The College of Arts & Media joins the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival to showcase Asian and Asian American film at Denver’s Sie Center opening March 3 and running through March 5, 2022.
The National Center for Media Forensics (NCMF) has had a very active year that will continue into the summer with their involvement in two key media forensics conferences in Denver.
The Alumni-in-Residence program connects CU Denver students with accomplished CU Denver Alumni for one-on-one or small group career and industry advice. In an office hours model, students can sign up for a 30-minute in-person meeting at a working space within LynxConnect - to ask specific career questions or to solicit general advice from someone who has walked in their shoes.
“Costume design brings a human element to a production. Clothing is a choice that reflects a certain mood or a place, and the costumes help the audience connect to the character,” says Meghan Anderson Doyle, Theatre Company Costume Design Associate at the Denver Center for Performing Arts (DCPA).
(Westword) As a recording arts student at CU Denver, Keegan De La Torre oversees every aspect of his music and is making an impact in the Denver music scene.
(Denverite) An explosion of bright yellow, cherry pink and lime green paper flowers help frame a painting of Arlette Lucero’s loved ones, from her late husband Stevon Lucero to beloved tattoo artist Alicia Cardenas.
"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.
Scholars Vidblain Balvas López, Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez, and Dr. Diego Zavala Scherer have been chosen as part of the COMEXUS: Becas Fulbright-García Robles program. This partnership with COMEXUS and CAM represents the first time scholars in the Arts will be traveling to the U.S. for this program.
CU Denver will be presenting a free, public “double-feature” of Vivienne Dick’s 1978 short Guérillère Talks, starring iconic post-punk women musicians such as Lydia Lunch, Ikue Mori, and Pat Place. This screening will be followed by a formal Q&A between Dick and filmmaker/scholar Rachel Garfield, moderated by CU Denver art historian Maria Elena Buszek.
(PolitiFact) Cole Whitecotton, forensic image expert from the National Center for Media Forensics at CU Denver, analyzes the edits made to the controversial royal photo.
(Neighborhood Gazette) Jess Ellis is an artist and an alum of CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media. Ellis currently has a collection of art on display at RitualCravt in Denver. Ellis creates miniature, fantasy landscapes housed under glass, using found objects and natural materials like mosses, crystals, bones and bugs. “I want my work to inspire people to appreciate nature in all of its forms and not take it for granted,” Ellis said.
Traveling to Ireland with Artnauts, CU Denver visual arts professors Melissa Furness and Rian Kerrane are exhibiting in two location and creating site-specific installations on their journey.
Kalyn Rose Heffernan, CU Denver Alum, advocates through LGBTQ+ and disability rights through her band, Wheelchair Sports Camp, a Mayoral campaign, and other forms of art. Most recently, she's written the music for a production of "Alice in Wonderland" with Phamaly Theatre Company, and Wheelchair Sports Camp is participating in Tentacle Fest, put on by the alt-punk label of Jello Biafra.
The beloved bronze work of sculptor Dan Ostermiller is considered fundamental to the artistic spirit of Colorado. With the upcoming installation of an eight-foot, 1,000-pound Lynx statue, his work will also be fundamental to the spirit of the University of Colorado Denver.
Each year, students at CU Denver are invited to submit visual artwork for a juried exhibition to be displayed at the Emmanuel Art Gallery. This year’s exhibition, “Guilty” was curated by Kyoko Ono, who has chosen a selection of works to be displayed out of the 80 total submissions she was handed. The show runs from May 10-19th. A celebration of the show is scheduled for May 10th, 3-5pm.
Urgent Importance, a timely and thought-provoking collection of work highlighting the paintings and mixed media pieces by Julie Puma, will be on display at the Emmanuel Art Gallery and virtually at Emmanualgallery.org from September 2 – October 9, 2020.
Maria Buszek, CU Denver Art History faculty, has co-edited the prolific and acclaimed book A Companion to Feminist Art, published by Wiley-Blackwel. In March, she will travel to Cambridge University to speak of the contributions of Linda Sterling, who will be highlighted in Buszek's upcoming book, The Art of Noise.
Antonio Cicarelli’s (’03) graphic and motion design work can be seen everywhere from movie screens to online ads to home televisions through streaming services like Netflix. After graduating from CU Denver’s Digital Media Design program, Cicarelli turned a passion for art into a successful entrepreneurial career.
Dean Bliss will play a key role in championing CAM’s vision in the coming years building on the outstanding talents and efforts of its faculty, staff, and students—to grow the college’s impact on the artistic and geographic communities we serve.