Campus-wide Juried Student Art Exhibition
Campus-wide Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 12 through May 27, 2016
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
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
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.
Pushing Boundaries – the making of…
Our new exhibition, Pushing Boundaries: Early Women Artists of Colorado, opens in just 8 days! This exhibit is particularly special because of the collaboration with Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art. Throughout a two-year research project thirty-two students at DU’s School of Art and Art History conducted foundational research on the artwork loaned from Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art. The rediscovery of these eighteen artists resulted in surprising information overlooked and erased in the writing of Colorado art history. Students worked with Vicki Myhren Gallery director Dan Jacobs in the planning and presentation of the exhibit. The...
Upcoming – Pushing Boundaries
Pushing Boundaries: Early Women Artists of Colorado Opening Reception Thursday, March 24, 5-7 PM Show will run from March 24 to May 1. We are pleased to announce our next exhibit, Pushing Boundaries: Early Women Artists of Colorado. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, social norms dictated a number of paths that women were expected to follow. Although some roles in art and education were considered acceptable occupations for educated women of the time, female artists were expected to stay within relatively narrow confines. Tenacious, resilient, and persistent in the face of gender norms, the eighteen Colorado artists...