Art & Art History News - May, 3, 2022

Professor Mark Amerika is back from a successful opening of There is no rewind button for life, his solo exhibition in Porto, Portugal. The show runs through May 8th and includes a survey of Mark's net / video / AI / NFT / e-lit artwork. Mark's new book, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is published by Stanford University Press. The book investigates automated forms of creativity across the human-nonhuman spectrum and is the inaugural title in Stanford's new "Sensing Media" book series. A book launch event will take place at the National Art Club in New York in May. 

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Dr. crystal (cam) nelson will join CU’s Department of Art & Art History as Assistant Professor of Art History in fall 2022. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz and is currently the Just Transformations Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. cam is a specialist in African American art and her research examines the visual culture of Black pleasure, the aesthetics of Black joy, and Black middle-class art collecting practices. We are pleased to welcome cam to our department and look forward to working with her.

Jeanne Quinn will be a guest artist at the Clay Studio this summer.

The Clay Studio was founded by a group of artists in 1974 and has hosted hundreds of artists for residencies of up to 5 years. Past residents and exhibitors have included many CU alumni, including Josh Hebbert, Alex Ferrante, Chase Folsom, Sanam Emami, Molly Hatch, and Julia Galloway. Currently, alumnae Stephanie Kantor and Liisa Nelson are resident artists. The Clay Studio has just moved to a beautiful new building in the Kensington neighborhood in close proximity to many artist studios.

In conjunction with the residency, Quinn will give a lecture on her work that will be in person and live-streamed at noon EST on July 7.

https://www.theclaystudio.org