Art & Art History News - April 1, 2024

Tuesday, April 2 at 5:30pm
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20

Painting and Planting Counter-Narratives in the Landscape of the Conquest of Mexico

Angélica J. Afanador-Pujol is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she teaches the history of ancient and early colonial Latin American art. Her current research deals with representations of food and consumption among Indigenous groups in sixteenth-century Mexico. She has published essays in leading art journals, and the University of Texas Press published her book, The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) published her co-authored book Don Antonio Huitzimengari: An indigenous noble in sixteenth-century Mexico.  She is the recipient of several awards including two fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

CU Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex

April 6–18 [Round 1]
Opening reception: Fri. April 5 from 4–6 PM (This Friday!)
Artists featured: Brianna Autin, Erin Hyunhee Kang, Dani Wasserman, Elisa Wolcott

April 27–May 11 [Round 2] 
Opening reception: Fri. April 26 from 4–6 PM
Artists featured: Natalie Thedford, Noa Fodrie, Aunna Moriarty, Cody Norton 

Monday, April 8 at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20

Stephanie is a figurative sculptor whose personal work deals with feminist theory in relation to visual culture and questioning ideas of embodiment, subjectivity, and identity. They explore ideas of the sacred and the profane, dualities of power and its relationships to violence, beauty and grotesqueness. 

Stephanie E. Hanes was born in Alberta, Canada in 1985. In 2009 they received a BFA from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Canada. Hanes is an MFA Graduate of Ceramics at the Rhode Island School Of Design in 2017 and received the prestigious Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship for a graduate student with exceptional promise.  Stephanie was one of the artists awarded the 2020 NCECA Emerging Artist Prize. In addition, they have exhibited Internationally with a solo show at C.R.E.T.A Rome Gallery in Italy and several group shows at Secci Gallery in Florence, Italy and at Lefebvre et Fils Gallery in Paris, France. Their ceramic sculptures have been exhibited throughout the USA and Canada in New York City, Providence, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Toronto. Hanes is an Assistant Professor in Ceramic Art at New York College Of Ceramics at Alfred University, where they teach ceramic sculpture. 

Awards Ceremony & Reception: Friday, April 12, 2024, 4:00-6:00PM
Exhibition in the Visual Arts Complex: Wednesday, April 10 - April 19, 2024 

Undergraduate Finalists:
Lisa An, Annabelle Ferris, Sarah Mak, Alice Neild, Brooke Schuh

Graduate Finalists:
Dati Alsaedi, Ana Gonzalez Barrigan, Cody Norton, Silvia Alejandra Saldivar Romero, Natalie Thedford

View online exhibition

Image: Lisa An, Untitled, October 2023, photographic print on matte paper, 20in x 30in with borders

Visual Arts Complex, Rm 303
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9:00-10:45 AM

9:00 AM — Welcome, introductions, Albert Alhadeff, Director of Graduate Studies, Art History
9:15-9:30 — Brittany Ashley, Collections as Medium
9:30-9:45 — Kat Bertram, Manga Introduction to Nichiren: Unveiling Nichiren Buddhism through Manga Study Aids
9:45-10:00 — Natalie Ginez, Hybridity and Indigeneity in Colonial Ecuador
BREAK
10:15-10:30 — Sam Hensley, Gathering for Tea: Modernity, Material Culture, and Tea Ceremony in Japan and Abroad
10:30-10:45 — Taite Shomo, Theatre of the Horrible: Self-Immolation, Violence, and Representation
10:45-11:00 — Bella Malherbe, Bhekisisa, Sakouli Beach, Mayotte: The Black Queer Figure as an Apoptotic Agent of the Anthropocene

Registration is now open!

Art & Environments Field School
Summer 2024 — June 10-28
ARTS 4444
6 Credits, 3 weeks in the field & 3 weeks asynchronous online

Field Instructor: Aaron Treher Artist and Exhibitions Developer, CU Museum of Natural History
Visiting Artist: Nina Elder, Interdisciplinary Artist and Researcher
Field Technician: Delaney Gardner-Sweeney, Installation Artist and Researcher
Program Director I Online: Richard Saxton,  lnterdiscipinary Artist and Researcher 

Please email richard.saxton@colorado.edu or jean.goldstein@colorado.edu

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