Art & Art History News - February 15, 2024

Our visiting artist lecture series will commence on Monday, February 19th, at 4 PM. We have an update to the roster of artists for Spring 2024. We are delighted to announce that visiting artist Aitor Lajarin-Encina will be joining the Art & Art History Department lecture series. Please make arrangements to attend his presentation in the VAC auditorium at 4 PM.

About the artist: Aitor Lajarin-Encina is an artist, educator, and organizer born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, in 1977, the year of punk. He is currently living with his partner and children, working, playing soccer, and cooking paella in Fort Collins, Colorado. He received his BFA in painting from the University of Basque Country, Bilbao, and his MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. Aitor is an interdisciplinary artist whose principal expertise is painting and drawing. Some of Aitor's creative work and research interests include contemporary painting and drawing critical issues in the transdisciplinary field, reception and participation aesthetics, poetics of humor, and play. As an organizer and educator, he is interested in exploring intersections between contemporary art practice, self-organizational models of production, public culture, and social equity. He is also the founder of DXIX Projects and cofounder with Marius Lehene of Dinghy Rig. Both initiatives are dedicated to the production and dissemination of contemporary culture and art-related projects and materials. Dinghy Rig is an experimental, community-oriented, artist-run exhibition program for and from Colorado. DXIX began in Los Angeles, California, in 2015 as a curatorial extension of Aitor's studio practice and survives now in Fort Collins, Colorado, as a gallery space in his CSU Art Department building office. Aitor has taught painting, drawing, and interdisciplinary studio classes at UC San Diego and UDLAP in Puebla, Mexico. He is currently an assistant professor of painting in the Department of Art and Art History at Colorado State University, where he teaches painting, drawing, and socially engaged art practice courses. 

All lectures are MONDAY FROM 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Visual Arts Complex 1B20 Auditorium 
CU Boulder campus, 1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Upcoming Lectures:

• Natalie Ball. Monday, March 4 at 4:00 PM
• Jovan C. Speller. Monday, March 18 at 4:00 PM
• Stephanie Hanes. Monday, April 8 at 4:00 PM
• Setsuko and Hiroki Morinoue. Monday, April 22 at 4:00 PM

An annual competition and exhibition! Cash awards to Art & Art History undergraduate and graduate students.

   The deadline for submission: Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at 11:59 PM
   Notifications of the finalists: Friday, March 22, 2024

Link to King Awards Application

All degree-seeking students in the Art & Art History department are invited to apply.

• $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

Attention Faculty

The Roser Grant is designed to support BIG IDEAS and create new adventures for our CU campus and extended community. This year’s award request maximum is $15,000 and will fund a number of award recipients with special considerations or grants that further conversations, experiences, and explorations in equity, diversity, and inclusion. 

Timeline: The Grant proposal deadline is March 1st and will be distributed for use in the Spring 2024 - Spring 2025 academic year. Final reports are to be submitted within two months of the project's completion.

Important Reminders: All funded activities must take place during the Spring 2024 to Spring 2025 academic year. Please read the mission statement carefully to be sure your project is appropriate. Only CU Boulder faculty may apply on behalf of artists. Arts units may submit more than one proposal. Grant requests will be no more than $15,000.

Delivery: Grant proposals should be completed online through our “Apply” page at or before 5:00 p.m. on the due date.

Notification: Applicants can expect to hear results within 6 weeks after the application deadline, as the Roser Visiting Artist Endowment Committee will meet mid-March to review applications.

Link to application information

Pictured: Nan Goldin, Decmber 2023 (Funded in part by the Roser Visiting Artist grant program)

The Art & Art History Staff Exhibition 2024

Evan Blackstock, Michelle Erks, Jean Goldstein, Lia Pileggi, Bill Rumley, Jason Sanford, Misuhng Suh, Thomas Yi

On View in the 1st Floor Lobby of the Visual Arts Complex
February 12-23