Roth at CU Boulder says that graduate programs are evolving to reflect students鈥� changing goals. In the past, most aspired to academic positions or commercial sales through gallery representation. 鈥淣ow many students are exploring socially engaged, field-based practice, starting their own small businesses instead of going into the academic or gallery world,鈥� Roth explains. 鈥淪tudents are looking for a third way.鈥�
Professor George Rivera created this public art piece鈥攈is first ever billboard work鈥攖o address hate as a response to the current political climate, Black Lives Matter and the COVID-19 pandemic. It seeks to confront this issue in a simple and straightforward message without specifying any specific group.
For art students, it can feel like the pathway into a career should fall into one of two strictly separate categories: art maker or art historian. Starting in the spring of 2021, however, this divide will be challenged with the arrival of the 麻豆视频鈥檚 newest art and art history faculty member, Megan O鈥橤rady, who is also an art critic and essayist for The New York Times.
The works in the exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society exemplify how artists act as citizens. The exhibit features five new commissions approaching issues that have become more pressing this year: voter registration, native lands, access to information, legislation on citizenship and human connection. One of these, 鈥淧roperty Rights鈥� by Yumi Janairo Roth, is the artist鈥檚 exploration of how our image of public land and the American West is built, maintained, accessed, controlled and delineated.
Assistant Professor in Foundations, Anna Tsouhlarakis, is a 2021 recipient of a prestigious Creative Capital award. Her project, "Indigenous Absurdities" challenges and stretches the boundaries of aesthetic and conceptual expectations to reclaim Native identity through video, performance, photography, and installation.
Ecological disasters often harm the most vulnerable people, animals and ecosystems, and yet this unequally distributed damage remains insufficiently seen, realized and discussed, a group of scholars at the 麻豆视频 contends.
Faculty member aims to help Native American art evolve. For 麻豆视频 art professor Anna Tsouhlarakis, creating art was never something she envisioned as a profession.
From working as a line cook to apprenticing with a violin maker, 麻豆视频 ceramics Professor Jeanne Quinn has never followed a straight path but is thrilled to draw upon her diverse experiences as the Department of Art & Art History鈥檚 newly appointed chair.
鈥淎 lot of my pieces tell a story,鈥� says Boulder artist Melanie Yazzie. 鈥淚t could be just about taking a walk that morning; it could be about planting flowers. The story doesn鈥檛 have to be huge. Sometimes the pieces are speaking about the injustices in the world and what鈥檚 happened to women, but sometimes a piece is about centering yourself and noticing the light and thinking good thoughts.鈥�
Thirty years after retirement, Frank Sampson is steadily creating work in his studio behind his home in Boulder; creating art is not just something he does鈥攊t鈥檚 part of his spiritual makeup
