2016-2017 Exhibition Calendar Announcement
24August2016December 3, 2019
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2016-2017 Exhibition Calendar Announcement

VICKI MYHREN GALLERY 2016-2017 EXHIBITION CALENDAR   The Wall / La Pared: Immigration and Identity 9/29/16 – 11/13/16 An exhibition in collaboration with Maruca Salazar of Denver’s Museo de las Americas, The Wall features contemporary Latino/a artists working in the muralist tradition, as well as contemporary painters, tattoo artists and experimental media pieces. The exhibition showcases the work of 9 regional artists. In our current political climate, the image of a wall is a contested metaphor of discrimination, fear and xenophobia. The Vicki Myhren Gallery offers a counterpoint- providing a space for artists with direct links to immigration to explore their...

27April2016December 3, 2019
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Student Art Exhibition

Juried Student Exhibition Dates: May 12 -27 2016   Juror: Viviane Le Courtois (alumna MA, Art History, 2000) Artists: Selamawit Alemayehu, Haley Bagan, Charlotte Carter Brasch, Hannah Cole, Kelsey Dickinson, Oriana Edman, Halle Farago, Layla Flowers, Megan Gardner, Mikaela Guggino, Melissa Jackels, Sasha Kahn, Mary Lunsford, Benjamin Martin, Nicole Miller, Hannah Neuman, Muchun Niu, Amanda Peters, Austin Rosenbaum, Eric Shimokawa, Kirk Staver, Savannah Stewart, Meg Swartley, Nicholas Ward I am pleased to present the work of student artists in the Vicki Myhren Gallery. This year’s selections were made by a distinguished alumna, artist Viviane Le Courtois (MA, Art History, 2000)....

New Addition to the Exhibit
18April2016December 3, 2019
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New Addition to the Exhibit

If you follow us on social media you probably saw that one of our gallery attendants had to clean a giant Plexiglas case last week. Now we are revealing what was installed inside the case: Gladys Caldwell Fisher’s Boulder Dam, 1934-1935, the last addition to Pushing Boundaries. The aluminum model is a small scale replica of the (now titled) Hoover Dam; located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border of Nevada and Arizona. The Hoover Dam was the world’s biggest dam at the time of its dedication in September of 1935. Controversy surrounds the name due...

Early Women Artists of Colorado
24March2016December 3, 2019
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Early Women Artists of Colorado

March 24 through May 1, 2016 Opening Reception: March 24, 5-7 PM The eleventh exhibition in conjunction with the Curatorial Practicum course will feature early Colorado women artists researched by graduate students in art history under the direction of Dr. Annette Stott, Professor of Art History, and Dan Jacobs, Director of the Vicki Myhren Gallery and Curator of the University Art Collections, in a two year sequence of courses. A significant portion of the art displayed is on extended loan from the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art as part of a multi-year research partnership.