The UCCS Visiting Artists & Critics Series features a lineup of presentations by artists and critics of national and international significance. The program’s goal is to foster understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through dialogue and critical conversations. Each VACS lecture takes place in the Chapman Foundation Recital Hall, next door to the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery in the Ent Center for the Arts. High-quality video recordings of each lecture are made public and archived on GOCA’s digital content platform within two weeks of each event (GOCAdigital.org).

Over the past decade, the series co-produced by the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art and UCCS Visual Art & Art History programs has invited artists and scholars to the UCCS campus to present public lectures and meet with undergraduate students in classes and workshop settings.

The series is generously supported by the CU President’s Fund for the Humanities, Colorado Creative Industries, UCCS Student Government Association, and the Bee Vradenburg Foundation.

2024-2025 EVENTS

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024, 6 - 7 p.m.

Chapman Auditorium, Ent Center for the Arts

Jenny Irene Miller is the 2024 Female Emerging Artists Residency Series (F.E.A.R.S.) artist. This residency series is an experimental program that invites artists early in their professional careers to UCCS to participate in a residency, solo-exhibition, and academic classes. F.E.A.R.S. is now a collaborative initiative between the UCCS Visual Arts Department (VAPA) and GOCA.

Jenny Irene Miller, Inupiaq, (b. Sitŋasuaq / Nome, Alaska, she/her and they/them) is an artist working primarily with photography. Her work focuses on identity, community, the familial archive, memory, and place. The poetics found in what is seen or refused in Jenny’s images make important contributions to her work. Jenny lives and works in Dgheyay Kaq' / Anchorage, Alaska.

Jenny holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, a BFA in Photomedia and a BA in American Indian Studies from the University of Washington. She is a past Beaumont Newhall/Van Deren Coke Photography Fellow at UNM, SITE Santa Fe Scholar, Elizabeth Furber Fellow, and Fulbright Canada Killam Fellow.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, AK, and in a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, NM. In 2023, Jenny made the 2023 Silver List, organized by Silver Eye Center for Photography based in Pittsburg, PA.