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 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 […]
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.
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 […]
Falling into Language presents nine diaspora Iranian artists who engage diverse forms of the Persian alphabet, handwriting, text, and fragments as a way to remain connected to their cultural inheritance and form an essential part of their artistic practice. Through the use of Persian script in painting, geometric patterning, and installation, the artists maintain a […]
Shattering Perspectives: A Teaching Collection of African Ceramics. A collaborative, student-generated exhibition catalog exploring ceramic arts from across the African continent through vessels and objects from the permanent collection at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University. Edited by David M. M. Riep, Ph.D. Features original research on ceramic arts across the […]
Whenever political and social decisions use categories of identity such as race, religion, social class, or nationality to distinguish groups of people, they risk holding certain groups as inferior and culturally “Other.” When people employ ideologies of imperialism, colonialism, patriarchy, and classism, they position certain groups as superior or ideal/ized people. Such ideological positioning causes […]
A special quality about the medium of virtual reality is its immersive nature, allowing users to disengage from the physical world around them in order to fully interact with a digital environment. An Artistic Approach to Virtual Reality traces the lineage of artist/technologists who have worked with virtual reality in its infancy to the interactive […]
This wide-ranging, historically grounded exploration of motion picture remakes produced in East Asia brings together original contributions from experts in Chinese, Hong Kong, Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese cinemas and puts forth new ways of thinking about the remaking process as both a critically underappreciated form of artistic expression and an economically motivated industrial practice. […]
Recognized as one of the premier craft exhibitions in the country, Materials: Hard + Soft International Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition, began in 1987 and was originally initiated by area artist Georgia Leach Gough. Now in its 33rd year, the exhibition shows the top national and international artists as we celebrate the evolving field of […]
![“Delta National Small Prints Exhibition” Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR. [National Juried Exhibition] (Juror: Yuji Hiratsuka, Professor of Printmaking at Oregon State University)](https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Geoflux-3-copy-300x300.jpg)
!["Trypophobia" is a handmade recycled paper piece [57" x 22"] by Plastini that relates psychological trauma to lived physical experience and visceral response mechanisms](https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Trypophobia-plastini-300x300.jpg)