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August 2011
Writing on the Wall
Colorado College alumni Eric Bransby ’47 and Trevor Thomas ’10 help bring an art form from the edge to a comeback. Reprinted with permission from the Colorado Springs Independent. It’s happened slowly and quietly, but the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has pushed an art form on the edge toward a major comeback. Murals — not the kind you see under a bridge, but commissioned pieces executed by artists — have all but disappeared from many public places. In an age when cost-effectiveness dominates construction and mass appeal in art is deemed an abject goal, murals have come to appear as both unnecessarily extravagant, and more decorative than artistic. They…Read more
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August 2011
Introducing Colorado College's 13th President
Jill Tiefenthaler, CC’s president as of July 1, has a solid foundation in economics that will help the college continue to flourish. But her people skills and passion for the liberal arts complete the picture of a well-rounded college president. “I understand well the power of the liberal arts education, and I’m so committed to it as a mission because I think the liberal arts are a great calling. I believe in what we do fundamentally because of the impact it had on my own life,” Tiefenthaler said. Growing up on a farm in Iowa meant hard work, helping her mother feed the farm hands and taking care of two…Read more