Art & Art History News - February 28, 2023

Events

Pamela Beverly-Quigley: Practicum Speakers Series

Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Beverly-Quigley has a background in printmaking, painting, encaustic painting, and photography Her works range from small intimate pieces to large-scale installations. Layers are intentionally revealed or obscured to convey the feeling of the abstract quality of memory and time. In her latest project, revolving around the once-expansive Great Salt Lake, she directs her focus outwards, likening the landmark’s quiet decay to forgotten valleys of the human experience.

Beverly-Quigley exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. Since graduating from The University of Colorado Boulder, she has taught art and/or design at Weber State University, Utah and has been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The University of Hawaii-Monoa.

This series explores strategies to forge a sustainable, productive, fulfilling career in the arts. Speakers will discuss the trajectory and evolution of their art practices. Talks are free and open to the public. STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS FROM ALL MAJORS AND FIELDS ARE WELCOME. For more information, contact the series coordinator Martha Russo, mrusso@colorado.edu

Lenka Clayton: Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, March 14 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. In previous works, she has searched for and photographed every person mentioned by name in a German newspaper; worked with artists who identify as blind to recreate Brancusi’s Sculpture for the Blind from a spoken description, and reconstituted a lost museum from a sketch found in an archive. Clayton is the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents. There are currently over 1,000 artists-in-residence in 62 countries. Recent exhibitions include Fruit and Other Things (2019) at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Object Temporarily Removed (2017) at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Apollo’s Muse (2019) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art NY and The Grand Illusion, at the Lyon Biennial, France (2020). In 2017 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commissioned a major new work by Clayton and collaborator Jon Rubin, entitled A talking parrot, a high school drama class, a Punjabi TV show, the oldest song in the world, a museum artwork, and a congregation’s call to action circle through New York.

Link to more information about the Spring 2023 lecture series

Mark your calendar for our next lecture:
Keliy Anderson-Staley — March 21

WASTE

The Spring 2023 visiting artists seminar is hosting a social event this Thursday (3/2) at 5:30 PM in VAC 1B81. The event is in conjunction with their finished installation WASTE, a project that emerged out of collaborative course assignments undertaken in the fall 2022 graduate art seminar. Refreshments will be served.

Visual Arts Complex Mural Project

The DEI Collective had a meeting with community members who are interested in the Black Live Matter Mural Project. We had a fantastic brainstorming session with students, faculty, and community members coming up with ideas for the mural. We are turning the Black Lives Matter vinyl stickers on the windows of the Visual Arts Complex into a permanent mural. This is an open call to all artists, activists, and community members who would like to be involved in the creation of a new work of art! Our next meeting will be on March 1 at noon on zoom. At this meeting we will look at ideas for mural imagery that have been suggested so far; we welcome new ideas as well.

We hope to see you on March 1 at noon!

Zoom Link: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/9400943693

New Metaphors on Vision: Ashley Connor

Friday, March 10 from 10:45 AM - 12:30 pM
Atlas 102

Artist presentation with Cinematographer Ashley Connor (Knives Out, Broad City, Madeline's Madeline, Miseducation of Cameron Post)

The Brakhage Center for Media Arts is hosting a special visit with Cinematographer Ashley Connor. Ashley Connor is one of New York's most innovative directors of photography who has come to be known for her dynamic imagery. Her experimental vision and breadth of style are manifested in films from Madeline's Madeline to the Miseducation of Cameron Post and music video work for Jenny Lewis, Angel Olson, and Beach House.

Presented in collaboration with GUT-C, (sounds like gutsy, short for Give-Us-the-Camera), a collective providing filmmakers from underrepresented groups an inclusive community for networking, skill-sharing, screenings, and critique. Supported in part by a mini-Roser Award from the Roser Visiting Artists Program.

Department News

The King Awards & Exhibition

AAH Students, don't hesitate! Apply today!

$3000 for first-place Grad and Undergrad
$2000 for second-place Grad and Undergrad
$1000 for third-place Grad and Undergrad
$500 for 4 honorable mentions

The deadline for submission is Monday, March 6, 2023, at 5:00 PM
Notifications of the award to students: March 27, 2023

Eligibility and rules:

Must be in a degree-seeking program in the Department of Art and Art History (BA, BFA, MA, MFA) and enrolled in an ARTS (art practices) class or classes this school year (fall 2022/spring 2023)
Submit only work that is available to display and fully completed
Proposals for new work and projects will not be considered

The 2023 Jurors:

Sam Harvey, ceramic artist, curator, and educator in Aspen, Colorado
David Smith, owner of the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver, Colorado
Martha Weidmann, CEO, NINE dot ARTS in Denver, Colorado

Link to more information & application

B2 Creative Residency Applications due today!

The B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance call for 2023/2024 Creative Residency Applications closes February 28 at 11:59 PM. Apply Here.

Proposals will be selected for one and two-week Creative Residencies in the ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance (starting in August 2023). All CU faculty, staff, students, and alumni are welcome to apply. We encourage proposals for performances, installations, and experimentations that blend art, technology, media, science, performance, radical creativity, community building, social engagement, local engagement, and [insert your practice here]. B2 is a vibrant interdisciplinary community where members of CU’s creative community gather outside of a structured classroom setting. You can learn about current and past residents here or on our Instagram. You'll see that we work with creatives from across the university and support them to bring their concepts to life.

Send your questions to Steven.Frost@colorado.edu. To apply for a residency, complete this form by February 28 at 11:59 pm. Selections will be announced in April. There is no application fee and past residents are encouraged to reapply.

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