Art and Art History
- In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.
- Art and Art History Department celebrates the life, work and hundredth birthday of one of its formative faculty members; exhibition of Lynn R. Wolfe鈥檚 work runs from July 7 to Aug. 31.
- A gallery talk and reception for Yazzie will take place May 19聽at 3 p.m. in the Earth Sciences and Map Library. Visiting artist Faith McManus, art teacher at Northtec Education Institute in Northland, New Zealand, will be joining Yazzie in discussing 鈥淗eart Mapping: Indigenous Perspectives on Land.鈥澛犅
- Marina Kassianidou, who is "obsessed by the idea of marking,' has received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
- The CU Visual Arts Complex will join its neighboring CU Art Museum and 麻豆影院鈥檚 Open Studios in hosting a unique joint showcase of two annual Art and Art History Department events: The King Exhibition and Emerging Artists Open Studios.
- The graduate ceramics program at CU 麻豆影院 is ranked fifth in the nation, up from eighth last year, in US News and World Report鈥檚 Best Graduate Schools 2017. It is one of eight university programs to be ranked in the top 10 graduate specialty programs nationwide, but it is the only one of the CU 麻豆影院 group to hail from the arts and humanities.
- CU 麻豆影院 graduate art students Benjamin McQuillan and Carissa Samaniego took home honorable mentions this summer for their sculptures from the International Sculpture Center鈥檚 2016 Outstanding Student Achievement competition.