Art & Art History News - March 1, 2022

Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 11:15 am
A Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures: “Deep Horizons” program presents:

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

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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.

Next Screening: Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11:15 am
Khvay Samnang, Popil (2018), 22 minutes
Registration for this event

Join us Friday, March 4, 2022 from 10 AM to 11:55 AM

Art History Graduate Student presentations:
10-10:20 Jasmine Gloria
10:20-10:40 Nataña Aldana-Lowe
10:40-10:55 Q&A
10:55-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Emilie Luckett
11:20-11:40 Lexi Peterson
11:40-11:55 Q&A

Visual Arts Complex, RM 303
Department of Art & Art History
University of Colorado Boulder

Tuesday, March 8 at 6:30pm
Zoom registration is required in advance. Please click here to register.

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.

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/

Friday, March 18
Spring Luncheon Series 2022
ATLAS  102 // refreshments provided // 11:45am

About: Our mission is to promote education and research regarding the historical, cultural, and artistic significance of experimental film and media art to students, scholars, and the public. As such, the Center seeks to encourage new artistic talent, and foster broad institutional collaboration in promoting new perspectives of the avant-garde film and media art world.

Josh Shepperd is assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is a media historian who researches the parallels between critical media theory and critical intervention in media practice. His manuscript Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting (University of Illinois Press) argues that U.S. public media originated as a grassroots coalition to increase equal access to education through technology during the 1930s. Shadow details how New Deal media producers, government agencies, and political economists organized an alternative media industry under dominant commercial and legislative discourses. In 2022 Josh will complete an update to the official “History of U.S. Public Broadcasting” with Dr. Allison Perlman (University of California-Irvine) for Current and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). —Read more about Josh Shepperd

Exhibition: SPIN (AFTER SOL LeWITT)
Grand Center Art Center
An exhibition developed through a multi-year GCAC artist residency
OPENING RECEPTION: March 5 from 7-10pm with Aarrow Sign Spinners
PROGRAMS - Complete schedule / times on website

Drawing on a background in anthropological and archaeological research, Yumi Janairo Roth uses her art practice to unite different communities in situations that bring attention to the value we place on various aspects of everyday material culture. Spin (after Sol LeWitt) is an exhibition of sculpture, video, photography, and performance by the Colorado-based artist, who has collaborated with professional sign spinners since 2017. 

Exhibition: Memento Mori

MARCH 4 – APRIL 16, 2022
Northern Clay Center
Curated by Heather Nameth Bren
Virtual 3D Tour on view March 10, 2022
Free public opening reception tentatively planned for Friday, March 4, 6 – 8 pm

The Latin phrase, memento mori, translates to, “Remember that you must die.” The purpose of this exhibition is to explore how artists have responded to themes of death in the wake of a modern global pandemic. Throughout the ages, contemplating death has been a major theme in the arts. Although the concept of death is unpleasant, facing the inevitability of death has numerous benefits: to remind of the temporal nature of our human existence, to inspire moral resistance to earthly pleasures, and to appreciate vitality of life and fleeting beauty, while acknowledging the permanence of death.

Clay and ceramic art have inherent metaphors of life cycles in the material stages of clay from its formation from the earth and once living organic matter.

Artists in this exhibition include: Marisa Finos, Jeanne Quinn, Arun Sharma, and Dirk Staschke.

Water Works
A phosphorescent art exhibition by Marcella Marsella

Reception: Thursday, April 14, 5-8 pm
Location: The NEST Gallery located in the CASE Building W250, 1725 Euclid Ave, Boulder, CO 80309
Exhibition: February 17 - May 5, 2022
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays 11-2, Wednesdays 10-1, Thursdays 5-8, and by appointment. Email nest@colorado.edu.

Water Works is an exhibition by Painting & Drawing MFA candidate Marcella Marsella and sponsored by NEST Studio for the Arts. The exhibition consists of artwork that speaks about aqueous bodies: the oceanic, piscine and human. A wide variety of artforms is present including collage, alternative photography, cut paper, quilting, and small sculpture. Echoing bioluminescent life forms found in the sea, all of the artwork glows in the dark, responding to specially installed UV lighting. Ghostly fishes, fluorescing coral, radioactive PPE, gleaming eyeballs, rolling waves of camouflage, and surreal miniature scenes all come alive under an ultraviolet aura. By depicting the absence of marine life, Marsella is asking: who is missing? Where is beauty being lost? What are the consequences of forgetting? Conceivably we humans understand more than we care to concede, keeping it down in the dark places of our minds–disavowed. This exhibition dares to exist in that dark place, inviting the viewer to spend time in contemplation of things unseen yet inextricably linked to our daily lives.

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

Design and Build Summer 2022 Internship // Museum of Outdoor Arts
Applications due on April 3
From concept development, proposal review, materials procurement, timeline and budget management, to fabrication and installation, this intensive 8-week program will provide 8 interns the opportunity to participate completely in the art making process. Participants will be working at the College of Art’s and Media sculpture studio at CU Denver and all materials and tools will be provided.

Denver Art Museum
From curatorial to marketing, communications, technology and more, check out all current Summer 2022 internship opportunities at the Denver Art Museum. Applicants must be current college students and early career professionals who are considered historically excluded in the arts.