The CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado is opening a new exhibition titled 'Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder: Imagining Worlds' on Thursday, February 5. The show explores how fairy tales function as world-building narratives and will be accompanied by a concurrent student-curated exhibition called '[Face] Value'. A public reception is scheduled for the opening day.
The exhibition matters as it represents a significant interdisciplinary collaboration, co-curated with a faculty member from the Department of French and Italian and coordinated with upcoming displays at the CU Museum of Natural History and Norlin Library. It uses the museum's collection to examine enduring human themes through the lens of fairy tales, while also providing practical curatorial experience for graduate students, thereby fulfilling the museum's educational mission and engaging the campus community.