The UCCS Visiting Artists & Critics Series features a lineup of presentations by artists and critics of national and international significance. The program’s goal is to foster understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through dialogue and critical conversations. Each VACS lecture takes place in the Chapman Foundation Recital Hall, next door to the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery in the Ent Center for the Arts. High-quality video recordings of each lecture are made public and archived on GOCA’s digital content platform within two weeks of each event (GOCAdigital.org).
Over the past decade, the series co-produced by the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art and UCCS Visual Art & Art History programs has invited artists and scholars to the UCCS campus to present public lectures and meet with undergraduate students in classes and workshop settings.
The series is generously supported by the CU President’s Fund for the Humanities, Colorado Creative Industries, UCCS Student Government Association, and the Bee Vradenburg Foundation.
2024-2025 EVENTS
Thursday, September 19th, 2024, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
Chapman Auditorium and Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery, Ent Center for the Arts
The What Kinda Brown Are You Panel Discussion and Performance will happen on Thursday, September 19th from 6-8:30pm at the Ent Center for the Arts. The event will begin with a panel discussion from 6-7pm in the Chapman Recital Hall, followed by a short break in the GOCA Lobby, with the live performances taking place from 7:30 – 8:30pm in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery. Join us for this exciting discussion and performance!
The What Kinda Brown Are You Panel Discussion will feature exhibiting artists Jesse Allan Rozell, Lupita Carrasco, Noor Adwan, Jasmine Dillavou, and Kevin Shinelikar Persaud. The discussion will include conversations about languages lost, middle eastern diaspora, and creating as an artist of color within the arts community. Following the discussion will be live performances hosted by Ashley Cornelius of Poetry719. Poems and performance art will feature Kevin Shinelikar Persaud, Sofia Hernandez Crade, Jasmine Dillavou, and Avery Chatmon. The performance includes poems and talks on identity and the internal struggles within our current society.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024, 6 - 7 p.m.
Chapman Auditorium, Ent Center for the Arts
Details coming soon…
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Friday, April 12, 2024, 12 -1 p.m.
Chapman Auditorium, Ent Center for the Arts
Yana Payusova’s work reflects both her cultural heritage and training in traditional Russian realist painting, and it blends the styles and symbols of folk art, icons, graphic posters, illustration, and comics. The mundane activities depicted on her ceramic tiles or vessels, such as women doing the washing up or sitting under the hairdryer at the salon, are countered by gold luster highlights. Through this gesture, Payusova’s ordinary heroines become mythical protagonists in painted three-dimensional form.
Yana Payusova was born in Leningrad, USSR and she received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally including recent exhibitions at the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Tucson Museum of Art; Conduit Gallery, Dallas; and, the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan. In 2021 Payusova was artist-in-residence at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark, as well as a Visiting Artist at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass. She recently completed a commissioned installation for Real Unreal, Meow Wolf’s fourth permanent exhibit, in Grapevine, Texas. Payusova is an Assistant Professor of Practice and FYE Program Chair at the School of Art, University of Arizona in Tucson. www.payusova.com