Current Art Exhibitions
The Sideshow: Splendid Species
Ava Mitchell: Splendid Species May – August 2024 The Sideshow Ava Mitchell is a third year Integrated Visual Studies major from Highlands Ranch, Colorado. While she’s not sketching birds or practicing with gouache paint (her favorite medium), she can be found exploring the zoology labs or rollerblading around campus. “My general artistic practice attempts to depict Earth’s many species in an incredibly detailed manner. In this gallery exhibition, I hope to heighten audience awareness of the beauty of natural creatures and
Thoughts and Prayers
February – July 2024 Reception: April 2, 4:30 – 6pm Duhesa Gallery, Lory Student Center Gregg Deal, (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and “disruptor.” His work is informed by his Native identity and includes exhaustive critiques of American society, politics, popular culture and history. Through paintings, murals, performance work, filmmaking, spoken word, and more, Deal invites the viewer to confront these issues both in the present and the past tense. Deal has lectured in multiple institutions,
Upcoming Art Exhibitions
Marked
July 30 – August 30 2024 Closing Reception: August 27, 4:30-6:30pm Curfman Gallery Marked is an art exhibition featuring the work of five local tattooers. Erin Atencio Erin Atencio is a tattooer working in Fort Collins Colorado. She started tattooing with a two year apprenticeship under Ishmael Johnson
Past Art Exhibitions
The Sideshow: Heavens and Earths
April 10 – May 13 2024 The Sideshow Gallery, Lory Student Center Carrigan Grow is a painter from North Carolina and Emma Daye is a sculptor from Colorado. In a shared season of displacement from a space and time they were familiar with, the two met in their first class of
Paper Poetry
April 9 – May 17 2024 Reception: April 23 4:30 – 6pm Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center Gary Cawood received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Auburn University in 1970, and after service as a VISTA in the Pittsburgh Architect’s Workshop, began a serious study of photography in 1972. He
The Sideshow: Hot Off the Press!
March 4 – April 4 2024 The Sideshow, Lory Student Center Mo’Print, or the Month of Printmaking, is a way to celebrate Colorado’s printmaking community throughout the month of March. Numerous printmaking exhibitions are occurring this month in Denver andsurrounding areas. In conjunction with this series of exhibitions, we’d like
The Sideshow: Salon des Refusés
January 29 – February 27 2024 The Sideshow, Lory Student Center This exhibition title is derived from the famously referred to Salon des Refusés of 1863, which featured works submitted to the official Paris Salon then rejected by the jury. This Salon des Refusés is a display of selected works
Reserved: I Woke Up To A Dream
February 15 – March 22 2024 Opening Reception with comments from the artist: February 15 4:00-5:30pm Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center Vincent Frimpong is a contemporary ceramic artist born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. He holds a B.A. in Industrial Arts (Ceramics option) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science
The Sideshow: Student Fibers Showcase
October – December 2023 The Sideshow This exhibition features work from various student artists which exhibit the different aspects of fibers art. In this collection of works, students explore traditional methods of working with fibers such as weaving and sewing, as well as alternative materials, processes and themes. This
Student Art Exhibition Fall 2023
November 28 2023 – January 26 2023 Opening Reception with awards and juror’s comments: November 28 4:30-6pm Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center The Annual Student Art Exhibition hosted by Colorado State University’s Curfman Gallery is the longest running recurring exhibition at CSU. The exhibition is open to all current
A Way In
October 2 – November 3 2023 Opening Reception with comments from the artist: October 3 4:40-6pm Curfman Gallery, Lory Student Center Chloe Wilwerding is a Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based artist who is driven by questions. Her multidisciplinary art practice centers on primordial questions about who we are, why we are
Going Thru the Motions
August 2023 – January 2024 Duhesa Gallery, Lory Student Center Going through the motions is a phrase used to describe the simulation of an action. Motion is at the foundation of my work. I focus on Ho Chunk culture and history; dealing with issues of land and relocation along with
