Emmanuel Art Gallery

will be at the Emmanuel Art Gallery on October 29, 2024 to talk with .elena.buszek, Professor of Art History at CU Denver, about her work, her artistic practice and the emergence of artificial intelligence in her recent work.

Her series Summer Bod: Trad Wife Edition and the Infantry Diptych are on view in the Emmanuel’s current exhibition, Absolute Immunity, up through November 2, 2024.

Join us next Wednesday, October 16, at 2pm for a conversation about careers in museums and galleries! Emmanuel’s Gallery Coordinator, Andrew Palamara, will moderate a panel with , and , and there will be a Q&A afterward.

In 2019, the Emmanuel Art Gallery proudly presented My World is in Your Blind Spot, the first U.S. solo gallery exhibition of CAM alum . This striking collection mixed religious imagery, political statements, and personal reflections on his Tibetan heritage. Today, Rigdol has reached a major milestone with his newly commissioned work now on view at through January 12, 2025. We’re proud to witness his continued success and are honored to have been part of his journey. If you’re in NYC, check out Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.

will lead a workshop at the Emmanuel Art Gallery in connection with her artworks in the gallery’s exhibition, Absolute Immunity. From 10am-1pm on October 9, all are welcome to stop by and make a Japanese paper lantern (chouchin) to honor one of the 30,000 disappeared (desaparecidos) from Argentinean dictatorship’s campaign against its political opponents and innocent victims suspected of being dissidents from 1974-1983. The lanterns will become their own installation in the gallery until Absolute Immunity closes on November 2. No advance registration is required, and the gallery will provide all supplies.

This program is a part of the Auraria Campus’ observance of Dia de Los Mu***os, which officially takes place on October 30 at St. Cajetan’s.

Parking info! If you’re driving to campus for the Absolute Immunity reception on 8/29, you can park in the Holly Lot for only $8 with the code 7083983. In any kiosk in the parking lot, enter this code after you enter your license plate number. Share with anyone you know who wants to come. See y’all then!

Opening today, our new exhibition Absolute Immunity is an examination of authority and power structures in the US and abroad. Featuring the work of , , , , and , this exhibition contains artworks that challenge societal norms and advocate for change.

Join us on August 29 from 4-7pm for the opening reception. Absolute Immunjty is open through November 2.

It’s the last week to see Modern Post-modern: Presentness is Grace! We’re sad to see it go so soon. If you haven’t had a chance to come by and check it out, this is your chance! The show closes on Friday, July 19.

Open Tuesday-Friday from 10am-4pm this week.

Modern Post-modern: Presentness is Grace opens at the Emmanuel Art Gallery on May 1 and runs until July 19. Featuring the work of , , and .

Opening reception is May 1 from 4-7pm.

Hey music aficionado friends! We are curating an exhibition about the life of iconic jazz musician Eddie Henderson. Do you know any vinyl collectors who might have some of his records? We want to display the album covers in our CUExpgallery.edu in the Denver Performing Arts Complex this February. We would not need the vinyl as it is fragile, just the cardboard album covers which would be protected and insured. Here's a brief bio about his incredible life: https://www.oberlin.edu/eddie-henderson

Eddie Henderson | Oberlin College and Conservatory Biography and contact information for Eddie Henderson, Teacher of Jazz Trumpet. Eddie Henderson’s wildly diverse and accomplished career began in a most appropriately lofty way: His first trumpet lessons as a young boy were given by Louis Armstrong. It was a connection made through the musical car...

We are closed for the University's Fall Break but will be back Monday November 27!

You are invited!

reframing the landscape

Reception + Q&A with artists Lanny DeVuono and Yosh*tomo Saito

Thursday September 7, 2023 4-7 pm at the Emmanuel Art Gallery

Q&A starts at 4pm!

It’s all in the details with our new exhibition. Come on by and check out Bill Adams: One Man Show. It’s on view through March 19. Reception on February 9 from 4-7 pm.

Ella Robertson
Missing Pieces
2022
Acrylic on canvas, mixed media

“ Issues with self-confidence, identity, and bullying over being adopted. Missing Pieces depicts my personal experiences that I had growing up, putting them together into a visual collage for everyone to see”

Fatima Orozco Gonzalez
Mind Wrapped in Thorns
2022
Mixed Media

“We begin to lose our sense of identity the more we notice the gaps, like a bottomless pit of darkness taunting us”

Alexcia Pickrell
Sickly Sweet
2022
Mixed Media

“The candy is now deconstructed into pill capsule prescriptions for daily intake. The candy wrappers are now filled with assorted contents to help alleviate the harmful effects of over consuming sugar”

Stefany Thompson
837
2022
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas

“With my body of work, I am expressing my thoughts and emotions after losing everything. What I have experienced has tested my limits. Lack of appetite, insomnia, short temper, emotionality, difficulty completing daily activities. Seeing photos of my hometown on fire
via online or at work, strangers asking intimate questions, people telling me to “Get over it.””

Jessica Keil
Fruticulture
2022
Acrylic on Canvas

“Fruticulture groups fruits that have these symbolic meanings without a woman’s body being physically present”

Baylee Smith
Stoneware
2022 Porcelain

“A vessel with a stem extruding from its side, the flow of water, the consumption of herbs using heat”