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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Event Image Introduction to Wind Energy
8:00 AM

Explore small wind electric systems suitable for homes, farms, and businesses. Topics include: basics of electricity; pros and cons of small wind energy systems; forces that generate winds and affect wind flows; types of wind; wind system options; ways to assess electrical demand in new and existing buildings; ways to determine the wind resources at a potential wind site; basics of wind turbine design; tower options; optimum tower height; balance of systems components; and economics of wind energy systems.

This is a SELF-PACED, Online course of self-study. Enrolled students will have 6 months to complete the course. A final exam of 80% or better is required for credit towards the Professional Certificate.

Learn more about the Sustainable Practices program and our courses at our website, sustainable.colorado.edu.
Event Image 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.

Event Image 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.
Event Image Something but definitely not Nothing: The Spring 2012 BFA Exhibition
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM

The CU Art Museum and the Department of Art & Art History present Something but definitely not Nothing: The Spring 2012 BFA Exhibition, held in the Projects Gallery of the CU Art Museum building, part of the Visual Arts Complex on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. 

The exhibition features: 
Preston Cram
Kristina Keeter
Catherine Nelson
Adam Siefkas
Logan Young

Event Image 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.
My Leave Training (Phil)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

M. Detmer
Event Image CUGOLD Leadership Recognition Awards Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

CU GOLD (Gaining Opportunities through Leadership Development) is hosting the 2012 Leadership Recognition Awards Reception on Tuesday, May 1st from 6:00PM to 8:00PM in UMC 235.  This annual event celebrates outstanding leadership on the CU Boulder campus by students, student organizations, and staff members.  Awards include:

Student Organization of the Year
Rising Star Award
Outstanding Student Voice Award
Lasting Legacy Award (Senior Class Council)
Supportive Staff Member of the Year
Integrity Award (Honor Code)
Best Cultural Event (Cultural Events Board)
Ripple Award (Dennis Small Cultural Center)

Please go to our website (http://umc.colorado.edu/studentlife/cugold/awards) for award descriptions.  If you wish to nominate an individual or organization that exemplifies the requirements of one of these awards, please complete this form and submit it via e-mail to CUGOLD@colorado.edu with the name of the award you are nominating for typed in the subject line.  You may submit multiple nominations.
Event Image University Symphony Orchestra
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Kevin Beavers - Bright Sky (World Premiere)
Carter Pann - Three Secrets in Maine (World Premiere)
Dmitri Shostakovich -
Symphony No. 5

Gary Lewis, conductor

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