Art & Art History News

News, May 6, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:49:55 +0000

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News, April 29, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:10:04 +0000

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News, April 22, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:16:01 +0000

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Upcoming Events

Classes with Open Seats!

Maymester Printmaking Classes!

New section of beginning screenprint offered for Maymester! Other sections still haves spaces open as well!! Sign up today.

ARTS 2424 Beginning Screenprint
ARTS 3423 Screenprint 1
ARTS 4423 Screenprint 2 and
ARTS 5423 Graduate Screenprint

Session: Boulder Maymester/3 Weeks

Dates: 2025-05-12 through 2025-05-30

Professor: Melanie Yazzie

Art & Environments Field School

Now Enrolling: Art & Environments Field School (ARTS 4444/5444)
Field session: May 19-June 6, 2025

LINK TO MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FIELD SCHOOL

The Field School is a 6-credit, 6-week intensive field arts program available each summer. The structure is 3-weeks of on-site fieldwork followed by 3-weeks of asynchronous online work and reflection. The program puts students in touch with various landscapes and is focused on teaching site and context-based approaches to art creation. The Field School is designed as an experiential course, meaning that students learn about places and context through being in the field and making artwork on-site. While living and working in the field, students create and discuss various art-making approaches with environments such as prairies, forests and waterways. Students may explore many mediums including: writing, photography, sculpture, drawing and video and sound recording.

Topics that are discussed and of which students work with in for this course are: nature and process; ecology; conservation; highways and byways; non-urban phenomenology; climate change; borderlands; pastoralism; wayfaring; waterways; pilgrimages; colonialism; ownership and identity; agriculture; idealized and ignored landscapes; and geomorphology. The 2025 session will travel to the San Luis Valley and Western Slope of bet365 malaysia, finishing with an exhibition at the Mountain Research Station near Nederland. Please note this course is off-campus and a signed university waiver and active health insurance is required.

News, April 22, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:16:01 +0000

News, April 22, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 04/22/2025 - 14:16 Art & Art History News

April 15, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:56:07 +0000

April 15, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 04/15/2025 - 08:56 Art & Art History News

Upcoming Events

News, April 8, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:35:58 +0000

News, April 8, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 04/08/2025 - 13:35 Art & Art History News

Upcoming Events

Faculty News

Hanna Rose Shell, Professor, Art & Art History & Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts

CLIMAX: Art, Science, History

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Friday April 11 (2:30pm-4:30pm)

Saturday April 12 (1pm-4pm)

LINK TO MORE INFORMATION

In the exhibit, historian and artist Hanna Rose Shell has created an exhibition of both historical and contemporary photographs and collages, drawn from extensive archival research and photographic and cinematic study in the field, in the Art-Science Gallery at the Mesa Lab, exploring the legacy of the Climax Observatory. Between 1940 and 1947, the founding director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Walter Orr Roberts lived with his family in a small observatory located atop a vast mining operation, near the highest settlement in the continental United States. The Climax Molybdenum Company, which extracted molybdenite ore to create steel alloys for engines and weapons systems, collaborated to establish North America’s first coronagraph, used to study the corona, the gaseous halo around the sun. Today, the location of original Climax High-Altitude Observatory is suspended some hundreds of feet in the air. It dangles as a memory high above the open pit at the center of Climax's current mining operations. Both the historical legacy and present-day reality of the former site of the Climax High Altitude Observatory exemplifies a kind of liminality: between darkness and light; between the reaches of the heavens and the depths of the earth; between the vital energies that prompt scientific discovery, and the potential hazards that accompany the human drive for material extraction.

Anna Tsouhlarakis, Assistant Professor, Foundations

2024-2025 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
Anna Tsouhlarakis (Based in the U.S.): The Strength of Her Shadow
At the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of American History, Tsouhlarakis will examine materials relating to Indigenous feminist theory and imagery of Native women—the historic framing of Indigenous femininity and eventual reconstitution of an Indigenous female identity

2024-2025 Indigenous Artist Lecture at Rhode Island School of Design
On Tuesday, March 11, Anna Tsouhlarakis gave the 2024-2025 Indigenous Artist Lecture at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. RISD’s Center for Social Equity and Inclusion sponsored the public lecture and visiting artist programming.

Encountering
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana proudly presents Encountering, a three-person exhibition reflecting on themes of cross-cultural trade, exchange and diasporas from March 1 – April 12, 2025. The exhibit features works by Io Palmer, Pavlina Vagioni and Anna Tsouhlarakis, Encountering explores intersectional identities and cross-cultural frameworks over time: both themes concomitant with the overlapping histories comprising present-day New Harmony, Indiana. Works on view encompass sculpture, collage, assemblage and non-traditional art materials, foregrounding the ways in which approaches to material culture shift over time. Encountering offers timeless yet interconnected perspectives on identity, investigating both the tensions and possibilities existing at global crossroads and the complexities that necessarily result.

Reverberations: Lineages in Design History
Anna Tsouhlarakis is part of Reverberations: Lineages in Design History at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York on view from March 14 – May 2, 2025. The exhibition will transform the gallery into an expansive educational space, reimagining design history to feature Indigenous, Black, and People of Color designers and cultural figures. In amplifying these many stories, Reverberations counters the narrative of design tradition as a single dominant line and seeks to undo erasures by reconnecting and rippling out to those who have been silenced, misrepresented, and miscategorized. The featured artworks reflect rich cultural ancestries that reverberate across epochs into futurity. With over fifty artists and designers, the show’s reverberations bring forward and celebrate many voices that have gone unheard.

News, April 1, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:05:33 +0000

News, April 1, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 04/01/2025 - 11:05 Art & Art History News

Events

Tonight! Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event

A Problem with the GPS
Selected Video Works by Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino

April 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
University of bet365 malaysia, Boulder

Sponsored by: The Art & Art History Department, The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media

Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino have been collaborating since 1990. Working at the fringes of art, ethnography, and documentary, they have invented their own form for their journeys: part travelogue, part essay, part scrapbook, and part poetry. They favor an open road, wandering through everyday life and feeling their way through cultural histories, visible “in the soil” but rapidly vanishing. For example, in Contigo we spend a Sunday afternoon in San Antonio listening to a song sung by the son of one of the pioneers of conjunto music. In Not Enough Night, past and present converge in Longmont, bet365 malaysia, on the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, as a small 1937 gas station, mentioned in the book, is moved to a new development in the suburbs. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen was prompted by the auctioning off of the largest antiquarian bookstore in the United States in Archer City, Texas, where The Last Picture Show was written and filmed. And in their video Standards they tour the 20th century to bid it farewell.

Their work has been widely exhibited, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. They have been nominated twice for a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship.

News, April 1, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:05:33 +0000

News, April 1, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 04/01/2025 - 11:05 Art & Art History News

Events

Tonight! Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event

A Problem with the GPS
Selected Video Works by Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino

April 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
University of bet365 malaysia, Boulder

Sponsored by: The Art & Art History Department, The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media

News, March 18, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:51:11 +0000

News, March 18, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 03/18/2025 - 08:51 Art & Art History News

Upcoming Events

Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event

A Problem with the GPS
Selected Video Works by Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino

April 1, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
University of bet365 malaysia, Boulder

Sponsored by: The Art & Art History Department, The Brakhage Center for Media Arts and The Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media

News, March 11, 2025

Kirsten Stoltz — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:57:38 +0000

News, March 11, 2025 Kirsten Stoltz Tue, 03/11/2025 - 08:57 Art & Art History News

Upcoming Events

Department Announcements

AAH Students! March 15th Deadline!

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Program
Application Deadline: March 15, 2025

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Art Practices provides focused and intensive studio art training. This specialized degree allows students to take a greater number of courses within the Art & Art History Department. The BFA program offers advanced studio study to a select group of highly motivated and talented students. Admission is limited and based on a rigorous portfolio review, academic record, and demonstrated motivation. Students may choose to concentrate in a single studio area or develop an interdisciplinary focus, combining two or three studio disciplines. This degree is designed for individuals who aspire to build a strong professional portfolio, pursue graduate studies, embark on a career in the arts, or teach at the college level.

Link to more information and the BFA application

Visit the Visual Resources Center for more information about photographing your work, digital image editing and formatting, and managing your digital portfolio for long-term viability.

Questions? Contact Jean Goldstein, finearts@colorado.edu or drop by Art & Art History's main office, 303.

Art & Art History Scholarships
Application Deadline: March 15, 2025

The Department of Art and Art History offers merit-based awards for undergraduate and graduate students that are made possible through the generosity of our donors. Typically, the funds associated with these awards defray tuition expenses and are posted to the student's bill. A faculty committee reviews the applications each spring semester and determines the number and amount of awards. Scholarships vary from $100 – $2,000.

Questions? Please contact Katie Larson: katie.larson@colorado.edu

Eligibility & Rules

Undergraduate students: Majors and BAM students in Art History or Arts Practices, may apply
Graduate students: MFA and MA students
Students must be currently enrolled in Art and Art History courses
Post acceptance thank you required for distribution of scholarship funds

Link to Application & more information

Campus News & Events

Lakota Nation versus the United States (2022). Film Screening

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Screening Time: 11:00 -1:00 and Roundtable Time discussion: 1:00- 2:00 pm

Speakers: Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli (directors) with Milo Salazar (AILP), Leila Gómez (WGST)

Description: Please join us for the screening of the multiple-award-winning film Lakota Nation versus the United States (2022) and conversation afterward with the film’s directors, Laura Tomaselli and Jesse Short Bull. The movie will draw you into the long history of resistance by the Lakota people and their fight against the US federal government for their land and sacred Black Hills. The documentary incorporates testimonies of elders and members of the Lakota nation, along with songs, poetry, movie clips, legal research, archives and memories. Through captivating cinematography and profound stories, the film shows how land and people are inextricably connected.

Food & Beverages will be served - Event free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the RIO Seed Grant Project “Indigenous Documentaries & Land Struggle”, The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, The American Indian Law Program, and Women and Gender Studies.

CU Art Museum Exhibition

COVID 5 Years Later: A Conversation
Thursday, March 13, 2025 | 4–6 PM | CU Art Museum | Treats provided

Join the CU Art Museum and the Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) for a panel discussion reflecting on the personal and collective experiences of COVID-19. This event marks the 5th anniversary of CU Boulder’s campus closure due to the pandemic and is inspired by the Better Days exhibition, which explores how art helps us navigate uncertainty, heal, and reimagine the world. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their own reflections on the pandemic through provided response cards.

RSVP Here: www.colorado.edu/cha/COVID-5YearsLater

Art & Art History News

News, May 6, 2025

Art & Art History Department Commencement

Friday, May 9th from 10-11:30 AM

Attention Graduates

Attention Graduate's Family & Friends

News, April 29, 2025

Upcoming Events

BFA Thesis Exhibition—Opens Friday!

Graduate Student Film Screening on Saturday!

MFA Thesis Exhibition at CU Art Museum

Featuring: Emily Moyer, Alejandra Saldivar, Ana González Barragán, Hannah Purvis

Art & Art History Department Graduation

Faculty News

Anna Tsouhlarakis

Student News

Felicity Wong is awarded a MoMA Summer Internship

News, April 22, 2025

Upcoming Events

MFA Thesis Exhibition (group 2) opens this week!

Emily Moyer, Alejandra Saldivar, Ana González Barragán, Hannah Purvis

MFA Grad Seminar exhibition at BMoCA

Graduate Student Showcase

BFA Thesis Exhibition, Spring 2025

Classes with Open Seats!

Maymester Printmaking Classes!

Art & Environments Field School

News, April 22, 2025

Upcoming Events

MFA Thesis Exhibition (group 2) opens this week!

Emily Moyer, Alejandra Saldivar, Ana González Barragán, Hannah Purvis

April 15, 2025

Upcoming Events

Art History Thesis Showcase — Opens Today!

MFA Grad Seminar exhibition at East Window Gallery—Opening Event Tonight!

Sharif Farrag: Visiting Artist Lecture Series

MFA Grad Seminar exhibition at BMoCA

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Group 2 opening

Emily Moyer, Alejandra Saldivar, Ana González Barragán, Hannah Purvis

Department Announcements

Maymester Printmaking Classes!

Art & Environments Field School

Faculty News

Melanie Yazzie, Professor, Printmaking

News, April 8, 2025

Upcoming Events

Koichi Yamamoto: Visiting Artist Lecture Series

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Group 2 opening

Emily Moyer, Alejandra Saldivar, Ana González Barragán, Hannah Purvis

Sharif Farrag: Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Time and Attention: MFA Grad Seminar exhibition

East Window Gallery: MFA Grad Seminar exhibition

Department Announcements

Field School

Faculty News

Hanna Rose Shell, Professor, Art & Art History & Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts

Anna Tsouhlarakis, Assistant Professor, Foundations

News, April 1, 2025

Events

Tonight! Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event

MFA Thesis Exhibition opens this Friday!

Andrea Caretto, Sierra Grove, Asa Mease

Koichi Yamamoto: Visiting Artist Lecture Series

News, April 1, 2025

Events

Tonight! Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event

MFA Thesis Exhibition (round 1) opens this Friday

Andrea Caretto, Sierra Grove, Asa Mease

News, March 18, 2025

Upcoming Events

Luis Valdovino and Daniel Boord: Special Screening Event

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Emily Brady

MFA Thesis Exhibition: Group 1

Faculty News

Department Announcements

Art & Environments Field School: Summer 2025

News, March 11, 2025

Upcoming Events

DEI Mentorship Event

Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Baldwin Lee