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Object Photography Event Opens Up FAC Collection to Public
On Friday, February 16, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (FAC) hosted “Museum Object Photography” in the new Agents of Care gallery space. Museum staff set up their object photography studio in the gallery and pulled selections from the museum’s tactile collection to photograph. Visitors were invited to drop by and ask… Read More
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Arts Alum Spotlight: Grace Hale ’20
As I speak with Grace Hale, she is walking the streets of New York City, the sirens and other city noise dispersing our conversation. Hale is visiting the “Big Apple” to work with the New York Youth Symphony, who will be premiering her newly commissioned orchestral work This is Not a Dream on March 10, 2024, in… Read More
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Arts Alum Spotlight: Brendan O’Donoghue ’12
Brendan O’Donoghue ’12 is a freelance bass player based out of Denver, CO. While maintaining an active gigging schedule as a freelance musician, he also regularly performs with the Tenia Nelson Trio, the Timberline Troubadours, and the O’Connor Brothers Band. O’Donoghue reminisces about his time at CC as one that gave him a bit of an edge in… Read More
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Music Students Immerse Themselves in Jane Austen Novels
Julia Fennell ’21 When Dr. Lidia Chang, Assistant Professor of Music, was designing her first solo class at CC, she wanted to find a new way to teach the Classical Era in Western music. While most colleges teach the usual parade of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, she wanted to do something different; something that would… Read More
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Semester in France Inspires Alum to Pursue Job in Paris
When Julia Gilman ’19 decided to study abroad in France through CC’s Semester in France Program her junior year, she had no idea that just three years later, she would be working in Paris as a creative product content project manager at Cartier, a French luxury watches and jewelry brand. It all started at CC,… Read More
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CC Mobile Arts Community Adjunct Introduces Students to Artivism
Students in the CC Mobile Arts Community Artivism Adjunct have the opportunity to see hands-on the impact that local city and state policies have on arts and culture. Through the course, students participate in CC Mobile Arts and local Colorado Springs community events, as well as attend an overnight field trip to the Paseo Project… Read More
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The Story of The Job of Songs
This story begins in the spring of 2018. CC’s Film and Media Studies Program had just launched its first Documentary Exploration Grant and three young student-filmmakers thought, “why not us?” Lila Schmitz ’18, Anika Kan Grevstad ’18, and Fengyi Xu ’19 knew they wanted to work together to make a film beyond what they had… Read More
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Sabbatical Spotlight: Liliana Carrizo
Students in the Block 2 class Musical Tapestries of the American Southwest were treated to a trip to New Mexico where leading faculty and professor, Liliana Carrizo, grew up. Building upon her existing relationships with Indigenous, Nuevomexicano/a, Jewish, and Arab immigrants who shared their homes, food, stories, art, and experiences with the students, Carrizo facilitated… Read More
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Southwest Studies Class Experiences New FAC Vision for Teaching
Students in the Block 2 Art, Power, and Resistance course had the opportunity to learn hands on how culture and identity were expressed through early forms of Indigenous and Southwestern art, using the new Agents of Care: A Collections Transparency Project exhibition space at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (FAC). The… Read More
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Humanities for All Times Grant Helps Sponsor Visiting Writers Series
The Colorado College English Department’s annual Visiting Writers Series, sponsored by the MacLean Endowment, returns this year with significant additional support from the Humanities for Our Times Grant. In January 2022, Mellon Foundation announced that over $16.1 million was awarded to 12 liberal arts colleges as part of the ‘Humanities for All Times’ Initiative. CC received $1,024,000 for its Humanities for Our Times:… Read More
