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Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of Tibetan Art - Lisa Tamiris Becker

Seeing Into Being: The Waves on the Turquoise Lake Artists' and Scholars' Symposium - Carole McGranahan and Losang Gyatso

Biographies | Waves on the Turquoise Lake main exhibition

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of Tibetan Art is the first major museum exhibition to feature contemporary Tibetan artists living and working both inside Tibet and across the globe. An exhibition, symposium, and publication as groundbreaking and ambitious as this could only have been achieved with the passion and commitment of many individuals. The inspiration, skill, and wisdom of each of the participating artists is of course primary to the project, and we thank each artist for their seminal contributions of artwork. Several of the artists—Losang Gyatso, Gonkar Gyatso, Kesang Lamdark, Nortse, Tsering Nyandak, Tenzing Rigdol, and Sodhon—traveled from afar to participate in our symposium and special thanks is owed to each of them for contributing their artistic vision and intellectual insights to the symposium. Special thanks is also extended to a dynamic group of scholars—Dina Bangdel, Charlene Makley, Losang Ragbey, and Tsering W. Shakya—who also traveled from great distances to participate in the symposium and contributed their formidable expertise and insights to the endeavor.
Much appreciation is also extended to Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art for initiating a renewed focus on Contemporary Tibetan artists and proposing this collaboration to the CU Art Museum.

Deep appreciation is also expressed for the generosity of the NBT Charitable Trust which provided crucial financial support of the exhibition, symposium and this publication and to James and Rebecca Roser for support of the symposium through a generous visiting artist grant. Additional support of funds for this catalogue from Rossi & Rossi, London and from Wayne Warren, UK are also greatly appreciated.

Thanks is also extended to the CU Art Museum Advisory Board, the CU Art Museum Benefactors’ Salon, the CU Art Museum members, and the Arts and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Student Fees for their support of the exhibition and symposium. Crucial support of the symposium from the President’s Fund for the Humanities, the Center for Asian Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the BCAA Addison Mini-Grant is also deeply appreciated. Thanks also to Charles and Karen Scoggin for their hospitality during the symposium.

Appreciation is extended to the exhibition lenders listed immediately below, who kindly lent artwork in support of the exhibition:

PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON
PEACEFUL WIND GALLERY, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
ADRIAN ROBERT, BOULDER, COLORADO
ANNA MARIA ROSSI, LONDON
FABIO ROSSI, UNITED KINGDOM
ROSSI & ROSSI, LONDON
TAMAR VICTORIA SCOGGIN, BOULDER, COLORADO
WAYNE WARREN, UNITED KINGDOM

Special thanks to Todd Gleeson, Dean of The College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Dean, Graham Oddie, for their continued support of the CU Art Museum and its programs as well as to Micah Abram and Kathy Parker of the University of Colorado Foundation. Much thanks is also owed to the staff of the CU Art Museum who worked with diligence to mount the exhibition and symposium, especially Stephen Martonis for his installation of the artwork and Deryn Ruth Goodwin and Jennifer Conrad for their assistance with coordination of this catalogue. Thanks is also owed to Christopher Lavery, Thaddeus K. Smith, Talice Lee, Deann Zupancic, as well as to our student assistants for their help in mounting the exhibition. Appreciation is also expressed to Eve Sinaiko for her assistance with editing of essays for the catalogue and to Idie McGinty and Matt Rue of McGINTY Inc., Boulder, for their innovative design of this exhibition catalogue and the exhibition/symposium announcement.

LISA TAMIRIS BECKER
Co-Curator of the exhibition and Director, CU Art Museum

LOSANG GYATSO
Co-Director of Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art
and Participating Artist

CAROLE McGRANAHAN
Co-Director of Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art
and Assistant Professor of Anthropology

TAMAR VICTORIA SCOGGIN
Co-Curator of the exhibition


Biographies | Waves on the Turquoise Lake main exhibition

Seeing Into Being: The Waves on the Turquoise Lake Artists' and Scholars' Symposium - Carole McGranahan and Losang Gyatso

Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of Tibetan Art - Lisa Tamiris Becker

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