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Students Engage with World-Famous Kronos Quartet
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Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
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By Julia Fennell ’21
The Kronos Quartet spoke about the group’s new film, “A Thousand Thoughts,” to students in four critical inquiry seminars: Black and Brown Muslims in White America; Musicals in American Culture; Philosophy as a Way of Life; and Emotion and Meaning in Music, as well as to students in Music Composition.
“It’s important to note that four of the five classes were first-year seminars,” says Ryan Bañagale ’00, co-chair of the Music Department, who has been working for several years to bring the ensemble to campus. “Students spent their second day of CC with the world-famous Kronos Quartet.”
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‘Take Back the Power’ Concert Today
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One of Downtown’s most powerful murals, “Take Back the Power” by Gregg Deal, will be the site for an evening of inspiring performances featuring Dead Pioneers, Marcelina Ramirez, and Algiers, today, Sept. 23, at 5:30 p.m.
Deal is a local Pyramid Lake Paiute artist and activist whose art practice incorporates lifelong interests in punk music, street art and graphic styles, comic books, and speculative superhero fiction.
At the base of the 70-foot, award-winning mural, enjoy:
- Music from the debut album of Deal’s new band, Dead Pioneers
- Music from post-punk rock band Algiers
- Spoken word performance on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women from Marcelina Ramirez, Colorado College Mobile Arts’ Artist-in-Residence
Presented by Downtown Ventures, UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, and Colorado College Mobile Arts. Sponsored by Arts in Society, a grant administered by Redline Contemporary Art Center, and the CU President’s Fund for the Humanities.
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New ‘Art Loan’ Program Launches this Fall
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Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
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By Julia Fennell ’21
Students, faculty, and staff will soon have access to a hundred pieces of art as part of the new Art Loan program. The program will allow members of the campus community to borrow artwork to use in offices, residence halls, and workspaces.
While owning an original piece of art has historically been an exclusive privilege, the Art Loan program will give everyone a chance to have a connection with, and to, art. “Living with art improves your life — we know art can increase self-awareness, open up new understanding, and reduce stress,” says Rebecca Tucker, professor of art, who is facilitating the Art Loan program. “The Art Loan program is built on the idea that everyone should have that opportunity.”
The Art Loan program not only will increase access to the campus collection but will help CC’s sense of place in the community, as the program will feature and acquire art from local and regional artists. The program will also help to advance the college’s antiracism commitment, as the student managers of the collection will work with local and regional BIPOC artists to feature and buy their art.
The Art Loan program will begin in Block 2 with about 100 pieces available to loan out. For more information, campus community members can email Rebecca Tucker, phone (719) 389-6646, or check the CC website starting in Block 2.
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Mark Your Calendar for First Mondays
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Join us Monday Sept. 26 at 11:15 a.m. for a talk by Katherine Standefer, author of the 2022-23 Common Read “Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life.” Her debut book, “Lightning Flowers,” was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Standefer earned her MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and her B.A. in English and Sociology from Colorado College. You can learn more about the text through the Tutt Library LibGuide.
Register here in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Professor Keleher ’11 Publishes Essay in Shakespeare Quarterly
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English Sarah S. Keleher ’11 has published a new essay in Shakespeare Quarterly, entitled, “‘This bastard graff shall never come to growth’: Conception and Consent in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.” The essay explores the way in which Shakespeare’s Lucrece follows a humanist disputational tradition that positions Lucretia as a defendant against charges of adultery in a perpetual rhetorical trial, interpreting her motives for suicide through judgment of her chastity. While previous critics have tended to rule in Lucrece’s favor, identifying Lucrece as a rape victim rather than as a consenting adulteress, Keleher argues that Shakespeare resists a straightforward exoneration of his heroine by indicating that Lucrece conceives a child during Tarquin’s assault.
Keleher returns to Colorado College having recently completed her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. She will teach several courses this year, including Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Shakespeare, and Bodies in Early Modern Literature.
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Photo by Lonnie Timmons III
First-year students Sophia Boras ’26 and Rose Ryan ’26 in Tava Quad on Sept. 12.
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