The Unknown and the Unnamed https://www.calistalyon.com/theunknownandtheunnamed The Unknown and the Unnamed uses projected images, live narration, interviews, and field recordings to reckon with the violence of historical and contemporary settler power in Australia. The performance shares a collective experience of loss, extinction, and the consequences of human action on nonhuman and human lives via the endangered Crimson Spider Orchid (Caladenia concolor).  This ongoing, multi-year research project began with my introduction to an Australian orchid collection created by self-described “recluse” and amateur botanist, Phillip Branwhite, who lived in Lyon’s family’s farming community in Tallangatta Valley, Australia. Lyon use oral histories drawn...

Shwayder Art Building, Room 119 Please join the School of Art and Art History for a lecture by Artist-in-Residence & Singer Visiting Professor in Photography Calista Lyon. Lyon’s lecture, Rituals of Re-Connection: Unlearning Colonial Legacy, will provide an overview of her practice. Calista Lyon https://www.calistalyon.com/ Calista Lyon is an Australian artist based between Columbus, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. Using an expanded photographic practice, she creates installations, performances and community-engaged projects that investigate ecological and social breakdown in our time of colonial-capitalist modernity. Her work has been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia; Sydney Museum, Sydney, Australia; La Trobe...

Artists and Curators Zac Abero and Luke Penton Please join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Portals in the Davis Gallery. The exhibition is on view from April 12 through May 8, 2024.

Please join us to celebrate the opening of “F*Bomb” at the Vicki Myhren Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. This exhibition features the work of former DU professor Sarah Gjertson, alongside the art of her mentors, inspirations, and students. On view until May 5, 2024.

Join renowned photographer and DU alumnus, Duane Michals, for an evening of conversation.

Join us for a reception celebrating the printmaker Kathryn Polk in association with the exhibition “Leap Day,” on view in the Davis Gallery, through March 24. Free and open to the public.