's permanent collection, which includes an estimated 3,000 photographs dating to the university's opening in 1877.
Support for the exhibit was provided by Amaranth Photo Imaging, the CU Heritage Center, the CU-Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Eastman Kodak.
Sponsored by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association, the CU Heritage Center is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. For more information contact the Heritage Center at (303) 492-6329 or go to .