Upcoming Events
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Round 2
April 27-May 11, 2024
Opening reception: Fri. April 26 from 4–6 PM
CU Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex
Featured artists:
Natalie Thedford
Noa Fodrie
Aunna Moriarty
Cody Norton
CU Art Museum hours of operation: Tuesday - Saturday from 10am - 4pm
CU Art Museum — 1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309
Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
On view in the visual arts complex: April 26-May 10
Opening Reception: April 26, 2024 from 4-6 PM
Visual Arts Complex
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309
Featured artists:
Seleny Bañuelos, Emily Conklin, Jessica Crumpler, Annabelle Farris, Gabrielle Gonzales, Maddie Hahn, Elyse Catarina Hawkins, Jenna Hissong, Raven Hopgood, Aspen Moehring-Miller, Taylor M -Ly Nguyen, Sissy Nunziata, Sam Ottlinghaus, Greyson Earl Giombetti Schermerhorn, Brooke Shoe, Katherine Sieker, Kate Sparhawk, Malachai Stenflo, Lauren Vincent
Film MFA Showcase
Please join us for the 2024 edition of the CU Boulder Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts Graduate Student Showcase
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 at 7 P.M. in the VAC Auditorium, 1B20.
The screening will feature works by Film Grads: Cal Young, Mahda Purmehdi, Alejandra Saldivar, Sierra Cosmidis-Grove, Nicky Pope, Dani Wasserman
Art & Art History Commencement
Join us from 10 AM-12 Noon for the Art & Art History graduation on the Visual Arts Complex plaza. The ceremony is from 10-11 AM followed by morning refreshments served from 11AM-12PM.
Friday, May 10 at 10:00am to 12:00pm
Visual Arts Complex, Plaza — in front of the building
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309
Seating is limited! Please consider 2-4 guests per student.
If you are graduating this Summer or Fall and want to participate in the Spring 2024 Art & Art History graduation ceremony you will need to contact jean.goldstein@colorado.edu in advance to be included in the event.
Students should check in with their advisors about all graduation details!
Department Announcements
Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Art History
Published an open-access article titled, "Fifty Years Later: Art, Ecocide and Animatedness in Vietnam," in the journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia (Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2024).
Image: Tuần Andrew Nguyễn, The Sounds of Cannons Familiar Like Sad Refrains (Đại Bác Nghe Quen Như Câu Dạo Buồn), video still, 2021.
Hanna Rose Shell, Associate Professor, Critical & Curatorial Studies, Art Practices
Shell's project High Altitude Observatory: Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds has been awarded a Seed Grant from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO). She will be giving a short presentation about the historical context of the project this Wednesday April 24, at 3pm, Muenzinger D430, as part of the History Department’s Faculty Seminar.
“High Altitude Observatory: Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds is a multimodal project connecting histories of astrophysics and mineral extraction, and methodologies of art practice, documentary filmmaking, and historical scholarship. It excavates a moment and takes up the space–literal and figurative, aesthetic and technological–of the Climax Observatory.
Enroll today in Maymester and Summer Courses!
Session: Boulder Maymester
Dates: May 13-31, 2024
ARTS 1012 — Section 001, Class Nbr 13616
Drawing for Non-Majors
MTWThF 9am-3pm Visual Arts Complex 474
ARTS 1020 — Section 001, Class Nbr 13617
Introduction to Studio Art 2
MTWThF 9am-3pm Visual Arts Complex 184
ARTS 1212 — Section 001, Class Nbr 13618
Painting for Non-Majors
MTWThF 9am-3pm Visual Arts Complex 475
ARTS 4050 — Section 001, Class Nbr 18304
Writing Across the Arts: Culture Writing in the 21st century
MTWThF 9am-12pm Visual Arts Complex 303
Session: Boulder A Session
Dates: June 3-July 5, 2024
Art & Environments Field School (ARTS 4444)—June 10-28
6 Credits, 3 weeks in the field & 3 weeks asynchronous online
Please email richard.saxton@colorado.edu or jean.goldstein@colorado.edu for more information
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
ARTS 2126 — Section 100, Class Nbr 21209
Digital Art 1
MTWThF 9am-12pm Visual Arts Complex 1B23
Campus News
Faux Fabula
Opening of CMDP7500 showcase exhibition
Featuring artists: Jean Jacques Martinod, Tyler Grimes, Anna Graef
Thursday, May 2 from 3-6pm
Studio 7, Folsom Stadium, Gate 7
Department of Critical Media Practices
"Patriarchosis," a new exhibit at the CU Art Museum
Ann Roy is the subject of a new student-curated exhibition which opened April 19 at the CU Art Museum (CUAM). The exhibit features materials from the Ann Roy papers, a collection in the University Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections (RaD) of writings, art, fashion, sound recordings and Super-8 films spanning 70 years of work by the Tulsa-born poet, mystic and political activist Ann Roy.
The CU Art Museum exhibit, “Patriarchosis," also contains photography and art from CUAM collections by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Linda Conner, Judy Dater and Mary Ellen Mark. The exhibition was curated by students of CINE 4010 class with their professor, Emilie Upczak. Additionally, a digital exhibit, "The Ann Roy Collection," was curated by Upczak and designed by Melanie Archer.
“The Ann Roy papers offer students, researchers and artists perspectives on history that are important for us to move forward in an aware and sustainable way,” said Upczak, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts. “The archive is unique and vast, and while we have begun to digitize it, there is so much more in the collection to uncover.”