Art & Art History News - February 8, 2021

Tonight! Monday, February 8 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm

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Jacqueline Patterson is the Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Since 2007 Patterson has served as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United. Jacqui Patterson has worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist working on women‘s rights, violence against women, HIV&AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice. Patterson served as a Senior Women’s Rights Policy Analyst for ActionAid where she integrated a women’s rights lens for the issues of food rights, macroeconomics, and climate change as well as the intersection of violence against women and HIV&AIDS. Previously, she served as Assistant Vice-President of HIV/AIDS Programs for IMA World Health providing management and technical assistance to medical facilities and programs in 23 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Patterson served as the Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Research Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University. She also served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica, West Indies.

Patterson’s publications/articles include: ”Jobs vs Health: An Unnecessary Dilemma”, “Climate Change is a Civil Rights Issue”, “Gulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact”, “Disasters, Climate Change Uproot Women of Color”; “Coal Blooded; Putting Profits Before People”; “Just Energy Policies: Reducing Pollution, Creating Jobs”: “And the People Shall Lead: Centralizing Frontline Community Leadership in the Movement Towards a Sustainable Planet”; and book chapter, “Equity in Disasters: Civil and Human Rights Challenges in the Context of Emergency Events” in the book Building Community Resilience Post-Disaster.

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, February 9 at 6:30pm

YouTube Livestream Event

All visiting artist lectures for Spring 2021 are presented livestream through Art & Art History's YouTube channel

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Suchitra Mattai received an MFA in painting and drawing and an MA in South Asian art, from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Recent projects include a commission for the Sharjah Biennial 14, inclusion in “State of the Art 2020” at Crystal Bridges Museum/the Momentary, a Denver Art Museum/Biennial of the Americas jointly sponsored installation, a group exhibition at Pen and Brush NYC and solo/two-person exhibitions at K Contemporary Art, Hollis Taggart NYC, and the Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University of Denver (Denver, CO). Her work has been reviewed/included in publications and on-line platforms such as Hyperallergic, Document Journal, Widewalls, Cultured Magazine, the Denver Post, and Wallpaper Magazine and is in the collections of Crystal Bridges Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Taylor Art Collection. She is represented by K Contemporary Art (Denver).

Link to the Visiting Artist Program for Spring 2021

About the Visiting Artist and Scholars Program:
For over 40 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.

Thursday, February 11 at 12:00pm
Join Zoom Meeting: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94975192265
Meeting ID: 949 7519 2265

Dr. Karen Strassler, Professor of Anthropology, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Lecture: “Seeing/Unseeing the ‘Chinese’: visuality, race, and contemporary art in Indonesia”

Abstract: This paper examines recent work by contemporary Indonesian artists in order to think through the visual politics by which “Chineseness” has become both hypervisible and invisible in different ways and at different moments in Indonesian history. My aim is to trace a historically shifting “distribution of the visible” integral to the social process of racializing the ethnic Chinese minority in Indonesia, and to ask how these interlocking forms of seeing and unseeing “Chineseness” both enable and occlude violence. At the same time that they offer critical insights into histories of racialized violence, the artists whose work I examine also critically and reparatively intervene in the visual figuration of the Chinese in Indonesia, seeking to open up new ways of seeing.

Bio: Karen Strassler is Professor of Anthropology at CUNY’s Queens College and the Graduate Center. Her research interests include photography, visual and media culture, violence and historical memory. She is the author of Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java (Duke UP, 2010), a study of the role of everyday photography in the making of Indonesian national identity. Her recent book, Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia (Duke UP, 2020), explores the political work of images in post-authoritarian Indonesia. A recent article, “Zones of Refuge” (2018), examines the work of artist FX Harsono in confronting occluded histories of violence against Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese minority. The latter is part of a new research project that investigates images and the politics of visibility in relation to Chinese Indonesians.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology.

Tuesday, February 16 at 6:30pm

Link to Livestream Event

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Rebecca Vaughan received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2001) and BFA, cum laude, in Sculpture at the University of Colorado Boulder (1994). She was recently included in the Biennial of the Americas, First Draft, and the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Thief Amongst Thieves. She has also shown her work in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, Canada, and China. Rebecca served as the Chair of Fine Arts and Head of Sculpture at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, the Artistic Director of PlatteForum, and a Resource Artist at Redline Contemporary Art Center. She currently resides in Kansas City, MO where she is an instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Missouri, Kansas City. 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.

More information about the Spring 2021 Arts Practicum Speaker Series

Jennifer Cole & Amy Hoagland (MFA candidate, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice) — Scope of the Natural

Shelby McAuliffe (MFA candidate, IMAP) & Molly Ott (MFA candidate, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice) — Indoor Emergencies

Feb 11 - March 7, 2021
Opening Reception: FEB 12, 6-8PM

Scope of the Natural: Created during the course of their winter residency, the exhibit presents a site specific art installation featuring an artificial natural environment, creatively addressing the boundaries between the natural and artificial in its arrangement and construction Visitors can participate in a research experiment about psychological experiences of art, bridging the connection between art and scientific research. Hoagland and Cole will join Curator Brandy Coons and NEST administration for an online panel discussing the project and its research findings on March 23 at 6pm via zoom. To register, contact gallery@firehouseart.org

Indoor Emergencies: Presented by Shelby McAuliffe and Molly Ott- A collaborative installation reflecting on "grappling with and suffering from disconnection to the outdoors.".

Firehouse Art Center
Organizer of Scope of the Natural /Indoor Emergencies Exhibit Opening
Since 1986 the Firehouse Art Center’s mission has been to promote cultural awareness of the arts in the community by: diverse educational programs, events, and curation of local, regional and national exhibits.

Colorful, sheer cloth flags with fabric letters spelling out hopeful messages in English and Spanish are hanging in One Boulder Plaza through an art project created by two graduate students.

Alejandra Abad and Román Anaya, University of Colorado Boulder fine arts graduate students, developed the “Our Wishes/Nuestros Deseos” project as a way to create community art during a pandemic. The concept is to reclaim flags, using them to embody inclusiveness instead of as divisive symbols.

Article in the Daily Camera

More information about the project

Thursady, February 25, 2021 6:00 - 7:00 PM MST

In Conversation with Adam Milner
Clyfford Still Museum
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Museum of the Invisible Woman is the result of over two years of collaboration between artist Adam Milner and the Clyfford Still Museum. The project, which consists of a series of actions in the CSM as well as a book of newly commissioned images and texts, addresses the unseen labor of community and loved ones, as well as museum staff, that make an artist’s career possible. Centering around Patricia Still—Clyfford’s second wife—who dedicated her life to fulfilling Still’s vision for this space, Milner brings forth Patricia’s presence, as well as the presence of other unseen actors, through actions and texts.

Guggenheim-winning alum reflects on her career and time at CU Boulder

Now a successful working artist living in New York City with exhibitions at museums and galleries across the country, Barbara Takenaga was not always sure of her path while attending the University of Colorado Boulder. After receiving an undergraduate degree in English and fine art in 1972, Takenaga couldn’t bring herself to leave the Hill, where she rented a home with a group of close friends. Instead, she further explored an interest in art by taking one art course per semester. It took some nudging from a friend, but eventually Takenaga applied and was accepted to the Master of Fine Arts program at CU Boulder. Despite the initial self-doubt about her work as an artist, Takenaga thrived in the program and focused on printmaking.

Read the full feature in the Arts & Sciences Magazine