Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.bmoca.org Wed, 22 May 2013 21:06:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 Three’s Comedy: A 2nd Helping http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/threes-comedy-a-2nd-helping/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/threes-comedy-a-2nd-helping/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:33:20 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8615  

THREE’S COMEDY: A 2ND HELPING

Thursday, May 2 6:30pm
$10 / $8 members

Whether you joined us for the first hilarious evening of improvisation or just heard about it, come back for another evening of antics inspired by the exhibition Museum of Broken Relationships and see just how far Abigail Booth, Lorraine Larocque, and Nick Trotter will go!

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/threes-comedy-a-2nd-helping/feed/ 0 LOVE STORIES AND OTHER DISASTERS http://www.bmoca.org/2012/12/love-stories-and-other-disasters/ http://www.bmoca.org/2012/12/love-stories-and-other-disasters/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:07:44 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=7894 Thursday, May 16 7pm
$13 / $10 members

BMoCA and Stories on Stage present an evening of storytelling about done-me-wrongs and broken hearts. Stories will be crowd-sourced from our community and performed by Stories on Stage. To participate, contribute your story, be it happy, sad, humorous or ridiculous, to stories@bmoca.org or drop it off at BMoCA between February 14 – April 28. Selected stories will be read at the event. Word maximum: 800.

This program is in partnership with Stories on Stage and Mocavo.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2012/12/love-stories-and-other-disasters/feed/ 0 CSArt Summer Distribution Event http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/csart-spring-distribution-event/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/csart-spring-distribution-event/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:52:19 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8609  

Summer Distribution Event

CSArt Colorado will host three art distribution events throughout 2013. At the events shareholders meet the artists and will collect three works of art in their CSArt share. The summer pick up event will be held at BMoCA August 15. For an invitation to this event, please purchase a CSArt Colorado share here.

About CSArt Colorado

Denver Botanic Gardens and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are proud to present Community Supported Art Colorado (CSArt Colorado). Through a buy-local, share-based membership, CSArt Colorado brings artists and art lovers together. Selected by curators from Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Denver Botanic Gardens, the featured artworks will be in a range of media and allow for people to easily discover artists.

How does the Community Supported Art Colorado (CSArt Colorado) program work?
Following the popular community supported agriculture (CSA) model, a limited number of shares will be available for sale. Each shareholder receives three distributions of art per year at seasonal distribution events, where artists and collectors meet and mingle. In each distribution shareholders will receive 3 works.

Can I choose my preferred art medium?
In short, no. Just as community supported agriculture programs support the local economy by sharing risk with the local food producer, this supports local artists and offers them a chance to try new things on a smaller scale. Most importantly, shareholders have the chance to meet and talk with the artists who made their fabulous items.

How do I get my artwork?
Distribution parties, complete with art, artists, food and music make it fun to interact with like-minded (and not so like-minded) people.

How can I become a participating artist?
Artist applications are now closed for the 2013 season.

I want to buy a share.
Purchase a share online today!

For more information, or to become a part of CSArt Colorado, please email info@CSArtColorado.org or visit CSArtColorado.org

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/csart-spring-distribution-event/feed/ 0 The Lawyer is Present http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/the-lawyer-is-present/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/the-lawyer-is-present/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:46:37 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8607

PRESENT BOX

THE LAWYER IS PRESENT: VANESSA PLACE

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 12-14, 2013

Closing reception and performance
Sunday, April 14
6:30 pm free public performance
7:30 free public reception

Curated by Andrea Andersson and Patrick Greaney

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. -Albert Camus

The Lawyer is Present celebrates the act of confession. BMoCA visitors are invited to listen to the confessions of others and share their own transgressions with artist and criminal defense attorney Vanessa Place. The accompanying exhibition includes Place’s works about listening and telling in the court and in the museum.

Confessional Hours:
Friday, April 12, 12 – 3pm
Saturday, April 13, 9 – noon
Sunday, April 14, 12 – 3pm

What do courtrooms and museums have in common? They are often thought of as sites where truths and facts are revealed – about crimes and about the inner lives of artists and their publics. Artist and criminal defense attorney Vanessa Place’s BMoCA exhibition focuses on confession’s role in legal and aesthetic revelation.

In The Lawyer Is Present, Place will be in the museum daily to receive confessions in the Present Box. Admission to the Present Box will be free. But confession comes at a price. Those who wish to confess to Place must either pay her hourly rate ($105/hour, the state-set rate for representing indigent felons on appeal in California) or agree to donate the language of their confession to her. Place’s exhibition will culminate in a performance of excerpts from donated confessions. All identifying information, such as names and addresses, will be removed to preserve the confidentiality of the confessant.

Confessions can elicit a wide range of feelings; they can be troubling, and they can be exciting. By publically performing the private language of confession, Place shifts the burdens and pleasures of listening from herself to her audience.

The Lawyer Is Present also includes a selection of Place’s visual, text, and sound works related to confessional practices. Place’s exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the everyday acts of listening and telling – and to consider their relation to truth and redemption.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Vanessa Place is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and attorney. As a lawyer, Place represents indigent sex offenders on appeal. She has written a nonfiction book, The Guilt Project, about her work as a lawyer, and in her trilogy Tragodía, she removes identifying information from her appellate briefs and re-presents them as poetry. In 2012, Place was the first poet to perform in the Whitney Biennial. She will perform at the Museum of Modern Art in June 2013.

Present Box, a series of interactive installations and performance art, is sponsored by Tom Carter , Gabrielle & Brad Schuller , and Joan & Steven Markowitz.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/the-lawyer-is-present/feed/ 0 FWB Does Happy Hour http://www.bmoca.org/2013/03/fwb-does-happy-hour/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/03/fwb-does-happy-hour/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:11:19 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8447 FWB Does Happy Hour
Thursday, May 16, 5­­­­–6:30pm
Free

BMoCA’s Friends With Benefit membership group hosts monthly happy hours for art lovers and young professionals. On May 16, enjoy a drink with friends while perusing the love relics on display in Museum of Broken Relationships. Afterwards, stay for Love Stories and Other Disasters, an evening of story-telling about done-me-wrongs and broken hearts.

For more information about FWB Does Happy Hour, please email membership@bmoca.org or call 303.443.2122.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/03/fwb-does-happy-hour/feed/ 0 Walk Through with Kerry Cannon http://www.bmoca.org/2013/03/walk-through-with-kerry-cannon/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/03/walk-through-with-kerry-cannon/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:13:47 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8503 BMoCA at Macky Closing Reception & Walk Through with the Artist
Friday, March 22
3pm

Join Kerry Cannon on a leisurely stroll through his exhibition Alchemy at the Macky Auditorium. The artist will share nuances and details about his intricate and playful series of bronze sculptures about the quest to turn base metals into gold.

This event is free and open to the public.

Meet in the Andrew J. Macky Gallery, located in the foyer of the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/03/walk-through-with-kerry-cannon/feed/ 0 Denver Art Tour http://www.bmoca.org/2013/02/denver-art-tour-7/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/02/denver-art-tour-7/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:40:21 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8281 July 20, 11am-3pm
For members
$50 / 3 Tour Series: $125

Welcome to the Denver Art Tour!
For 2013, we are asking Denver-based artists to curate our experience, starting with a tour of their studio.

This upcoming Denver Art Tour will be curated by Denver-based artist Susan Wick. More details and itinerary coming shortly.

To register or learn more, please call 303.443.2122.

Denver Art Tours are reserved for BMoCA members. To learn more about BMoCA memberships or to become a member, click here.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/02/denver-art-tour-7/feed/ 0 Young Artists at Work: Summer 2013 http://www.bmoca.org/2013/01/young-artists-at-work-summer-2013/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/01/young-artists-at-work-summer-2013/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:01:34 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8023

June 3-August 9 2013
Pay by the day: $65 / $55 Members
Pre-registration required

Young Artists at Work is BMoCA’s signature series of workshops for youth ages 5–8 and 9–12.

These creative art-making programs are designed to complement the exhibitions. In each workshop, a local guest artist encourages personal expression, material exploration, making friends, and fun.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/01/young-artists-at-work-summer-2013/feed/ 0 MediaLive: Exploring Live Audiovisual Arts http://www.bmoca.org/2012/04/medialive-2012/ http://www.bmoca.org/2012/04/medialive-2012/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:46:42 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=6197 MEDIALIVE brings together artists who explore forms of live audiovisual 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 focus as artists investigate the elasticity of form and content, bridging the analog and digital realms.

This three-day festival presents a variety of approaches, discusses the technology and underlying theoretical, formal and conceptual considerations, and offers opportunities to explore live media tools first-hand.

MEDIALIVE 2013
November 7-10

Visiting Artists

Miwa Matreyek
video

Jon Satrom
video
video
interview

Tiffany Trenda
video

Tim Weaver

offthesky

Brian Kane

Schedule

Thursday, November 7
7pm ATLAS Speaker Series Lecture: Miwa Matreyek
@ University of Colorado Boulder ATLAS Institute

Friday, November 8
7pm Keynote @ University of Colorado Boulder ATLAS Institute
8pm Performances
10pm Kick-off Party at Shine

Saturday, November 9
4pm Panel Discussion
7pm Performance by Miwa Matreyek, Jon Satrom, Tiffany Trenda & Tim Weaver

Sunday, November 10
12-6pm Workshops

2013 SPONSORS
Ben Allen | Apple | Atlas Institute, University of Colorado Boulder | Object+Thought

MEDIALIVE ARCHIVE

 

2012 ARTISTS

janet feder, andrew pask and darwin grosse (Denver, Los Angeles)
noisefold with frances marie uitti (Texas, Netherlands)
Ambient Media by Isaac Linder + CacheFlowe (Ambient Media)
Jon Cates (Chicago via Taipei)
Jeremy Bailey (Toronto)
untitled analogs (Denver)
SUE-C (San Francisco)
Fernando Velázquez (São Paulo)
Ambient Media by Iuengliss

2012 WORKSHOPS
Panel Discussion – Live Media: Real Time, Real Space?
MediaLive artists present their different perspectives and approaches, 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 it as a potential site of meaning, sometimes rooted in tradition, sometimes in ironic self-reflection.

Building Custom Audiovisual Instruments:
Processing the Danger Shield
DIY gurus SparkFun Electronics lead a workshop on using the Danger Shield and an Arduino UNO to create a hands-on controller for media performance. Each participant receives a discount code for SparkFun merchandise and a take-home manual.

Media Manipulation with Max
Media manipulation with Max software workshop with Darwin Grosse, Chief Learning Officer at Cycling ’74. Learn how to use the hardware controller you built in the morning to tweak live video. 

MEDIALIVE CURATORS
Janet Feder | David Fodel | Paco Proano

2012 SPONSORS
Sue Cannon | Ben Allen | Apple | Boulder County Arts Alliance | Andrew Currie Fund | Object+Thought | Plus Gallery

2012 IN-KIND SPONSORS
Lisa Haney | Loophole | Wind Over The Earth & Immersive Studios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2012/04/medialive-2012/feed/ 0 Young Artists at Work http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/yaw-summer-2012/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/yaw-summer-2012/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:39 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8782

 

 

 

 

 

 

Young Artists at Work is BMoCA’s signature series of workshops for youth ages 5–8 and 9–12. These creative art-making programs are designed to complement the exhibitions. In each workshop, a local guest artist encourages personal expression, material exploration, making friends, and fun.

YOUNG ARTISTS AT WORK: SUMMER WORKSHOPS 

$140 per workshop / $120 Members

Lunch Bunch
Pack a lunch and stay from 12-1pm for more art-making and games!
$5 a day /  $25 for the week
Payable on the week of camp

 

FOR 5-8 YEAR OLDS

 

Artists for a Better World – FULL
June 3-7, 9am-12pm

Be an art activist! Join artist Julia Lunk and create seed cards, prayer flags, public art for Central Park, and other projects that inspire at better world.

Enchanted Voyage

June 3-7, 1-4pm

Sail through your imagination with artist Heather Cherry and create paper boats, colorful maps, and other voyage-inspired art.

Non-Member

Member

Collage Club
July 8-12, 9am-12pm

Expect the unexpected in this workshop! Explore contemporary 2-Dcollage throughout BMoCA’s galleries and then create your own in the studio with artist Sarah Kinn.

Non-Member

Member

Can You Dig It?
July 8-12, 1-4pm

Be inspired by Andy Goldsworthy and other artists that work with nature. Sprout your own paper terrarium, spectacular painted sunflowers, and up-cycled shoe garden with artist Heather Cherry.

Non-Member

Member

Paint Like an Art Star
July 15-19, 9am-12pm

Grab your brushes! This week is all about painting and having fun with artist Sarah Kinn. Learn color theory, composition, and creative painting ideas you can also do at home!

Non-Member

Member

Wild, Wild Western Art
July 15-19, 1-4pm

Explore the rich history of Colorado with artist Shari Regenbogen. Starting with the dinosaurs, travel through time and create projects based on the arts of the Anasazi, pioneers, and more.

Non-Member

Member

Art Masters Program
August 5-9, 9am-12pm

Join artist Jay Tomlinson in a Master’s Class for the serious 5-8 year old artist. Enjoy unlimited studio freedom and earn BMoCA’s Young Master of Arts Certificate, signed by the Director.

Non-Member

Member

Art Trek
August 5-9, 1-4pm

Take an art expedition around the world and learn how different cultures use paint, collage, and other materials in unique ways. Create your own international artwork with artist Mary Powell.

Non-Member

Member

FOR 9-12 YEAR OLDS

The Bees & Me
June 17-21, 9am-12pm

Create multi-layered encaustic nature paintings with wax and learn all about honeybee biology with artist Sarah Hanson.

Non-Member

Member

Modern Masters
June 17-21, 1-4pm
Travel through time and learn about Modernism with artist Jennifer Lees as your guide. Create your own versions of works by Matisse, Klee, O’Keefe, and other amazing artists.

Non-Member

Member

 

Water Writer
June 24-28, 9am-12pm
Harness the power of water with artist Sarah Hanson! Combine journaling ideas with new painting and resist wax techniques while learning the value of this precious natural resource.

Non-Member

Member

The Art of Bookmaking
June 24-28, 1-4pm
Explore bookmaking techniques from around the world with artist Rebecca Stumpf. Make your book unique with craft papers, magazines, recycled books, and found objects.

Non-Member

Member

 

Collage Construction Zone
July 22-26, 9am-12pm
Join artist Jennifer Lees for adventures in 3-D collage. Think outside the box, be inspired by artists including Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson, and construct your own sculptural collages.

Non-Member

Member

 

Shutterbugs

July 22-26, 1-4pm
Calling all photographers! Join artist Rebecca Stumpf and learn what it takes to shoot amazing pictures. Then create a photovoice piece by combining your photographs and stories.

Non-Member

Member

For more information, or to purchase, please call 303.443.2122.

To purchase a family membership please click here.

 

Cancellation & Refund Policy:

To cancel and request a refund for a program or workshop, please contact BMoCA’s Education Department at 303.443.2122 extension 11. A 10% administrative fee will be charged on all refunds. A 90% refund will be given to cancellations made 5 business days before the program or workshop. A cancellation made within the week prior to a program or workshop will result in a 50% refund. We apologize, but no refunds can be given on the day the program or workshop begins or during its duration.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/yaw-summer-2012/feed/ 0 Your Brain on Art http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/your-brain-on-art-3/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/your-brain-on-art-3/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 15:57:32 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8749 Discussions on Creativity and the Mind

How and why do artists create? Are artists wired differently to perceive the world differently? How do we interpret and experience their work? How does brain function encourage and inspire the making and enjoyment of art?

(Other optional questions: What can science teach us about creativity? How do science and art inform each other in our search to understand human creativity?)

Throughout time, artists have intuitively made observations and practiced techniques that scientists, through the use of advanced neuro-scanning methods, are just now beginning to explore and understand.

Join BMoCA for a series of conversations and demonstrations with artists, neuroscientists, historians, and other great minds in the field of neuroaesthetics and explore creativity through the lens of science.

The 2013 Series is coming this fall. Stay turned for details.

YOUR BRAIN ON ART is presented by Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) in collaboration with Bill Stoehr & the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Sponsors

Gretchen & Neil King
Boulder Arts Commission
The Citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District
Colorado Creative Industries
The Community Foundation
The Denver Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts

For further research

TED: Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv
NPR: Art, Mind and Brain Intersect in Kandel’s Vienna
University of Michigan: Margaret Livingstone: What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain
PBS: Arts & The Mind
The Science of the Arts: Perceptual Neuroscience and Aesthetics at Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute

2012 Topics and Speakers

The Gaze
The gaze has long been the subject of mystery and intrigue in art. How do we cognitively and emotionally connect with a depiction of another person? Take a historical, scientific, and artistic look at how we interpret the face in art.

Claire Farago, Ph.D.
Professor of Art History, University of Colorado Boulder

Lewis O. Harvey, Jr., Ph.D.
Chair, University of Colorado Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

Bill Stoehr
Artist
Moderated by

Vijay Mittal, Ph.D.
Director of Adolescent Development and Preventive Treatment Program (ADAPT)
University of Colorado Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

Food & Scent as Memory
How does taste and smell bring back a flood of memories? Learn about the science of smell and taste, and it’s super-highway to the memory and the innovative use of food and scent by artists and chefs.

Teresa Booth Brown
Artist & Chef

Nicole Garneau, Ph.D.
Curator and Chair of the Health Sciences Department, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Mario Martinez
CEC, Chef Instructor, Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts

Ernesto Salcedo, Ph.D.
Faculty, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology, Anschutz Medical Campus

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz
Perfumer

Creativity & Improvisation
Explore what musical improvisation can reveal about creativity and brain function.

John Gunther
Associate Professor, College of Music, University of Colorado Boulder

Charles J. Limb, M.D.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Faculty, Peabody Conservatory of Music

PromethaZane
Freestyle Emcee & Rapper

Moderated by:

Marie T. Banich, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science & Professor of Psychology
University of Colorado Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

2011 Topics and Speakers

Series Moderator
Bill Stoehr
Artist

Improvisation/Creativity

Rick Cummings
Photographer

Robert Sher-Machherndl
Director & Choreographer , Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet

Vijay Mittal, Ph.D.
Director of Adolescent Development and Preventive Treatment Program (ADAPT) & Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

Visual Perception
Examine visual perception as it applies to art such as painting and sculpture. Knowledge of visual neurobiology can enhance our ability to create and appreciate art.

Mike Womack
Artist

Xi Zhang
Artist

Dr. Jennifer Simonson, OD, FCOVD
Doctor of Optometry
Director of Boulder Valley Vision Therapy P.C.

Lewis O. Harvey, Jr., Ph.D.
Chair
University of Colorado Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

Neuroaesthetics
The relatively new field of neuroaesthetics examines how genetics and our life experiences work together to influence what we see as beautiful or interesting and how artists utilize this knowledge in their work.

Lynne Bruning
Textile enchantress

Sara Rockinger
Fiber/Installation artist

Tor Wager, Ph.D.
Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory & Associate Professor
University of Colorado Department of Psychology & Neuroscience

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/your-brain-on-art-3/feed/ 0 Unplug | Recharge http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/unplug-recharge/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/unplug-recharge/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 19:39:33 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8743 Friday, May 17, 7:00pm
Free

Through a partnership between Boulder Startup Week and BMoCA, we present Unplug | Recharge, a new and different addition to the Boulder Startup Week calendar. Join us at BMoCA for a delicious blend of Boulder’s startup and creative communities. Enjoy performances from musician Harper Phillips, performance artist Tara Rynders and peruse BMoCA’s current exhibition, Museum of Broken Relationships. At 7pm, sit back and enjoy stories from esteemed leaders in the Boulder Startup community as interpreted by Boulder’s own Playback Theater West. Believe us, you have never heard, or seen, these stories like this before.


]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/unplug-recharge/feed/ 0 The Lawyer is Present: Vanessa Place http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/the-lawyer-is-present-vanessa-place/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/the-lawyer-is-present-vanessa-place/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 16:12:41 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8735

PRESENT BOX

THE LAWYER IS PRESENT: VANESSA PLACE

April 12-14, 2013

Closing reception and performance
Sunday, April 14
6:30 pm free public performance
7:30 free public reception

Curated by Andrea Andersson and Patrick Greaney

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. -Albert Camus

The Lawyer is Present celebrates the act of confession. BMoCA visitors are invited to listen to the confessions of others and share their own transgressions with artist and criminal defense attorney Vanessa Place. The accompanying exhibition includes Place’s works about listening and telling in the court and in the museum.

Confessional Hours:
Friday, April 12, 12 – 3pm
Saturday, April 13, 9 – noon
Sunday, April 14, 12 – 3pm

What do courtrooms and museums have in common? They are often thought of as sites where truths and facts are revealed – about crimes and about the inner lives of artists and their publics. Artist and criminal defense attorney Vanessa Place’s BMoCA exhibition focuses on confession’s role in legal and aesthetic revelation.

In The Lawyer Is Present, Place will be in the museum daily to receive confessions in the Present Box. Admission to the Present Box will be free. But confession comes at a price. Those who wish to confess to Place must either pay her hourly rate ($105/hour, the state-set rate for representing indigent felons on appeal in California) or agree to donate the language of their confession to her. Place’s exhibition will culminate in a performance of excerpts from donated confessions. All identifying information, such as names and addresses, will be removed to preserve the confidentiality of the confessant.

Confessions can elicit a wide range of feelings; they can be troubling, and they can be exciting. By publically performing the private language of confession, Place shifts the burdens and pleasures of listening from herself to her audience.

The Lawyer Is Present also includes a selection of Place’s visual, text, and sound works related to confessional practices. Place’s exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the everyday acts of listening and telling – and to consider their relation to truth and redemption.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Vanessa Place is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and attorney. As a lawyer, Place represents indigent sex offenders on appeal. She has written a nonfiction book, The Guilt Project, about her work as a lawyer, and in her trilogy Tragodía, she removes identifying information from her appellate briefs and re-presents them as poetry. In 2012, Place was the first poet to perform in the Whitney Biennial. She will perform at the Museum of Modern Art in June 2013.

Present Box, a series of interactive installations and performance art, is sponsored by Tom Carter , Gabrielle & Brad Schuller , and Joan & Steven Markowitz.

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/the-lawyer-is-present-vanessa-place/feed/ 0 ArtMix http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/artmix/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/artmix/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 18:08:59 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8721 Art Mix
BMoCA’s Annual Art Auction
Friday, September 20
6:30pm

Live and Silent Auctions
Featuring contemporary art, luxury travel, adventure packages and more.
Proceeds benefit BMoCA’s exhibitions and education programs.

Music by Ian Cooke | find food & drink | cocktail attire

Discounted advance tickets available through September 6
$75 / $65 members
$45 Friends With Benefits members


ArtMix Advance Tickets




]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/05/artmix/feed/ 0 CSArt Colorado http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/csart-colorado/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/csart-colorado/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:59:56 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8674

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denver Botanic Gardens and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are proud to present Community Supported Art Colorado (CSArt Colorado). Through a buy-local, share-based membership, CSArt Colorado brings artists and art lovers together. Selected by curators from Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and Denver Botanic Gardens, the featured artworks will be in a range of media and allow for people to easily discover artists.

How does the Community Supported Art Colorado (CSArt Colorado) program work?
Following the popular community supported agriculture (CSA) model, a limited number of shares will be available for sale. Each shareholder receives three distributions of art per year at seasonal distribution events, where artists and collectors meet and mingle. In each distribution shareholders will receive 3 works.

Can I choose my preferred art medium?
In short, no. Just as community supported agriculture programs support the local economy by sharing risk with the local food producer, this supports local artists and offers them a chance to try new things on a smaller scale. Most importantly, shareholders have the chance to meet and talk with the artists who made their fabulous items.

How do I get my artwork?
Distribution parties, complete with art, artists, food and music make it fun to interact with like-minded (and not so like-minded) people.

How can I become a participating artist?
Artist applications are now closed for the 2013 season.

I want to buy a share.
Purchase a share online today!

For more information, or to become a part of CSArt Colorado, please email info@CSArtColorado.org or visit CSArtColorado.org

]]> http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/csart-colorado/feed/ 0 The Lawyer is Present http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/the-lawyer-is-present-2/ http://www.bmoca.org/2013/04/the-lawyer-is-present-2/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:53:06 +0000 valerie http://www.bmoca.org/?p=8647

PRESENT BOX

THE LAWYER IS PRESENT: VANESSA PLACE

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 12-14, 2013

Closing reception and performance
Sunday, April 14
6:30 pm free public performance
7:30 free public reception

Curated by Andrea Andersson and Patrick Greaney

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. -Albert Camus

The Lawyer is Present celebrates the act of confession. BMoCA visitors are invited to listen to the confessions of others and share their own transgressions with artist and criminal defense attorney Vanessa Place. The accompanying exhibition includes Place’s works about listening and telling in the court and in the museum.

Confessional Hours:
Friday, April 12, 12 – 3pm
Saturday, April 13, 9 – noon
Sunday, April 14, 12 – 3pm

What do courtrooms and museums have in common? They are often thought of as sites where truths and facts are revealed – about crimes and about the inner lives of artists and their publics. Artist and criminal defense attorney Vanessa Place’s BMoCA exhibition focuses on confession’s role in legal and aesthetic revelation.

In The Lawyer Is Present, Place will be in the museum daily to receive confessions in the Present Box. Admission to the Present Box will be free. But confession comes at a price. Those who wish to confess to Place must either pay her hourly rate ($105/hour, the state-set rate for representing indigent felons on appeal in California) or agree to donate the language of their confession to her. Place’s exhibition will culminate in a performance of excerpts from donated confessions. All identifying information, such as names and addresses, will be removed to preserve the confidentiality of the confessant.

Confessions can elicit a wide range of feelings; they can be troubling, and they can be exciting. By publically performing the private language of confession, Place shifts the burdens and pleasures of listening from herself to her audience.

The Lawyer Is Present also includes a selection of Place’s visual, text, and sound works related to confessional practices. Place’s exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the everyday acts of listening and telling – and to consider their relation to truth and redemption.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Vanessa Place is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and attorney. As a lawyer, Place represents indigent sex offenders on appeal. She has written a nonfiction book, The Guilt Project, about her work as a lawyer, and in her trilogy Tragodía, she removes identifying information from her appellate briefs and re-presents them as poetry. In 2012, Place was the first poet to perform in the Whitney Biennial. She will perform at the Museum of Modern Art in June 2013.

Present Box, a series of interactive installations and performance art, is sponsored by Tom Carter , Gabrielle & Brad Schuller , and Joan & Steven Markowitz.

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BMoCA AT MACKY
PATRICK KIKUT: WESTERN ROAD MOVIE

April 3–May 19 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like a movie scene progressing from frame to frame, interspersed with opening, intermission, and closing text panels, Patrick Kikut’s sequence of landscape paintings takes us on a journey across the vast American West. Blending the standard ingredients of Westerns and Road Movies with landscape painting and pop art affinities, Kikut questions the cultural vehicles that perpetuate the romanticizing of violence and ecological irresponsibility.

Patrick Kikut grew up in Southern California and divides his time between Laramie, Wyoming and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana in 1997 and a BFA from the University of Colorado in 1990. He is an Academic Professional at the University of Wyoming. Kikut’s work is included in the collections of The El Paso Art Museum, The Missoula Art Museum, and The University of Wyoming. In 2012, he completed a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah and exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Exhibition Opening Reception & Expert Talk with the artist
Wednesday, April 3 at The Andrew J. Macky Gallery
5:30–7:30pm free public reception
6:30pm Expert Talk
RSVP to macky@colorado.edu by Monday, April 1

Enjoy an intimate conversation between Patrick Kikut and his lifelong travel companion, Christian Chambers, at the Expert Talk on April 3. From big wheels to skateboards, surfboards to cross-country touring, they’ve been traveling together since kindergarten.

BMoCA AT MACKY

A collaboration between Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and The Andrew J. Macky Gallery, located in the foyer of the Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder. This series of exhibitions is curated by BMoCA as an extension to its rotating exhibition schedule. Exhibitions take place at The Macky Gallery on the CU campus.

Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm and to ticketed patrons during Macky Auditorium performances and events.

Macky Auditorium is located at the intersection of 17th Street and University Avenue in Boulder on the CU campus. To chart driving directions online, use the address 17th Streetand University Avenue.

For more information visit macky.colorado.edu or bmoca.org.

Image: Patrick Kikut, Entre’Acte, 2013, oil on canvas, 16 x 36 inches

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Free

Created by and for junior high and high school aged youth, Love on the Reel will feature films by local teens and INOCENTE, a documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. Meet a local filmmaker Bob LaRue and enjoy art-making based on healthy relationships and sexual awareness. Bring a work of art and take part in Teen Open Wall, a pop-up exhibition/art exchange. Created by BMoCA’s Studio Project in collaboration with S.H.A.P.E. and Peers Building Justice.

Sponsored by The City of Boulder Youth Opportunities Program, The Georgie Fund at The Community Foundation, and the Luff Family Fund.

 

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