Art & Art History News - January 19, 2021

For over 45 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.

​All lectures will be live on our YouTube channel — Tuesday nights at 6:30 PM (MST)
Link to Art & Art History, CU Boulder YouTube channel

Explore the Spring 2021 Lecture Series

Upcoming lectures not to miss!

Nydia Blas
  Live presentation: Tues, JANUARY 26, 6:30 PM (MST)

  Link to Nydia Blas Lecture

Nydia Blas uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens. The result is an environment that is dependent upon the belief that in order to maintain resiliency, a magical outlook is necessary. In this space, props function as extensions of the body, costumes as markers of identity, and gestures/actions reveal the performance, celebration, discovery and confrontation involved in reclaiming one's body for their own exploration and understanding.

Professor of Inhuman Geography, Queen Mary, University of London

Kathryn Yusoff's work is centred on dynamic earth events such as abrupt climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. She is interested in how these “earth revolutions” impact social thought. Broadly, her work has focused on political aesthetics, social theory and abrupt environmental change. Her current research addresses questions of ‘Geologic Life’ within the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene. This research examines how inhuman and nonorganic dimensions of life have consequences for how we understand issues of fossil fuels, human-earth relations and materiality in the politics of life. Kathryn’s work draws on insights from contemporary feminist philosophy, critical human geography and the earth sciences.

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.

Link to more information about Environmental Futures

For art students, it can feel like the pathway into a career should fall into one of two strictly separate categories: art maker or art historian. Starting in the spring of 2021, however, this divide will be challenged with the arrival of the University of Colorado Boulder’s newest art and art history faculty member, Megan O’Grady, who is also an art critic and essayist for The New York Times. 

Read the entire feature article on Megan in the CU Arts & Sciences Magazine

Exhibition as an Art Historical Space: The 1933 Chinese Art Exhibition in Paris

Online talk
UCLA, Center for Asian Studies
Thursday, January 28, 2021
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Live via Zoom​

Link to the UCLA event

Exclamation Point
January 21 — February 13, 2021
Union Hall, Denver

Exhibition curated by Alli Lemon
Featuring: Amelia Briggs, Jamie Earnest, Liz Langyher, Suchitra Mattai, Marcella Marsella, and Katie McColgan

Link to Union Hall for more information

Artist Eileen Roscina has a new body of cyanotype prints in the show Upon Closer Reflection at Walker Fine Art in Denver, CO
Link to Walker Fine Arts

Eileen is also exhibiting a new willow sculpture in the show Wood Works at the Arvada Center - Arvada, CO
Link to Arvada Center