Art & Art History News - February 21, 2022

Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 11:15 am

A Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures: “Deep Horizons” program presents:

UuDam Tran Nguyen
Serpents’ Tails (2015), 15 minutes

Link to event registration

All of the screenings in this series will take place at:
The Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway – on the corner of Broadway and Pine Street— Boulder, Colorado

Guest curated by: Brianne Cohen, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Department of Art & Art History

The screenings are free and open to the public but registration is required. 
For more information: info@eastwindow.org
Presented in partnership with east window gallery and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Mark your calendar!
Next screening: Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 11:15 am

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn
My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires (2017), 19 minutes

Tuesday, March 8 at 6:30pm

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota descent). Through monumental installations and social collaboration, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st Century Indigeneity, combining critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. He lectures and produces large-scale projects around the globe and his works are in many public collections. Luger is a recipient of a 2021 United States Artists Fellowship Award for Craft and was named a 2021 GRIST Fixer, he is a 2020 Creative Capital Fellow, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, and the recipient of the Museum of Arts and Design’s 2018 inaugural Burke Prize, among others.

Zoom registration is required in advance. Please click here to register.

This lecture is part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties & Prospects.
For more information visit: https://www.colorado.edu/project/environmental-futures/

Dial-In Information — Zoom lecture: Please register in advance.

Virga
Curated by A Grix and Brook Vann

This exhibition will showcase the following artists: Dāa Guy-Vasson, Larí García, Judith Leinen, Martha Russo, and Noa Fodrie.

Opening reception: Thursday, February 24, 6-8 pm
Location: Union Hall located in The Coloradan
1750 Wewatta Street, Suite 144, Denver, CO 80202

Exhibition: February 24 - March 19, 2022

The exhibition Virga is a collaborative curatorial project based on a relationship between selected artists’ work and the meteorological phenomena of the Virga Cloud. Virga clouds are diagonal streaks of precipitation that are visible in the sky but are not felt on the ground. This moisture exists below clouds, and above the surface of the earth. Just as these clouds hold rain of the future, José Estaban Muñoz describes queerness as hope located in the sky. He writes of potential or something that has not yet arrived; however “we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.” We view the in-between space as a place where our current movements are focused on the transition towards the future. Our selected works embody paths and deviations, transitions and transformations, creative changes that are vital for feelings of hope much like the potential rain in a Virga cloud.

King Awards

The deadline for submission: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 5:00 PM
 Notifications of the award to students: March 15, 2022

• $3000 for first place Grad and Undergrad
• $2500 for second place Grad and Undergrad
• $2000 for third place Grad and Undergrad

An exhibition of award-winning artwork will be on display in the Visual Arts Complex, Lower Level from April 6-14, 2022

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 2020/spring 2021)

Apply today!

BFA Program

Application Deadline: March 15

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree program offers advanced studio study to a limited number of highly motivated and talented students. The BFA student may choose one area of studio emphasis or an interdisciplinary focus where two or three studio areas are represented. Admission will be limited not only in terms of capacity but also to ensure the type of record, motivation and the passing of a portfolio review. 

For general application questions contact the Art & Art History administrative assistant:
3rd Floor main administration office in the Visual Arts Complex
(303)492-3580, finearts@colorado.edu

Apply to the BFA Program

Be Represented

• Lead A&S Building Turs
• Share your A&S student experience on student panels
• Outreach to prospective students
• Participate in social media takeovers

Deadline to apply: Friday, March 4, midnight

All A&S Majors are invited to apply
Workstudy & non-work-study should apply — competitive pay, $15/hr
First-year & transfer students can also apply (must have completed one semester at CU)

The B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance is currently holding an open call for 2022/23 Creative Residencies until February 28th. All CU faculty, staff, students, and recent CU graduates are welcome to apply.

Apply Now

We will be accepting proposals for art installations, musical performances, theatrical productions, dance, experimental digital media, thesis projects, film productions, immersive experiences, collaborations with other campus organizations and more. Non-traditional proposals from people outside the performing and visual arts are encouraged. We will work with you to take your project to the next level by utilizing our newly updated facilities.

Creative residencies include:

• Use of B2’s unique spaces and state-of-the-art equipment: black box theater, 360 audio/visual projection, sound system, broadcast/audio recording studios, professional-quality green screens and motion capture capabilities to name a few.
• Technical/production support from B2’s staff, student workers and engineers
• Promotion by the ATLAS communications team. (Check out this Q&A with 2020 creative resident Britney Banaei.)
• Video and photo documentation of the project.
• Project consultation/brainstorming/mentorship/collaboration from B2’s diverse community of practitioners.