Dave Riep facilitated the purchase of a beaded bicycle by Ndebele artist Gogo Sophie Mahlangu this summer. It will be part of the permanent collection at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. Images courtesy of the SNL24/Daily Sun.
David Riep’s exhibition catalog for Shattering Perspectives: A Teaching Collection of African Ceramics was published in Fall 2023. It features his original research on African pottery, as well as the research of students. Del Harrow, Lynn Boland, Patricia Coronel, and Brenna McWhorter wrote contributing essays. For this catalog. Additionally, Riep’s chapter on South Sotho Lithoko […]
CSU students in ‘Arapaho & Cheyenne Art and Historyʼ used anthropology, museum studies, history, and ethnic studies to provide a more holistic view of Indigenous arts.
Dave Riep helps organize GAMA exhibition, presents paper in Denmark, publishes co-authored paper.
Catherine DiCesare, associate professor of Art History, is one of three co-founders of the regional Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association (RMPA), and a founding organizer of the RMPA annual colloquium. The Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association is hosting its 8th annual colloquium at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado on Friday, September 29. The […]
Congratulations to Ella Rupp for winning the 2023 Art History Symposium with a presentation about Julia Buffaloheadʼs Be Careful What You Wish For. Rupp’s presentation is about artist Julie Buffalohead and discusses her painting Be Careful What You Wish For (2006). Rupp explores conflicts of new motherhood and internal conflicts surrounding her dualling Indigenous and European […]
During the 2022-23 academic year, we are highlighting one Colorado State University student or alum from each of Colorado’s 64 counties. The Centennial State’s land grant university has a connection to the diverse lands and people from the counties of Moffat to Baca, Montezuma to Sedgwick and everywhere in between.
Michelle Malenfant learns skills in collections management through her summer internship with the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art that she can apply to her future career at an art gallery.
KCSU has a brand new podcast from Colorado State University’s Department of Art and Art History called The Future. The Future is a space created by professor Aitor Lajarin-Encina and art history students to discuss critical contemporary art and culture issues with artists and other guests. The podcast is organized by DXIX Projects, an artist-run […]
Congratulations to Tiffany Garcia for winning this year’s Art History Symposium with her presentation “Signs and Symbols in the Index of American Design”! She is majoring in Art History with a minor in Japanese language and hopes to pursue graduate school in the field of museum studies. Of the research, she says “In my essay, […]
