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 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.

Apr 17, 2025 by Jasper Lipscomb

"Guilty" 2025 was a round up of students in CAM as well as some outside the college. The title of the exhibition is a clever nod to the visual arts norm of a juried show, where a juror determines whether submitted artwork gets placed into a gallery.

Apr 15, 2025 by Jasper Lipscomb

PAW (Performance Art Week) XIII is here! Read about all the events and artists who will be performing this year.

Apr 14, 2025

(DU Clarion) The CU Denver band Blackberry Crush performed at KXDU's latest Tiny Dorm Session, a creative take on NPR's tiny desk concerts. The band consists of College of Arts & Media students Charlie Laxague and Pyper Tiffany on guitar and vox, supported by bass player GG Tyler and Nick Schell on drums. Laxague shared that the band is putting the finishing touches on a record that’s coming out under the indie label Mean World Records.

Apr 11, 2025

(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.

Apr 8, 2025

(Patch) Boulder-based illustrator Penny Serrano and author/actor George Psomas from New York City have been honored with Christopher Awards for Manoli the Greek Mouse. Penny attended the University of Colorado Denver, earning her B.F.A. in illustration and a minor in creative writing. Penny uses digital media for her illustrations where she plays with color and texture.