Colorado State University-Pueblo Art Department

02/20/2020

Great article about CSU-P alum Justin Reddick and local artist Mat Taylor

Christopher Dennison is the first inmate at ADX Florence administrative maximum facility (ADX Supermax), the world's most secure prison, to be granted permission to paint in his cell—and this is his studio.

01/29/2020

Great article about upcoming exhibit! Hope to see you on Thursday, Feb.6 from 5-7pm

Colorado State University-Pueblo students will explore the history and the arts of Indigenous Americans through an art gallery at the school this week.

01/22/2020

Please stop by this fabulous exhibit of objects from the Orman collection as well as contemporary works by Native Artists.

05/02/2019

05/02/2019

Art 412 collaborative project, Participants were asked to wrap wrap yarn around a dome structure. Each length of yarn represents a single person, as the path of the yard was guided by descriptive words related to identity.

04/16/2019

Spring Student Pottery Sale. Wednesday April 24, 2019. LARC Foyer from 9:00am to 4:00pm.

04/03/2019

We had a great workshop with Bob Marsh in the beginning of March. Thanks for the great experience everyone!

03/14/2019

Hope to see you!

Kenny Schneider
ex-votos paintings

Artist Kenny Schneider's last class at CSU-Pueblo was Latin American Art History. When the class got to the 20th century they discovered small, primitive paintings called 'ex-votos' meaning "from the vow made" or "in gratitude, devotion." From the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, they hung behind church altars alongside sanctified retablos, portraits of saints and even influenced Frida Khalo's painting style.

Ex-voto narrates a saint in action, intervening in a near-disaster, accident, or illness that befalls ordinary human beings or animals. Each commemorates the miraculous intervention and expresses the gratitude of the survivors or loving families-husbands and wives, parents and children.

Schneider found them so interesting, that his new series of paintings is based on the ex-voto theme but he uses his own autobiography as reference and they are depicted in the same spirit and genre