CU Art Museum News - August 2020 Newsletter

The CU Art Museum will remain closed to the public through the summer sessions and fall semester while the university continues to monitor the impacts of COVID-19.

We miss you and are committed to bringing the museum into your home by examining artwork in the collection as seen through a variety of personal perspectives. Please check out our virtual Close Looking programs and follow us on Facebook and Instagram.


This month Traci McDonald, our visitor experience coordinator, discusses an artwork from our collection.

This August will be my little one’s first birthday. The year has been full of sweet snuggles, bath time splashes, tears and sleepy eyes. I had hoped to plan a big celebration for our family’s first year together.  As we try to stay healthy in the continuing pandemic, party plans must change.

Rather than plan a party, I’ve had time to reflect. Mother Love, a print by David Alfaro Siqueiros, reminds me of all that parents bear on this journey. As parents, we spend our lives carrying our children. Early on, they are little bundles attached to our hips and rocked in our arms. As they grow, we find ourselves holding their hands, along with their joys and worries. Like the mother in Siqueiros’s print, no matter what lies ahead, I’ll always hold my child and wrap him in my love as we traverse this world together. Happy birthday, my sweet boy. Here’s to another year around the sun.


Image Credit: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican, (1898- 1974), Mother Love, 1968, from the portfolio “Mexican Suite”, lithograph on paper, 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches. Gift of Mrs. Theodore G. Anderson, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, 2008.05.09. (c)David Alfaro Siqueiros, Photo: Jeff Wells.


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During our COVID-19 closure this summer we’ll be sharing artworks from our collection weekly so that you can do some close-looking exercises from wherever you are. Invite a friend and do it together (virtually or physically distanced) to spark conversation or do it by yourself for some relaxation.

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