In 1926, when the FAC was known as the Broadmoor Art Academy, it was the de facto Art Department of Colorado College. This was during an age when professional arts education was transitioning from professional art schools to accredited colleges and universities.<\/p>\n
Alice Bemis Taylor originally planned to build a museum to house her collection on Colorado College\u2019s campus. Instead, she joined forces with Julie Penrose and Elizabeth Sage Hare, who persuaded her to include this in a bigger Fine Arts Center vision and build a multidisciplinary arts institution.<\/p>\n
In 1935, while the Fine Arts Center was under construction, the first art exhibition as the Fine Arts Center was held on the CC campus in Cossitt Hall.<\/p>\n
In the late 1930s, the Fine Arts Center and Colorado College jointly hosted an annual Conference on the Fine Arts.<\/p>\n
Upon the closing of CC\u2019s museum in the 1960s (housed in Gates Common Room) a portion of the college\u2019s collection of Southwest art and cultural objects was placed on long-term loan to the FAC.<\/p>\n
CC is a long-standing institutional member of the FAC; each has mounted art exhibitions on the other\u2019s behalf on a number of occasions, and joint programming has been presented often. Recent examples: \u201cIndian Corner\u201d explored stereotypes by placing Native American cultural objects from the CC\/ FAC collection in relation to similar tourist consumer trinkets; \u201cDevotional Cultures\u201d used objects from the FAC\u2019s Spanish Colonial art collection to explore the ways in which the ideas and practices of Catholicism were disseminated and adapted in the Southwest; and \u201cExtending the Line\u201d included works from the FAC\u2019s Modern and Contemporary collection that looked at different uses of line in visual, literary, and performing arts.<\/p>\n
In 2015 the FAC gifted the contents of its comprehensive art publication archives to Tutt Library at Colorado College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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