Art & Art History News - April 18, 2023

Events

Josephine Halvorson: Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, April 25
6:30 PM in the VAC complex auditorium 1B20

Josephine Halvorson (she/her) makes art that foregrounds firsthand experience and takes the form of painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Born in Brewster, Massachusetts, she studied at The Cooper Union (BFA 2003), Yale Norfolk (2002), and Columbia University (MFA 2007). In 2021, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson is the recipient of major international residencies and fellowships: The US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria (2003-4), the Harriet Hale Woolley at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France (2007-8), and was the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici (2014-15). Her work has been exhibited internationally and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. Selected exhibitions include SECCA (2015), Storm King Art Center (2016), the ICA Boston Foster Prize Exhibition (2019-20), and Ríos Intermitentes, a group exhibition curated by Magdalena Campos-Pons as part of the Havana Bienale (2019). Halvorson’s work and practice have been written about extensively and she is a subject of Art21’s documentary series New York Close Up. She is a Professor of Art and the Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University and lives in western Massachusetts.

Art History Thesis Showcase

Reception: Tuesday, April 25, 2:30-4:00 pm
Visual Arts Complex, 1st Floor Lobby

This exhibition highlights our Art History graduate students’ thesis work. Please join us at the reception in celebration of the accomplishments of Emily Berkes, Mattie Hough, Lexi Peterson, and Shawn Simmons. Learn about their fascinating scholarship while enjoying some tasty afternoon refreshments.

The exhibition will be on view from Monday, 4/24 to Friday, 4/28. It is curated by Rachel DeNagy, graduate student in the Art History track of the Museum and Field Studies program.

Image Credits: Top row, left to right: Tao Aimin, River of Women, detail, 2023; Institute of Queer Ecology, Still from Metamorphosis, episode 1, “Grub Economics,” 2020; Gu Wenda, United Nations - Babel of the Millenium, 1999. Bottom row, left to right: Melody Melamed, The Book of Skin: Shangri-La, three-panel detail, 2021; Christi Belcourt, The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014.

Faculty News

Anna Tsouhlarakis, Assistant Professor, Foundations

Counterpublic Triennial
COUNTERPUBLIC IS A CIVIC EXHIBITION THAT WEAVES CONTEMPORARY ART INTO THE LIFE OF ST. LOUIS FOR THREE MONTHS EVERY THREE YEARS IN ORDER TO REIMAGINE CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURES TOWARDS GENERATIONAL CHANGE.

COUNTERPUBLIC’S SECOND EDITION WILL RUN FROM APRIL 15 TO JULY 15, 2023.

Link to project website

Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Wednesday, June 14 to Sunday, September 10, 2023

Link to MCA Denver

Exhibition review in Hyperallergic of Language in Times of Miscommunication at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Link to Hyperallergic article

Image: The Native Guide Project: STL, Billboard and digital signage

Department Announcements

King Awards

Congratulations to all the King Award winners!

First Prize: Elisa Wolcott (grad) and Aspen Moehring-Miller (undergrad)
Second Prize: Andi Newberry (grad) and Madison Crisler (undergrad)
Third Prize: Ryze Xu (grad) and Maren Curtis (undergrad)

Honorable Mention (graduate students): Samira Hemmat and Alejandra Saldivar
Honorable Mention (undergraduate student): Elyse Hawkins and Jenna Hissong

Link to King Award Artwork

The King Awards were recently featured in the CU Boulder Arts & Sciences Magazine — learn more about their ten-year legacy!

Honors Program

Undergraduates the deadline for filing for graduation with Honors in Fall 2023 in either Art Practices or Art History is Tuesday, May 2

To graduate with Honors, you should have at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA. The faculty representative to contact regarding filing for Honors is Marina Kassianidou for Art Practices (marina.kassianidou@colorado.edu) or Robert Nauman for Art History (robert.nauman@colorado.edu). Graduation with Honors does require an additional studio project or art history thesis project.

We would also like to remind students who are eligible to graduate with Honors and will not graduate until 2023-24 that they should contact the faculty representative this academic year. By doing so, they may also apply for UROP funding (up to $3000. for summer 2024 research) in support of their thesis work.

Graduating with an Honors designation is something that appears on your resume throughout your life and is valuable not only in applying to graduate school but also in pursuing a career in the discipline. If you have any questions regarding Honors, please contact the Honors faculty representative in your area.

Campus News

From Groundwater to Beetle Kill in CO: Artists + Scientists + Communities Address Invisible / Visible Climate Change

All are welcome to join us on Thursday April 20, Noon - 1 p.m. at the CU Natural History Museum for this in-person event hosted by the Office for Outreach and Engagement collaboration with the CU Natural History Museum, CU Engage, INSTAAR, and Boulder County Arts Alliance.

Register here. Light refreshments will be served! If you have a class or meeting that overlaps with a Coffee & Conversations event, please don't hesitate to join us late and feel free to bring a sack lunch as well.

This event features two artist and scientist teams from the Colorado Art Science Environment (CASE) Fellows who will discuss how their collaborations with each other and communities around Colorado tell the story of climate change from multiple perspectives and modalities, and will feature an exhibition at the CO State Capitol May 19 - Oct 16, 2023.

Making the Invisible Visible: Groundwater in the San Luis Valley

Jocelyn Catterson, CASE fellow artist and educator, San Luis Valley
Holly Barnard, CASE fellow scientist, CU Boulder Associate Dean of Research, Professor, Geography, Hydrologic Sciences and INSTAAR fellow

Catterson and Barnard will discuss their collaboration for Making the Invisible Visible, a project and artwork series that explores the ways San Luis Valley communities are experiencing and responding to issues tied to groundwater. The paintings represent an ongoing conversation between the artist, scientists, and the community on how to “make visible” the connections between changes in snowmelt and runoff, agriculture in the valley, and the aquifer below. The art illustrates the complexity and interconnectedness of multiple data sets and the community’s lived experience through varied artistic perspectives transcending the limits of what we are capable of seeing on the valley floor.

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