Art & Art History News - October 4, 2022

In-person. Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20 at 6:30 PM
Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, sometime curator, author of twenty-five books on contemporary art, cultural studies, and local history, most recently: Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West and Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Galisteo Since 1814.  She is co-founder of various activist artists groups (including Heresies, Printed Matter, PAD/D, and Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America) and has curated some 50 shows, often in non-traditional venues. She lives in the village of Galisteo, New Mexico, where she volunteers with the Fire Department Auxiliary and the Water Board. For 25 years she has edited the monthly community newsletter.

NEXT WEEK:
Jane Steurerwald, Director of the Thomas Edison Film Festival
Curated presentation of short films
Tuesday, October 11 at 6:30 PM
In-person. Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
For over 40 years the Thomas Edison Film Festival has been celebrating and advancing the unique power of the short film. Jane Steuerwald is the Executive Director of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium – Thomas Edison Film Festival and the NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival. She curates and presents film programs for venues across the US and abroad, and hosts talks with filmmakers internationally. 

Link to the full schedule of events

Presentation at the Heard Museum
Remembering the Future Symposium
Visionary Artists and Thought Leaders Explore the Past, Present and Future of Indigenous Art

The Remembering the Future Symposium on October 7 and 8 is bringing together more than 20 leading Native American artists, along with museum directors, curators, scholars, and tribal knowledge keepers, discussing artistic practices, important movements, innovations and new directions in art.

Panel discussion: Redefining American Art
Moderator: Dr. Anya Montiel
Panel: Bob Haozous, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Joe Feddersen

Presentation at Crystal Bridges
Tyson Ten: Artists and Scholars In Conversation
Panel October 6 at 4 pm | Edges of Indigenous Materiality: The Work of Anna Tsouhlarakis

While each panelist will bring to the conversation their own perspectives as curators, practitioners, and scholars, this panel will explore and engage with the concepts of borders and boundaries in Tsouhlarakis’ work, particularly as they relate to issues of materiality, land and land use, embedded histories of place, and the complexities of identity and gender roles.

Marin R. Sullivan, Independent Art Historian and Curator (Tyson Scholar, 2018), Klinton Burgio-Ericson, Assistant Professor, Art History, Texas Tech University (Tyson Scholar 2016-2017), Matthew Limb, PhD student, University of California (Tyson Scholar 2022-2023), Anna Tsouhlarakis, artist, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder

Kinship
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
October 28, 2022 - January 7, 2024

“Kinship” presents more than forty artworks by eight contemporary artists whose work explores the notion of “kinship” and the closeness that bonds us. The exhibition spotlights artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ruth Leonela Buentello, Jess T. Dugan, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jessica Todd Harper, Thomas Holton, Sedrick Huckaby, and Anna Tsouhlarakis.

Two live performances by artist Anna Tsouhlarakis will take place as part of the exhibition in May and Nov. 2023 in the museum’s Kogod Courtyard. Admission is free.

The Open Studios Tour of member artists' studios - our flagship event - is always held the first three weekends of October. 

PATRONS, mark your calendars to attend this year’s FREE, All-ages Open Studios Tour, October 1 & 2, 8 & 9, 15 & 16 to visit your choice of over 150 artists’ working studios in and surrounding Boulder.  Printed Tour maps and information will be available on September 5th. See the Interactive Map HERE. Or download a pdf Tour Map using the button to the left. Stay up-to-date on the Tour and other Art Events and Activities by signing up for our Patrons' mailing list HERE. 

ARTISTS – Applications are closed for the upcoming 2022 Open Studios Tour. To receive information about becoming an Open Studios Member, Member Benefits, future calls for entry, and all of our Activities for Artists, sign up for our Artists' mailing list HERE.