Molly McDermott, a PhD student, and Aaron Treher, an MFA graduate, collaborated on the wooden sculpture that has been installed at a barn swallow colony on private land north of Boulder.
A newly created mural by Gregg Deal, a contemporary artist-activist and member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, will be unveiled during a ceremony from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m., June 15, in the Visual Arts Complex courtyard. The event will feature live music, spoken word poetry and a discussion with Deal. The free event, sponsored by the 欧美口爆视频 Upward Bound program, the Office for Outreach and Engagement, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement, and the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture, is open to the entire university community.
George Rivera is facing the age old traveler鈥檚 dilemma. He鈥檚 about to board a flight and his suitcase needs to fit in the overhead compartment 鈥 with 117 pieces of art gently stuffed in there. The University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder art professor is taking this art the carry-on route for an art show at the DMZ Museum in South Korea, just miles from the North Korean border. Rivera has traveled the world, organizing hundreds of art exhibitions in regions experiencing conflict or human rights issues, through Artnauts, an artist collective he founded in 1996.
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While living and working together in rural environments, students create artwork specific to the landscape using a variety of mediums, from sculpture and printmaking to photography and ephemeral assemblages. The field school is designed to expand students鈥 definition of what a studio practice can be while exposing them to new vistas.
The nuclear weapons buildup and the protests against it were for many simply the news of the day, but for two filmmakers from the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder it may turn out to be a provocative theme for a historical documentary and multimedia oral-history archive.
Lynn R. Wolfe was born just after the start of World War I, served in the Army during World War II, retired when Ronald Reagan was in the first year of his presidency and now spends his days creating new art. Wolfe, professor emeritus of art and art history, served...
To those who aren鈥檛 art professors, students, historians or fine artist themselves, much of the joy derived from viewing what鈥檚 commonly called abstract art (though the artists might just call it 鈥渁rt鈥) is derived from seeing something for the first time, an image or format entirely new to the viewer and their experience.