July 27th, 5-7p.m. at the CU Art Museum You are invited to our opening celebration for our latest exhibition, "Lush: Prolific Nature" , featuring artworks from different time periods and geographies that picture the natural world. Join us for art, light refreshments, and help us create a chalk garden on...
June 3rd, 1:00-2:00p.m. at the CU Art Museum Join the team at Shark’s Ink for an in-gallery conversation of Onward and Upward: Shark’s Ink. Bud and Barbara Shark, Evan Colbert, Roseanne Colachis will discuss the prints and processes in the “Onward and Upward” exhibition. Learn the stories behind the prints...
May 5, 1-3pm at the CU Art Museum Need a break from finals prep? Join us at the CU art museum this reading day for another Artist Spotlight Event! We will be spending some time with artwork by Barbara Takenaga and using acrylic paints to create art inspired by her...
Thursday, April 13, and Wednesday, May 3, 2023, 3:00 – 4:00p.m. Join us for an in-gallery conversation with Geoffrey Shamos, director of Myhren Gallery and Curator of University Art Collections, and Master of Fine Arts thesis students. Free and open to everyone.
Saturday, April 22 at 1:00p.m. at the CU Art Museum CU Art Museum Chamber Music Series presents a short concert featuring students from the College of Music Honors Chamber Ensembles performing in the museum. This spring we highlight students from the Gardetto Quintet. Students highlight a central thematic relationship between...
April 7th, 1-3pm at the CU Art Museum Thank you for your interest! This workshop has reached capacity. Please keep an eye out for future programs by signing up for our newsletter - we'd love to have you there! And feel free to attend the Delita Martin artist lecture on...
April 5 & April 7 Join us for a two-day event beginning with a lecture by Delita Martin, artist and printmaker based in Huffman, Texas. Martin’s practice celebrates community and affirms social justice. In addition to running her studio, Black Box Press, Martin is founder and president of the Black...
Thursday, March 16 at 4:00 p.m. Please join us for an artist’s talk with Jennifer Ghormley's practice in printmaking and how she builds community. Free and open to everyone. Jennifer Ghormley is a Denver-based artist, specializing in printmaking, mixed media, and installation art. She has worked at Anderson Ranch Art...
December 9th, 1-3:00p.m. Interested in an afternoon of free snacks, drinks, and collage making? Then this event is perfect for you! The Artist Spotlight Event provides an opportunity to learn about historically underrepresented artists and make art of your own. This time, we will be featuring artwork by Delita Martin...
Thursday, February 16th at 4pm in the CU Art Museum Come join us to learn more about local artist Johnny Plastini's practice in printmaking and how he builds community. Free and open to everyone. Johnny Plastini received his BA in visual art with a painting emphasis from the University of...
Rescheduled to November 30th, 4:00p.m. Come join us to learn more about local artist Tony Ortega's practice in printmaking and how he builds community. Of his work Ortega says, "I believe that there is a relationship between art and social justice. My goal as an artist is to create artworks...
Saturday, November 19th at 1:30p.m. Come make some art and trade some art with others in this free, student-led art workshop led by our lead attendants Lauren and Ella . You'll learn how to make prints using a common item you might be able to find at home - potatoes!...
November 16th, 6:00p.m. Please join us on Zoom for a talk by art historian and essayist Susan Tallman. An expert in prints and print culture, Susan will contextualize the rich productions of Shark's Ink in relation to American printmaking. Susan Tallman has written extensively on contemporary art, the history of...
October 19, 2022, 11a.m. – 2p.m. Explore heritage sites across campus by engaging in immersive, stress-free activities. During the day, stop by the art museum for some art-making and fun! Anyone who finishes our scavenger hunt can swing by our front desk for a sweet prize. Check back here for...
October 14–16, 2022 Stop by the museum anytime during Family Weekend for a scavenger hunt! We’ll also have Take-n-Make art activities at the Take Care Street Fair on Friday, October 14th so you can get creative at home!
Thursday, September 15, 4p.m. Come join us to learn more about the art of lithographic printmaking. Artist Gregory Santos will discuss his Mixed Grit project and describe his work at Art Gym Denver. Lithographic stones and completed prints from Mixed Grit will be on view in FlexSpace. Described by Santos...
Saturday, September 10, 10am to 12pm Join curator Hope Saska and Bud and Barbara Shark for breakfast, fun, music, and art! You'll have a chance to meet some of the local artists in the show and create your own art! Come celebrate our newest exhibition! Free and open to everyone.
August 16-20, 2022 Drop by the museum between 10 am and 2 pm on August 18 to explore the galleries and grab free take-and-make art kits to do at home. The museum will also offer a coloring and art making station anytime you visit August 16–20.
Thursday, July 14 5pm – 7pm Join us for food, fun, music, art, and a live printmaking demonstration by local artist Sam Cikauskas. Come stop by and make your own print to take home! Free and open to everyone !
New date - 10a.m., Saturday, June 11th This program has been moved from May 21st to June 11th due to inclement weather. Join the CU Art Museum, artist Brittney Hofer, and Boulder County Open Space education naturalists Ellen Harris and Patrick Morgan for a guided deep listening sound walk. Participants...
November 13, 1pm Working with others is a fantastic way to connect with art differently. Join us for a game of add-on inspired by pieces in The Art That Made Medicine where you work together to create something entirely new and unique. Collaborate on a piece and finish something someone...
November 11, 2021 - 12pm Join us for an in-gallery conversation between exhibiting artist Kate Petley and Steven Frost, creative director of the B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance at the ATLAS Institute and instructor in the Department of Media Studies.
Tuesday, September 21, 5 p.m. MST (with 4:30 p.m. MST tour) Moderated by Jarett Earnest Artists: Marina Kassianidou, linn meyers, Jason Stopa and Tim Whiten In connection with our exhibition Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance, join us for a hybrid panel event, Abstract drawing, between thought and action. Our moderator...
Looking for a way to connect with the CU Art museum while we’re closed this semester? Join staff and student employees as we take a sneak peek at some of the art we’ll be highlighting in an upcoming exhibition, The Art That Made Medicine. Experience museum programs from the comfort...
The inaugural CU Art Museum Chamber Music Series presents three short concerts featuring students from the College of Music Honors Chamber Ensembles performing in the museum. Students work with museum staff to craft programs that highlight a central thematic relationship between music and the art on view. Reception hosted by...
Friday, April 19th, 2—5 p.m. CU Art Museum Education Room Please join us and our friends from CU Boulder Libraries and the Boulder Feminist Initiative for a fun, inclusive one-day event that brings together diverse communities to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to women in the arts! Despite its...
February 8, 2019. Presented by CU Art Museum and the Nature, Environment, Science, Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts, this symposium complements events and exhibitions across the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018-2019 around the theme Documenting Change: Our Climate . Our present geologic era, the Anthropocene, has already mobilized...
International Women's Day is Thursday, March 8 and we're honoring the day with an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, 2—7 p.m. Please join us and our friends from CU Boulder Libraries and the Boulder Feminist Initiative for a fun, inclusive one-day event that brings together diverse communities to create and...
Faculty Exhibition: 2017 Film Screening Saturday, October 21, 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater Screening line-up: Jeanne Liotta Climate Fictions , 2017 1 min Each variation of Climate Fictions speculates on the image of our planet in the age of the Anthropocene. I call these short films climate fictions,...
Frankenstein First Thursday October 5, 2017, 5-7 p.m. CU Art Museum A dare to write a scary story led to the creation of Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein", which turns 200 this year--help us kick off celebrations and explore the grotesque & creepy on October 5’s First Thursday at the CU Art...
On Thursday, April 27, 2017, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and University of Colorado Art Museum joined together to host a once-in-a-lifetime event at the Boulder Jewish Community Center celebrating the life’s work of Bud and Barbara Shark: the Sharkive. The evening supported the University of Colorado Art Museum’s effort...
Join us for a three-part series of casual in-gallery conversations with experts from across campus discussing our exhibition Home: American Photography at the CU Art Museum. Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 12:00 p.m. Laura Shill , Denver-based artist and CU alumna Melanie Walker , Associate Professor of Photography at CU Boulder...
Pioneers Panel Discussion Saturday, January 28, 2017 1 p.m. CU Art Museum Women have played an important, though largely unrecognized, role in the visual arts of the American West. Taking as a touchstone the current CUAM exhibition, "Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 1898-1950" on view through February 4, 2017, this...
International Women's Day is Wednesday, March 8 and we're celebrating with two great programs in 2017. Home exhibition talk 12:00 p.m. Join us for a three-part series of casual in-gallery conversations with experts from across campus discussing our exhibition Home: American Photography at the CU Art Museum . This week's...
PERFORMING & TRANSLATING OBJECTS & EACH OTHER Thursday, March 3, 2016 5:00-7:00 p.m. CU Art Museum Please join us for a night of art, dance and performance. As CU Art Museum’s artist-in-residence, Janelle Iglesias sees her role as a ‘creative troublemaker’ and catalyst for unlikely connections. As part of her...
CELEBRATE: 2016 Exhibitions Opening Party February 12, 2016 5-7 p.m. Opening festivities 7-9 p.m. Dance Party Great Art. Festive activities. Music. Snacks. Bring a friend and join us! Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, and Valentine's Day fall within a few days of each other this year. We're adding another reason...
