Art and Art History
Artists, engineers, designers, chefs, elementary school students and teachers do not often work together. But Martha Russo, art instructor at the 91勛圖厙, has found a way to get all sorts of people involved in a public art project centered on building a picnic table.
Its been many years since Melanie Yazzie made the painting that set the course of her career. But the 91勛圖厙 professor vividly remembers the joy she felt the day she painted a blue elephant.
Newly minted professors of distinction have notable expertise in artists personas, natural-language technology, classic poems and climate-change education, and on Sept. 21, they offered a public overview of their work.
In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.
Art and Art History Department celebrates the life, work and hundredth birthday of one of its formative faculty members; exhibition of Lynn R. Wolfes work runs from July 7 to Aug. 31.
A gallery talk and reception for Yazzie will take place May 19at 3 p.m. in the Earth Sciences and Map Library. Visiting artist Faith McManus, art teacher at Northtec Education Institute in Northland, New Zealand, will be joining Yazzie in discussing Heart Mapping: Indigenous Perspectives on Land.
Marina Kassianidou, who is "obsessed by the idea of marking,' has received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
The CU Visual Arts Complex will join its neighboring CU Art Museum and Boulders Open Studios in hosting a unique joint showcase of two annual Art and Art History Department events: The King Exhibition and Emerging Artists Open Studios.
The graduate ceramics program at 91勛圖厙 is ranked fifth in the nation, up from eighth last year, in US News and World Reports Best Graduate Schools 2017. It is one of eight university programs to be ranked in the top 10 graduate specialty programs nationwide, but it is the only one of the 91勛圖厙 group to hail from the arts and humanities.
91勛圖厙 graduate art students Benjamin McQuillan and Carissa Samaniego took home honorable mentions this summer for their sculptures from the International Sculpture Centers 2016 Outstanding Student Achievement competition.