{"id":3095,"date":"2016-09-22T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2016-10-03T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:52:58","slug":"get-to-know-ccs-new-fine-arts-center-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2016\/09\/22\/get-to-know-ccs-new-fine-arts-center-colleagues\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know CC\u2019s New Fine Arts Center Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

CC and the Fine Arts Center are already joining forces as strategic planning for the CC-FAC alliance gets underway. Both institutions gained new expertise<\/a>, and four individuals from the Fine Arts Center are officially CC employees.<\/p>\n

\"Joy<\/a>Joy Armstrong has been with the Fine Arts Center for about seven years and currently serves as the curator of modern and contemporary art. Prior to joining the FAC, she was the assistant director of galleries for Kent State University and the senior exhibition technician at the Akron Art Museum. All the while, Armstrong says, she was dreaming of a return to Colorado!<\/p>\n

She shares, \u201cI love contemporary art for many reasons, but my favorite part of the job is the opportunity to work directly with living artists. The most rewarding experiences I have had as a curator have been the exhibitions in which my role has included collaboration in addition to interpretation of existing work, with the museum and exhibition serving as a catalyst for the creation of an entirely new experience (and often new artwork(s)!) that has never been viewed elsewhere and will not be recreated in the same way ever again. Because all art\u00a0is contemporary to its own time,\u00a0it is a unique\u00a0occasion when a conversational relationship with a living artist is established; we are\u00a0challenged\u00a0to fulfill their vision and create the most authentic record of the work in that moment for future generations. My career in the arts began in performance \u2014 theatre, vocal, instrumental \u2014 and I believe that spirit of creative teamwork, collaboration, and engagement\u00a0has\u00a0dramatically informed\u00a0my approach to the visual arts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armstrong says she\u2019s enthusiastic about engaging the entire Colorado Springs community in development of the CC-FAC partnership, which \u201cpresents tremendous possibilities for the future of the arts,\u00a0locally and beyond. The arts are alive, vibrant, relevant, and critical to the way our society will be judged in the future \u2014 this opportunity to expand the conversation is essential to ensuring that the arts will continue to be increasingly valued indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few fun facts: Armstrong is vegan and an animal advocate and she and her husband are proud dogparents, the guardians to four furry rescue pups. You can contact Joy Armstrong at joy.armstrong@coloradocollege.edu<\/a>, or stop by the museum!<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Houck is museum preparator and art instructor. \u201cI install and de-install art and teach clay classes and my favorite parts are touching the art and being surrounded by ever-\"Jeremiah<\/a>changing groups of students,\u201d says Houck. Before joining the FAC, Houck was the assistant art teacher at St. Scholastica Academy in Canon City and he had moved from Pennsylvania to Colorado.\u00a0\u201cI am most excited about all the new (and returning) visitors to the museum galleries.\u00a0Come visit us!\u201d says Houck. Something you might be surprised to know: \u00a0Houck works in the huge working clay studio just across the street from the Honnen Ice Arena. Contact him at jeremiah.houck@coloradocollege.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll meet the two other new CC staff members in next week\u2019s newsletter. Plus, share your input on the CC-FAC alliance at upcoming listening sessions Monday, Sept. 26, or Monday, Oct. 3, or by submitting feedback online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CC and the Fine Arts Center are already joining forces as strategic planning for the CC-FAC alliance gets underway. Both institutions gained new expertise, and four individuals from the Fine Arts Center are officially CC employees. Joy Armstrong has been with the Fine Arts Center for about seven years and currently serves as the curator … <\/p>\n

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