{"id":13041,"date":"2018-04-18T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T21:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=13041"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T21:51:43","slug":"students-community-benefit-from-cornerstone-arts-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2018\/04\/students-community-benefit-from-cornerstone-arts-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, Community Benefit From Cornerstone Arts Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cartoonist, artist, writer and professor Lynda Barry presented on creativity during Cornerstone Arts Week and then ran a workshop with students on not being afraid to express themselves through art.<\/p><\/div>\n

The college\u2019s 17th annual Cornerstone Arts Week, open to CC and community members, featured two keynote speakers, a concert by a celebrated Inuit performer, a student installation curated by Nelson Kies \u201918, <\/b>a film, and a theatre production, all exploring this year\u2019s theme, \u201cWhat is the Creative Brain?\u201d In addition to delivering their comments, the two keynote speakers, Robert Sapolsky and Lynda Barry, and Inuit performer Tanya Tagaq, spent time with CC students.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert Sapolsky presented was the keynote speaker for Cornerstone Arts Week where he presented on “The Biology of Human Creativity: Are Our Tools That Much Better Than Chimps?” Sapolsky then met up with several convergence classes to have a question and answer session with students on the biology of creativity at Bemis Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sapolsky, the science and nature writer, biologist, neuroscientist, and stress expert, delivered a talk titled \u201cThe Biology of Human Creativity: Are Our Tools That Much Better Than Chimps\u2019?\u201d The next morning, he met with several convergence classes in Bemis Hall and held a question-and-answer session with students on the biology of creativity. Barry, who has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher (and finds them very much alike), discussed \u201cWhat It Is.\u201d She then led a workshop, \u201cDrawing Words and Speaking Pictures: The Mysterious Thing We Call Comics,\u201d with students in McHugh Commons that examined expressing oneself through art.<\/p>\n

Tagaq, who presented \u201cIn Concert with Nanook of the North,\u201d gave a slide lecture and held a question-and-answer session with students the following day, discussing her music and her upbringing and life as an Inuit. Later that evening, she met with Native CC students and faculty for dinner.<\/p>\n

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Tanya Tagaq performed along with the 1920s film Nanook of the North during CornerstoneArts Week and then had an open public discussion with students and the public to present her artwork and social causes around Inuit and Native cultures in Canada where she is from.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The college\u2019s 17th annual Cornerstone Arts Week, open to CC and community members, featured two keynote speakers, a concert by a celebrated Inuit performer, a student installation curated by Nelson Kies \u201918, a film, and a theatre production, all exploring this year\u2019s theme, \u201cWhat is the Creative Brain?\u201d In addition to delivering their comments, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"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":[85],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2018","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","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=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}