jasmine colgan

As artist's skin turns white, her art ruminates on the meaning

June 4, 2019

Diagnosed at 21 with vitiligo, which causes a loss of skin pigmentation, Jasmine Colgan says 'I am not a woman of color, but a woman of colors. … My skin, which is both black and white, is a literalization of this fact of my existence'

Japanese artist talking about Jomon pottery

The Rhythm and Flow of Nature: Artists from Japan Shared the Spirit of Ancient Jōmon Pottery with Boulder

May 9, 2019

This is the first collaboration of its kind in recent years between the Center for Asian Studies and the Art and Art History Department. It is crucial for the understanding of interdisciplinary topics for the CU community, and especially the ceramics program (ranked top 5 nationally). This talk provided a rare opportunity for the faculty and students to exchange ideas with Japanese artists.

Rebecca Vaughn artwork, installation

Sculpture class opened a door to art, and alum went all in

May 1, 2019

Art & Art History grad Rebecca Vaughan didn’t go to college planning to become an artist, yet she’s a successful artist and leader of an art nonprofit

Martha Russo and student

An out-of-this-world art project

April 16, 2019

A large-scale campus collaboration is underway to visually pay homage to the significant contributions CU Boulder has made to space exploration. The SpaceTime Underpass project will be a permanent public art installation inside the Regent pedestrian underpass.

Dakota Nanton at Open Studios

Open studios, student artists draw wide inspiration

April 10, 2019

Emerging Artists Open Studios, an annual event at the Visual Arts Complex in the Art and Art History Building, co-sponsored by Open Studios Boulder and the King Family, in conjunction with the Conference on World Affairs

UuDamm Tran Nguyen, film still from "Serpents' Tail"

'Urgent Elements' focuses lens on eco-video from Southeast Asia

Feb. 8, 2019

Four acclaimed video artists from Vietnam and Cambodia are traveling to the University of Colorado Boulder to take part in an immersive art program—in the hopes of taking a cross-disciplinary look at environmental issues.

Annette deStecher presenting artwork at the CU Art Museum

Art of the Americas is focus of new PhD program

Jan. 29, 2019

“The new program will challenge traditional and mainstream understandings of art by unpacking, contextualizing and decolonizing the term (art),” Cordova says. “We’re not just here to appreciate art,” he says. “We’re here to analyze and to be critical of the forces that surround its production, consumption and interpretation.”

digital artwork by Rick Silva

Once a frontier discipline, digital arts now well established at CU Boulder

Dec. 10, 2018

“We are trying to make things more flexible for students who don’t want to put themselves in some sort of disciplinary box,” Mark Amerika, professor of distinction, art and art history

Paul Ramirez Jonas, "Key to the City"

There’s an art to helping students become citizens of the world

Nov. 28, 2018

Art has always taken our imaginations to unexplored places, and now two University of Colorado Boulder art professors are finding it can also encourage freshmen, through a first-year seminar, to actively explore the campus, community and, hopefully, the wide world of academia.

Stephanie Su

CU Boulder art history students deepen learning through ‘object-based learning’

Sept. 28, 2018

‘What does this art mean?’ students muse. You tell me, prof replies

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