Art Central 2026

Elnaz Javani selected for Art Central 2026 Central Stage. Elnaz Javani Represented by RARARES Gallery, has been selected for Art Central 2026 fair’s curatorial focus Central Stage. Curated by Zoie Yung and Enoch Cheng, Central Stage highlights artists whose practices resonate within contemporary international discourse and recent institutional contexts. Elnaz Javani, whose works deeply rooted […]

3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations

Accompanying the exhibition of the same name, 3óóxoneeʼnohoʼóoóyóóʼ /Ho’honáá’e Tsé’amoo’ėse: Art of the Rocky Mountain Homelands of the Hinono’eino’ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese Nations is the first exhibition at Colorado State University dedicated to artists of the Hinonoʼeino’ (Arapaho) and Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) Nations, whose homelands in Colorado formed much of the land grant that founded Colorado State […]

The Love Language of Fire

The Love Language of Fire examines the evolving relationship between humanity and wildfire in the forests of the western United States. Once a vital force nurturing ecosystems, wildfire has become catastrophic due to a legacy of fire suppression, poor forest management, and human-induced climate change. Yet, Osborne’s work reveals the astounding resilience of these woodlands—how […]

Illuminating Identity: A Celebration of African Artists in the Digital Era

lluminating Identity: A Celebration of African Artists in the Digital Era is the result of a project undertaken by art and art history students at Colorado State University during a seminar course on Contemporary African Art in Spring 2024. Throughout the semester, students were asked to research and read about the field of African art […]

Cultivando el Fuego, Solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte de Baja California Sur

Fire is a nurturer of ecosystems and cultures. It is an essential element of all life. For millennia, the raw nature of fire shaped the ecology of western North America and the original cultures that inhabited it. Paradoxically, as fire shaped and then settled culture in this region, people began to push it away. Yet, […]

The Codex Borbonicus Veintena Imagery: Visualizing History, Time, and Ritual in Aztec Solar-Year Festivals

The sixteenth-century pictorial manuscript known as the Codex Borbonicus contains a remarkable record of the eighteen Mexica (or “Aztec”) festival periods of twenty days, known as veintenas, celebrated during the 365-day solar year. Because its indigenous artists framed the Borbonicus veintenas with historical year dates, this volume situates the annually recurring rituals within the march […]

Delta National Small Prints Exhibition

Johnny Plastini’s viscosity intaglio work “Geoflux” was featured at the 2024 Delta National Small Prints exhibition at the Bradbury Art Museum. The juror for the 2024 DNSPE was Yuji Hiratsuka, award-winning printmaker and Oregon State University distinguished professor emeritus. He selected 65 prints from over four hundred submissions by artists around the world.

The American West Program at 50: Celebrating a Half Century of Innovation & Inclusion in Art & History at Colorado State University

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the American West Program at Colorado State University. Between 1972 and 2022, the program deployed the resources of CSU to engaging public audiences in the history of the American West. Essays in the anthology, written by noted scholars of the American West such as Patricia Limerick, Elliott West, and Philip […]