University Gallery opens with weekend of events
Verve cover for University Gallery opening
Today the new University Gallery opens in the UCA. This comes after a semester of preparation from CSU faculty and student volunteers. I was fortunate enough to cover the museum in a story for today’s Collegian.
Along with the opening comes a slew of events to celebrate.
Tonight from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. there is a Ribbon Cutting and Opening Reception in the University Art Museum.
Tomorrow the Museum will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. for normal hours.
Tomorrow evening there will a Keynote Guest Artist Lecture from Mel Chin at 5 p.m.
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m . there is the Annual Fromt Range Symposium in the History of art. This will take place in room 158 in the UCA.
There is also a graduate student open studio tour in the Visal Arts Building from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
There will also be a Hatton Gallery History of the art department exhibition in the Visual Arts Building from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday There will be an Art Department open house in the Hatton Gallery in the Visual Arts Building from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
This is a huge weekend for CSU, since the gallery is a museum quality gallery that is free to the public of Fort Collins and CSU. In the University Gallery will be three separate shows. ” Reflection, Refraction, Reconfiguration: Images from the Collection of Polly and Mark Addison” features modern artwork. ”African Art From Colorado State University Collections” and “The Art of the Japanese Print ” both feature works donated to CSU from past faculty and students.
I will work to post pictures of the artwork up here online, but the show will run through the rest of the semester. Stop in and check it out at some point. The display of the artwork is amazing, and this is a huge accomplishment for CSU.
