Art & Art History News - November 1, 2021

Next Week: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Livestream lecture on Art & Art History YouTube Channel

About the artist: Sama Alshaibi’s photographs and videos situate her own body as a site of performance in consideration of the social and gendered impacts of war and migration. Her work complicates the coding of the Arab female figure found in the image history of photographs and moving images. Alshaibi’s sculptural installations evoke the disappearance of the body and act as counter-memorials to war and forced exile. In 2021, Alshaibi was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. Sama Alshaibi received her MFA from CU Boulder in 2005.

Livestream on Art & Art History YouTube (You can set a reminder!)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Livestream lecture on Art & Art History YouTube Channel

About the artist: Nicki Green is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Her sculptures, ritual objects, and various flat works explore topics of history preservation, conceptual ornamentation, and aesthetics of otherness. Green has exhibited her work internationally and has contributed texts to numerous publications including a recent piece in Duke University Press’ Transgender Studies Quarterly.

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Saturday, November 6, from 2:00 PM  5:00 PM
A conversation with artists from Uncanny Times: Looking Back, Looking Forward, exhibition followed by a Q&A session.
Artists: Valerie Albicker, Suzanne Faris, Andrea Gordon, Kathryn Hart, Rian Kerrane and Cyane Tornatzky

Friday, November 12, from 4-6 pm
Gallery Walkthrough: An Art & Art History Student Event
Hosted by current CU students Benjamin Burney and Victor G. Lara, the program includes an insightful talk by the Denver-based photographer Mark Sink and his ideas on "The Big Picture.”
Snacks, drinks, and good vibes will be served, and we might have another very special guest in attendance! So don't miss out.

It is our goal to make sure our fellow CU students engage with these career-defining experiences available only through the Artnauts!

About the exhibition:
In Uncanny Times: Looking Back, Looking Forward, artists ponder these uncanny times we are in and consider, though our current times seem unrecognizable, whether there are recognizable patterns from the past. What has remained the same or cycled back? What new paradigms will we forge? These reflections span global history and the past 25 years of the Artnauts’ mission of social change, lessons learned and dreams for the future. learn more 

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Image Credit: J. Benjamin Burney

Save the Date!
Live Virtual Event: Thursday, December 2 at 5:30 PM

Art and Art History Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Endowed Scholarship Fund provides scholarship awards for students enrolled in the Department of Art and Art History who help diversify the student body and/or instill the principles of inclusiveness in the Department at the University of Colorado Boulder.

• We believe that the arts have the power to transform individuals and to transform society.
• Studying art promotes close looking, creative thinking, and problem-solving.
• Educating students from all backgrounds is an incredibly effective way to help us change our world for the better.

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