Art challenges, transforms, and defies containment
Fall Lecture Series
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Fall 22
Featuring: Lucy R. Lippard / Charlene Teters / Thomas Edison Film Festival / Trevor Paglen / Jen Delos Reyes / Imani Jacqueline Brown
Art & Art History in the News
Receptacles of Memory
New Fall 2022 Art History Courses!
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
The Black Female Body
Dr. cam nelson
ARTH-6939
M, 9:30 AM-12 PM
Explore the history, discourses, and transformations of the Black female body as a contested site of sexuality, resistance, representation, agency, and identity in visual culture. We will consider how constructions of womanhood represent Black women as physically and socially other to the ideal woman. We will also examine how Black female artists grapple with the tendencies to exclude them from claims to womanhood, femininity, and beauty while at the same time being hypervisible as Black women.
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009
Black Art in America
Dr. cam nelson
ARTH-3929
M, W, F, 2-2:50 PM
Explore the work of Black artists in the United States, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. We will consider the ways in which artists and scholars have endeavored to define African American art in relation to Euro-American and African cultural production as well as to the evolving social and political history of people of African descent in the United States.
Sarre Brooch, early 7th century, Kent, England.
Early Medieval Art
Capstone Seminar: ARTH 4919-004
T, Th 12:45pm-2:00pm
Instructor: Christine Bachman
This course addresses critical issues in manuscript painting, sculpture, metalwork, wall painting, mosaic, and architecture, from the late Roman Empire (approximately 250 CE) to approximately 1000 CE. The course covers a broad geographic range, including Byzantium, the early Islamic empires, and the Silk Road, in addition to Western Europe. The course will consider the religious, social, economic, and cultural roles of art and architecture and will explore the process of creating art and the agency of artists in the early middle ages.
Exhibitions >> Spring 2022
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Round 1
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Round 2
BFA Thesis Exhibition
Department Newsletters
In Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder stands in solidarity with Black Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement. Read our full statement and a explore a list of anti-rascism resources available to students and our community.
