Art & Art History News - April 5, 2021

Monday, April 5 at 1:00pm

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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.

Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30pm

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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.

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.

Hoagland's installation Scope of the Naturalwas 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.