Course-Developed Exhibitions

Course-developed

Herbert Bayer: From Bauhaus to Aspen

Herbert Bayer: From Bauhaus to AspenOn view through June 2022Herbert Bayer (1900–1985) studied and taught at the Bauhaus, an art school in 1920s Germany that shaped art and design on an international scale. As a commercial artist and catalog designer in 1930s Berlin, he strove to communicate clear messages to mass audiences. At the same time, his experiments with surreal photomontage and sculpture reveal a more fantastical side to his work. Bayer claimed his art was apolitical, but he was a highly sought-af...

Making Trouble: Hands-on Photography

Making Trouble: Hands-on PhotographyFebruary 3 – March 19, 2022Making Trouble: Hands-on Photography brings together a selection of photographs from the museum’s collection that have been altered either digitally or by hand. Made in the spirit of experimentation and intervention, the photographs on view demonstrate how photographers have expanded or challenged traditional understandings of photography.This exhibition was curated by Emily Berkes and Emilie Luckett, MA candidates in art history enrolled in a c...

Persuasive Prints

Persuasive PrintsFebruary 6–March 21, 2020 Opening reception February 6, 5—7 p.m.Prints from the CU Art Museum’s collection demonstrate how artists and printmakers combine image, text and technique to persuade viewers. Curated by graduate students in CU’s museum practicum seminar, this exhibition brings together engravings, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts created from the 1500s to today. While some of the works are designed to sway public opinion by expressing official or institutional views, others are ...

OBJECT:COLOR

OBJECT:COLOR March—October, 2019OBJECT:COLORÌýbrings together seven artists’ works that are unified by the use of basic compositional elements—line, shape, and color—to influence the viewer’s experience of the artworks’Ìýphysical limits and theirÌýrelationship to surrounding space.ÌýThese artworks pay attention to elements and materials of composition that are often taken for granted and highlightÌýthe importance that artists give to their materials. These artworks require interaction. Whether in the act of turn...

Art in Action: The Process of Design

Art in Action: The Process of DesignMarch 27—September, 2018This project was curated by students in the Program in Environmental Design as part of Marianne Holbert’s Advanced Design Lab 2, a Senior Architecture Studio. Prints from the CU Art Museum are paired with interpretive designs by students to demonstrate how art can be a creative catalyst and a tool for learning. These prints by Josef Albers, Fayga Ostrower and Chryssa served as inspiration for student designs for a prospective building intended to s...

Draw Me In: The Art of Drawing at the CU Art Museum

February 1—March 24, 2018Drawings from CU Art Museum made from the 1200s to today are featured in this exhibition, curated by a team of graduate students in CU’s museum practicum seminar. Draw Me In encourages close looking and conversation. As viewers study techniques employed by artists working in a variety of media, they are asked to engage with traditional conceptions about the art of drawing in order to come to a deeper understanding of the practice. How has drawing been defined and valued by different...

ARGUSEUM: Curating the Controversial

ARGUSEUM: Curating the ControversialNovember 16, 2017—February 3, 2018This exhibit was curated by Thora Brylowe’s First-Year Seminar students as part of her class "Saving the World: Museums, Collections, and Archives". Over the course of the semester students learned why and how people and institutions collect and display artifacts. For this exhibition, the class, under the guidance of the art museum staff, thought carefully about the concerns public museums face as they display objects of controversial ori...

Narrative Im[press]ions: 200 Years of Printed Illustrations

Narrative Im[press]ions: 200 Years of Printed IllustrationsNovember 14, 2016 - June 24, 2017This exhibition was curated by students in the University of babyÖ±²¥app’s English course "Introduction to Media Theory in the Humanities". Over the course of the semester, students selected and researched prints from CU Art Museum’s collection, exploring print technology from the hand-press period, which began in 1450 with the invention of moveable type by Johannes Gutenberg and ended in the 1830s with the advent of me...

Can You See Me Now?

ARTH 4919:ÌýCan You See Me Now?July 25 - October 15, 2016By challenging stereotypes and confronting colonial histories the artists in this exhibition invite us to see the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples. In the works on view, they bring past events into the present, disrupting and augmenting histories of contact providing an alternate, Indigenous perspective. Jimmie Durham’s sculptural assemblage combines natural materials and found objects, reclaiming and connecting plastic and...