Art & Art History News - March 14, 2023

Events

Lenka Clayton: Visiting Artist Lecture

TONIGHT!!
Tuesday, March 14 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. In previous works, she has searched for and photographed every person mentioned by name in a German newspaper; worked with artists who identify as blind to recreate Brancusi’s Sculpture for the Blind from a spoken description, and reconstituted a lost museum from a sketch found in an archive. Clayton is the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents. There are currently over 1,000 artists in residence in 62 countries. Recent exhibitions include Fruit and Other Things (2019) at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Object Temporarily Removed (2017) at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Apollo’s Muse (2019) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art NY and The Grand Illusion, at the Lyon Biennial, France (2020). In 2017 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commissioned a major new work by Clayton and collaborator Jon Rubin, entitled A talking parrot, a high school drama class, a Punjabi TV show, the oldest song in the world, a museum artwork, and a congregation’s call to action circle through New York.

Link to more information about the Spring 2023 lecture series

Field School: Information Session

Today!! Tuesday, March 14th
12:00 pm Seminar Room
VAC 287

Also on March 21st (same time, same place)

(Lunch included)

The Field School is an intensive 3-week summer program that puts students in touch with various rural and remote landscapes while focusing on site and context-based approaches to art creation.

The Field School is designed as an experiential course, meaning that students learn through the experience and process of understanding place by making new artwork on-site while living and working in the field. Students create and discuss various approaches to art creation while exploring many mediums, including writing, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound recording, and land-based art.

Post-studio encourages art practices such as dialogical and context-based actions surrounding topics like nature and process, phenomenology, borderlands, pastoralism, wayfaring, walking, pilgrimages, ecologies, colonialism, ownership and exploitation, conservation, cultural representation, settler-scapes, reconciliation, idealized landscapes, dualities, centers, and peripheries.

Link to more information

Art History Graduate Student Symposium

Art History presents the Spring 2023 Art History Graduate Symposium
Visual Arts Complex, Rm 303
Friday, March 17, 2023, 2-5pm

Program:
1:30-2:00 Coffee/tea and refreshments
2:00-2:10 Welcome, Dr. Annette de Stecher, Director of Graduate Studies, Art History

Panel 1
2:10-2:30 Emily Berkes, Alex Janvier: Survivance Through Art and Activism
2:30-2:50 Mattie Hough, Archive as Activism: Melody Melamed’s Queer Portraiture
2:50-3:10 Shawn Simmons, Mutability and Mutualism: The Institute of Queer Ecology
3:10-3:30 Discussion
3:30-3:45 Coffee/tea Break

Panel 2
3:45-4:05 Kat Bertram, Imagery of Black Women in Anime
4:05-4:25 Kristin Enright, Uncertain Winds: A Pacific, Interviceregal History of Blue-and-White Puebla Loza
4:25-4:45 Lexi Peterson, Material Narrativity in the Art of Tao Aimin
4:45-5:00 Discussion

Keliy Anderson-Staley: Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, March 21
6:30 PM in the VAC complex auditorium 1B20

Keliy Anderson-Staley (she/her) was raised off-the-grid in Maine and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. She is nationally recognized for her portrait work in wet-plate collodion tintype, her experiments in a range of photographic processes, her artist’s books and her long-term project, Raw Materials in Peace and War. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and a 2013 George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow. She has received additional project support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston Center for Photography, Puffin Foundation, and Houston Arts Alliance. She has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester and Aurora Photo Center in Indianapolis. Collections holding her work include the Library of Congress, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Portland Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at Akron Art Museum; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA amongst others. On a Wet Bough, a monograph of her tintype portraits was published by Waltz Books in 2014. Documents & Dwellings, a catalog for a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas was published in 2022. She is an Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the School of Art, University of Houston.

Link to more information about the Spring 2023 lecture series

Department Announcements

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Application deadline tomorrow!

The BFA degree in Art Practices is a more specialized degree in studio art. It allows you to take a higher number of courses through the Art & Art History Department. Choose this degree if you want to create a personal portfolio, attend graduate school, want a career directly related to the arts, or are interested in pursuing a teaching career at the college level.

Application deadline: March 15, 2023

Link to more information & BFA application

Student News

Shawn C. Simmons, MA candidate in Art History

Shawn has curated Against Nature as the final installment in Union Hall’s 2023 Rough Gems program.

Opening reception on Thursday, March 30th, 6-8pm at Union Hall
Curatorial roundtable on April 12th, 6-7:30pm via Zoom

Against Nature explores the emerging field of queer ecology in response to prevailing ideas of human versus nature. As we face the climate crisis of today and tomorrow, each featured artist enacts their own utopian vision by reimagining the relationship between queer identity and nature.

Featured artists include Dennis Doyle, Eden Kinkaid, Corinne Teed, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and Frankie Toan.

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