(CU Denver News)–– In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we spoke to digital artist Quintin Gonzalez, associate professor in the Visual Arts department in CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media. Although he doesn’t call himself a political artist, his recent work was created in response to the family separation policy at the Mexico-U.S. border.
(CU Denver News)-- What does the term Chicano/a mean? What exactly constitutes Chicano Art? And does Chicano art belong in mainstream museums? Edward Tyndall, assistant professor of Film & Television, and Quintin Gonzalez, associate professor of Visual Arts, examine the subject.
(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.
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.
When asked which experience gave him more butterflies, playing guitar in front of 10,000 fans at Red Rocks Amphitheatre or earning a good grade from his music teachers at the University of Colorado Denver, Luke Mossman (BS ‘04) didn’t hesitate a second to answer.
Jazz Guitar Today talks to MEIS Chair Sean McGowan about his fingerstyle guitar technique, his career as a musician and an educator, and how the pandemic spurred him to compose Union Station, an album of original music.
(Westword)–– Wildermiss credits their start at CU Denver and in Music & Entertainment Industry Studies to giving them the tools and chops to make it as a nationally-known act. That's the reason they are coming back to campus to talk and play for LYNX Camp––to give back to students who want to pursue the arts.
Students of Whistling Woods International (WWI) and CU Denver's College of Arts & Media (CAM) are set to receive increased international exposure and academic opportunities as the institutions announced a collaboration between their film departments.
DeVine, a student at University of Colorado Denver, writes songs grounded by strong, reliable pop-ballad beats and suffused with celestial electronic ornaments.
(The New York Times)–– A member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five faces murder charges and his fate may hang on surveillance video that has been analyzed by top international media forensics expert, Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at CU Denver's College of Arts & Media.
As society continues to rethink the Future of Work and grapples with the Great Resignation, new levels of creativity and imagination will be required. CU Denver invites researchers, scholars, creators, and interested citizens to join a cultural movement to build a smart and savvy workforce that works for all.
Although the Emmanuel Art Gallery no longer serves as home to a religious congregation, artist Trine Bumiller’s vision for the former house of worship is nonetheless inspired. The building “almost asked for a biblical theme,” Bumiller says.
At the Still Point of the Turning of the World: Black in America captures the responses of several artists to the tension between living with the status quo and imagining new futures. The exhibition is composed of four distinct projects with touch points to the world-renowned pianist Awadagin Pratt.
The cohort style of Film & Television facilitates students working with and learning from other students, faculty, and industry professionals from day one on campus. The intensity of the degree program ensures that only those who are truly passionate about film stick around through the senior thesis project.
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.
(Wisconsin Public Radio)––Did you know Tik Tok gave a recent Grammy winner their start? Storm Gloor, music business professor at CU Denver, weighs about the influence social media is having on the music industry.
The University of Colorado Denver is pleased to present the "Visual Arts BFA Exhibition 2022". This exhibition features artwork, design and 3D animation from the graduating class of 2022 and is open at RedLine Contemporary Art Center April 30–May 14.