Art & Art History News - January 30, 2024

A public lecture sponsored by Sculpture & Post-Studio Practice
Wednesday, February 7 at 11:30 AM
Visual Arts Complex 303
Free & open to students, faculty and staff

About: John D. Spiak is the director and chief curator of California State University, Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center (GCAC), Santa Ana. His curatorial emphasis is on contemporary art and society, with a focus on works in socially engaged practices and video. Before his appointment at GCAC, he was curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum (ASUAM), joining that staff in 1994. Spiak founded the ASUAM Short Film and Video Festival and was acting curator in charge of the ASU Art Museum residency series Social Studies, originating projects by Julianne Swartz and Ken Landauer, Jillian McDonald, Josh Green, Gregory Sale, and Jennifer Nelson. His projects have received support from The British Council, Polish Cultural Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, (MAP) Fund, and four grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.  

UROP offers flexible funding options (grants) for undergraduates and faculty to form partnerships for projects in all majors, fields of study and professional practice; host engaging events for students, staff and faculty to connect and grow; celebrate and enable mentorship; support student-led campus publications; collaborate broadly throughout campus; and work with national and global partners to advance best practices.

Applications are due by February 16, 2024 for projects planned in the Summer 2024 and/or Academic Year 2024-25 grant terms.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS-IN-ATTENDANCE

Deadline: February 15, 2024

ESIIL (Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab), Earth Lab, and NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts invites CU Boulder graduate students to participate in the upcoming Forest Carbon Codefest (March 12-14) as artists-in-attendance.

At the code-based, in-person event, teams of researchers from academia, industry, and government agencies will strive to answer pressing scientific questions regarding the impacts of wildfires, droughts, and bark beetles on aboveground forest carbon in the Southern Rockies.

Artists-in-attendance will be expected to collaborate with attendees to plan and execute a work of art inspired by the event and using data from the event. The resulting artwork will be featured in the ESIIL workspace, as well as at the ESIIL Innovation Summit in May, and beyond.

Attendance stipend & commission: $500

Requirements: One-page PDF submitted to tyler.l.mcintosh@colorado.edu, which includes a paragraph describing why you are interested in participating in the event and up to 3 images of (or links to) representations of your past work.

Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
6:30 PM (Doors open at 6:00 PM)
1200 Lincoln Street, Suite 111, Denver, CO 80203
Free for CPAC Members to attend! Discounts for students this month!

If you are an educator or artist curious about the dual role involved in teaching arts and media, and would like to hear the perspective of seasoned educators in the photography community, then be sure to attend!

Panel speakers include Carol Golemboski and Bill Adams (University of Colorado Denver), Tom Finke and Paul Weinrauch (Red Rocks Community College), James Reiman (Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design), and Mariana Pereira Vieira (University of Colorado Boulder).

Topics of discussion will include:

• Engaging in both teaching and studio practice
• Role of an educator in the landscape of photography
• Perspectives on arts education
• Educating students as artists in the real-world

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Recently awarded a prestigious USA Fellowship, a $50,000 unrestricted award recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career.

This award celebrates artists and cultural practitioners who have significantly contributed to the creative landscape and arts ecosystem of the country.

A week of virtual and in-person events hosted by the Latin American and Latinx Studies Center at CU Boulder from March 11-15, 2023. All events are free and open to the public.

For five days, Indigenous artists, advocates, community leaders, educators, scholars and professionals will be hosted virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado from different parts of the world to celebrate the ever-renewed presence of Latin American Indigenous languages and cultures in daily life, activities and professions. Planned panels and roundtables cover bilingual education, social movements, land reclamation, university-community partnerships, broadcasting and communication. We also invite audiences to join us for a dance performance, folk art workshops, cooking lessons, and much more.

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