ArtFest Returns for 2nd Successful Year
For most Colorado State University students and faculty members, Sept. 28 was just another Thursday. However, for the Visual Arts Building, classes were canceled for an all-day event of food, art and booths.
Secret Lives: Printmaker Plastini providing sustainably grown hops for new CSU beer
While Johnny Plastini is best known on campus as a faculty member and printmaking area coordinator in the Department of Art and Art History, he also applies his artistic passions to growing hops and brewing beer.
Dave Riep helps organize GAMA exhibition, presents paper in Denmark, publishes co-authored paper
Dave Riep helps organize GAMA exhibition, presents paper in Denmark, publishes co-authored paper.
Silvia Minguzzi received the SPARK Campus Employment Funding
Silvia Minguzzi received the SPARK Campus Employment Funding to fund student employee development practice.
Matthew Sage Releases An Album of Original Music
Matthew Sage released an album of original music called Paradise Crick on the acclaimed independent record label RVNG Intl. It received a 7.8 score on Pitchfork and was also reviewed favorably on NPR.
Art and Art History’s Participation in the 2023 Symposium for Inclusive Excellence
Two of our faculty members and one of our grad students will be presenting at this year’s Symposium for Inclusive Excellence. Roberto Munoreanu is giving the talk “Design to Transform” on Wednesday, October 25th as part of the Symposium for Inclusive Excellence’s CSU Inspire, a TED talk-style presentation by members of the CSU community. […]
Elnaz Javani’s Solo Exhibition, Chosen for The Center for Craft’s inaugural Teaching Artist Cohort
Elnaz Javani’s, assistant professor of Fibers, solo exhibition Dwelling Places was on display at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Chicago, IL from June 24 to August 23. Dwelling Places is a new body of work which includes small and large-scale, hand-dyed and printed textiles that incorporate surface manipulation, appliqué, and hand-stitching. Exploring how the body is […]
Kim Ferrer’s Work on Display at Walker Fine Art, Denver
Kim Ferrer, instructor, had work on display from July 14 – September 2 at Walker Fine Art in Denver as part of the group show Evocation. This small body of work mirrors a life moving within the transitory state of nature that is forever shifting, rearranging and letting go into new configurations of being in […]
Suzanne Faris was awarded “Grand Prize” in the Rocky Mountain Triennial
Suzanne Faris, professor of Sculpture, was awarded “Grand Prize” in the Rocky Mountain Triennial at the Museum of Fort Collins, by juror Merry Scully. The exhibition was juried from artists in seven states in the Rocky Mountain Region: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Suzanne won a cash award and a solo exhibition […]
Rocky Mountain Pre-Columbian Association’s Annual Colloquium to be held at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
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 […]