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| Monday, February 27, 2012 |
 | Exhibition: “the invisible connectedness of things”
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
The exhibit the invisible connectedness of things created by internationally recognized visual artist Kim Abeles and co-presented by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and EcoArts Connections will be on display Tuesday Jan. 17 – Monday Oct. 1, 2012.
The exhibit is inspired by the spectacular structure, colors and longevity of lichens and the fact that they are bio-monitors of pollution. With a 16’ video wall, photos, paintings, puzzles, sculpture, “smog collector" plates and more, the exhibit explores the effects that transportation choices have on Boulder’s air quality. The project has been created in collaboration with atmospheric scientists, emissions specialists, lichenologists, transportation professionals and middle school students, among others. This exhibit is commissioned by EcoArts Connections (EAC) and co-presented by the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and EAC in collaboration with Envirotest - Air Care Colorado, Manhattan Middle School and Spark: UCAR Science Education. |
 | Keeping It Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multi-Media Representation
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Opening Reception February 2, 2012, 6-8pm with a major related symposium February 4, 2012 in ATLAS 100. Further details about the symposium to be announced.
Curated by J.P. Park, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
This exhibition comments on the contemporary state of South Korean art by offering a unique and unprecedented opportunity to experience new art forms pioneered by emerging Korean artists working in Seoul, New York, and Europe. The artists in this exhibition lead us into a mysterious, ironic, and hybrid reality, a reality that completely challenges our perceptions of the world as we are conditioned to think about it. The works on view are a series of dialogues that illuminate conjunctures between real life and fantasy which present objects and human behaviors through a creative and conceptual kaleidoscope. The virtual reality in their art—a hyper-reality materialized in scientific, technological, and global idioms—unerringly subverts our intellectual, experienced, and intuitive knowledge about art and society. These artists belong to a new generation, born since the tumultuous social and political phase of modern Korean society subdued; without the Cold War, without riot police, yet possessing access to the larger world via the internet, opportunities to travel abroad, and products promoted locally by global corporations. The exhibition features photography, video, site-specific installation, and sculpture and includes the work of eight artists including:
Kyung Woo Han
Yong-ho Ji
Yeondoo Jung
Shin-il Kim
Sun K. Kwak
Hyungkoo Lee
Jaye Rhee
Kiwoun Shin
This exhibition is generously supported in part by the NBT Charitable Trust, the HBB Foundation, Arts Council Korea, Wayne F. Yakes, MD, the CU Art Museum benefactors and members, as well as by the CU Boulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) fees. Additional funding for the related symposium is generously provided by the James and Rebecca Roser Visiting Artist Program and the Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder. |
 | The Anxiety of Influence: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Ceramics Collection
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum and Kim Dickey, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder
Drawing on Harold Bloom's seminal work of poetic criticism, "The Anxiety of Influence," to interpret the significant role that "influence" plays within the global history, culture, and tradition of ceramics, this exhibition will present Modern and Contemporary Ceramics as well as selected historic works from the CU Art Museum's permanent collection. The exhibition will feature major pieces by Scott Chamberlin, Rick Dillingham, Arthur Gonzalez, Wayne Higby, Anne Kraus, Graham Marks, Jim Melchert, Linda Sikora, Suo Tan, Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman and many others. The exhibition will also include works on paper by noted ceramic artists such as Robert Arneson and Ken Price to further explore the conceptual, aesthetic, and methodological influences on Modern and Contemporary ceramic artists. While many previous exhibitions have chronicled the decorative and technological influences of various ceramic traditions as they travelled across Eastern and Western cultures, this exhibition is the first to apply Bloom's complicated post-Freudian theories of "influence" to the realm of ceramics and its poetics, in order to construct a more complex understanding of the medium.
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 | The Art of Michel Fingesten: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Permanent Collection
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
curated by Davide Stimilli, Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies and Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum
Davide Stimilli will be giving a lecture titled, The Life and Work of Michel Fingesten during CU Boulder’s Week of Jewish Culture on March 7 at 7 pm in the ATLAS Black Box Theater. The CU Art Museum will remain open until 7 pm that evening preceding the lecture.
Michel Fingesten (originally Michl Finkelstein) was born in 1884 in the village of Buckovice (Buczkowitz), Silesia, in the Habsburg Empire, now part of the Czech Republic, from a Czech-Jewish father and an Italian-Jewish mother, and died in 1943 in Cerisano, Southern Italy, after the liberation by the allies of the camp in which he had been interned since 1941. He was one of the most original and productive graphic artists and bookplates designers of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his Surrealist and Cubist influenced prints and paintings that capture the darkening mood of Europe as it slides into the brutality and devastation associated with Fascism, Nazism, and World War II.
In March 2011, Davide Stimilli, Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies, recommended the purchase of a large collection of Fingesten’s works, including 154 items, that had been assembled by an unknown collector, possibly bibliophile Fridolf Johnson, editor of the American Artist Magazine for several years, and was being offered by a New York State antiquarian. The CU Art Museum purchased this collection with funds generously provided by the Program in Jewish Studies, and the Fingesten Collection is now part of the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection.
The selection on display during CU Boulder’s Week of Jewish Culture includes fifteen works and is only meant to provide a first glimpse of the extraordinary range and virtuosity of Fingesten’s art, which includes provocative and often humorous Kafkaesque imagery and potent literary citations, which increasingly echo the darkness enveloping Europe.
Little is known about Fingesten’s early years, though there is agreement that he studied art in Vienna and Munich, and traveled to America, where he spent four years and witnessed the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. It is also known that he traveled to China and Australia, until in 1913 he settled in Berlin where he enjoyed great popularity as a book and magazine illustrator. He fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and settled in Milan, where he built a circle of patrons who commissioned and avidly collected his works, including the architect Gianni Mantero, his greatest collector, for whom Fingesten created more than 90 bookplates—three of which are here displayed—until he was confined to the Fascist internment camp of Civitella del Tronto in 1940, and then transferred in 1941 to that of Ferramonti-Tarsia near Cosenza, Calabria. He died shortly after the liberation of the camp in 1943, apparently as the result of a wound infection after surgery in a military hospital.
2011-12 CU Art Museum exhibitions and programs are made possible in part through the generosity and support of the HBB Foundation, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) fees, and the generosity of the CU Art Museum’s benefactors and members.
Please visit http://cuartmuseum.colorado.edu/ for more information about CU Art Museum exhibitions and Programs or call: 303-492-8300
CU’s Week of Jewish Culture incorporates the theme of Movers: Art and Conscience this year with authors, scholars and artists from around the world highlighting the visual aspects of Jewish culture paying close attention to Jewish forms of visual arts. The Week of Jewish Culture is dedicated to the exploration of 3500 years of Jewish culture, including its current, most cutting-edge manifestations!
Please visit jewishstudies.colorado.edu or call 303.492.7143 for more information.
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 | Get Off to a Smart Start in Grad School: Drop In Workshop
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
This group for masters' students is an opportunity to hone skills that will serve you in graduate school and beyond, including: reviewing literature, tracking what you read, designing and carrying out research, data management, writing bigger projects, balancing work and play/family life, time management, and test taking. Get off to a good start—even if you started a while ago!
Presented by Counseling & Psychological Services in the Center for Community, room 435. |
| GTP Workshop: Guidelines to Address Gender in Engineering Classrooms and Beyond
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Janet Tsai, lead graduate teacher in mechanical engineering, will present this workshop. Engineering and other learning environments can have a disproportionate number of male vs. female students. How can instructors create a fair and welcoming environment? We will discuss common but subtle pitfalls, examples grad students can relate to, and strategies for being supportive of all students. |
 | LIVE ANIMALS! BIRDS AND REPTILES FROM THE DENVER ZOO VISIT THE MUSEUM!
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
LIVE ANIMALS! BIRDS AND REPTILES FROM THE DENVER ZOO VISIT THE MUSEUM.
- Event Category: Special Event
- Price: FREE/Reservations Required!
- Date: Monday, February 27, 2012
- Time: 4-5:45 p.m. and 6-7:45 p.m.
- Venue: Paleontology Hall and Modern Life Galleries
Learn about and interact with reptiles and birds from the Denver Zoo.
Lead by Denver Zoo professional educators this live animal event is geared toward university students and adults. Reservations are required. To RSVP for either the 4-5:45 p.m. or 6:00-7:45 session please call the museum at 303-492-6892 or send an e-mail with the time you are interested in attending, your name and contact information to MuseumPR@colorado.edu.
Both the bird and crocodilian sessions will be held concurrently from 4-5:45 p.m. and again from 6-7:45 p.m. giving visitors the opportunity to learn about both the birds and the crocodilians.
Audiences can expect to interact with various live crocodilians, which may include lizards, turtles and alligators and get an up-close look at interesting and colorful birds that may include raptors, a macaw, a laughing kookaburra or other lively birds.
Educators will share information about bird flight, communication and adaptations and will explore the science of reptilians. Visitors won't want to miss the biofacts table with touchable skulls, skins and skeletons! |
 | Mock Interviews for Student Teachers
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Conduct a mock (practice) interview and get feedback from actual school district officials (FREE).
You should be here by 5:15 pm at the latest to sign up for this. Otherwise, it will be too late. Interviews typically take around 30 minutes. |
| SPANISH 2110 -300
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
C.Fell |
 | Go Global!
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Go Global! Launching and International Career Here or Abroad
Special Guest Speaker: Stacie Berdan
http://stacieberdan.com/
International career expert and author
Contributor for the Huffington Post, US News, Fortune/CNN and others
Students will learn how to acquire and apply their relevant experience as a distinct and differentiated advantage in the job search to increase their odds in landing an international work assignment at home or abroad.
Stacie Berdan will cover the following topics:
Is going global right for you?
Getting started.
Increasing your odds of going global.
Moving abroad.
How to make the most of it.
Target group: Undergraduate and graduate students who already have some international experience such as study abroad, internship abroad, international degree, foreign language skills, etc.
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 | CU Hosts World Premier of the Ginzburg Geography with visiting artist Jewlia Eisenberg
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CU’s Week of Jewish Culture: Mapping Love, Resistance, Exile and Liberation: CU Hosts World Premier of the Ginzburg Geography with visiting artist Jewlia Eisenberg
CU is excited to host the word premier of the Ginzburg Geography Project, the latest creation by Jewlia Eisenberg, artist, composer and founding performer for the band Charming Hostess.
Maps, especially in the era of smart phones, play an increasingly significant role in our lives. They tell us where things are, how far they are and how to get from one point to another. Now imagine your life as a map, where you fell in love, where your heart was broken, where members of your family were born and where they died laid upon the life maps thousands of others. This is the essence of the Ginzburg Geography.
Described as radical cartography, this project is an online video project and art installation that traces the life and work of Leone and Natalia Ginzburg. Leone was an Italian editor, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist, co-founding the anti-fascist action party, Justice and Liberty. His wife, Natalia, was an award-winning Italian author whose work explores family relationships, and politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. The Ginzburg Geography has as its foundation an interactive digital map of the family’s experience of love, family, resistance, escape, liberation and redemption in occupied in Europe n WWII.
The interactive component invites others to work with Jewlia Eisenberg and map their own journeys of love, resistance, exile, liberation, life and death. These stories and maps will be woven into those of the Ginzburgs and be displayed in a final art installation on Wednesday, March 7 at 7 PM in the Blackbox Theater of the CU Atlas building.
Join us for an evening with Ms. Eisenberg that explains the lives of the Ginzburgs and invites you to be a part of the world premier of the Ginzburg Geography Project. |
 | Artist Series: Andras Schiff, piano
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The “revelatory” Schiff has climbed to the summit of modern classical music with his “uncanny combination of elegance and intensity” (NY Times). The exquisitely sensitive master has earned first prizes at the Tchaikovsky and Leeds competitions, won two Grammy awards, and played in nearly every major concert hall in the world. In this rare United States solo recital, Schiff performs one of Beethoven’s greatest piano masterworks, The Diabelli Variations and music by Bach and Bartok.
Preconcert Conversation at 6:45 p.m. in Macky 102.
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