News, March 11, 2025
Upcoming Events
DEI Mentorship Event
Tomorrow! The DEI Mentorship Program invites you to our event from 5-7 on Wednesday March 12.
We will be visiting the studio of Laura Shill, (MFA, IMAP) in the Zuni Park area of Denver. Laura’s work was recently featured in the exhibition Movements Toward Freedom at the MCA Denver; she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
Besides getting to see Laura’s work and studio, she has invited us to join in her karaoke practice in her studio, and to join her in a performance piece at Zuni Park.
Space is limited; please register here.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Baldwin Lee
Monday, March 17, 2025 4pm to 5pm
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20 (lower level)
In 1983, Baldwin Lee (b. 1951) left his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his 4 × 5 view camera and set out on the first of a series of road trips to photograph the American South. The subject of his pictures were Black Americans: at home, at work, and at play, in the street, and among nature. This project would consume Lee—a first-generation Chinese American—for the remainder of that decade, and it would forever transform his perception of his country, its people, and himself. The resulting archive contains nearly ten thousand black-and-white negatives.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.His work is held in many private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Emily Brady
After spring break — Mark your calendar!
Monday, March 31, 2025 4pm to 5pm
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20 (lower level)
Lecture: Environmental Art as Commoning and Resistance: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Community
Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching interests span aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental ethics, eighteenth-century philosophy, environmental humanities, and animal studies. She has published seven books as author, co-author, or editor, including, Between Nature and Culture: The Aesthetics of Modified Environments (co-authored with Isis Brook and Jonathan Prior, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018) and The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Image: Patricia Johanson, Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility, Petaluma, CA
Lecture by Dr. Peter Rehberg: "When Trans and Gay Cis Men Meet"
“When Trans and Gay Cis Men Meet: Trans Capacity in the Pictures of German Photographer Florian Hetz,” a lecture by Dr. Peter Rehberg, DAAD Associate Professor, the University of Cincinnati, and Former Head of Collections and Archives at the Schwules Museum in Berlin.
Faculty News
Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event
A Problem with the GPS
Selected Video Works by Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium 1B20, University of Colorado, Boulder
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: The Art & Art History Department, The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media
Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino have been collaborating since 1990. Working at the fringes of art, ethnography, and documentary, they have invented their own form for their journeys: part travelogue, part essay, part scrapbook, and part poetry. They favor an open road, wandering through everyday life and feeling their way through cultural histories, visible “in the soil” but rapidly vanishing. For example, in Contigo we spend a Sunday afternoon in San Antonio listening to a song sung by the son of one of the pioneers of conjunto music. In Not Enough Night, past and present converge in Longmont, Colorado, on the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, as a small 1937 gas station, mentioned in the book, is moved to a new development in the suburbs. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen was prompted by the auctioning off of the largest antiquarian bookstore in the United States in Archer City, Texas, where The Last Picture Show was written and filmed. And in their video Standards they tour the 20th century to bid it farewell.
Their work has been widely exhibited, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. They have been nominated twice for a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship.
Department Announcements
King Exhibition & Awards 2025
Congratulations to our 2025 Art & Art History Student Awardees!
Link to the 2025 Exhibition & Award Details
Graduates:
1st place: Ana González Barragán
2nd place: Ethan Cherry
3rd place: Devon Narine-Singh
Honorable mention: Maya Buffett-Davis, Ben Grossi
Undergraduates:
1st place: Jane Strode
2nd place: Nicole Sansglyph
3rd place: Riley Ramsay
Honorable mention: Rebecca Nagel, Iris Yu
