Upcoming Exhibitions
Opening reception, February 6, 5–7 p.m.
Mary Mattingly: Last Library
Mary Mattingly is the CU Art Museum’s 2020 artist-in-residence. In her artwork, Mattingly combines Earth sciences, ecology and utopian ideas to communicate information about the Earth’s changing climate and human response to our physical environment. Her installation, Last Library: Reading Rooms, Bridges and Tools for Integrating Ecological Ethics into Practice, stems from her belief that art and ecotopian thought can cultivate social change. Architects, artists, ecologists, farmers, indigenous knowledge holders, museum visitors and philosophers contribute their knowledge and stories to the toolkit to enhance our understanding of a shared ecology.
On view February 6–July 18, 2020.
Persuasive Prints
Prints from the CU Art Museum’s collection demonstrate how artists and printmakers combine image, text and technique to persuade viewers. Curated by graduate students in CU’s museum practicum seminar, this exhibition brings together engravings, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts created from the 1500s to today. While some of the works are designed to sway public opinion by expressing official or institutional views, others are more subtle in their approach, expressing personal opinion or perspective. In this cross section of images, the curators ask how do prints communicate with viewers? How has printmaking contributed overtime to a public dialogue?
On view February 6–March 21, 2019.
Current Exhibition
Body Language: Picturing People
July 18, 2019 —June 2020
This exhibition considers how the pose, the gesture and the body in motion are used by artists to convey meaning.
Upcoming Programs
CU Art Museum Chamber Music Series
The inaugural CU Art Museum Chamber Music Series presents three short concerts featuring students from the College of Music Honors Chamber Ensembles performing in the museum. Students work with museum staff to craft programs that highlight a central thematic relationship between music and the art on view. Reception hosted by the CU Art Museum following each concert. These concerts are organized in collaboration with the CU College of Music.
Saturday, February 22, 2:30 p.m. “Persuasion” featuring the Felix Quartet
Saturday, March 7, 3:30 p.m. “Nature” featuring the Walnut Quartet
Saturday, April 4, 2:30 p.m. “Utopia” featuring Ikigai Duo
Feel Good Fridays - Fridays during the fall and spring semesters
Fridays during the semester, 12:15—12:45 p.m.
CU Art Museum
This drop-in group is an opportunity to be led through a powerful guided meditation to undo stress and soothe the nervous system. Please arrive on time; no late admittance.
Free for CU students, staff, faculty and museum members.
Presented by CU Counseling and Psychiatric Services: https://www.colorado.edu/health/counseling
Please note our new hours:
we're open until 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays during the semester.
we're open until 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays during the semester.
Upcoming Department of Art and Art History Programs
Practicum Speakers' Series: Gary Staab
Tuesday, February 4th, 6:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
Kelly O'Brian - Visiting Artist Lecture
Tuesday, February 18th, 6:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
Visiting Art History Scholar: Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University
Friday, February 21st, 5:30 p.m.
Eaton Humanities, RM, 135
Lecture: “The Man who Broke Michelangelo’s Nose.”
Artist Talk with Molly Hatch
Friday, February 21st, 6:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
Myvillages - Visiting Artist Lecture
Tuesday, February 25th, 6:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
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