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...

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...

We have put together many special events for our current exhibit, Learning to See Color, but this might be the most exciting one. In conjunction with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Learning to Hear Color will be performed at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, February 25th. Andres Lopera (also a panelist in the symposium) will conduct a concert centered around the emotions and notes of red, blue, and yellow. As an added bonus, University of Denver students have created a digital light projection to accompany the performance. To buy tickets click here. We hope to see on the...

SNOW DAY! Today (Tuesday, February 2nd) the University of Denver is closed due to weather and so are we. Everyone stay safe and don’t try to make it to campus. We hope you go out and have a snowball fight, or stay in and drink some hot cocoa. We will reopen tomorrow (Wednesday, February 3rd) at noon.

For our current exhibit, Learning to See Color, we had a special opportunity to collaborate with the Clyfford Still Museum. Our exhibit explores five questions concerning color – one of the most fundamental topics in the arts – and a primary interest to Clyfford Still himself. Among the characteristics that define Still’s paintings – dramatic textures, monumental scale, and jagged, vertical forms – the use of color is perhaps the aspect that contributes most substantially to the viewer’s experience. Still wrote tellingly about his use of color on several occasions. In spite of his extensive knowledge of color theory and the...