CU Denver Art History

12/25/2024

Design history influencing the emergent greats today...!

Teddy Blanks, the designer behind the memorable movie titles for films like “Nosferatu” and “Barbie,” has quietly become Hollywood’s go-to guy.

10/12/2024

History of Modern Design alums will appreciate this article on Paris' Grand Palais, which has featured so prominently in the city's Worlds Fairs (and now the Olympics and Art Basel) since 1900!

Art lovers soon will descend upon the Grand Palais for Art Basel Paris. But it’s hardly the building’s first turn in the spotlight.

08/08/2024

CU Denver Art History alumna Livy Onalee Snyder has invited me to WHPK (the former studio of K-Ill "The Hip-Hop Gandhi" Ken Wissoker) today share some music from my Punk Scholars Network presentation at DePaul yesterday. Tune in at 1pm CT! https://whpk.org/

05/08/2024

It's time for the BA Thesis Art History Symposium and BFA Thesis Reception at RedLine! Students, alums, and supporters, please come join us tomorrow starting at 1:30PM for the art history presentations:

Jordyn Stewart
Let Us Make Mankind in Our Image: The Impact of Papal Patronage on the Figural Depictions of Humanity in Renaissance and Baroque Periods

Makayla O’Flynn
Representations of Buddhism in Manga, Animation, and Video Games

Janelle Jimenez
Grieving through Art: Mourning in the Victorian Era

Josephine Clark
Two is the Loneliest Number: Depictions of Friendship in Contemporary Western Art

Victoria Harrison
Tradition and Ink: Exploring Contemporary South Korean Tattoo Art and Artistry

04/24/2024

Denver Arts and Venues has two NEW positions open in its Public Art Program, for which I think many of our alums would be qualified! https://denver.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CCD-denver-denvergov-CSC_Jobs-Civil_service_jobs-Police_Jobs-Fire_Jobs/job/Downtown-Denver/Director--Public-Art-Program--Denver-Arts-and-Venues_R0066062?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1LTJK-sRzlM2Qq9NTADB01Wp9y9KS7r6sIuo9MXWCGS9PdJnv531ciOKA_aem_AWecsOGQlOWgx4EqlKAxoNKvLoO_pM964xCRp_Kd5sxtaxj9u-1f3Ea9i0Ss7JnAA3q-U0a7ehHgAYMNaThsEICF

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04/20/2024

CONGRATS to Victoria Harrison, who represented CU Denver Art History today (introduced by Dr. Yang Wang) at the annual Front Range Art History Symposium at Colorado State University! Her Thesis presentation on Korean tattoo history and artists was phenomenal.

03/07/2024

Juried show for college students! Submit your work! https://artcenter.org/museum/a-practical-guide-to-modest-magic/?fbclid=IwAR1BVgBPdGcsyL_5zIVkr9zjUKhglrM4nR-Z6ivwHDrq-TSMbcsuRd4pxok

New exhibition dates* A Practical Guide to Modest Magic takes the art assignment as its point of departure, with written instructions that ask college and university student participants to respond…

02/21/2024

Spreading the word about this fantastic summer residence opportunity for a variety of arts professionals at the Clyfford Still Museum:

The Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) invites applications for its new residential fellowship program. Four Fellows will be selected to engage the Museum and its collections in Denver, July 21–August 11, 2024.

12/30/2023

CONGRATS to Emmanuel Gallery, whose "Made in Colorado" show made The Denver Post's best-of-2023 list of Front Range exhibitions! https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/26/best-art-exhibits-2023-denver-front-range/?fbclid=IwAR1c5uOpDTqesCXvYyF6GcWRtNfle03VwPPBzzLQxskhs1mZD4hBnztUd4E

There were great art exhibitions all around the Front Range in 2023.

09/29/2023

The Frick Museum's first exhibition dedicated to a Black artist makes inspired pairings of Barkley Hendricks' work with the historical work that influenced his own...(in Marcel Breuer's Whitney Museum building, no less!)

An underground virtuoso, always being discovered in bits and pieces, the portraitist solidifies his place in the canon with a solo show at the Frick — its first ever for a Black artist.

07/24/2023

CONGRATS to Class of 2019 Art History/Photo alumna Sharifa Moore, who just defended her Master of Humanities project for her 2nd degree at !

05/22/2023

EXCITING PANEL on African fashion and textiles at DAM on June 1st...tickets only $5 for students! Check it out:

Join us for a panel discussion with African fashion designers.