Art & Art History News - November 8, 2021

Upcoming Events

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sama Alshaibi

Tomorrow! Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 6:30 PM (MST)

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.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Nicki Green

Livestream lecture on the Art & Art History YouTube Channel

Next week! Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30 PM (MST)

NICKI GREEN is a transdisciplinary artist working primarily in clay. Originally from New England, she completed her BFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. 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, notably at the New Museum, New York; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Rockelmann & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany. She has contributed texts to numerous publications including Transgender Studies Quarterly and Fermenting Feminism, Copenhagen. In 2019, Green was a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s SECA Award, a recipient of an Arts/Industry Residency from the John Michael Kohler Art Center, among other awards. Green lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Brent Holmes

Enjoy a bonus visiting artist talk!!!
Wednesday, Nov 17, 2021, at 6:00 PM (MST) via Zoom
Registration is required

Link here to Zoom registration

Recently, Brent Holmes exhibited, Behold a Pale Horse, at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art. In it, found objects and videos convey a message about Black identity, reclamation, isolation and the desert.

Brent Holmes is a multi-disciplinary artist with a deep affinity to words- historical, epistemological and ontologically themed creative projects. His primary objective is to nudge others into a conversation he finds interesting and then become distracted and walk away. His most recent work has centered around the philosophical, and cultural consequences of Hellenistic hegemony, and representations of antiquity within the modern era.

Being the son of an entertainer, he is thoroughly traveled but has never completely identified any one place as his home until moving to Las Vegas. Having exhibited both nationally, and internationally on occasion, but primarily within southern Nevada where he has claimed residence for over a decade at this point.

Community News

Featured on Colorado Public Radio, "Uncanny Times: Looking Back, Looking Forward"

Colorado Public Radio: "The ‘Artnauts’ bring art to countries in conflict"
The Artnauts, based in Boulder, have traveled the world since 1996 to bring their art to countries in conflict. The art collective, created by CU Boulder professors, is on a mission to address global strife. It's holding its 25th anniversary exhibition, "Uncanny Times: Looking Back, Looking Forward," at Seidel City in Boulder through November 13. Ceramicist Martha Russo has been in the Artnauts since it started and spoke with Andrea Dukakis.

Link to CPR's Colorado Matters program and listen to the full interview

Upcoming Events:

Gallery Walkthrough: An Art & Art History Student Event
Friday, November 12, from 4-6 PM
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.
Exhibition closing and artist talk, Saturday, November 13, 1-4 PM
Featured artists: Melissa Furness, Kathryn Hart, Virginia Schick, Beth Krensky, Carlos Fresquez, Rachel Delaney, Tina Susyzinski, Mary-Ann Kokoska, George Rivera

Learn more about the exhibit at Seidel City
Seidel City (map)

Faculty News

Stephanie Su, Assistant Professor, History of Asian Art

Professor Stephanie Su’s essay, “Mimetic Desire and Expressive Colors: New Directions in Modern Chinese Ink Art,” is included in the exhibition catalogue of Fantastic Brush: Twentieth-Century Chinese Ink Art from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection published by the Denver Art Museum. The special exhibition is on view at the new Asian Art Galleries in Martin Building through Fall 2022.

Student News

Amy Hoagland, Sculpture & Post Studio Practice

A recipient of a 2021 Insite grant award.

The INSITE Fund is a grant program administered by RedLine and made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting program. This new fund responds to the gap in funding support for artist-driven projects on Colorado’s Front Range.

Amy's project, Reflections on the Future, will be a collaborative art-making event where community members trace tree rings from cut trees in the Cal-Wood burn scar area. The tree ring drawings will be digitized and etched into stainless steel which will be cut to fit the tops of the stumps. The steel will be mirror-polished and placed atop the stumps and will reflect the surrounding landscape. Once installed, community members will be invited back for a second event involving multidisciplinary speakers. This event will provide space for those grappling with climate change and will provoke a collective understanding of the local landscape.

Department Announcements

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Scholarship Fundraiser

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.

Can't make the event? Donate today!

COVID-19 Information

Request a COVID-19 Rapid At-Home Testing from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment

If you have questions about mask mandates, the vaccine requirement, or any other COVID-related guidelines, please refer to the campus COVID-19 website.

2021 Campus Culture Survey

Through this anonymous survey, faculty, staff, and students will be able to provide insights into the extent to which they feel respected, supported, and valued. CU Boulder also seeks to understand how the experiences of campus community members differ by gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The survey results will provide benchmark data in support of the Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics (IDEA) Plan. Insights from the survey findings will guide the campus’s efforts to build a more just, diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus community.

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