(The Sentry) The Emmanuel Art Gallery is an excellent resource for students, artistic or not, and gallery coordinator Andrew Palamara discusses opportunities for student participation, the gallery's function, and his own experience with art and art galleries.
(Denver Post)–– Trine Bumiller is the most intimate sort of landscape painter. She captures the vastness of the Western terrain in oil, but she does it tree by tree, bough by bough, twig by twig. The exhibition, "Garden of Eden" is on display at the Emmanuel Art Gallery through August 6.
This Spring, CU Denver's Emmanuel Art Gallery has a handful of calls for entry out for artists of all mediums. Read about the upcoming exhibitions and their deadlines.
CAM hosted its first Alumni Day & Awards Ceremony in March. Five alumni, representing a diverse range of industries, were honored at the ceremony. The day included networking sessions, tours, and a chance for alumni to reconnect with the people who made their CAM experience special.
The biennial exhibition Made in Colorado returns to the Emmanuel Art Gallery this summer. A culturally significant exhibition featuring work from artists from Durango to Steamboat, Grand Junction to Fort Morgan, Made in Colorado never fails to capture the vibe of the Centennial State, and this year's offering is no different.
(Billboard) Ever wonder if those Spotify playlists you listen to are created by AI? Turns out they're not made by AI but rather a team of editors. “A big tenet of editorial is this idea of reflecting culture and also being able to propel culture forward,” says J.J. Italiano, head of global music curation and discovery. J.J. Italiano is an alum of CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media, where he studied music business.
Meet the seven graduating students who have been recognized for their dedication to their studies in performing arts, recording arts, media forensics, art practices, art history, and film & television.
Nine student-led teams from the College of Arts & Media (CAM) have been awarded a total of $15,000 in funding for creative and scholarly projects as a part of the inaugural Dean’s Student Innovation Award. The awards, which encourages collaboration and idea exchange, will support large-scale, cross-disciplinary projects to be completed this spring and presented at the first CAM Innovation Awards Celebration to be held May 1, 2020.
"When the Power Comes Back On," a song by CAM sophomore Finn O'Sullivan, was chosen as the winner of 2020’s John Lennon Songwriting Contest “Song of the Year” award.
Storm Gloor, CU Denver’s 2018 award winner for Excellence in Teaching, has spoken at music conferences all over the nation. In 2018, Gloor, along with three College of Arts & Media students, visited the international Music Cities Conference in Lafayette, Louisiana where they reported on a project done in conjunction with the City of Arvada, Colorado.
"Out of Many, More: Voices of the Americas" is an exhibition featuring artists with ties to the cultures and people from North, Central, and South America.
“The show was sold out so definitely one of the coolest moments was when we ended our set and I looked up to the venue and saw thousands of people standing, cheering, and applauding us,” says CAM student Zoe Moff, who plays bass.
This year's Guitar Night will welcome Christie Lenée, "one of the brightest lights in contemporary fingerstyle acoustic guitar today," according to MEIS chair and guitar performance professor Sean McGowan.
“We at CU Denver are excited about this new partnership and grateful for Kyser’s support and belief in CU Denver’s next generation of songwriters,” says Associate Professor Dan Hodges, DBA.
(Radio Free Europe) Romania is in the process of electing a new president, and the election has taken a dubious turn. CU Denver professor and director of the National Center for Media Forensics Catalin Grigoras was sought for his expert opinion on some images one of the candidates posted on her Facebook account appearing to depict two of the other presidential candidates attending a clandestine meeting. Grigoras concluded that the images had likely been altered.
(Baltimore Banner) Dazhon Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School, has been sentenced to four months in prison for using artificial intelligence (AI) to create a fake recording of Eric Eiswert, the principal of the school, making racist and antisemitic remarks. Catalin Grigoras, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver and director of the National Center for Media Forensics, concluded that the audio recording in question contained traces of AI-generated content.
(Yahoo) Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, who formed the band Tennis in 2010, have announced that their new album, Face Down in the Garden, will be their last. The couple met as students at the University of Colorado Denver and went on to create 7 albums and tour. The couple says they are dissolving Tennis to pursue other creative pursuits.
(Westword) The group has been making waves with its madcap sound and stage presence, which you can see for yourself at Globe Hall this weekend alongside Gestalt and Tiny Tomboy. Horse Bitch was founded in 2020 by David Knodle and Ashley McKinney, who met while studying at CU Denver.
(Westword) World-renowned street artist Shepard Fairey will be at CU Denver on May 6 for a special event, Emmanuel Art Gallery Conversations: Shepard Fairey & Gregg Deal. The event is open to both the CU Denver community and the public, and it’s part of an ongoing effort to bring bold, creative voices to campus. Fairey hopes that the work he and Deal have done will inspire people to use their voices creatively.