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Art & Art History News - January 17, 2023

Upcoming Events

Sarah Rara, "Lavendar House"

Sarah Rara: Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, January 31
6:30 PM in the VAC complex auditorium 1B20

Sarah Rara’s (they/them) multi-disciplinary practice—including video, sound, writing, and performance—explores the position of witness within fragile systems. Rara is a contributing member of the ongoing project Lucky Dragons (with Luke Fischbeck). Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, PS1 in New York, LACMA in Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Rara is a 2018 recipient of the LACMA Art + Technology fellowship. Rara is an Assistant Professor of Moving Image at Williams College.


Mark your calendars!

Shoshanna Weinberger —  February 21
Lenka Clayton —  March 14
Keliy Anderson-Staley —  March 21
Center for Land Use Interpretation —  April 4
Josephine Halvorson —  April 25

Visiting artist lectures will be recorded and available for viewing in the Visual Resources Center's archive fall semester of 2023 (unavailable this Spring semester). Please join us for the in-person lecture and conversation in the 1B20 auditorium.

Link to more information about the Spring lecture series

BLM mural in the VAC, CU Boulder

Visual Arts Complex Mural project

You are invited to join us in celebrating our diversity

Join us Feb. 1 at noon for a meal on the lower level of the VAC; hear a story or share a story.

In the interest of continuing our expression of diversity that was started with the Black Lives Matter window installation at the Visual Arts Complex, we are creating a mural for the interior of the building. We would love for you to come and share ideas for the creation of this inclusive artwork that reflects all of our beautiful differences.

All are welcome! No art experience is required. If you are interested in being a part of the project, 

Link to more information and to sign-up for the event

Student News

Shloka Dhar

Shloka Dhar, BFA, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice

Congratulations to Shloka Dhar!!

Shloka Dhar, who majored in art practices and molecular, cellular and developmental biology, is the College of Arts and Sciences’ outstanding graduate for fall 2022

“For as long as I have remembered, I have always loved biology, and I have always loved art,” she said. “The rest of the world thought art and science are different career paths, and for a moment, I believed them.”

Read more about this award in the Arts & Sciences Magazine

Dennis Doyle

Dennis Doyle, MFA candidate, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice

Congratulations Dennis for winning CU Boulder's GPTI Teaching Recognition Award!!

Cody Norton: Colorful Realities

Cody Norton, MFA candidate, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice

Colorful Realities
January 10 - February 10

This installation is part of the Art @ One Boulder Plaza program.
One Boulder Plaza is on 13th St. between Canyon Blvd. and Walnut St. in downtown Boulder.
Presented by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

About the work: The once vast prairie region of the Front Range was filled with a diversity of native fauna. Prairie dogs, coyotes, elk, mountain lions roamed the open grasslands far before the city of Boulder was built. Colorful Realities is a site-specific installation made from colored acrylic plexiglass panels, laser-etched with the animals who call the Front Range home. The panels are displayed at varying heights, creating a vibrant hanging mural that allows for the viewer to have a different perspective as they move around and through the installation.

Link to more information

Eileen Roscina

Eileen Roscina, MFA candidate, Film

Exhibition announcement
Eileen Roscina & Netta Ofer (CU's NEST Fellowship Recipients)

Arvada Center for the Arts
January 19 - March 26, 2023
Opening Reception January 19th 6-9pm

About the show: The intersection between science and creative experimentation.

Explore the ways that fourteen contemporary artists use scientific concepts, datasets, research, and development to inform their creative work. Art + Science portrays both artistic practice and scientific discovery in new ways, broadening the understanding of both as they experience concepts in science through the unique voice of regional artists.

Link to more information

Lauren Hooten

Lauren Hooten, MA candidate, Art History

Lauren recently received the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant

These awards are sponsored by the Graduate School to support the research, scholarship, and creative work of graduate students from all departments.

Faculty News

James Córdova

James Córdova, Associate Professor, Art History

Professor Córdova is currently the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery in Washington, DC.

He is also contributing editor for the upcoming volume of The Handbook of Latin American Studies.

Córdova will contribute an essay to a new publication, Appropriation and Invention: Three Centuries of Art in Spanish America: Selections from the Denver Art Museum, edited by Jorge F. Rivas Pérez. The essay is titled “New Mexico’s Unmistakable Santos: Artistic Bricolage and the Formation of Style.”

Anna Tsouhlarakis, "Breath of Wind"

Anna Tsouhlarakis, Assistant Professor, Foundations

Professor Tsouhlarakis will show work in an exhibition Breath of Wind at Wexner Center for the Arts.

Also on view beginning February 11 is Tsouhlarakis’s new, Wex-commissioned exhibition, The Native Guide Project: Columbus. Reframing the discourse around Native American identity, this project engaging the center's exterior and interior spaces focuses on the forced migration of Indigenous peoples, including in Central Ohio.

Link to more information

AAH Alumni News

Machine Dazzle

Machine Dazzle ('94)

Dazzle's solo exhibition, "Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle" at the Museum of Arts & Design was recently featured in the New York Times.

“I love wearing ideas,” he said. “You can make something that’s really beautiful but gets boring after five minutes onstage.”

Link to the New York Times Feature

Amy Hoagland, "Entanglements"

Amy Hoagland ('22)

Exhibition: Entanglements
January 13 – March 25, 2023

Metropolitan State University of Denver - Center for Visual Art
965 Santa Fe Dr.Denver, CO 80204

Artist Talk with Amy Hoagland
March 9, 5 pm

Artists include Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Dornith Doherty, Felicity Hammond, Jana Hartmann, Amy Hoagland, Marcella Kwe, Regan Rosburg, Anastasia Samoylova, Sarah Sense, Alicja Wróblewska.

Entanglements explores our connections to the natural world. Through a variety of lenses, artists in this exhibition negotiate and engage with the environment, illustrating the complex relationships humans have to nature and its resources. These artists employ diverse approaches and intentions, bringing awareness to the current state of our environment to inspire action, giving discarded remains new life, or exploring regenerative capabilities of ecosystems.

Department Announcements

Andy Warhol dollar sign print

Scholarships! Deadline to apply is Jan. 25, 2023

The Department of Art and Art History offers merit-based awards for undergraduate and graduate students that are made possible through the generosity of our donors. Typically, the funds associated with these awards defray tuition expenses and are posted to the student's bill. A faculty committee reviews the applications each spring semester and determines the number and amount of awards. Scholarships vary from $100 – $2,000.

Questions? Please contact Katie Larson: katie.larson@colorado.edu

Deadline: January 25, 2023

Eligibility:

  • Undergraduate students: Majors and minors in Art History or Arts Practices, and students the BAM program, may apply
  • Graduate students: MFA Arts Practices students only
  • Students must be currently enrolled in Art and Art History courses

Art & Art History, CU Boulder Scholarship Application:

  • Log in to Buff Portal and navigate to the Scholarships card.
  • Click ‘Apply for & Manage Scholarships’ to apply for CU Boulder scholarship opportunities.

​Access the Buff Portal
Step-by-step guide from Financial Aid: Step-by-Step Guide to the Scholarship Application for Continuing Students

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