 Colorado Art Ranch Artposium
St. Cajetan’s at 7th and Lawrence
Street on the Auraria Campus, Denver
Friday October 3 and Saturday October 4, 2008
WHAT:
Colorado Art Ranch Artposium
“What’s So Funny About Art?”
Inquiring minds meet at the Artposium, an entertaining mix of ideas and presentations.
Colorado Art Ranch is bringing its traveling Artposium™ to the big town
of Denver. We’re setting up our yaks and yurts on the Auraria Campus
October 4 to let city folks learn why humor in art is serious business.
Seriously.
We’ll be exploring the role humor plays in artistic expression
and social discourse. Colorado Art Ranch guarantees that attendees will
experience a few laughs and eight though-provoking presentations at the
Artposium™.
WHY:
Five artists and writers will live and
work in Salida, September 28 to
October 30, 2008. Colorado Art
Ranch provides living and working
space. The residents will have:
• A place to immerse themselves in
their writing or art
• Time to experiment, conceptualize
and develop their work
• An opportunity to contribute to
the community of Salida
Your attendance at the Colorado
Art Ranch Artposium helps support
the residency program for literary
and visual artists.
WHO:
Bill Amundson, Denver artist and one-time stand-up comedian, appreciates the spread of tan-colored housing developments along the Front Range. It’s all material for his series of works entitled I Y the Burbs.
Roz Chast, cartoonist for The New Yorker, uses her Theories of Everything to help us understand guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, and real estate.
Adam Lerner, a funny guy with a PhD and the Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, will give us his irreverent (but scholarly) review of Art, Humor & the Human Condition.
Patricia Marx, columnist for The New Yorker, novelist, and comedy writer, will provide insight into why It’s Not Easy Writing Humor.
Libby Rowe uses humor in her photography and installations to help understand this wacky, angst-ridden world. She will take us on a whirlwind tour of her observations and reflections during In the Pink.
Jon Spayde, a writer, journalist, and performance artist from Minnesota, is the Eminent Emcee for What’s so Funny About Art?
Brady Udall, a creative writing teacher at Boise State University, grew up in a big Mormon family in Arizona. He’ll give us a preview of his upcoming novel, The Lonely Polygamist.
Meredith and David Vaughn are Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders based in Denver. They will entice the audience to take a spoonful of Laughter Medicine.
WHEN:
Friday, October 3, 2008: 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 4, 2008: 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
WHERE:
St. Cajetan’s
Auraria Campus, Lawrence Street & 7th Street
Denver, Colorado
COST:
$200 Includes Friday reception, a breakfast, a Funny Food Lunch and a drawing for Artposium Nomad Prizes
CONTACT:
http://www.coloradoartranch.org
or call Grant Pound, Executive Director, at 303.279.5198
Friday Schedule:
6:00 pm: Registration and Reception
Music provided by David Tipton
7:30 pm: Introduction
7:45 pm Poet Laureates on Humor
Marj Hahne and Chris Ransick read from their work
8:30 pm Theories of Everything
Roz Chast, cartoonist for The New Yorker, uses her Theories of Every-
thing to help us understand guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends,
money, and real estate
10:00 pm Call it a Night
Saturday Schedule:
8:00 am: Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Introduction: Grant Pound, Executive Director
Jon Spayde, a writer and performance artist from Minnesota, is the
Eminent Emcee for What’s So Funny About Art?
9:30 am Laughter Medicine
Meredith and David Vaughn, Certiied Laughter Yoga Leaders,
discuss the science of laughter and lead an exercise in laughter
yoga
10:00 am: Art, Humor and the Human Condition
Adam Lerner, a funny guy with a PhD, gives us his irreverent (but
scholarly) review of humor in the arts
11:00 am: Break
11:15 am: It’s Not Easy Writing Humor, Patty Marx, columnist for The New Yorker, novelist, and comedy writer, provides insight into the joys and sorrows of writing humor
12:15 pm: It’s-ok-to-play-with-your-food Lunch
1:30 pm: The Lonely Polygamist, Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, previews his upcoming novel, The Lonely Polygamist
2:30 p m Laughter Break with Meredith and David Vaughn
2:45 p m Pink: A Study of Being Female, Installation artist,Libby Rowe, combines anatomy lessons with charged imagery and text to stimulate discussion on what it is to be
a woman–physically, socially, and psychologically
3:45 pm: Break
4:00 pm: I ♥ the Burbs, Bill Amundson, Denver artist and one-time stand-up comedian, uses the spread of tan-colored housing developments along the Front Range as material for his series of works about suburban landscapes and other anomalies
5:00 pm: Dinner on your own, That’s not a clever title, it means go ind something to eat
7:00-10:00 pm: Wine, Dessert and Artists in Residence, Meet the Colorado Art Ranch Residents
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