Art & Art History News - February 14, 2023

Events

Abby Bennett: Practicum Speakers Series

TONIGHT! Tuesday, February 14 at 6:30pm
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Abby Bennett is the Operations Director at Demiurge: a Denver-based sculpture fabrication company responsible for hundreds of large-scale public art projects. After completing her MFA in Sculpture at CU Boulder she joined the Demiurge team where her focus has been on implementation and realization, through hands-on coordination between vendors and clients, from inception through fabrication and installation. With exacting standards and exhaustive know-how she has made possible a multitude of projects and brought to fruition her clients’ visions.

Abby’s mantra “let’s art-school it” can't be understated: whether it comes to the vicissitudes of logistics, material procurements and manipulations/fabrication, or the keen intuition required to overcome unforeseen hurdles with artistic creativity, her uncompromising insistence on excellence has proved itself time and again. Hers is a trajectory that demonstrates the efficacy of hard work and determination in a field where no quarters are given.

This series explores strategies to forge a sustainable, productive, fulfilling career in the arts. Speakers will discuss the trajectory and evolution of their art practices.

Shoshanna Weinberger: Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, February 21
6:30 PM in the VAC complex auditorium 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Shoshanna Weinberger received her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2003 and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. Living and working in Newark, NJ, since 2006, Weinberger’s work references her Caribbean-American background, which explores the complexity of heritage and the psychology of peripheral identity. She considers herself a visual anthropologist, cataloging and surveying these experiences that ultimately question notions of assumed beauty norms and identity through ongoing serial works that result in paintings, drawings, collages, mixed media, and sculptural installations. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous invitational group and solo exhibitions. Weinberger is a five-time participant of the Jamaica Biennial from 2006 to 2017 held in Kingston, Jamaica; and included in the 2013 Martinique Biennale.

Link to more information about the Spring 2023 lecture series

Mark your calendar, our next lecture:
Lenka Clayton — March 14

Faculty News

Marina Kassianidou, Assistant Professor, Drawing & Painting

Exhibition Announcements

Beyond the Real
Works by Sasha Alexandra and Marina Kassianidou
Rule Gallery, Marfa, Texas
February 18 - April 22, 2023
Opening: February 18, 5:00 - 7:00 pm; Artist walkthrough at 5:30 pm
https://rulegallery.com/exhibition/beyond-the-real/

Micrologies IV
Group exhibition curated by Aitor Lajarin-Encina
Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
January 18 - July 2, 2023
Curator Talk and Exhibition Reception: February 23, 2023, 5:00 – 6:30 pm
https://artmuseum.colostate.edu/events/micrologies-curator-talk-2/

Student News

Cody Norton, MFA candidate, Sculpture & Post-Studio Practice

Recently, Cody was awarded a Tallgrass Artist Residency. This program of the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission is centered in the small community of Matfield Green, Kansas near the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

Cody's residency project:
I plan to use my time to explore the Flint Hills; specifically with a case study on the vast hunting community in Chase and Butler County. With these two counties being the most prominent in the state of Kansas for deer hunting; I want to involve myself within this community and discover hunters of marginalized communities. With Kansas and hunting cultures around the US being predominantly straight-white men, I want to highlight queer hunters represented in these counties.

King Awards - Apply Today!

The deadline for submission is Monday, March 6, 2023, at 5:00 PM
Notifications of the award to students: March 27, 2023

$3000 for first-place Grad and Undergrad
$2000 for second-place Grad and Undergrad
$1000 for third-place Grad and Undergrad
$500 for 4 honorable mentions

Eligibility and rules:

Must be in a degree-seeking program in the Department of Art and Art History (BA, BFA, MA, MFA) and enrolled in an ARTS (art practices) class or classes this school year (fall 2022/spring 2023)
Submit only work that is available to display and fully completed
Proposals for new work and projects will not be considered

The 2023 Jurors:

Sam Harvey, ceramic artist, curator, and educator in Aspen, Colorado
David Smith, owner of the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Colorado
Martha Weidmann, CEO, NINE dot ARTS in Denver, Colorado

Link to more information & application

Campus News

Flirt & Twerk

You're invited to Flirt and Twerk! Join us Friday, February 17th from 3 - 7 PM in the UMC Bowling Alley for a Grad & Professional Student Spring Mixer hosted by GPSG. ⁠

This event is to connect grad students from all disciplines across campus. Come flirt and twerk with your fellow grad students and enjoy free bowling and pizza! Bring your friends along!

Brakhage Center for Media Arts

Guha Shankar: “One More River to Cross”

Monday, February 20 at 5 pm
Atlas 311

The Brakhage Center is excited to begin its Spring Visiting Curator series with an event hosted by Guha Shankar, of the Civil Rights History Project and American Folklife Center. Shankar will be sharing works of civil rights activist and progressive filmmaker Glen Pearcy, whose work includes One More River to Cross, an incisive documentary exploration of iniquities in the justice system produced during the Southwest Georgia Project of 1968, as well as discussing his role as project curator and archivist

Guha Shankar, folklife specialist and co-director of the Civil Rights History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. He serves as project coordinator of Ancestral Voices, a collaborative curatorial initiative with indigenous communities and co-directs the national Civil Rights History Project. Shankar also teaches documentary field methods in university and community settings, writes for a range of publications, and provides research and reference assistance to a variety of patrons. His research interests include diasporic community formations in the Caribbean, ethnographic media, visual representation, and performance studies.

Link to more information about this series

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