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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

Jun 17, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

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.

May 15, 2025 by Jasper Lipscomb

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.

May 3, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

"Art can powerfully comment on any aspect of the human experience," Shepard Fairey says. Three decades into his art career, Shepard Fairey still sees the value in street art and using art as a means of protest.

May 2, 2025

(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.

May 1, 2025

(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.

Apr 28, 2025

(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.

Apr 18, 2025 by Megan Briggs Pintel

Each year the CAM community looks forward to experiencing the work of its graduating students. This year's visual arts thesis events have been organized into three days of panels, celebrations, and screenings.