Art & Art History News - News, 9/21/20

Jasmine Baetz, MFA 2019

The Los Seis de Boulder sculpture installed on the CU Boulder campus last year will remain at CU as part of the permanent collection in the University Libraries’ Special Collections, Archives and Preservation department.

Robert McDonald, dean of University Libraries, senior vice provost of online education and professor of library administration, said campus archivists look forward to working with the Los Seis de Boulder sculpture so they can develop educational and research tools, data and information that will enable the campus to reclaim this chapter of university and state history and amplify it broadly for students, faculty, staff and other audiences.
Image: Jasmine Baetz, Los Seis de Boulder 

Robert Buehler, MFA Candidate, Painting & Drawing

Robert Buehler completed a mural at the 9th Street Underpass of the Boulder Creek Path. The mural, which celebrates Colorado's Corvids (the family of birds including jays, magpies, crows and ravens), was to explore queerness in nature and facilitate education around local bird species. The project was one of nearly forty included in the second annual Street Wise Boulder Mural Festival (Sept. 7th - 13th 2020). 
Image: Robert Buehler

Alejandra Abad, MFA Candidate, IMAP

Arbor Institute this Friday (9/25) from 7-10pm.

The Arbor Institute presents an outdoor video installation of "Mis Hijos" by interdisciplinary artist Alejandra Abad. "Mis Hijos" will be projected on the front exterior wall of the Arbor Institute on continuous loop from 7-10pm during the opening night of the Interwoven Community Vigil. The moving artwork features a poem written and recited by the artist’s mother, Lisbeth. This is a visual record created during isolated walks of the artist’s observations and her mother’s internal struggles of being apart from her children during the pandemic. The projection can be viewed outside safely from the park and public areas around the Arbor Institute with social distancing.

This installation is part of the month-long exhibition Interwoven : a resting place for collective grief.

Feel Good Fridays

“You are invited to this weekly workshop to learn about a work of art and then participate in a related mindfulness practice. The powerful, guided meditation can undo stress, soothe the nervous system, and help you feel relaxed and revitalized. If practiced regularly, the meditation teaches a method for feeling calm, easeful, and resilient, even when facing life’s challenges. Meditations are open to students, faculty, staff, and the public. All are welcome and there is no need for past experience with meditation. Registration is required.”

Dates: (Weekly, Every Friday)
9/18, 9/25
10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30
11/6, 11/13, 11/20 
12/4

Artist-In-Residence Program Call for Proposals

Artists are invited to CU Boulder to create new work or curate an exhibition.

The museum welcomes applications from individual and collaborative teams of choreographers, dancers, designers, filmmakers, media artists, musicians, visual artists and writers, as well as collaborative teams from the arts paired with scholars in other disciplines such as engineering, humanities, law, or the natural or social sciences.

For more details, visit our website
Application opens November 1, 2020
Proposals due January 7, 2021

Roberta Restaino, MFA, Printmaking, 2016

Recently appointed:
Assistant Professor of 2D and 3D Design
Greenville Technical College, South Carolina

Jasmine Baetz, MFA, Ceramics, 2019

Recently appointed:
Assistant Professor of Art
Coker University, Hartsville, South Carolina