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The CU Art Museum will be closed for spring break from March 25—30 and will reopen on Tuesday, April 1st. Stop by on Friday, April 4th to celebrate the opening of the Spring 2025 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition: Round 1. See you soon!

A CU Art Museum gallery featuring many framed artworks hanging on the walls, a sculpture of a ram on the floor, and a seating area with red chairs and a blue rug.

On view: Hello Friend: Staff Favorites

On view through May 27, 2025.

Hello Friend: Staff favorites goes behind the scenes with artwork selected by CUAM staff. When working at a museum, staff encounter art every day during class visits, in storage, and on the walls. For our Staff Favorites exhibition, staff chose some of their favorite artwork and provided interpretive texts.

A view of the CU Art Museum galleries. Many artworks, including colorful works hanging on the walls, a circular rope sculpture, and a white statue of a woman, are in the room. Some people can be seen in the next gallery over, from a distance.

On view: Hello Friend

On view through May 27, 2025.

Friendships between artists inspire creativity, spur collaborations, and engender networks of support. With artwork from CUAM’s collection, Hello Friend centers friendships between artists who lived and worked in shared creative circles in the mid-late 1900s.

Hello Friend also has a double meaning as many of the artworks on view have not been exhibited in ten or more years. This exhibition is an opportunity to see old favorites and encounter collection works for the first time.

A print of a blue waterfall in a red landscape.

Back on view: "Better Days"

On view through May 27, 2025

What can art offer in difficult times?�� In this exhibition artists respond to historical moments when uncertainty prevails and social connections fray.

Hollis Sigler, United States (1948-2001), From Me, All Things Proceed and to Me, They Must Return, 1991, color lithograph on paper, 36 x 67 inches. Purchased as part of The Sharkive, with funds from Kemper Family Foundations, UMB Bank; anonymous; Polly and Mark Addison; Karen and Don Ringsby; College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder; Wayne and Nona Yakes and contributions from over 200 donors, S2019.663.�� © Hollis Sigler / Shark's Ink.

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Teasers of the essays and coloring pages.��

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