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Art & Art History News - April 5, 2021

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Robert Pruitt

Robert Pruitt - Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Tues, APRIL 6, 6:30 PM (MST)

Livestream Lecture

Art & Art History, YouTube Channel

Robert Pruitt works in a variety of materials, but his practice is chiefly centered on rendering portraits of the human body, specifically the black body. He projects onto these bodies a juxtaposing series of experiences and material references, denoting a diverse and radical black past, present, and future.

Pruitt was born in 1975 in Houston Texas. He is a founding member of the Houston artist collective Otabenga Jones & Associates. He has had solo exhibitions at The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design; The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas; McKinney Art Center, Dallas, Texas; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California; and most recently, a solo exhibition at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Pruitt was a participating artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial, which traveled to MoMA PS1 in New York. He is a recipient of the Artadia Artist Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award and Joan Mitchell Foundation award (2013). Pruitt recently was awarded residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art(2015) and The Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Louisiana(2016). Pruitt’s work is in the collections of The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; The Studio Museum of Harlem; the Dallas Museum of Art; the University Museum of Texas Southern University in Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; and most recently the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas (2016); The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Massachusetts (2016) and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2016).

Link to more information about the Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Spring 2021

About the program: For over 45 years our visiting artist and scholars' program has reinforced the mission of the Art and Art History Department by affirming the power of art to transform individuals and society. Our faculty invites leading artists and scholars to present an array of artistic practices, historical discourse and divergent perspectives that can increase access to creativity and forge new territories between the arts and broader cultural movements.

Jennifer Peterson

Jennifer Peterson - A Mellon Sawyer Seminar "Deep Horizons" Lecture

Monday, April 5 at 1:00pm

Zoom Registration

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

Lecture: "Forest Petroculture: A Cinematic History"

Jennifer Lynn Peterson is the author of Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film (Duke University Press, 2013). Her articles have been published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, Camera Obscura, Moving Image, Getty Research Journal, and numerous edited collections. She has published film, art, and book reviews in Millennium Film Journal, Film Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Artforum.com. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at Woodbury University in Los Angeles. Previously, she was Associate Professor in the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her book-in-progress, “Cinema’s Ecological Past: Film History, Nature, and Endangerment Before 1960,” is under contract for publication by Columbia University Press.

About the Lecture Series: The Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties & Prospects, aims to traverse multiple disciplines and perspectives to investigate intersectional questions concerning the changing planet as it affects specific peoples, communities, wildlife species, and ecosystems in varying and inequitable ways.

Tya Alisa Anthony

Tya Alisa Anthony — Arts Practicum Speaker Series

Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30pm

Art & Art History, YouTube Channel

Tya Alisa Anthony is an Interdisciplinary artist and curator who explores the intersections  of ecology, ritual, and storytelling through sculpture, photography, collage and  reliquary.  Anthony received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, (summa cum laude and valedictorian) from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (2015).  She was 2018 Redline Residency Artist and serves on the Advisory Board for Leon Gallery and on the board of Tilt West. Anthony recently was included in an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum and shows her work y nationally.  Presently, Anthony lives in Denver and is a member of TANK Studios.

About the Practicum Speaker Series - Spring 2021: This series of talks explores strategies to forge a sustainable, productive, fulfilling career in the arts. Speakers will discuss the trajectory and evolution of their art practices. Students and researchers from all majors and fields are welcome.

Student News

Joelle Cicak

Joelle Cicak

City and County of Broomfield Open Space and Trails Department
Spring 2021 Speaker Series

Wednesday, April 7 from 7 - 8 p.m.
All of the presentations will be held as a Zoom Webinar, connect here, passcode 913802

Dial in by Phone: 877 853 5247
Webinar ID: 986 7208 8334
Passcode: 913802

“Coyotes of Broomfield” with Emily Beam, PhD Student and Researcher at CU-Boulder, Environmental Studies Program and Joelle Cicak,Multimedia Artist and Masters Students at CU-Boulder

Joelle and Emily are both graduate students at CU Boulder in the Art and Environmental Studies programs respectively. Joelle Cicak's artistic work has always focused on natural settings. Growing up against a stretch of forest in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she was taught at a young age the intricacies that exist between humans and the environments we share. Her work focuses on the tensions, the contradictions, the rarities, and the tenderness that occur within these shared spaces -- both on the micro level of the backyard and the macro of national land management and species conservation. In the fall of 2020, Joelle completed her Master's thesis in Fine Arts with work focusing on her relationship with her childhood backyard as a personal exploration into her own foundational experiences with nature. She hopes her work will encourage others to look closer and to contemplate longer the environments that we cohabit. Emily grew up in the southeast with a fierce appreciation for ecology and animal conservation. She ended up in Colorado after spending some time in the coastal marshes of the southeastern United States and the grasslands of Eastern Africa. She completed her Master’s work on Broomfield coyote behavior in the summer of 2020, and is currently working on doctoral research focused on coyotes across the western US. She is looking forward to a career that will better collective understandings of wildlife and inform management practices. Together, Joelle and Emily are committed to the marriage of art and science in the pursuit of  better representing the complexities of the natural world.

Amy Hoagland artwork

Amy Hoagland

Hoagland's installation Scope of the Natural was developed through the Winter Residency at the Firehouse Art Center in partnership with the Nature, Science, Environment, and Technology (NeST) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder.

On view: April 2 – May 15, 2021
Gallery Hours: Fridays 1-5pm, Saturdays 10am-2pm, and Sundays 1-5pm. Also by appointment

Link: https://arborinstitute.org/exhibitions/ 

The Arbor Institute is excited to bring Scope of the Natural to Boulder – a site-specific installation and social psychology research study project created by graduate students Amy Hoagland and Jennifer Cole. The project provides an opportunity to participate in scientific research exploring deep questions about how we experience both nature and art. In this time of continued isolation and collective grief, the installation also provides a quiet space for visitors to relax and ground through a contemplative experience of body, mind, and nature.

Exhibition Announcement

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King Exhibition

The King Award award winning artworks are now on display in the Visual Arts Complex, Lower Level
Exhibition on View: April 5-11, 2021

First Prize
Eileen Roscina (MFA, Film)
Xiaoxiao Strong (BFA, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice)

Second Prize
Amy Hoagland (MFA, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice)
Shloka Dhar (BFA, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice)

Third Prize
Emily Van Loan (MFA, Film)
Maren Curtis (BA, Painting & Drawing)

The award winning work by each artist can be found on the Art & Art History website.

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