Art & Art History News - Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Fall 2024

September:

• Anne Wu >> Monday, September 9th at 4 PM
• Catherine Prose >> Monday, September 16th at 4 PM
• Chris Miles >> Monday, September 30th at 4 PM

October:

• Thomas Edison Film Festival >> Monday, October 7th at 4 PM
• Nancy Baker Cahill >> Monday, October 21st at 4 PM

November:

• Zun Lee >> Monday, November 4th at 4 PM
• Sarah McKenzie >> Monday, November 11th at 4 PM
• Jammie Holmes >> Monday, November 18th at 4 PM

​All lectures are scheduled for MONDAYS from 4:00-5:00 PM
Location: Visual Arts Complex 1B20 Auditorium 
CU Boulder campus, 1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Monday, September 9th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Anne Wu makes sculptures and installations that draw from the material culture and architectural vernacular of Chinese immigrant neighborhoods. Referencing familiar structures, such as doors, windows, stairs, and railings, her work riffs on existing built environments through fragmentation, abstraction, and rearticulation. 

Solo exhibitions include There Is No Far and No Near at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY) and A Dream Walking at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT). Wu's work has been shown in group exhibitions at YveYANG Gallery (New York, NY), island gallery (New York, NY), Asia Art Archive in America (Brooklyn, NY), M23 (New York, NY), The Shed (New York, NY), The Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT), and Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon (New Lebanon, NY), among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program from 2021 to 2022 and the NARS Satellite Residency on Governors Island in 2020. Her work has been published in Sculpture, BOMB, The New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Curbed. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2020 and a BFA from Cornell University in 2013. 

Monday, September 16th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Catherine Prose is a mixed-media artist working in printmaking, painting, drawing, and photography. Interested in the interplay of landscape, environment, and religion, she explores how these elements shape human values towards nature. Her artworks often feature backdrops of both familiar and unfamiliar landscapes, both vast and microscopic. Within these settings, she examines figure-ground relationships influenced by culture and nature.

Prose grew up between the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma and the White Mountains of Arizona. Holding a Master of Fine Arts from Texas Tech University, she joined the faculty of Midwestern State University (MSU) in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 2005. As director of MSU’s Juanita Harvey Art Gallery for over nine years and administrator of the O’Donnell Visiting Artist Program for eight, Prose brings a wealth of experience to her role. Her seventeen-year career in art administration also includes five years at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas.

Monday, September 30th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Christopher Nevill Miles is a Los Angeles-based creative whose practice encompasses studio art, design, research, scholarship, curation, teaching, and art production facilitation. Driven by making, inquiry, discourse, problem-solving, and service, he maintains a project-focused approach. Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at California State University Long Beach, where he was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in 2019 and the Outstanding Professor Award in 2024. He currently serves as Program Head for Ceramic Arts Studies and Director of the Center for Contemporary Ceramics.

Monday, October 7th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Curated selection of short films by Jane Steuerwald, Director of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium.

This historic festival has been celebrating and advancing the unique power of the short film, promoting innovation and advocacy for independent filmmakers through a juried international competition celebrating all genres and hybrids from filmmakers around the world.

Monday, October 21st at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Nancy Baker Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and expanded filmmaker whose hybrid practice focuses on systemic power, consciousness, and the human body through ecological thinking. She creates research-based immersive experiences, video installations, and conceptual blockchain projects rooted in the history of drawing. Her monumental augmented reality (AR) artworks extend and subvert the lineage of land art, often highlighting civics and a desire for more equitable futures. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free, AR public art platform exploring site interventions, resistance, and inclusive creative expression. 

Her globally-exhibited geolocated AR installations have earned her profiles in the New York Times, Frieze, and The Art Newspaper, among other publications. In 2023, the Georgia Museum of Art exhibited her first solo mid-career survey, which will travel through 2025. The Whitney Museum of American Art commissioned and acquired CENTO, the museum’s first participatory AR project co-built by a global audience, on view through 2024. She will premiere her immersive film SEEK in 2024, marking the inaugural art experience at COSM in Los Angeles. 

Monday, November 4th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Zun Lee examines the complex role of digital technologies and virtual/social media as tools that mitigate (but also perpetuate) power imbalances in the representation of marginalized communities. Through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens, Lee foregrounds issues of visual literacy and structural competency, as well as ethics and consent in an increasingly crowdsourced, virtualized and surveilled content environment.

Lee has exhibited, spoken and taught at numerous institutions in North America and Europe. His works are widely published and represented in public and private collections around the world. Selected honors and awards include: Guggenheim Fellow (2020), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Practitioner in Residence (2019), Knight Foundation Grantee (2018), Magnum Foundation Fellow (2015), Photo District News Photo Annual Winner (2015), Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Awards Shortlist (2014), Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch (2014).

Monday, November 11th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Sarah McKenzie holds a BA in film studies from Yale University and an MFA in painting from the University of Michigan. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Yale School of Architecture, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Aspen Art Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. McKenzie was awarded a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2012 and the 10th Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting in 2019. In Spring 2021, she received the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts to support her prison architecture series.

Beyond her studio practice, McKenzie co-directs Tilt West, a Denver-based arts and culture nonprofit. She also teaches visual art through the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI).

Monday, November 18th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Born and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Jammies Holmes is known for his paintings that portray intimate and poignant scenes of distinctly American communities, families, and traditions. Holmes draws heavily on his own recollections to depict the stories and experiences of Black life in the deep American South, capturing moments of celebration and struggle. The artist, who works intuitively and without formal artistic training, creates expressive tableaux that incorporate portraiture, symbols, text, and objects to reveal universal truths through personal narratives. 

Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter. Following his graduation from high school, Holmes spent more than a decade working in an oil field. He relocated to Dallas in 2016. His work has most recently been presented in exhibitions at Library Street Collective, Detroit; Deitch Projects, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky, New York; Nassima-Landau Projects, Tel Aviv; Dallas Museum of Art; and Dallas Contemporary, among others. His work is also included in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, ICA Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, New Orleans Museum of Art, Perez Museum of Art, X Museum, and The Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art.