Reception for UW Art Museum Spring Exhibitions Feb. 20

An opening reception for the University of Wyoming Art Museum's new spring exhibitions is scheduled 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20.

The reception -- free and open to the public with light appetizers and a cash bar -- will celebrate the Art Museum's spring exhibitions, featuring "Andy Warhol: 15 Prints" and "Andy Warhol: 10 Clips," and an awards ceremony for the 51st annual Juried University of Wyoming Student Exhibition.

A highlight of the Art Museum's exhibition program, the juried student exhibition will present 51 artworks from 32 selected UW students. In conjunction with the Art Museum's larger exhibition, titled "Sympoiesis: Co-Creating Sense of Place," this year's student juried exhibition will explore the theme of "entanglement."

Juror Lindsay Metivier, an educator, photographer, curator and gallerist from Carrboro, N.C., will be in attendance for the awards ceremony, scheduled at 6 p.m.

"Andy Warhol: 15 Prints" and "Andy Warhol: 10 Clips" bring together 15 screenprints by the pop art icon alongside video segments that provide both context and commentary. Drawn from the collections of the UW Art Museum, the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Art Museum, the exhibition highlights major gifts from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and earlier private donations.

Together, the prints and clips present Warhol not just as a cultural icon, but also as a media-savvy artist navigating the intersection of art, technology and celebrity.

For more information, call Erin Ramsey, UW Art Museum office associate, at (307) 766-3477 or email [email protected].

For media inquiries, call Fred Hirschman, communications coordinator, at (307) 766-3497 or email [email protected].