Dec 8, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

CU Denver’s Digital Design program emphasizes experiential learning, giving students hands-on opportunities to collaborate with clients, create interactive projects, and showcase their work publicly. By combining foundational design skills with real-world problem solving the program prepares graduates with versatile portfolios and the ability to adapt to evolving technologies and inclusive design challenges.

Aug 1, 2022 by Megan Briggs Pintel

"My internship has given me the confidence that I can make a living out here and it filled in some gaps about the film industry that I did not learn while in a classroom setting,” says Ashley Vaughn.

Sep 22, 2025

(CU Denver News) The exhibition Ireland Abroad included artwork produced by CU Denver students who went on a month-long study abroad trip to Ireland this summer. The students worked at the Burren College of Art, which is located on the grounds of a 16th-century castle, and explored their new environment through art and performance mediums.

Sep 29, 2025

(CU Denver News) Film & Television instructors David Liban and Christopher Beeson are both celebrating the release of independent films this fall. Liban’s latest project is a short film and dark comedy titled Love Less Likely. Beeson is a documentary filmmaker whose film The Healing Animal spans human and animal mental health and well-being.

Oct 27, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Nestled within the College of Arts & Media’s (CAM) contemporary Music & Entertainment Industry Studies department, the music business degree track has students studying alongside music performance, recording arts, and singer/songwriting students, giving them ample opportunity to collaborate.

Oct 23, 2025

(The Sheridan Press) Pyper Tiffany, a CU Denver student, is turning her passion for music into career opportunities. Tiffany plays guitar and sings for her band, Blackberry Crush, which recently finished its first tour. While her degree ultimately focuses on audio engineering, Tiffany is keeping her options open as she finds out what the best route for her would be post graduation.

Oct 22, 2025

(Sentry) The ILL Exhibition returned for a second time at CU Denver’s Experience Gallery. Showcasing 36 by undergraduate students from CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media, the exhibition features a wide range of artistic styles and tones, all unified by illustration as the central medium of expression.

Oct 24, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

“Try everything” you can while studying, advises CU Denver alum Natalie Maul Ruskaup. “Employers really value people who know where they want to be. Take risks while the stakes are low,” she says.

Oct 20, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Through her "Music, Meditation, and Technology" class, Jiayue Cecilia Wu, PhD teaches students the art of using sound engineering and technology to create more effective meditative techniques. At CU Denver, Cecilia is an assistant professor and the recording arts graduate program (MSRA) director. She recently shared about three goals she’s been working toward lately.

Oct 8, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Illustrators face many options when it comes to career paths. At CU Denver, faculty members have experience in a wide array of industries and help students build a foundation of professional skills that will carry into their careers. With many opportunities to show their work during their time at CU Denver, both in public exhibitions and portfolio reviews, illustration students leave with a repertoire of work to show.

Oct 6, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Located in the basement of the Auraria campus’s historic Tivoli building, MEIS will use the Tivoli Underground to host concerts and classes. In speakeasy fashion, the subterranean space has an intimate, cozy feel with a capacity of about 170 people.

Sep 24, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

In the list of 30 schools, CU Denver stands out for its affordability and the thorough, sequence-based nature of its curriculum that affords students ample time on sets as they build one skillset on another. The school's connections to Hollywood are also highlighted.

Aug 20, 2025

(Urban) “Create relentlessly and unapologetically…Don’t wait for permission or perfect conditions…Focus on authentic storytelling.” This is the advice CAM alum and filmmaker Jai Harris has for aspiring filmmakers. Read about Jai and the projects her company, Free Royalty LLC, is working on right now.

Sep 18, 2025 by Mary Knight

Surrounded by a 16th century castle in the stunning Burren landscape in Ireland’s Atlantic coast, thirteen CU Denver students immersed themselves not only in interdisciplinary art, but an exploration of self. This four-week intensive art practice study abroad experience culminated in what viewers will see in “Ireland Abroad”, opening Sept. 18 at the CU Denver Experience Gallery.

Sep 12, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

On display September 25 through December 13, 2025, “Homeland” invites viewers to reconsider what they know about Nepal through the work of Lain Singh Bangdel (1919–2002), the father of Nepali modern art and a pivotal figure in the nation’s cultural history. Featuring more than 40 paintings, it represents the largest exhibition of Bangdel’s art presented in the United States to date.

Sep 9, 2025

(CU Denver News) CU Denver alum Brody Miller learned of CU Denver's Music Business program thanks to a Billboard Magazine article. Now Miller works with musicians in Denver and credits the skills they picked up in the College of Arts & Media with getting them started in the industry.

Aug 19, 2025

(Voyage Denver) CU Denver alum Vivian Vien speaks with Voyage Denver about the inspiration she found from her father to pursue studying illustration. As a small business owner, Vivian is making a way for herself in the art industry, one pop up market at a time.

Apr 5, 2021 by Alice Crogan

Are you listening to Finn O’Sullivan? She's making major waves in the singer/songwriter scene with her witty lyrics and perfectly-crafted songs––in fact, she's won the grand prize in the folk category of the The John Lennon Songwriting Contest for the title song of her first LP, "When the Power Comes Back On." Now she is she's competing head to head for the Lennon Award, which is determined by voting.

Oct 6, 2021 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Songwriting professor Owen Kortz used grant money he received last year to construct, outfit, and staff a music studio in Urban Peak, a drop-in shelter for youth experiencing homelessness in Denver. A Grand Opening event with live music will take place Oct. 14, 2021.

Feb 28, 2024 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Prof. Buszek will travel to the UK this March to present at two conferences in London—one at the Tate Britain and another at the University of the Arts London’s London College of Communication—to present research from her forthcoming book Art of Noise: Feminist Art and Popular Music Since 1977.