{"id":1591,"date":"2011-09-02T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T22:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2013-02-26T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:36:24","slug":"donated-butterfly-sculpture-soars-at-cc-childrens-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2011\/09\/02\/donated-butterfly-sculpture-soars-at-cc-childrens-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Donated Butterfly Sculpture Alights at CC Children’s Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a new symbol of caring and creativity at the Colorado College Children\u2019s Center: a brightly painted butterfly.<\/p>\n

The 8-foot-tall metal butterfly sculpture, donated by Laurel McLeod \u201969 and her husband, Jim Allen, is an appropriate image for the center.<\/p>\n

McLeod, the former vice president for student life and later special assistant to the president, purchased the butterfly last fall at an auction sponsored by the Rotary Club of Colorado Springs. The \u201cButterfly & Friends\u201d event is a community-service initiative created by the Rotary Club to raise awareness and funds to serve children and promote the arts in local schools. Participating artists contribute by transforming large-scale metal butterfly “templates” into works of art.\u00a0Each transformed butterfly sculpture is then auctioned off, with more $100,000 being raised in the first three years of the program.<\/p>\n

McLeod\u2019s butterfly sculpture, titled \u201cDoing Yoga with the Rotary,\u201d was painted by local artist Kat Tudor, \u201877; her husband, Bob Tudor, created the whimsical design, in which the drawing on each side of the butterfly\u2019s wing is a mirror image of the other.<\/p>\n

McLeod wasn\u2019t sure where to put her newly purchased sculpture when Debby Fowler, CC\u2019s development officer for stewardship, suggested the Children\u2019s Center. McLeod immediately knew that was the perfect location for it, as the Children\u2019s Center is a place she deeply values. The sculpture was installed in early summer, once the ground was prepared for the base, and is located outside the fence on the north side of the center, where it overlooks playground equipment and a painted cow.<\/p>\n

McLeod was a member of\u00a0the first committee that sought to establish an on-campus children\u2019s care center; as a single mother and the first CC woman administrator to have a baby and continue working, she felt such a center was vital to recruiting and retaining quality staff and faculty. (A second incarnation of the committee did succeed in getting an on-site children\u2019s center established in 1987.)<\/p>\n

McLeod took her younger daughter to the Children\u2019s Center for several years. \u201cThe quality of care was amazing, and education was part of the curriculum,\u201d she said. She recalls linguistics classes, developmental psychology classes, and drama classes working with the staff of Children\u2019s Center. \u201cIt\u2019s just a great place for creative development,\u201d McLeod said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the creative development aspect that makes the site so perfect for the butterfly sculpture: The Children\u2019s Center provides a safe, nurturing cocoon for the children, and encourages a creative metamorphosis for each child.<\/p>\n

The next butterfly auction will be held Sept. 17 at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort; for more information go to: http:\/\/www.artsandfriends.org\/Register.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a new symbol of caring and creativity at the Colorado College Children\u2019s Center: a brightly painted butterfly. The 8-foot-tall metal butterfly sculpture, donated by Laurel McLeod \u201969 and her husband, Jim Allen, is an appropriate image for the center. McLeod, the former vice president for student life and later special assistant to the president, … <\/p>\n

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