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. 鈥� My skin, which is both black and white, is a literalization of this fact of my existence'
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.
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.
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
Four acclaimed video artists from Vietnam and Cambodia are traveling to the University of Colorado Boulder to take part in an immersive art program鈥攊n the hopes of taking a cross-disciplinary look at environmental issues.
鈥淭he new program will challenge traditional and mainstream understandings of art by unpacking, contextualizing and decolonizing the term (art),鈥� Cordova says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not just here to appreciate art,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e here to analyze and to be critical of the forces that surround its production, consumption and interpretation.鈥�
鈥淲e are trying to make things more flexible for students who don鈥檛 want to put themselves in some sort of disciplinary box,鈥� Mark Amerika, professor of distinction, art and art history
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.
