Agents of Change: Lecture by Joann Brennan
Tuesday, April 8, 12:30–1:30 pm
Drawing from presentations at the SPE Agents of Change” conference in Denver, Joann Brennan addressed the role of lens-based artists as catalysts for change using imagery that advocates social and environmental awareness. Questions asked by Brennan were: In what ways are artists responding to the local and global challenges that are reshaping politics, cultures, economies and the planet? As educators, artists and scholars, what has been the historical impact of our advocacy? What role will we play in shaping the future?
Joann Brennan is Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts, University of Colorado Denver.
Panel Discussion: Photojournalism and Politics
Thursday, March 20, 6.00 pm
L-R: Ken Lyons, Dan Jacobs (rear), Rich Clarkson, Joann Brennan, Jusy DeHaas.
Photographers are witnesses to events that are important to our lives. We rely on their visual interpretation to effectively communicate a message. From sports iconography to editorial and art photography, this panel discussion looked at the decisions photo professionals make today, and compared them with practices during the era of Socialist Realism photography.
Panel with Joann Brennan, Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts, University of Colorado Denver; Rich Clarkson, Rich Clarkson and Associates, former Director of Photography and Senior Assistant Editor, National Geographic magazine; Judy DeHaas, photographer; Rocky Mountain News; Dan Jacobs, Director, Myhren Gallery; Ken Lyons, Photo Editor, Denver Post. Moderated by Rupert Jenkins, Catalog Editor.
"Zen and the Art of Tea: A Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
A one-day seminar taught by SAAH faculty member Elizabeth M. Owen. After its introduction from China, the Tea Ceremony appealed to both Samurai and Zen monks, among other practitioners, in traditional Japanese society. From the 17th century on, Geisha specialized in performing tea ceremonies as an art especially appreciated by their patrons. Today, Western practitioners and Japanese women continue to preserve Tea Ceremony traditions.
Mini Movie Fest
Thursday, October 25th
with Charles Roderick/HideousBeast 6- 7PM
Workshop 4- 5:30PM
For more information go to http://hideousbeast.com
Timothy Weaver
Performance September 27, 2007
Biological Narrative #7: Danaus, 2007
Digital video, sonic bioinformatics translations
“Biological Narrative #7: Danaus” is a digital video and biological/genetic music hybrid whose platform is built upon electronic translations derived from the locative protein complex of the migratory North American Monarch Butterfly. Weaver performed the US premiere of his piece during the exhibition reception for "Beauty & Its Discontents" Thursday, September 27, 2007, in the gallery.
http://www.biotica.org/bionarrative/danaus.html
Collections Lab Program 3:
The Print in Popular Culture-"Art or Propaganda?"
Thursday, April 19, 2007
6:00 p.m. Student printing demonstration
7:00 p.m. Public lecture
Speakers:
Julia Frey, PhD -Author, Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life and independent curator
Justin Quin, lithographer. Assistant professor of printmaking, University of Northern Texas
Throughout the 19th century, artists self-promoted using new print technologies and the mass market for periodicals and advertising. Lithographic printing allowed for rapid, inexpensive reproduction of images by artists such as Honoré Daumier and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Join us for a stimulating and free-ranging dialogue on the role of lithography in the 19th century popular imagination. Catherine Chauvin, Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the School of Art & Art History, will moderate the discussion with our two visitors.
Julia Frey, professor emerita of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is Lautrec's leading biographer and a specialist in late 19th century Belle Epoque French culture. She considers Lautrec both as an artist and as a mass media pioneer. Justin Quinn's involvement with French language, Daumier and 19th century literature brings history and the contemporary world together through prints and drawings. His current work includes lithographs that transcribe Chapter 44 of Herman Melville's epic 1851 novel Moby-Dick into the letter E: "For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul."
Collections Lab Program 2:
Print Connoisseurship-"What makes a good print good?"
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Speakers:
Ann Daley, curator for the Denver Art Museum’s Institute for Western American Art
Jack Kunin, Denver art historian and art appraiser.
The University of Denver has acquired several hundred fine art prints over the years. We invite you to take part in the discussion of selected 20th century prints with the assistance of visiting experts. Every collecting institution relies upon the expertise of outside scholars to determine the significane and quality of its collections. This program provides a glimpse of how we benefit from this process of "connoisseurship"-the application of knowledge gained through years of experience in handling and studying artworks.
Our expert visitor in the area of American prints is Ann Daley who, in addition to her post at the Denver Art Museum, is also Curator of the privately held Jan Perry Mayer collection of Works on Paper. In this role, she has helped to build one of the most significant collections of 20th century American prints and drawings along the Front Range.
European prints will be discussed by Jack Kunin. Mr. Kunin has taught at the University of Denver School of Art and Art History, the Ohio University, and Metropolitan State College of Denver. He has published extensively on the art of Colorado, and has wide experience with both American and European fine art.
Collections Lab Program 1:
In the traditional master print workshop, expert printers support the work of other artists. This presents a special challenge, in which the collaborative process is just as important as technical skill. Master printer Susan Hover Oehme and Bill van Straaten, founder of the Riverhouse Editions studio in Steamboat Springs, Colo., will speak about that process during the first installment of the "Collections Lab" educational series.
The Collections Labs program is based directly upon the art collections of the University of Denver. A growing resource, the University Art Collections are used in exhibitions, DU classrooms, and in the training of visual artists. The Collections Lab program brings artworks from the collections into informal learning situations for a wider audience. Attendees will experience fine art prints in an intimate, hands-on setting, led by distinguished scholars, print collectors and practicing artists.