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Art & Art History News - September 12, 2023

Upcoming Events

Culture crawl

The Culture Crawl

September 19-20, 2023 from 2:00-4:00 PM in the lobby of the Visual Arts Complex (VAC)
Explore the works of students and visiting artists exhibited throughout the building on all floors. There will be a reception from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. in the lobby on both days with light refreshments and staff present to answer questions about programs. Visitors are also welcome to drop by anytime during building hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Culture Crawl is a campus-wide event celebrating several cultural heritage sites and groups at CU Boulder. Stop by the different locations and take part in immersive activities, performances, games and shows. Every location you visit gives you a chance to win a prize.

Link to Cultural Crawl information

Jennifer Ling Datchuk

CIRCA Ceramics Symposium

Keynote address by Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Friday, September 22 at 5:00 PM in the VAC auditorium, 1B20

Jennifer Ling Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is an exploration of her layered identity – as a woman, a Chinese woman, as an “American,” as a third culture kid. Trained in ceramics, Datchuk works with porcelain and other materials often associated with traditional women’s work, such as textiles and hair, to discuss fragility, beauty, femininity, intersectionality, identity, and personal history. Her practice evolved from sculpture to mixed media as she began to focus on domestic objects and the feminine sphere. Handwork and hair both became totems of the small rituals that fix, smooth over, and ground women’s lives. Through these materials, she explores how Western beauty standards influenced the East, how the non-white body is commodified and sold, and how women’s – globally, girls’ – work is still a major economic driver whose workers still struggle for equality.

Other ways to participate:
Panel discussion on Graduate Student Success ​Saturday (open to all grads!)
September 23 from 9 -11 AM in the VAC auditorium, 1B20

Binh Danh

Visiting Artist Lecture: Binh Danh

Monday, October 2 at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium 1B20

Binh Danh reconfigures traditional photographic techniques and processes in unconventional ways to delve into the connection between history, identity, and place. As a child who immigrated to the US from war-torn Vietnam in 1979, his family stories and diasporic experience are the foundation for his investigative practice. In his highly acclaimed series of chlorophyll prints, Danh uses photosynthesis to directly print portraits from the Vietnam War era onto the leaves surfaces. Danh is also noted for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks. Their reflective surfaces enable people of all backgrounds to see themselves as a part of the beauty of the American landscape.

Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Link to the full lecture series information

Upcoming Lectures:
10/23 Tomashi Jackson
11/06 Jason Stopa
11/13 Sarah Rosalena
11/27 rafa esparza

Faculty News

Melanie Yazzie, Professor, Printmaking

COMMUNITY
9.11-10.7.2023

COCHISE COLLEGE, UNION GALLERY, DOUGLAS CAMPUS
Artists were given the word “community” and interpreted it visually through a variety of printmaking techniques.


FREEDOM Project
Curators: Ania Gilmore + Małgorzata Oakes | Organizer: Jadwiga Tryzno
​In tandem with 30 Years Anniversary of the Polish Book Art Museum

October 1 - 31, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 1 pm

The FREEDOM Project is a response to the series of crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Students, educators and professional artists were invited to speak up on issues related to human rights, violence, war, aggression, social and racial injustice.

More information about this exhibit

Kim Dickey, Professor, Ceramics

CVA welcomes Nora Burnett Abrams, Ph.D., Mark G. Falcone Director, MCA Denver, and artists from the exhibition for a conversation on why she nominated these artists for the A New World: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and how their influential work and artistic careers came about. 

Colorado Women to Watch features the work of Kim Dickey, Ana María Hernando, Maia Ruth Lee, Suchitra Mattai and Senga Nengudi. These widely acclaimed artists have transformed CVA’s galleries through works that break through boundaries, emphasize the strength of female artists, and reshape our perceptions of power.

Attend this lecture virtually:
Link to more information about this talk

Campus News

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

NEST Studio for the Arts, in partnership with the International Film Series, is bringing anthropologist-artist Lucien Castaing-Taylor to the CU Boulder campus on Sept 17 and 19th, notably to host a free, public screening of his new film De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022), co-directed with Véréna Paravel, on Sunday, September 17th at 7:00 p.m. followed by a Q&A in the Muenzinger Auditorium.

Jacobs film still

Brakhage Center for Media Arts

Living Archive, Living Cinema:
Processing the Work of Ken and Flo Jacobs  


A Symposium on October 5-6, 2023  
Free and open to the public

Featuring:

  • Tom Gunning, Scholar, University of Chicago
  • Azazel Jacobs, Independent Filmmaker
  • Andrew Lampert, Independent Archivist & Curator
  • Josh Siegel, Curator, Museum of Modern Art

Link to more information about this symposium

Department Announcements

BFA Application is now OPEN!

The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Practices is a more specialized degree in studio art. It allows you to take a higher number of courses through the Art & Art History Department. Choose this degree if you want to create a personal portfolio, attend graduate school, want a career directly related to the arts, or are interested in pursuing a teaching career at the college level.

The BFA student may choose one area of studio emphasis or an interdisciplinary focus where two or three studio areas are represented. Admission will be l limited not only in terms of capacity but also to ensure the type of record, motivation and the passing of a portfolio review. 

Eligible students must have completed 30 hours of Art & Art History credit.  It is strongly recommended for students to apply before reaching 45 credits in the major.

Application Deadline:
October 15 — Fall semester

Link to all the BFA details and application

Graduation with Honors

Filing for graduation with Honors in Spring 2024 in either Art Practices or Art History is Tuesday, October 3. To graduate with Honors, you should have at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA. The faculty representative to contact regarding filing for Honors is Marina Kassianidou for Art Practices (marina.kassianidou@colorado.edu) or Robert Nauman for Art History (robert.nauman@colorado.edu). Graduation with Honors does require an additional studio project or art history thesis project.

Students who are eligible to graduate with Honors and will not graduate until 2024-25 should contact the faculty representative this academic year. By doing so, they may also apply for UROP funding (up to $3000. for summer 2024 research) in support of their thesis work.

Graduating with an Honors designation is something that appears on your resume throughout your life and is valuable not only in applying to graduate school but also in pursuing a career in the discipline. If you have any questions regarding Honors, please contact the Honors faculty representative in your area.

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