News, April 8, 2025
Upcoming Events
Koichi Yamamoto: Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Monday, April 14, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium (located on the lower-level), RM 1B20
Koichi’s artworks explore themes of the sublime, atmosphere, and fluid mechanics. His practice spans from meticulous copper engravings to large-scale monotypes with a recent focus on kite-makings.
His works has been showcased in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions. Most recently, at prestigious venues such as Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome, Italy; B.J. Spoke Gallery in Huntington, New York; Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London, United Kingdom; Gallery Shoal Creek in Austin, Texas; Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio; and Cartavetra Gallery in Florence, Italy. His artworks have been featured in prominent publications, including Actuel no. 27: L'Estampe Contemporaine in Jodoigne, Belgium; Kunst + Unterricht in München, Germany.
Koichi studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, then moved to Krakow, Poland, and later to the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts in Slovakia to study copper engravings. He completed his MFA at the University of Alberta, Canada in 1999. He is currently a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Group 2 opening
Group 2: Spring 2025
Emily Moyer, Alejandra Saldivar, Ana González Barragán, Hannah Purvis
Opening Reception: Friday, April 25th, 4-6 PM
CU Art Museum (1085 18th Street, CU Boulder campus)
Exhibition dates: April 26-May 10, 2025
(Image: Emily Moyer)
Currently on view at CU Art Museum: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Group 1
Exhibition runs through April 17th
Andrea Caretto, Sierra Grove, Asa Mease
Sharif Farrag: Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Monday, April 21, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium (located on the lower-level), RM 1B20
Sharif Farrag merges classic ceramics styles with his own improvisational building techniques, representing his hybrid identities through clay. Farrag received a BFA from the University of Southern California in 2018 and is currently an MFA candidate in ceramics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an artist in residence at Cal State Long Beach’s Center for Contemporary Ceramics from 2018 to 2020, and in 2019, he was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
He has had several solo exhibitions at Los Angeles galleries, including François Ghebaly, in lieu, New Image Art, and gallery1993. His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch, New York; the 2020 Clay Biennial at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; Adams and Ollman, Portland; High Art, Arles; and Matthew Brown, Los Angeles. He is included in the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and the Rubell Museum in Miami. Farrag lives and works in Los Angeles.
Time and Attention: MFA Grad Seminar exhibition
Time and Attention is a series of ephemeral projects responding to BMoCA as site. Projects include miniature worlds installed in vacated electrical wiring spaces, performances exploring artistic process and the museum, augmented reality drawings, and interactive works inviting viewers to explain themselves without words.
MFA students from CU’s Department of Art and Art History developed the work in a graduate seminar, Time and Attention, taught by Professor Jeanne Quinn and Roser Visiting Artist Julie Poitras Santos. Artists in the exhibition are Abi Bernstein, Maya Buffett-Davis, Ethan Cherry, Annaliese Cole-Weiss, Tenaya DeWitt, and Andrea Garcia Vasquez.
Works will be on view on Wednesday, April 23 and Thursday, April 24, with a closing reception from 4-6 on April 24th.
East Window Gallery: MFA Grad Seminar exhibition
Department Announcements
Field School
Now Enrolling: Art & Environments Field School (ARTS 4444/5444)
Field session: May 19-June 6, 2025
LINK TO MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FIELD SCHOOL
The Field School is a 6-credit, 6-week intensive field arts program available each summer. The structure is 3-weeks of on-site fieldwork followed by 3-weeks of asynchronous online work and reflection. The program puts students in touch with various landscapes and is focused on teaching site and context-based approaches to art creation. The Field School is designed as an experiential course, meaning that students learn about places and context through being in the field and making artwork on-site. While living and working in the field, students create and discuss various art-making approaches with environments such as prairies, forests and waterways. Students may explore many mediums including: writing, photography, sculpture, drawing and video and sound recording.
Topics that are discussed and of which students work with in for this course are: nature and process; ecology; conservation; highways and byways; non-urban phenomenology; climate change; borderlands; pastoralism; wayfaring; waterways; pilgrimages; colonialism; ownership and identity; agriculture; idealized and ignored landscapes; and geomorphology. The 2025 session will travel to the San Luis Valley and Western Slope of Colorado, finishing with an exhibition at the Mountain Research Station near Nederland. Please note this course is off-campus and a signed university waiver and active health insurance is required.
