Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Picasso but Were Afraid to Ask

Do Picasso’s controversial views outweigh his masterpieces? Should his treatment of women cancel out his position in art history? Can you separate the art from the artist? Experts weigh in.

This talk is part of our Thursday Nights @ the Museum series. Join us every Thursday from Jan. 23 – May 1 for concerts, films, and free talks in the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium.

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The Museum galleries are also open late on Thursday nights. Explore the Picasso exhibit with extra hours from 5 – 9 pm before your program.

Aitor Lajarin-Encina is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and organizer born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, currently working in Fort Collins, Colorado. He received his BFA in painting from the University of Basque Country, Bilbao, and his MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. Aitor’s various creative work and research interests include contemporary painting and drawing critical issues in the transdisciplinary field, reception and participation aesthetics, alternative self-organizational production, distribution and collaboration models within the arts, and various spaces of intersection between contemporary art and public culture. His work has been shown internationally in private and public institutions in Europe, Asia, North and South America. He is cofounder and codirector of DXIX Projects, a community engagement artist-run initiative initiated in Los Angeles in 2015. Aitor has taught painting, drawing, and interdisciplinary studio classes at UC San Diego and UDLAP in Puebla, Mexico. He is currently an assistant professor in painting in the department of art and art history at Colorado State University, where he is teaching all levels of painting courses and seminars.  He founded K102A Office, a gallery dedicated to offering a space for artists and other cultural producers to develop contemporary art and culture projects with related pedagogical experiences for, from, and with the CSU-Fort Collins-Colorado community.

Dr. Eleanor Moseman specializes in the history of modern European art. She began her studies as a German Language and Literature major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and quickly discovered her passion for languages and cultures. She continued her studies at Bryn Mawr College, completing her M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art. She joined the faculty at CSU in 2006. In her research Professor Moseman focuses on Central European modern art, especially the avant-garde art of German-speaking countries. She has published articles and chapters on Czech Cubist Bohumil Kubišta, German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German Surrealist Richard Oelze, and German fiction writer and surrealist pastel artist Ellida Schargo von Alten. Moseman is currently working on a book manuscript on the abstract pastels and surrealist fiction writings of von Alten, as well as a series of essays on Kubišta’s socially oriented art theory. She also curates exhibitions for CSU’s Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, including a traveling exhibition of Oelze’s drawings and a feature exhibition of von Alten’s drawings and pastels. Her work has been funded by the J. William Fulbright Program and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) as well as competitive grants through CSU’s College of Liberal Arts. Professor Moseman teaches courses in modern art, including critical studies in 19th– and 20th-century European art, as well as topical courses and seminars such as Women in Art History, Expressionism, Portraiture, Landscape in Art, and Global Encounters in Art. She coordinates CSU’s Art History Foundations courses and teaches the three-part introduction covering Paleolithic through contemporary art. In her free time, Professor Moseman enjoys singing with Larimer Chorale, volunteering in the local Waldorf schools, taking pottery classes, and exploring the great outdoors with her family.

Dean Sobel is a college professor, former museum executive and a specialist in 20th-century art. He is an associate professor of the practice of art history and museum studies at the University of Denver. Before joining the DU faculty in 2020, Sobel enjoyed a 33-year art museum career, creating an entirely new institution from “whole cloth,” the acclaimed Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. He was also director/chief curator at the Aspen Art Museum (2000–05) and chief curator/curator of contemporary art at the Milwaukee Art Museum (1987–2000). Sobel has taught, published and lectured extensively. As a curator, he organized and circulated major one-artist and thematic exhibitions featuring a range of modern and contemporary artists and subjects. Those projects include retrospectives of Vito Acconci and Jackie Winsor; one-artist projects with Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Stan Douglas, Thomas Demand and Olafur Eliasson; and the group shows From Figure to Floor: Sculpture in the 20th Century and 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s. Among his many acquisitions were major works by Bill Viola, Kiki Smith, Robert Gober, Glenn Ligon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

Genevieve Waller (she/her) is an artist, curator, and writer who was born in the heyday of disco and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her education includes a BA in art history, an MFA in photography and art history, and an MA in visual and cultural studies. She is the founder and editor of the art magazine DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, which documents the Colorado Front Range visual art scene through reviews of exhibitions, artist profiles, and an exhibitions calendar with show listings from Fort Collins in the north to Trinidad in the south.

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