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Pre-Show Appetizer: Young Moderns

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

Join us as Gallery of Contemporary Art Director, Christopher Lynn, expounds on the artists and themes in the upcoming exhibition, Young Moderns: Sarah Braman, Todd Chilton & John McEnroe. Impress your family and amaze your friends with the insightful knowledge you will display at the opening reception – knowledge you picked up weeks earlier at the Pre-Show Appetizer.

Lynn will speak about the exhibit artists’ practices and how their work continues the trajectory of late Modernist painting. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.

Young Moderns: Sarah Braman, Todd Chilton & John McEnroe will be on view December 17, 2007 – February 9, 2008.

Permit parking restrictions will be lifted for Lot 1 only for this event.

Tickets

• $1: GoCA Supporters, UCCS Students
• $4: Adult public

Links

Now that the lecture is over, you can enjoy listening to it at your leisure via the links below:

1. Audio with slide/show almost as if you were there / iTunes AAC file (21.4MB) / 41:09
2. Audio with no images / MP3 (19MB) / 41:09

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Settlers of Catan-a-Thon / Exhibition Closing

Saturday, November 17, 2007, 1:00 p.m.

We will host a Settlers of Catan-a-Thon at the Gallery to close the exhibition Manifest: Colonial Tendencies of the West. The “Game of the Year” in Germany, the U.S, and a host of other countries, The Settlers of Catan is a classic, stand-alone game for 3-4 players. You journey to the unsettled wilds of the grand new world known as Catan. It’s an exciting frontier, one rich in opportunity. Compete with your opponents to discover and settle the choicest lands and seaports. Gather resources, trade with friends and foes, build roads and settlements, oppress your opponents for fun and profit — all in a quest to be master of Catan. What game could be better to close a show on colonialism?

We will have copies of the game on hand, but if you’ve got a copy, feel free to bring it along! This game is recommended for ages 12+ and people who are good sports. Arrive promptly at 1:00 p.m. to learn all the intricate rules before you set off to blaze trails through Catan.

Copies of Settlers of Catan are graciously supplied by Gamer’s Haven.

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Film: Future Remembrance

A Documentary by Tobias Wendl and Nancy du Plessis

Friday, November 9, 2007, 7:00 p.m.

A delightful, exuberant, documentary by Tobias Wendl and Nancy du Plessis about the role of photography, photographers and the art of image making in Ghana. We meet the photographers, sculptors and painters including Manifest: Colonial Tendencies of the West artist, Philip Kwame Apagya. These artists tell us in their own words about the economic, social, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual motivations of their work. Innovation and improvisation abound, from the traveling photographer who has been making and selling his own cameras out of wood and scrap since the 1930’s to the studio photographers who specialize in providing elaborate backdrops that inspire their customers poses (Apagya). Families commission life-size, lifelike, powerful sculptures of loved ones, crafted from small photographs as reference, to honor and remember the dead. Issues of gender arise when we realize all the artists and photographers are men but their customers are both men and women. The influence of American print media on local artists exists but the resulting work is so transformed in the process that the original source is almost unrecognizable.

Information

• Runtime: 55 min
• Language: English, Akan, and Ewe w/English subtitles
• Year: 1998
• Color: Color
• Rating: Unrated

Film Festivals / Awards

• Margaret Mead Festival 1998
• Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival
• ICAES Film Program Selection
• Award For Excellence Society for Visual Anthropology
• Award, Vitas Folklore Film Festival, UCLA

This event is FREE and open to the public.
Permit parking restrictions will be lifted only for Lot 1 during this event.

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