Congratulations to Tiffany Garcia for winning the 2021 Art History Symposium

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, […]

Erika Osbourne, Associate Professor, shares experience of studying forests and fire management on the Baja California peninsula

Erika Osborne, an associate professor in CSU’s Department of Art and Art History, spent the Fall 2019 semester in Mexico on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying forests and fire management on the Baja California peninsula. What she found is a much different situation than what we have in the United States.

Art is an Essential Part of the Human Experience: How Art Education Shapes Community Health

Visual art reaches beyond written and spoken language to access the emotional and psychological inner world of both the maker and the viewer. By creating this dialogue, there is a place to experience the richness and nuance of one’s inner life, foster emotional intelligence, and support mental health.

Congratulations to Claire Chien and Patrick Fahey for the publication of a co-authored chapter on BRAINY!

Congratulations to Claire Chien and Patrick Fahey, whose co-authored chapter, “Bringing Arts Integration to Youth (BRAINY) at Colorado State University” just published in the edited volume Engaging Communities Through Civic Engagement in Art Museum Education.

Congratulations to our First Generation Spotlight award recipient, Alanis Hernandez!

Congratulations to our First Generation Spotlight award recipient, Alanis Hernandez! . Of her work she says “My work mostly centers around my identity and cultural heritage, specifically about what it means to be a first generation Latina living in the United States. Because of this my family has become one of my biggest inspirations. So […]