{"id":11356,"date":"2016-12-12T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:06:12","slug":"alumni-cheer-cc-fac-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2016\/12\/alumni-cheer-cc-fac-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Cheer CC FAC Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

There aren\u2019t many alumni who, like Eric Bransby \u201947, M.A. \u201949<\/b> (see Larger than Life<\/a><\/em>), can remember the first era of great collaboration between CC and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. But plenty have connections to both institutions, and at least three of them see great possibility in the recent alliance.<\/p>\n

Sascha Scott \u201997<\/b> remembers spending days in the FAC in a class led by eminent American curator Lonn Taylor. That experience led her to a senior-year internship there, where she handled a Guatemalan textile collection and wrote about some of its components for other classes.<\/p>\n

Now a faculty member at Syracuse University and a rising star in American and Native American arts, Scott says she is \u201cthrilled\u201d that more students will connect with the FAC\u2019s collection. \u201cAs a professor of art history who co-curates exhibitions with my students for my own university\u2019s art galleries,\u201d she writes via email, \u201cI see endless educational possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Bransby, Trevor Thomas \u201910<\/b> extols the virtues of museum schools. While earning a master\u2019s from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he saw people traveling hundreds of miles \u201cjust for the annual student exhibition, just to see … what was going on at the institution.\u201d This alliance, he says, is a step toward replicating that dynamic in a city that has historically \u201crooted itself in some sort of generic form of tourism.\u201d \u201cIntellectualism,\u201d he says, \u201ccan actually be used as a tourist attraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Steve Wood \u201984<\/b>, who has apprenticed with Bransby and taught at the FAC\u2019s Bemis Art School. He talks wistfully of a brief period when free Tuesday admission would attract a crowd to the FAC. (The FAC still offers a monthly free-admission day.) If CC\u2019s resources can allow for more such things, he believes, it will strengthen both community ties and museum finances. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are going to come and be like, \u2018Wow, this is awesome \u2014 let me write a $5,000 check, or $10,000, or $100,000,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cIf they see things happening.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There aren\u2019t many alumni who, like Eric Bransby \u201947, M.A. \u201949 (see Larger than Life), can remember the first era of great collaboration between CC and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. But plenty have connections to both institutions, and at least three of them see great possibility in the recent alliance. Sascha Scott \u201997…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":11217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2016","tag-features"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2016\/12\/CC-BUL-WINTER16-24-FACUpdate.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11475,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions\/11475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}