Fall 2007 - Spring 2008

Lecture series

To be announced

 

Music

To be announced

 

Theatre

To be announced

Tickets are available at the door and are FREE for all UCCS students!  $5 for non-students.  The Osborne Studio Theatre is located in University Hall, Room 233.

 

UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art

Water Media International XV
June 15 - August 3, 2007            
A jointly produced juried water media exhibition in collaboration with the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society.

Manifest: Colonial Tendencies of the West
September 9 – November 17
This exhibition focuses on western culture’s tendencies toward commercial, cultural, and political colonialism.  Featured work orbits around notions of the Old West’s Manifest Destiny mentality, the cultural cross-pollination that results from colonialism, the mythologizing and fictionalizing of western history, and the global proliferation of commercial products from the West, Participating artists include Philip Kwame Apagya (Ghana), Amy Chan (Richmond, VA), Luis Gispert (NYC, NY), Patti Hallock (Denver, CO), Danny Ledonne (Denver, CO), and Louise Noguchi (Toronto).

Young Moderns
December 14 – February 9
There is a movement within contemporary painting practice that dissects and continues the trajectory of late Modernist painting. Young Moderns will highlight a few emerging artists whose practice deals with the recent history of Modernism, where that deposited painting, and where that leads them: Sarah Braman (NYC), Todd Chilton(Chicago), and John McEnroe (Denver).

Dario Solman: The Heart of Perspective
February 22 – April 12
Dario Solman is a Croatian artist living and working in New York City. Following his cube-like protagonists through urban landscapes and distopian situations, his animations and drawings explore “perspective” as opinion, narrative, and artistic tool.

2008 Senior Exhibition
May 2 – June 7
Annually, the graduating seniors of the Visual and Performing Arts Department will exhibit their work at the Gallery of Contemporary Art.  As the culmination of their university education, this show highlights the best in undergraduate visual art.

Matt Barton & Corey Drieth: New Faculty Exhibition
June 20 – August 8
The UCCS Visual and Performing Arts department has hired two new faculty to teach 2D and 3D art making: Corey Drieth (2D) and Matt Barton (3D).  This exhibition will introduce the newest additions to the region’s art community.

PAST VISITORS:

Avant Guitar Summit
Carlos Basualdo
Jonathan Binstock
Lynn Book
Jim Campbell – www.jimcampbell.tv
Renee Cox
Cuong Vu Trio: Cuong Vu, Stomu Tekeishi, Ted Poor
Toni Dove – www.tonidove.com
Scott Duce – www.artnet.com/weilart.html
Richard Elliot
Douglas Ewart
Janet Feder
Flamenco Orbit featuring Gregory Walker
Mary Flanagan – www.maryflanagan.com
Ana Flores – www.artnet.com/artist/424028871/ana-flores.html
Fred Frith
Oliver Herring
Adam Lerner
Mary Lucier – www.artnet.com/artist/10807/mary-lucier.html
Nancy Mithlo – www.nancymariemithlo.com
Andre Modica – www.edelmangallery.com/modica.htm
Marie Navarre – www.lisasettegallery.com/artistsI-O/navarre.htm
Roberto Cabrera Padilla
Anat Pollack – http://anatpollack.net
Robin Starbuck – www.robinstarbuck.com
Michael Theodore
Betsy Tobin
Beata Wehr
Anne Wilson

For More Information

Gallery of Contemporary Art
Christopher Lynn clynn@uccs.edu

Music
Glen Whitehead gwhitehe@uccs.edu

VAPA Ensemble - Student Theatre Productions
Laura Tesman ltesman@uccs.edu

Visiting Artists (Lecture Series)
Elissa Auther eauther@uccs.edu
Valerie Brodar vbrodar@uccs.edu