A second exhibit, \u201cThese Things are Tangible,\u201d opens 5 \u2013 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 in the campus GOCA1420 location. The exhibit features three contemporary fiber artists – Claudia Mastrobuono, Jodi Stevens, and Sonya Yong James \u2013 independently and collaboratively investigating and pushing the edges of what is possible with sculptural fibers.<\/p>\n
Gallery hours at both locations are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, or by appointment. \u201cThe Black Power Tarot\u201d is on display through April 1. \u201cThese Things are Tangible\u201d will be on display through March 18.<\/p>\n
Multiple events are planned, including Race & Social Change: Readings with authors Aaron Carter, Idris Goodwin and Rhiana Yazzie\u00a0(part of UCCS Theater\/Dance Race & Social Change National Town Hall) 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb 21. A March 6-7 Black Power Film Festival and a Chit Chat on the topic of Notorious B.I.G. & Tarot on March 9 also are planned. Visit GOCA\u2019s website at www.uccs.edu\/goca<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n About \u201cThe Black Power Tarot\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Arish Ahmad Khan, known by his stage name of King Khan, is a Canadian-born, Berlin-based multi faceted musician, producer, writer and artist. Khan divined the idea to create his own tarot deck through a series of dreams and visions he had while working on the film score for \u201cThe\u00a0Invaders,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>a\u00a0<\/em>documentary about a Memphis black power group with whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked.<\/p>\n Surrealist filmmaker and spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky introduced Khan to the way of Tarot and spent years working with Philippe Camoin, the direct heir of the last of Tarot de Marseille printers in Marseille, France, to\u00a0reconstruct\u00a0a precise version of the Tarot de Marseille from the 1760s. Khan asked Jodorowsky to supervise the creation of the Black Power Tarot and\u00a0recruited\u00a0Michael James Eaton, a\u00a0Belfast-based artist and\u00a0designer for television series “Game of Thrones,” to draw each card, which\u00a0were\u00a0then presented to Jodorowsky for his approval.<\/p>\n Combined with Khan’s personal interest in reading and interpreting Tarot, he found a way to bridge the “path of illumination” in the Tarot and the concept of black power by choosing the\u00a0likenesses of 19 African-American musicians, two African- American magicians, one civil rights leader and one African-American comedian to replace the archetypes found in the major arcana of the Tarot De Marseilles and to birth a new mythology for the 21st century.\u00a0For the exhibit, the cards are presented in maximal scale of 3.5 x 6 feet. A limited number of tarot decks and a Black Power Tarot coloring book will be available for purchase at the gallery.<\/p>\n About the Exhibit, \u201cThese Things are Tangible\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Using their medium as a framework, all three artists, Claudia Mastrobuono, Jodi Stevens, and Sonya Yong James, engage with the concepts of self-discovery, gender, and labor, reflecting on an art practice rooted in their experiences as women and makers, as well as the political legacy of fiber art.<\/p>\n The artists will be in residence at UCCS for two weeks leading to the opening and are concurrently creating a site-specific installation at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The artists will speak at an opening for that exhibit 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., amplifying across two cultural sites in our city.<\/p>\n GOCA is a regional hub of contemporary art, culture, and conversation. By featuring world-class artists, hosting artist and expert talks, and offering meaningful events, GOCA engages UCCS students, faculty, staff and Pikes Peak Region community members in contemporary culture and life. GOCA is a contemporary arts organization with two galleries, one founded on the UCCS campus in 1981 and a satellite downtown location that opened in 2010 in the Plaza of the Rockies building.<\/p>\n The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is one of the fastest-growing universities in Colorado. The university offers 45 bachelor\u2019s, 22 master\u2019s and five doctoral degree programs. UCCS enrolls about 12,000 students on campus annually and another 3,300 in online programs. 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11.jpg – XI: LA FORCE – Strength \u2013 Tina Turner, The Black Power Tarot, courtesy King Khan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Transference-2013-300x109.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
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(left) Jodi Stevens, TRANSFERENCE, 2013, Yarn; (center) Claudia Mastrobuono, Weight, fiber and stone; (right) Sonya Yong James<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n