By Miriam Brown ’21 Arts and Crafts Director Jeanne Steiner creates textile work inspired by high-rise architecture, such as in New York City and Chicago. Printmaking professor Jean Gumpper creates woodcuts inspired by the open landscapes of Hawaii, Michigan, and Colorado. In their new exhibition “Woodcuts and Weavings,” their art works together to create a …
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Visiting Lecturer, Playwright Lisa Marie Rollins Explores Cultural Identities
Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Lisa Marie Rollins is an acclaimed playwright, director and poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This semester, Rollins is a visiting lecturer at CC, teaching two classes and directing a play at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Among many other accolades, Rollins has been a Sundance Theatre fellow and …
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Carlton Gamer Celebrates 90 Years of Life with Special Concert
By: Miriam Brown ’21 When Carlton Gamer first joined the Department of Music at Colorado College, the school’s trademark Block Plan system wasn’t even in the works yet. Now a professor emeritus, Gamer will turn 90 this year, and CC faculty are throwing him a concert in celebration. Gamer is most known for being a …
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Back to the Future: Students Learn From Artist-In-Residence Virgil Ortiz
By: Miriam Brown ’21 Most students never meet or interact with artists whose work they study in class. But thanks to Colorado College’s artist-in-residence program, students in the classes Human/Being Anthropological Perspectives and Southwest Arts and Culture learned about Virgil Ortiz’s art from Ortiz himself. Ortiz, a Pueblo artist who lives in Cochiti Pueblo, New …
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Students Perform Poetry-Songwriting Collaboration
By Ritik Shrestha ’22 Student performers at CC are pushing the boundaries of expressionism with exciting pieces. An example of this innovation can be found in the collaboration between the Art of Songwriting course taught by Assistant Professor of Music Iddo Aharony and Contemporary Poetry taught by Professor of English Jane Hilberry. With the help …
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Experience Buck Walsky’s Art at Silent Disco at FAC “Snow Ball”
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College hosts a silent disco dance party underneath Buck Walsky’s “Beach Front,” an interactive art installation featuring fiber optics and LED lights. Artist William “Buck” Walsky is a Colorado native and proud parent of a CC hockey alumnus. He has one piece on display in the FAC …
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Raven Chacon Brings Intercultural Interactions as Artist-in-Residence
by Leah Veldhuisen ’19 Interdisciplinary artist Raven Chacon is the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College’s first Mellon Grant Artist-in-Residence, and is an internationally known performer, composer, educator, and artist. He currently has an exhibit, “Lightning Speak”, at the FAC and worked with professors Carrie Ruiz, Spanish and Portuguese; and Vicki Levine, Music; …
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Join in CC’s Day of Service
Collaborative for Community Engagement Hosts Event Oct. 4 By Alana Aamodt ’18 On Wednesday, Oct. 4, members of the Colorado College community and the greater Colorado Springs community have the opportunity to come together to help clean up the area around Monument Creek as part of the second-annual Colorado College Day of Service. The event, …
Want to Play?
By Leah Veldhuisen Hone your chess skills and take a quiet break from the hustle and bustle of the Block Plan by visiting Bruce Munro’s “Thank You for a Very Enjoyable Game,” exhibit, currently on display at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. The exhibit invites museum-goers to interact with the chess-themed …
Campus Stays Busy with Summer Session 2017
Courses and field trips don’t end with the conclusion of Block 8. Summer Session 2017 is underway with 225 CC students, along with 12 visiting undergraduates from around the country enrolled in 28 courses combined over Blocks A and B. This week marks the start of three months of programming and academic study. “We’re thrilled to see such …
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