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’91 Alum is Named Visionary Artist of Taos
Sara Basehart ’91 was recently awarded the title of Visionary Artist of Taos by the Taos Fall Arts Festival.
In August, Basehart also had an exhibit of her work, “Trashformations, The Recycled Works of Sara St. Lawrence Basehart,” shown at Encore Gallery in Taos, NM. Her work was recently reviewed in Taos News.
First Thursday | Block 2
Unsettling Curatorial Practice In and Outside of the Museum | Ellyn Walker
September 28 | 4:30 p.m. | Cornerstone Screening Room
The CC Arts Department invites all local alumni to come listen to visiting assistant professor and interdisciplinary arts scholar and curator from Toronto, Treaty 13 territory, Ellyn Walker.
This talk explores the curatorial as a radical and interdisciplinary methodology, focusing on critical exhibition projects, public and site-specific interventions, and community-based collaborations as case studies to think through possibilities of the curatorial as both practice and pedagogy.
What’s New at the FAC?
A new Executive Director and a fantastic line-up of events and performances!
A Makeover for Arte Mestiza: A Community Affair
“I’m doing now what I wanted to do originally,” says Colorado muralist Emanuel Martinez as he applies fresh paint to his 37-year-old mural, Arte Mestiza, which spans the concrete wall of the parking lot of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. “I am representing the artists whose work I am painting with more color, greater detail, and better accuracy.”
Martinez is breathing new life into Arte Mestiza with an explosion of color, lending a newfound vibrancy that makes every panel in the two-thousand square foot mural pop. And he’s getting help from CC students and younger students from all over the Pikes Peak region. SEE FULL STORY »
Alum on Show
Ellen Goldschmidt ’78 will have a solo exhibition of her paintings, titled Color Forms, at the Blackfish Gallery in Portland, OR during the month of September (opening September 7, 2023, 6-9 p.m.).
Goldschmidt is donating 10% of her sales to Friendly House Inc, a non-profit community center and social service agency in Portland. If you aren’t in the area, or can’t make it during September, you can view the work online through the Blackfish Gallery website.
“Goldschmidt has made a practice of unpredictability, alternating between figuration and semi-abstraction in a variety of forms over 20 years of exhibitions. In Color Forms, she has gone all-in on pure abstraction, tracing the boundaries of possibility in the fundamentals of color, form line and texture. This new work demonstrates Goldschmidt’s bonafides as a colorist and her imaginative range as an image maker.”
Blackfish Gallery
ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPUS
DISTINGUISHED ORGANIST SERIES
The Paul Frederick Sheffer Memorial Endowment presents this year’s Distinguished Organist Series concert in Shove Chapel featuring trumpeter Ivano Ascari and organist Leonardo Carrieri. The program features works by 2oth century composers including CC’s Professor of Composition Ofer Ben-Amots. The audience is invited to a reception with the artists following the performance. Admission is free and open to the public. LEARN MORE »
MUSIC ENSEMBLES SHOWCASE
Back by popular demand, CC student ensembles take to the Packard stage in this annual Homecoming weekend event! Always an audience favorite, the concert features the Chamber Chorus and Bluegrass, Mariachi, Gamelan, and Tiger Jazz ensembles. Join us for an hour of lively multi-genre music. Admission is free and open to the public. LEARN MORE »
THE MUSIC OF CARLTON GAMER
Join us for an afternoon of music celebrating the life and compositions of Professor Emeritus Carlton Gamer, 1929-2023. Gamer taught at CC from 1954-94 and in addition to his work as a composer, was known as a brilliant music theorist, mathematician and peace activist.
Faculty and guests will present a program of varied works spanning his long and distinguished career, including the Sonata for Violin and Piano, Two Songs by Li Po for voice and flute, Duetude for flute and clarinet, Aria da Capo, and In the Gardens of the West. A reception will follow the concert in the Packard courtyard. Admission is free and open to the public. LEARN MORE »