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| Tuesday, February 28, 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 - 7:00 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 - 7:00 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 - 7:00 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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 | Body Lovin': 3-Part Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
We invite all students who have ever struggled with body image to this free 3-part workshop about building a better relationship with your body.
Learn about size prejudice, the impact of the media and cultural messages, and how to rise above by empowering yourself and those around you. |
| Course Fees Meeting
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Monthly c.fees meeting |
 | Networking - NOT Working?
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This two-hour workshop dispels common networking myths, helps you understand what works when using networking to develop your career, and prepares you for the "Careers with a Cause" Fair the following day. You will transform your fear/avoidance of networking into a personalized approach to leverage your most immediate resources: your person and your network.
Special Guest & Facilitator, Sam Elmore, serves individuals and organizations as an experiential coach and consultant. For over 15 years Sam has been honing his expertise in somatic psychology, group process, systems theory, play, creativity and theatre. His approach is grounded in the theory and science of change and is highly experiential. Sam holds a Master's degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, and has additional training in Authentic Leadership and Matrixworks. Sam is also a committed visual and theatre artist. He lives in Boulder with his wife and their dog. To learn more about Sam visit www.onthebrinc.com
Find satisfying work
- Learn how good listening can help land you your dream job
- Discover how your posture and breathing impact networking
- Hear how others have made networking work
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 | Study Theatre, Music and Culture in Edinburgh, Scotland this summer!
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Earn 3 credits in 3 weeks this summer while experiencing the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, first hand! In addition to staying in Scotland's beautiful capital, students take a five day tour of the Highlands and a day trip to Glasgow. The program includes visits to the Edinburgh Castle and Scottish Parliament. See the arts in a whole new way! Interest meeting: 2/28, 5-6pm in UMC 404.
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| Intermed. Swedish-2
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
M. Leonhardt-Lupa |
 | Poker Tournament
5:30 PM - 10:00 PM
FREE Texas Hold'em Poker Tournaments
Tuesday Nights
Sign up at 5:30pm. Cards fly at 6pm.
64 spots. Everyone welcome - all skill levels invited, from novice to expert. Come learn!
Prizes at every tournament. Winner of each tournament gets a seat in the semester's Grand Championship and a chance to win the grand prize!
Visit http://umc.colorado.edu/connection for more! |
 | Between Two Worlds with talk back by producers and directors, Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
CU's Week of Jewish Culture and the Seeing Israel Film Series continues with a screening of Between Two Worlds and talk back with producers and directors, Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman.
Between Two Worlds is a personal investigation using five unique stories that go beyond the superficial to reveal the passionate debates over identity and generational changes that are taking place within today’s American Jewish community. Powerful and divergent feelings about Israel, issues involving ethnic and religious continuity, and the growth of the neo-conservative movement are just some of the provocative issues this film addresses. Once seen as a voting block, American Jews no longer seem to be speaking in a singular voice. Clearly intended to spark dialogue, Between Two Worlds has already sparked a stimulating dialogue about today’s American Jewish community.
Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman are award-winning documentary filmmakers whose films include Blacks and Jews, Secrets of Silicon Valley, and Thirst. Their work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, the Jerusalem Film Festival, and aired on public television’s acclaimed P.O.V. and Independent Lens series. Their films have been used by activists and opinion leaders around the world and have been translated into over fifteen languages and broadcast internationally. The New Yorker magazine has said “Snitow and Kaufman bring a fair-minded skepticism to everything they film.” |
 | Education Under Fire Film Screening
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Education Under Fire (EUF) is a campaign developed to address the Iranian government’s denial of the right to education for ideological and religious reasons. Beyond the goal of encouraging specific action in order to mitigate the effects of these policies in Iran, the campaign will begin conversations on university campuses and within communities around the country in order to raise awareness of and shine a light on the importance of defending Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 26 guarantees education as an inalienable right of every human being.
A new 30 minute documentary by the same title, Education Under Fire, focuses on the Islamic Republic of Iran's three decade long policy of denying the members of its Bahá´í community the right to attend any institution of higher education. In May 2011 the government launched a coordinated attack against the Bahá´í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) raiding dozens of homes, confiscating computers and materials and detaining a number of that institution’s professors and administrators, some of whom continue to languish in prison without formal charges yet having been levied.
The BIHE, referred to by the New York Times as “an elaborate act of communal self-preservation,” was founded in 1987 and offers at present the only access to higher education available to Iranian Bahá´ís.
The Iranian government also bans students from pursuing higher education if they have expressed views, joined organizations or engaged in activities that are construed as critical of the government. In addition, the authorities have attempted to prevent instruction in several fields in the humanities and social sciences and have dismissed faculty for ideological reasons.
Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President (of East Timor) José Ramos-Horta, have written an open letter about these abuses addressed to the International Academic Community.
Screenings of the film on university campuses, in human rights gatherings and other community settings, accompanied by action-oriented conversations will find audience participants comprised of university students, faculty and administrative staff, human rights workers and others.
You can make a difference. By helping to set in motion, promoting or attending a screening-conversation on your campus or in your community you will be joining forces with countless others. By doing so, you will help shed light on the importance of protecting the right to education and access to information for all of the peoples of the world.
For more information, visit: http://educationunderfire.com/
Like the Facebook cause: http://www.facebook.com/EducationUnderFire?sk=wall |
 | Faculty Tuesdays: Andrés Cárdenes, violin and viola
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Spectrums of Sound
Andrés Cárdenes, violin and viola; Lina Bahn, violin; Judith Glyde, cello; Nicolò Spera, guitar; David Korevaar, piano
Since catapulting into the upper tier of violin virtuosos after capturing Second Prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition, CU Guest Artist in Residence Andrés Cárdenes has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras on four continents. In this program Cárdenes presents everything from Mozart to Kirchner, from violin to viola, classical, virtuosity, contemporary, utilitarian, salon, Spanish music and Russian irony.
Mozart - Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454
Hindemith - Sonata in E (1935)
Leon Kirchner - For solo violin (1986)
Niccolo Paganini - Quartet No. 15 in A Minor
Pablo de Sarasate - Romanza Andaluza, Op. 22
Debussy - Beau Soir
Rodion Schedrin - Imitation of Albeniz |
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