Experience highlights on the international contemporary art calendar by joining Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) for an exclusive, full-immersion art tour in NYC. The tour will visit the Whitney Biennial, the New Museum Triennial, and the Armory Show 2012.

Only once every six years do these three important events in contemporary art come together at the same time. Take advantage of this excellently-priced opportunity to immerse yourself in what’s going on in the world of art right now.

Limited to 12 participants.

Package Includes:
- Private tour of the Whitney Biennial
- Private tour of the New Museum Triennial
- Private tour of emerging Lower East Side galleries with a local independent curator
- Private lecture from the architects at So-Il (formerly of SANAA), recently awarded the Frieze NY 2012 commission; architects for Pole Dance MoMA PS1 2010, fashion designer Derek Lam
- VIP tickets to the Armory Show including the opening event
- Visits to two artists’ studios
- 3 nights accommodation at the Ace Hotel Chelsea
- 2 lunches
- 1 cocktail hour at the Ace Hotel on the first night

Price: $1600
**Pricing includes items listed above and excludes airfare or airport/hotel transfers of any kind.

Total Art Immersion NYC is organized and led by Kecia Benvenuto, Board of Directors, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; former head of art buying, Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam (1999 – 2007); independent curator.

For more information and to make reservations: please contact David Dadone at david@bmoca.org or 303.443.2122 or Kecia Benvenuto at dearkecia@gmail.com or 718.909.3669.

This tour is sure to fill up fast, book soon to reserve your space.

cycling74.com

Darwin Grosse

Darwin Grosse works at the intersection of Creativity and Code. By applying an engineer’s tools to live performance, he builds complex visual textures and sonic landscapes out of whole cloth. In addition to his active live media performance work, Darwin is part of the Cycling ’74 software development team, is a member of the University of Denver adjunct faculty, is an active music producer.

Max/MSP/Jitter workshop with Darwin Grosse of Cycling 74

Diving into media-based programming can both overwhelm and inspire. This workshop will introduce the participant to using Cycling ’74′s Max programming language to interactively manipulate audio and visuals. No programming experience is necessary – just a desire to warp, twist and mangle sound and video. Participants will need to bring their own computer, Mac or PC.

What is Max?

Make connections. Make things happen.

Max gives you the parts to create unique sounds, stunning visuals, and engaging interactive media. These parts are called ‘objects’ – visual boxes that contain tiny programs to do something specific. Each object does something different. Some make noises, some make video effects, others just do simple calculations or make decisions. In Max you add objects to a visual canvas and connect them together with patchcords. You can use as many as you like. By combining objects, you create interactive and unique software without ever writing any code (you can do that too if you really want to). Just connect.

For information and workshop registration, please email jordan@bmoca.org.

SparkFun
sparkfun.com

Based in Boulder, Colorado, SparkFun is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible. Whether it’s a robot that can cook your breakfast or a GPS cat tracking device, their products and resources are designed to make the world of electronics more accessible to the average person. Products ranging from resistors and LEDs to humidity sensors and LCD screens, their goal is to make finding the parts and information you need easier and affordable so you can create awesome projects. SparkFun believes anyone and everyone can play with cool electronic gadgets and will offer workshops designed to help educate individuals in the wonderful world of embedded electronics..so go on and let your geek shine!

Workshop details: Introduction to Arduino

Go from blinking an LED to virtual prototyping and enjoy brunch alongside a live performance by the Boulder Laptop Orchestra.  This class is for anyone who has never played around with Arduino before and those who have played around a little bit but aren’t entirely sure about how the basics work. It’s easier than you think! SparkFun will put together basic single component electrical circuits, learn about analog and digital, input and output, basic programming concepts, practice very basic Serial communication, and briefly cover basic virtual prototyping.

Students will create three simple circuits highlighting analog and digital forms of input and output. Get started with the Arduino programming environment, briefly discuss programming and virtual prototyping. Depending on class interest, a SparkFun Inventor’s Kit and an Educational Material Binder in both physical and digital format will be available.

For information and workshop registration, please email jordan@bmoca.org.

offthesky.com
pillowgarden.com

off the sky:
Jason Corder is a sonic spelunker, graphic designer, video artist, painter, and teacher in the art of sound.  He has worked during the past 10 years to produce over 30 releases on various record labels from 12k.term to Zymogen.  He is constantly evolving his many musical projects: offthesky, color cassette, and juxta phona.  He spends his free time developing interactive installations, performing live audio/video, and collaborating with many artists from around the world.  Jason grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and now resides in Denver, Colorado.

pillow garden:
With a background in painting, mixed media and experimental video, Pillow Garden, aka Sarah H.Dot, takes a similar approach to experiments in audio. Pillow Garden music is inspired by the voices and resonances hidden within orphaned instruments and all curious objects. Sarah H.Dot has been capturing field recordings and creating noise making art objects since 2006 to add to her growing library of sounds and is now enjoying the process of playing with her collection.

davidfodel.com
pacoproano.com
downtownmusic.net/matt-pass

David Fodel was born and raised in Baltimore, and now lives in Colorado. His eclectic music has been released on several independent labels, and featured on the Sci-Fi Channel UK and ITV. His electronic media art has been featured at ISEA, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, ADAPT Festival, Future Places Festival Portugal, Communikey Festival, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Transmediale Salon in Berlin. His award winning sound design and video has been screened in festivals internationally. Fodel has designed and built custom hardware, and developed controller software for composition and performance. David Fodel received his MFA in Electronic Media Arts & Design from the University of Denver.

Paco Proano has exhibited and performed for the past decade under the new media project en.ve.lope, with domestic shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Denver, +Plus Gallery, RMCAD, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and SHARE in New York City. Work has also been exhibited internationally in Japan, Mexico, Ecuador, England and Turkey. Paco Proano serves as curator and experience architect for Object+Thought (O+T), a space dedicated to New Media, installation and performance.

Matt Pass was born and raised in New York City, and a recent transplant to Colorado. He is a improvisor of voice, bowed piano strings, artifact and homemade instruments thru his live field of sound processing and custom pedal-work. Matt Pass has become adept in sound improvisation, having played solos, duos and with sound collectives in various nooks and crannies of NYC and other North American cities.  He revels in working and playing with group soundscapes, where he adds sound spices and herbs to enhance the overall aural environment while encouraging variety and the occasional stillness of quietude.

janetfeder.com
youtube.com/watch?v=1_ct117f-GU
darwingrosse.com

Janet Feder is most widely known for pioneering composition for prepared guitar(s). Until recently the chair of the Music Department at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, she has toured both solo and with her duo cowhause (with Colin Bricker, live electronics) across the US and internationally. Considered to be one of the most innovative guitarists worldwide today, Janet Feder has performed and collaborated with other legends of modern music including Fred Frith, Elliot Sharp, Nels Cline, and Bill Frisell.

cowhause is Janet Feder, guitar(s) and Colin Bricker, laptop.  Their first single, “Sueno” hit high on the College Music Journal charts in 2003 with Janet’s solo release “Speak Puppet” (ReR Recommended Records, UK 2002) which Colin also engineered, mixed and mastered at his premier Denver recording studio Notably Fine Audio.  The duo has since had two EU tours, performances across the western US, and is currently recording their second release due in 2012.

Darwin Grosse works at the intersection of Creativity and Code. By applying an engineer’s tools to live performance, he builds complex visual textures and sonic landscapes out of whole cloth. In addition to his active live media performance work, Darwin is part of the Cycling ’74 software development team, is a member of the University of Denver adjunct faculty, is an active music producer.

sue-c.net

SUE.C was born Sue Costabile in 1974 in Long Island, NY. For the past 10 years she has created handmade videos for both the stage and screen as a visual and performing artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works challenge the norms of photography, video, and technology by blending them all into an organic and improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of digital tools to create an experimental animation “instrument,” SUE-C synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors, hand-made papers, fabrics and miniature lighting effects. Dark, moody, textural, and physical, her live films inherit equally from the kinetic languages of Stan Brakhage’s abstract cinema and Nicolas Schöffer’s lumodynamic sculptures. She employs the same techniques in her recorded work to emphasize the beauty of the banal street corner, public parking lot, forgotten winter beach, torn remnant of a found photograph, cast-away super 8 vacation footage, and other half-forgotten, often-unnoticed, in-between spaces in her surroundings.

jeremybailey.net

Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based new media and performance artist whose work explores custom software in a performative context. “His work is often confidently self-deprecating in offering hilarious parodies of new media vocabularies.” (Marisa Olson, Rhizome) Recent projects include performances for Transmediale, FACT, the Tate Liverpool and the New Museum.

noisefold.com
uitti.org

NoiseFold is an interactive media group founded by artists, David Stout and Cory Metcalf. The pair work at the intersection of moving image, music and the visual arts, creating live cinema performances, interactive video installations, animated films and electro-acoustic music scores.  NoiseFold presented their world premiere performance at the Festival Internationale d’Art Video in Casablanca, Morocco in spring 2006. Their performances, which have included the UNESCO Creative Cities Summit, the New York Electronic Arts Festival, Interactive Futures in Victoria, BC, Los Angeles SCREAM festival, TEDx at the Denver Art Museum  and “Chinati Weekend” in Marfa, Texas have garnered rave reviews and a growing international audience. NoiseFold routinely performs in wildly different contexts from art museums and galleries to planetariums, concert halls, film theaters, rock venues and even botanic gardens. This ability to cross generational, disciplinary and cultural boundaries has enabled the artists to cultivate an audience eager to experience new cinematic and musical  forms.   Stout & Metcalf began their seminal work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, famed as an art center and lesser known as the birthplace of Artificial Life (A-Life). The duo have received numerous awards including a recent honorable mention for the international Vida 13.0 Art & Artificial Life competition in Spain. Currently Cory and David are developing a series of installation environments and performances exploring interactive audio-visual transcoding systems, artificial life, synthetic ecology and playful critique of bio-metric surveillance and encryption technologies. They have now expanded their collaboration to include virtuoso acoustic instrumentalists and visionary computer programmers from the USA, Netherlands and Germany.

Frances-Marie Uitti, composer/performer, pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multivoiced writing. Using two bows in one hand, this invention permits contemporaneous cross accents, multiple timbres, contrasting 4-voiced dynamics, simultaneous legato vs articulated playing. György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi, Jonathan Harvey, Richard Barrett, Horatio Radulescu, Lisa Bielawa are among many who have used this technique in their works dedicated to her.

Collaborating significantly over years with radicals, Dick Raaijmakers, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi, she has also worked closely with Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough and countless composers from the new generation. She tours as soloist extensively throughout the world having played for audiences from New York City to Mongolia and appears regularly in such festivals as the Biennale Di Venezia, Strasbourg Festival, Gulbenkian Festival Ars Musica, Holland Festival and for radios and televisions in Europe, Japan, and the United States. She premiered cello concerti dedicated to her by Per Norgaard, Dick Raaijmakers, Jonathan Harvey, James Tenney, Peter Nelson and gave the first performance of the cello concerto of William Jeths in 2000. She premiered the newly discovered concerto by Giacinto Scelsi in 2008.

Recordings:
ECM records, Wergo, CRI, Mode, HatHut, Raretone, Cramps, JdKrecordings, BVHaast, Etcetera, Cryptogramophone.

David Stout is a visual and sonic artist, video director and performer exploring cross-media synthesis and interdisciplinary approaches to new genres bridging the arts, design and sciences.  He is a recipient of the New Mexico New Visions Award (2007), the Harvestworks Interactive Technology Award and the Sun Micro Systems Award for Academic Excellence (2004) and a nominee for the USA Artist Fellowship (2008), International Media Art Prize (2004) and the WTN World Technology Award (2003). He holds an inter-arts MFA (1985) from CalArts where he studied with Ed Emshwiller, Jules Engel, Jim Pomeroy, and Bill Viola. His work across multiple mediums include live cinema performance, video-dance, animation, print-making, video installation, electro-acoustic music composition and large-scale telematic video events that emphasize multi-screen projection as an extension of performer, audience and architecture. Since 2002 he has worked closely with creative partner, Cory Metcalf to examine the aesthetic possibilities for evolutionary generative systems, artificial life networks and simulation environments. The pair are renown as members of the performance group, NoiseFold, a critically acclaimed interactive media ensemble. Stout previously founded the MOV-iN Gallery and the Installation, Performance & Interactivity project (IPI) at the College of Santa Fe. He is at present directing activities for the Initiative for Advance Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA), a new transdisciplinary research program at the University of North Texas located in the Dallas metropolitan area, where he is a professor in the Composition Division of the College of Music.

Cory Metcalf is a moving image and sound artist with interests ranging from the field of bio-mimicry and healing arts to the performance of aerial theater, extended vocal and instrumental noise-music. Metcalf’s work explores the intersection of human interaction, real-time media systems and responsive installation environments. His interest in physical computing is evidenced in works such as Sensor Swarm (2002). Sensor Swarm is a hybrid interactive performance/installation that senses the presence and state of audience members to shape an auditory environment composed of recorded cicada samples, thus fore-grounding the normally unconscious influence that humans impose on their environment, blurring the distinction between the audience and performer, and creating an unpredictable and improvisational experience for both. In 2002, Metcalf joined David Stout, then director of the interactive performance group, i2O, where he developed dynamic diffusion sound designs for live acoustics and video performance instruments. Further collaboration between Stout and Metcalf led to the use of real-time 3D data visualization and complex data feed-back programs to model synthetic ecologies based on genetic and behavioral processes found in living systems. These techniques are central to works such as 100 Monkey Garden, a self-generating and self-regulating aesthetic ecology. The two are co-founders of the interactive media-performance group, NoiseFold.

MediaLive: Confluence and Contradiction brings together practitioners who explore diverse approaches to emerging forms of live performance. The very notion of what it means for a work to be live, the interplay between modes of perception such as sight and sound, and the entanglement of human interaction with technology all come into question as artists investigate the elasticity of form and content, bridging the analog and digital realms.

Invited participants approach their work from differing perspectives, mixing narrative with abstraction, novel technology with nostalgic references, and generative processes with instrumental virtuosity.

Each artist explores the interface as more than a means to control or manipulate the substance of the performance, acknowledging the interface as a potential site of meaning, sometimes rooted in tradition, sometimes in ironic self-reflection.

Our hope in putting together this 3 day event is to showcase a variety of approaches, discuss both the technology and the underlying theoretical, formal and conceptual considerations, and to give people the opportunity to explore some of the tools used in this type of artistic practice.

Schedule

Friday July 13:
off the sky+pillow garden (Denver)
cowhause with darwin grosse (Denver)
noisefold with frances marie uitti (Texas, Netherlands)
(ambient media – TBD)

Saturday, July 14:
Panel Discussion:
What is Live Media? – with participating artists, and curators.

Performances:
Jeremy Bailey (Toronto)
paco and david and matt (Denver)
sue-c (San Francisco)
fernando velasquez (Sao Paulo)
(ambient media / TBD)

Sunday, July 15:
Continental BLOrkFast with the Boulder Laptop Orkestra (Boulder)

DIY Audiovisual Instrument Building:
Max/MSP/Jitter workshop with Darwin Grosse of Cycling 74
Arduino/Sensor workshop with Sparkfun

For additional information, please email jordan@bmoca.org.

$10/$5 Members

Acclaimed perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz interprets the fall exhibitions through custom blended scents.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Open continuously (all night) from Thursday, July 21 at 6:30pm until Saturday, July 23 at 4pm.
Open on Sunday, July 24 from 11am until 4pm.
Free and open to the public.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Adam Milner invite you to join the artist for the latest iteration of his bedroom installation—at BMoCA. By setting up his own bed and personal items inside the museum, Milner creates a place that firmly blends private and public spheres, melding behavioral patterns usually reserved for one or the other. For the duration of the exhibition – from Thursday until Sunday evening – Another Room at BMoCA will become Milner’s home base. From here he will leave to go about his day, rest between appointments, or meet with visitors. He will also sleep at the museum at night.

The exhibition is free and open around the clock from Thursday until Saturday evening and during regular museum hours on Sunday. Visitors are invited to sit and talk with the artist, enjoy a cup of tea, or relax and listen to music. The experience is shaped by participants’ interactions within the artist-created environment. Milner lists the ingredients for his installation as “me, you, personal objects, and hand-cut vinyl,” embracing open-endedness and chance as compelling means to broaden our awareness regarding social conduct and close personal relationships.

I explore the tension and politics of intimacy and relationships and the boundaries and containers—both self-imposed and pre-existing—that mediate our interaction, including memory, distance, communication, and technology. – Adam Milner

Another Room is part of an ongoing series. Previous venues include a hallway at CU Boulder’s School of Art and the artist’s actual bedroom. Plans for future installations are also underway. Although Milner takes a light-hearted, playful approach, he addresses the key influences that shape our actions and decision-making. Recognizing the desire for emotional and physical closeness as a major factor in human behavior, unabashed sexual overtones in his work are neither accidental nor insignificant.

Milner’s work employs video, photography, performance, and experimental drawing techniques, often to document otherwise ephemeral interactions and routines. One of his ongoing series, titled Petition Against Forgetting, includes daily photo-documentation of the bed he slept in and every bathroom he used. Another series, Bed Drawings, consists of drawings created by the movement of the artist’s body as he falls asleep.

Adam Milner lives in Boulder, Colorado. He recently graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a BS in Journalism as well as a minor in Technology, Arts and Media.

An affiliate group for BMoCA’s Young Members

Friends with Benefits Membership

Friends w/ Benefits Add-on (requires valid membership) $40.00 Student/Teacher/Senior with FwB Add-on $65.00 Individual with FwB Add-on $75.00 Dual/Family with FwB Add-on $95.00 Contributor with FwB Add-on $150.00

Friends with Benefits is a membership add-on that includes a year membership to BMoCA’s young member group. It can be purchased at any time with a new or existing membership for $40.00. Become a Friend with Benefits by calling Visitor Services at 303-443-2122 or emailing Valerie Amend at valerie@bmoca.org.

Your benefits include…
• Exclusive regional art tours
• Cocktail parties at the museum
• Curator guided tours of exhibitions
• Access to private collections and artists’ studios
• Discounted tickets to BMoCA’s annual fundraiser and New Year’s Eve party
• And more…

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art invited a group of artists to address the concerns and hopes expressed by Boulder residents regarding the way they experience diversity through a number of initiatives that would give visual representation to these concerns. The artists will spend an initial research period in Boulder to collect ideas. Returning to their studios with these impressions, they will have time to process and develop their projects, which will culminate in an exhibition at BMoCA from June 23rd through September 11th, 2011.

CONCEPTUAL BRIEF

In 2007 the City of Boulder initiated its Community Dialogue as an opportunity for residents to express their experiences and thoughts about life in Boulder. The published findings from this study indicated that those who participated value what is an outdoor, active lifestyle in a spectacular natural environment that they want to preserve and protect. At the same time, they worry that Boulder is becoming an elitist community, intolerant of those who are different and with no room for people of modest or middle class means. Some of the reasons identified by the participants for the lack of diversity in Boulder were:

• the high and escalating cost of living, particularly the cost of housing
• the lack of jobs available
• an unwelcoming environment and lack of acceptance of people of color
• an increasingly exclusive and elitist social atmosphere, creating an economically and socially divided community.[1]

Taking these findings as a starting point, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art invited a group of artists to address the concerns and hopes expressed by the community through a number of initiatives that would give visual representation to the way Boulder residents experience diversity. Initially, the artists will spend two weeks in residency in Boulder to conduct research and collect ideas for their respective projects. Returning to their studios with the collected impressions, they will have time to process and develop their projects, which will culminate in an exhibition at BMoCA from June 23 through September 11, 2011.

The invited artists bring a diverse set of backgrounds and life experiences to the project they are encouraged to draw upon when setting to work in Boulder. Their unique points of view and distinct art making practices can be expected to introduce unexpected nuances to their interpretations and suggested solutions.

THE ARTISTS

Gustavo Artigas
Gustavo Artigas was born in 1970 in Mexico City, where he lives and works. He studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City between 1991 and 1995. In 1996, he won the II Installation Competition organized by the Ex-Teresa Arte Actual gallery and was offered a residency at Project at Johannesburg, South Africa in 2001. Artigas’ work has been shown as part of the exhibition Faites vos jeux! Art and Game Since Dada at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Liechtenstein and at the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2005-6); at international 04, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2004); and at OUTLOOK 2003 Arena, Society for the Advancement of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, among others.

In his recent work, Artigas develops game interfaces that invite spectators or specific groups to interact within a given framework, addressing human behavior and social tension in extreme or unusual circumstances. For his project The Rules of the Game, originally performed along the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico in 2000, he documented the activities at a “frontón” ball court built against the Mexican side of the border and invited two Mexican soccer teams and two American basketball teams to play against each other—all at the same time on the same court. The resulting negotiation of terrain and adjusting of rules, as well as the behavior of spectators and players were intended as a visual representation of the possibilities and challenges of co-existence. (Gustavo Artigas’ introductory talk took place at Chautauqua in January 2011. )

Seth Wulsin
Seth Wulsin was born in 1981 in Spring Valley, New York. He studied Drawing and Painting at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City (1998). He briefly studied Literature and Philosophy at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (2001), as well as Religion and Politics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (2005). Between 2005 and 2009 he lived and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2009, he is based in Bogota, Colombia and Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the art collectives Artistas en Latinoamerica, and Wubacawi, and is currently a studio fellow at Smack Mellon, New York. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at DUMBO Arts Festival 2010, Brooklyn, NY; ArteBA 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and at Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia (2008).

In 2006 he gained international attention for his public artwork and intervention, 16 Tons, which documented the demolition of the infamous Caseros prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Wulsin shaped pixilated portraits by hammering out glass tiles from the façade of the notorious building, creating a temporary monument to those who had disappeared behind its walls, as the building was disassembled story by story.

Laleh Mehran & Christopher Coleman
As the progeny of Iranian scientists, Laleh Mehran’s relationship to religion, science, and politics is necessarily complex, and is still more so now given a political climate in which certain views are increasingly suspect.  Inevitably, her work is as veiled as it is explicit, as personal as it is political, and as critical as it is tolerant.  Mehran received her MFA in Electronic Time-Based Media from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been shown individually and as part of art collectives at the Next 5 Minutes 4 Tactical Media Festival in Amsterdam, Holland; the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück, Germany; Ponte Futura in Cortona, Italy; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens; and at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mehran is Associate Professor and Graduate Director of the Electronic Media Arts & Design program at the University of Denver.

Chris Coleman received his BFA in his native state from West Virginia University in 2001 and his MFA from New York State University at Buffalo in 2003. A number of his undergraduate years were devoted to studying Mechanical Engineering, knowledge that he brings to bear in his installations. His work includes sculptures, performances, and videos as well as interactive installations.  He has exhibited across Europe, Asia, and the US, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH; and FILE Sao Paulo, Brazil. Recently Coleman’s work was featured on several giant monitors in Times Square in New York City as the Grand Prize winner of the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize 2009. He is Assistant Professor in the department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies at the University of Denver.

Members Preview 5:30-6:30pm
Free Public Reception 6:30-10pm

Artist Talks:
6:45pm: Henrique Oliveira
7:00pm: Jessica Moon Bernstein

Henrique Oliveira has created one of the large-scale installations made from salvaged wood for which he has received international attention, most recently at the 2010 São Paulo International Biennial. A number of Oliveira’s vibrant acrylic paintings complement the installation. These charismatic allover compositions of lush abstraction are a splurge of color and movement.

Jessica Moon Bernstein works with recycled materials and non-decomposing waste such as mass-produced plastics to create intricately textured sculptures and reliefs. For this exhibition, she transforms BMoCA’s Union Works Gallery with a site-specific installation with used bicycle inner tubes.

Live music by dj Alala.One.
Light hors d’ouevres. Cash bar.

Membership Gift:
The first 25 guests to join BMoCA on opening night will receive a $10 Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse gift card. Generously donated by the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse.

Members: FREE / Non-Members: $5

Henrique Oliveira reflects on his life, work, and contemporary Brazilian culture during a conversation with acclaimed poet and author Adriana Lisboa.

This international, multimedia conversation will feature a live-stream video feed of Henrique Oliveira from Sao Paulo, Brazil, as he talks with Adriana in the museum’s West Gallery.

ABOUT ADRIANA LISBOA
Poet and author Adriana Lisboa has won the prestigious José Saramago Award for Symphony in White, the Moinho Santista Award for her body of work, and, from the National Foundation of Books for Children and Youths (Brazilian section of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People), the Outstanding Newcomer of the Year Award for A Tongue Made of Scraps.

Her books have also appeared in Portugal, France, the United States, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, and Sweden. She has contributed to several short stories anthologies both in Brazil and abroad. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Adriana has lived in France, spent time in Japan, and presently resides in the United States.

Members only: $50 / 3 Tour Series: $100

Receive insiders’ treatment with BMoCA at three fine art venues in Denver. Experi­ence some of the city’s best art on these carefully selected tours through private collections, galleries and museums. Tour followed by drinks and conversation at a distinct eatery in Denver.

A different Art Tour will be offered each season. Save when you sign up for all three now.

SPRING 2011: The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Valery Taylor & David Brown Gallery, Plus Gallery

THE KIRKLAND MUSEUM of FINE & DECORATIVE ART
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the museum’s collection, including how it was created and developed from a private collection to a public museum, and some of its unique and innovative display methods. www.kirklandmuseum.org

VALERY TAYLOR & DAVID BROWN GALLERY
Enjoy an intimate tour of the Browns’ private collections and gallery, which include works from the Old Masters, Spanish Colonial art, and contemporary art from New York.

PLUS GALLERY
Plus Gallery is a contemporary art and exhibition space that supports the regions finest emerging talent as well as nationally recognized artists. Be one of the first to experience the newest exhibition just hours after it opens to the public. www.plusgallery.com

To keep the tour intimate, registration is limited. Call 303-443-2122 for reservations.