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.
The University of Colorado Board of Regents will award Tenzing Rigdol an Honorary Doctorate degree on May 3, 2022. Rigdol, one of the world’s most prolific contemporary Tibetan artists, is an alumnus of University of Colorado Denver’s College of Arts & Media.
Student Autumn Cierra says photography helped her "develop an understanding about the way the world works and how we as humans interact with it." Graduating this spring with her BFA, Autumn has already launched her own business.
Celebrate and gain insight into Cinco de Mayo through music, poetry, and community at Number Thirty Eight, located in the RiNo arts district. Hear the sounds of CU Denver and Colorado’s Latinx jazz, traditional, hip-hop, and pop musicians to move your feet and open your mind.
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.
As CAM's Finance & Operations Manager, Anthony Wilson is frequently the first point of contact for faculty members looking to provide a scholarship opportunity or finance a special project. Although he doesn't create art himself, Anthony delights in being able to smooth the way for students and faculty members "changing the world" through their art.
(Westword)––A collaboration by students of Bryan Leister’s CU Denver College of Arts & Media students with designer Norbeto Mojardin, who created a couture gown as a tribute to powerful women, and artist/curator Lilian Lara, whose work using upcycled materials plays up the underdog character of Chicano art, Malintzin doesn’t hedge at calling its subject a hero. Malintzin: Unraveled and Rewoven, the third iteration and interpretation of the Malinche story broached by the Denver Art Museum and the Museo de las Americas takes yet another approach in framing the historic but misunderstood character in her rightful place as a bridge between cultures at odds
(CPR)––Nikki Swarn and Anna Frick, both lecturers in the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies (MEIS) department, are featured in this article highlighting the women involved in Denver's music scene.
Explore graduate or professional study, advanced research, or English teaching in elementary and secondary schools or universities in more than 140 countries. Fulbright scholarships are open to all students, and every interested student is provided with direct support from the University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus for their application process.
"CAM allowed me to be incredibly flexible with what I wanted to do...I found out I loved photography because of CAM’s encouragement to experiment," Sebastien Chiu ('20) says. A Film & Television major, Chiu eventually found his professional calling as a freelance consultant who focuses on publicity and community management in the high-end consumer audio industry.
Art History professor Yang Wang was one of 10 scholars selected among a highly competitive pool of international applicants to receive the prestigious Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The award allowed her to continue research on Chinese ink painting and their place among postwar modernist art.
Malintzin: Unraveled and Rewoven, is an immersive journey that untangles one of Mexico’s most prolific and captivating icons. It opens March 31, 2022 with a reception at the CU Denver Experience Gallery (formerly the Next Stage Gallery), from 5:00-7:00pm.
"The visual arts have a way of reflecting the human condition while communicating indescribable sensations, ideas and states of experience that would otherwise be impossible to convey," says CAM alum Scottie Burgess '16.
(Westword)––This week's Art Attack sends readers to BRDG Project to view the student-run show of digital media photography from CU Denver's Jasmine Colgan and Alejandra Abad. Also recommended is the Night Lights celebration of Women's History Month and the projection of the work of a dozen women artists on the Arapahoe Street side of the Daniels & Fisher Tower. The show is curated by Visual Arts alum Sharifa Moore, an independent curator and executive director of Denver Digerati.
"After developing my skills in career coaching and advising, when the opportunity presented itself to combine that skillset with arts, music, film and scholarship, there was no doubt in my mind that this was the job for me," Amy Foss says of her position as CAM's Life Design and Career Coach Advisor.
As an academic advisor, Diccon Conant is a strong supporter of students' careers. He could even be called a patron of the arts: "Over the years I have admired (and sometimes purchased!) art created by students I have advised. I have loaded their music onto my phone, posted their paintings on my wall, visited exhibitions, concerts, and film showings, and even worn a t-shirt that a student designed."
Between the state-of-the-art equipment, the knowledge of instructors who have been or are currently active in the animation industry, and the group-project dynamic of the curriculum, the Digital Animation Center at CU Denver is preparing a new generation of animators for the work force.
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.