October 7, 2025
Upcoming Events

Tomorrow! Cultural Crawl at the Visual Arts Complex
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 12pm to 3pm
Art & Art History is opening our doors and inviting you to explore your creative mind! Join us outside in the Visual Arts Complex Plaza for a variety of artmaking activities, along with collaborations with other departments. Learn more about the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, ATLAS, Students and Public Art Org, CU Education Abroad, and more! Enjoy a photo booth, live music, and a fun, informative atmosphere for all ages!
About the Culture Crawl: The Culture Crawl is a campus-wide event celebrating CU Boulder arts & culture. Stop by the different locations to take part in immersive activities, performances, artmaking, food tasting and more. Pick up a free Culture Crawl t-shirt at any event (while supplies last) and swipe in with your Buff OneCard to enter a prize raffle. The more events you attend, the more opportunities to win. See all Culture Crawl events.

Visiting Artist Lecture: David Horvitz
Monday, October 13th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Witty and poetic, the work of David Horvitz meddles with systems of language, time and networks. Eschewing categorization, his expansive, nomadic body of work traverses the forms of photographs, artist books, performances, the Internet, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, and natural environments. His work examines questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing these distances. Using image, text and objects, his works circulate and operate independently of himself, penetrating ever more effectively the intimate sphere. When encountering his works– in the postal system, libraries, or the airport lost-and-found services– our attention to the infinitesimal, inherent loopholes and alternative logics, and the imaginary comes to the fore. Like lullabies impressed upon our minds, Horvitz deploys art as both objects of contemplation and as viral or systemic tools to affect change on a personal scale. Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real.
His work was exhibited in venues such as: SITE Santa Fe; High Line Art, New York; MoMA, New York; New Museum, New York; SF MOMA, San Francisco; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; HangarBicocca, Milan; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary; Brooklyn Museum, among others.

Special Event: Thomas Edison Film Festival Screening!
Monday, October 20th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Director of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium, Jane Steuerwald will screen a curated selection of the best short videos from the Thomas Edison Film Festival.
Since 1981, the mission of the Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) has been to promote innovation in the art of the moving image, and the films that are the centerpiece of the festival honor Edison’s vision. Edison’s films did for the eye what his phonograph did for the ear. He made 75, twenty-second-long films in his West Orange studio. His earliest films presented magic shows, plays, vaudeville shows with dancers and strongmen, cowboys, and boxing matches. The festival’s relationship to Thomas Edison’s invention of the motion picture camera and the kinetoscope and his experimentation with the short film is central to TEFF.
The festival is a socially conscious, modern, independent traveling showcase reaching out to diverse audiences with provocative, timely, edgy, and compelling new works by both accomplished and emerging filmmakers. The Thomas Edison Film Festival welcomes all genres including narrative, experimental, animation, documentary, screen dance and hybrids. We celebrate films which address the environment, race and class, immigration, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities and issues of social justice. The films are artistic, and engaging works which simultaneously teach and entertain.