CAC ARTS NEWS No. 170
01/18/05
COLORADO ARTS CONSORTIUM
http://www.coloradoartsconsortium.org
Editor's Note:
Ah,
the good old days! Remember them? My wife used to sit with her brothers on the
front porch way back in the forties and early fifties and try to out guess each
other on the make of a car going by. Try That today with a gazzilion models and
makes. When was the last time you looked at a TV test pattern and said it was
time to go to bed? How about listening to the radio and letting the imagination
fill the theater of your mind? I could go on and on and I suspect you could too
no matter how old you are. Remember how shocking your first exposure to
"modern" (now contemporary) art was? No big deal today! If I saw a
wall leaning on a building as a youth I would have run lickity split. Now, what
art museum doesn't lean? What TV station doesn't go on and on even though they
don't have anything but infomercials (paid programming I think it is called)
and what radio station has brought you a chance to let the mind follow into the
realm of drama? I'm just going on here not as a curmudgeon but I do think that
the pendulum will swing to allow more thoughtful
looking
at art, music and drama. The technology of today can be used to give us instant
short bursts of whatever and it can also deliver more introspection than ever.
Run
through the museum with the earphones but then go back and slowly take one
painting or sculpture at a time. Listen to any good books lately? Well, that's
my sermon for the day - and week.
Paul
Saunders
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DURANGO
ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES
ARTISTS OUTREACH
The Durango Art Center will host an
"artist gathering" on Thursday, January
20 at 7 p.m. We will meet in the
gallery to discuss potential workshops,
salons, support needs/ideas, and
more. Come explore the opportunities
available through the Durango Arts
Center. Artists of all levels are
welcome.
For more information contact Carol
Martin 259-2606
DURANGO
ARTS CENTER ANNOUNCES
FOUR CORNERS COMMISSION AWARD WINNERS
The Durango Arts Center announces award
winners for the annual Four Corners
Commission Exhibit. The "Best of
Show" award was given to Mary Ellen Long
for her mixed media piece, "Secrets
of the Burn." The Juror's Choice award
was given to J. Burnite for his ceramic
piece "Untitled #2." Caroline
Reeves Johnson received the Merit Award
for her oil painting "Winter Storm
in the Foothills." An
Honorable Mention award was given to Tirzah Camacho
for her acrylic painting, "Boarding
School (for the Indian girls)."
The Durango Area Tourism Office
sponsored special awards in association with
this exhibit. The three DATO chosen
artists are Pat Howard for her
watercolor and acrylic painting on
hand-made paper, "Echoes of the Past";
Krista Harris for her oil paintings,
"Pasture Series"; and Jane Mercer for
her oil painting, "Falling Near
Silverton." The DATO-chosen artists will
receive twelve months of on-line
promotion on the DATO website, an exhibit
at the Visitors' Center, and also
feature the wining artists in a special
promotion of the Durango community and
one artist's image will be reproduced
on a postcard for DATO.
All award winning pieces can be viewed
at the Durango Arts Center, Tuesdays
through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
through February 5.
This year's juror, Krista Elrick,
selected the award winners. Elrick is an
accomplished documentary photographer
and teacher, who holds a B.F.A. and an
M.F.A. in photography.
For
more information call 259-2606.
DURANGO ARTS CENTER
ANNOUNCES
CLASSES AND OUTREACH
Kindred Spirits Music and Movement
classes are held Mondays from 10 a.m. to
noon. This is a performance group
class for adults who have disabilities.
Everyone is welcome. We strive for a
mixed group of adults who can sing and
dance with those who have more
difficulty. The students would welcome
opportunities to perform for your club
or group. Each year we have a
performance
with Durango Arts Force's Applause! children's performance
group. It is a real highlight show
at the Durango Arts Center.
Kindred
Spirits Fine Art classes are held Thursday at the Durango Arts Center.
Kindred Spirits classes are primarily for adults with disabilities; the class
is open to everyone.
Kindred Spirits Out Reach Program is on
Wednesdays at the Vista Mesa
Assisted Living Center in Cortez.
There will be Music and Movement class
for adults in the Alzhiemers wing at 10
a.m. to 11:30 a.m. At 3 p.m. there
is a Fine Art class for all residents.
Hearts Apart is a Thursday after school
art class for children who have
family members who serve in the military
or children who are otherwise being
affected by the war. This is a
class for preschool through grade 12 that
includes music, dance, painting,
drawing, writing and storytelling.
For more information about any of these
classes please call Margaret Pacheco
at 588-2262 or 759-9537. Margaret
welcomes interns and volunteers. To
volunteer
call Jeanne Berger at the Durango Arts center 259-2606.
Lanette Hartman
Administrative Assistant/Gallery Shop
Manager
Durango Arts Center
970-259-2606
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Grant
writing and Accounting workshop for non-profits
EVERGREEN
ARTS CENTER
Contact: Evergreen Arts Council
Tel:
303-674-0056
Email:
pirates1@msn.com
Evergreen
Arts Council will be holding a FREE workshop on grant writing and
accounting for nonprofit organizations.
The workshop will be held Saturday, January 29, 2005, 9-3pm at the Evergreen
Arts Center located next to the Buchanan Recreation Center in Bergen Park. Lena
Cazeaux of Gray Castle Associates, a grant writer for 20 years will present
information on how to prepare a successful grant proposal. Barb Scripps of
Scripps & Associates, a local accounting firm with extensive nonprofit
work, will discuss accounting needs of a not for profit organization.
Space is limited please call to reserve a place. 303-674-0056
The
Center is located next to the Buchanan Park Recreation Center. 32003B
Ellingwood Trail, and is open Noon to 5pm, Tuesday through Sunday.
For
further information please call the Arts Hotline at 303-674-4625 or the Arts
Center at 303-674-0056.
EVERGREEN
ARTS CENTER
Contact:
Lorene Joos
HIGH
SCHOOL SHOW: The Evergreen
Art Center is pleased to announce the second annual High School Show featuring
artists from Evergreen High School, Clear Creek High School, Conifer High
School and Platte Canyon High School, February 3 to 27, 2005.
View
the work of over 70 of our talented area high school students. Works
range from sculpture, oil, drawing, and photography. "Last year,
this show was amazing; viewers could not believe these were the works of teens
and not professional artists," said Antoinette Bradley.
Please
join us for the opening reception held at the Evergreen Art Center on February
5 from 6-8pm. Meet the artists and see first hand the talent of your
community budding artists.
The
Evergreen Art Center is located next to the Buchanan Rec Center in Bergen Park
off Highway 74 and Squaw Pass Road in Evergreen.
The
Evergreen Arts Council is a non profit 501 C3 Tax Id No. 84 0718563.
For
further information please call the Arts Center at 303-674-0056.
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MEDIA
CONTACT:
Sabine
Kortals
Publicity,
Da Vinci Quartet
tel:
720.566.0685
email:
SabineEKortals@aol.com
general
information: 303.871.6964, www.dvq.org
WHAT:
Da
Vinci Quartet Continues Denver House Concert Series
PROGRAM:
-
SCHUBERT: Quartet in A minor, Op. 29 ("Rosamunde")
- BERG: String Quartet, Op. 3
DATE: Wednesday, February 16, 2005
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
TICKETS: $20
CALL: For tickets, location details and other
information, call Sue Seitz at 303.798.1487.
Note:
Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday,
January 12, 2005 - Denver, Colorado -
In a study of contrasts, the Da Vinci Quartet will perform works by Franz
Schubert and Alban Berg in a Feb. 16 house concert.
"Schubert's
Quartet in A minor is one of just two of his chamber music pieces that reached
publication in his lifetime," said Susan Jensen, second violinist.
"The quartet is unique in many ways, including the opening of the first
movement which begins with an agitated accompaniment before the melody is
introduced.
"The
poignant andante movement refers back to the incidental music Schubert composed
for the 1823 play 'Rosamunde,' which gives the quartet its nickname."
Offsetting
the strongly modal, four-movement masterwork is Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3.
"This
piece totally deviates from what is traditionally understood as
'harmony,'" continued Jensen of the wholly non-modal work composed under
the mentorship of Arnold Schoenberg. "The score gives free reign to
dissonance. Every musical detail is somehow related to the overarching
structure of the piece."
In
fact, this first of Berg's two string quartets has been described as an
"event" in which - beyond merely listening - the audience becomes a
part of the process of the music's unfolding.
We
hope you'll join us for this musical adventure!
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Chapman University
Choir, conducted by William Hall,
with
Lakewood, Grandview, Smoky Hill, Denver Christian, and Overland high school
choirs joining the choir in the first movement of Beethoven's Mass in C
Under
the direction of Dr. William Hall,
the University choral organizations have florished over the last 30 years. An
extensive tour of the Western United States highlights each year's schedule,
while every two or three years, the ensemble travels and performs in Asia or
Europe. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "They sing with singular
simultaneity and lovely tone, cut off with absolute precision, and their fortes
are as effortless and powerful as if one had merely applied an organ
swell." Dr. Hall and the University Choir have also been featured on the
soundtracks of motion pictures and can be seen in the movie Sister Act II.
Free
AUGUSTANA
LUTHERAN CHURCH
JANUARY
21 (FRI) 7:30 PM
Musica
Sacra Chamber Players
perform Mendelssohn's
String Octet
Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat
read,
played and danced, with David Rutherford conducting
$15
Adult/$10 Senior/$5 Student
L’Histoire du Soldat, a short play, was produced in
Lausanne, Switzerland, on Sept. 1918, with a text by C. F. Ramuz, after a
collection of Russian tales. The work, dealing with a soldier, the Devil
and a Princess, was staged with spoken narration, dance, and an orchestra of
seven, and an idiom indebted to jazz.
The
idea, hatched early in 1918, that Stravinsky and Ramuz should write a theater
piece ... more
Augustana
Lutheran is located at5000 E. Alameda Ave, just east of Colorado Blvd in Denver
You
can purchase single tickets through TicketsWest.
Phone:
1.866.464.2626
Online:
www.TicketsWest.com
In Person: All King Soopers Grocery
Stores or at Augustana
For a detailed listing of events, bios,
and program notes: www.AugustanaArts.org
The
Mission of Augustana Arts
Gather
Community, Support the Arts, and Delight the Spirit.
5000
E. Alameda Ave. w Denver, CO 80246
Phone:
303.388.4678
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Cortez Cultural Center's art gallery show for the month of Feb. is the
Ute Mountain Ute Artisans From potters to beaders to story telling and
dancing. Each Friday at 7 pm a different program will be offered. Friday the
4th is an artist reception with a PowWow and dancing, Friday the 11th is Ute
StoryTelling with Norman Lopez, Friday the 18th is Ute Pottery Design &
History with Joe Hulligan Jr. of Ute Mtn. Pottery, Friday the 25th is
Preservation of the Ute language with Estrella Gallegos Director of Ute
Mountain Ute Language and Cultural Dept. The Gallery is open 10-5 Monday thru
Saturday at 25 N. Market St, in Cortez. 970-565-1151. www.cortezculturalcenter.org
Deb
Avery
Executive Director
Cortez Cultural Center
25 N Market St
Cortez, CO 81321
970-565-1151
970-565-4075 Fax
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Colorado Alliance for Arts Education
(CAAE)
The
application deadline for the
National Symphony Orchestra 4
week summer music institute is fast approaching. If you know a talented music
student, encourage them to apply. The Deadline is February 5th, 2005.
To obtain the NSO application go to: www.artsedcolorado.org/national.cfm
The
2005 Schools of Excellence
application packets have been mailed. Check with your Principal - that's who
they are addressed to. Contact us if your Principal does not have it. Deadline
is March 11, 2005. Colorado schools continue to lead the country
in this national award program. Apply today to have your school considered for
this prestigious honor !
Exciting
new programs in the world of Arts Education!
The Colorado Council on the Arts has announced seven recipients of the 2005
YouthReach Colorado grants, a new program that supports community-based
nonprofit organizations that combine high quality arts training and youth
development activities to help at-risk young people make a successful transition
to adulthood. This years recipients are: ArtReach, Inc., Denver; Arts Street,
Denver; Boys and Girls Clubs of San Luis Valley, Alamosa; Downtown Aurora
Visual Arts, Aurora; FutureSelf, Colorado Springs; The Spot Youth Center,
Denver; Young Audiences, Inc., Denver. Congratulations to all of these amazing
organizations. For more information about Colorado Council on the Arts, visit www.coloarts.org
The
Center for Visual Art is pleased
to present a series of art workshops in conjunction with their exhibition,
Leaving Aztlan: Rethinking Contemporary Latino and Chicano Art. These workshops
are for K-12 educators and will be led by internationally known Denver artist,
Carlos Fesquez. Workshops will be held at the CVA on Feb. 8, 10 & 15 from
5-7pm and will offer ideas for vibrant and affordable classroom projects while
exploring the history of Latino/Chcano images, retablos and Aztec codices. Free to DPS teachers, $40 non-DPS,
limited to 30 people. Registration Deadline: February 1st. For more information
contact Amy Banker at 303-294-5207, x 11 or at banker@mscd.edu
Support
for Arts Education
The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts
Education Network (KCAAEN) and
the National School Boards
Association (NSBA) have
announced the annual KCAAEN and NSBA Award competition. The award is presented
to a school board that has demonstrated support for and commitment to
high-quality arts education in its school district. The Colorado Alliance for Arts Education has submitted a nomination for the Denver Public
Schools Board for their persistence in obtaining funding to provide arts
education to every elementary school student in the district. The Denver
community responded by voting for the mill-levy that provided these much needed
funds. Congratulations to DPS and good luck!
ARTS
ED FACTS FOR YOU TO PASS ONŠ
From
the Colorado Department of Education Model Content Standards for Visual Arts:
"Visual arts education benefits the
student because it cultivates the whole person, gradually building many kinds
of literacy while developing intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity
into unique forms of expression and communication."
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NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (NEA)
The FY 2006 Grants for Arts Projects guidelines are now available
on the Web site at
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/index.html
Grants
for Arts Projects represents the primary funding opportunity
for organizations.
The FY 2006/2007 Creative Writing Fellowships guidelines are now
available at
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Lit06/index.html. These
fellowships enable recipients to set
aside time for writing, research, travel,
and general career advancement.
Non-matching grants are for $20,000.
The
2003 NEA Annual Report is now
available in hard copy and online at
http://www.arts.gov/about/03Annual/index.html.
The report presents
profiles of some of the outstanding
grants awarded in Fiscal Year 2003.
The Arts Endowment has announced the
launch of NEA Jazz in the
Schools,
an educational resource for high school
teachers of social studies, U.S. history,
and music. The curriculum will be
produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center jazz, and
supported by a grant from the Verizon
Foundation. For more information, go to
http://www.arts.gov/news/news04/JazzinSchools.html
Verizon has announced that it will
support the 2005 NEA Jazz
Masters initiative,
including nationwide touring
performances and associated educational activities,
television and radio programming and a
commemorative publication. Please
see the release at
http://www.arts.gov/news/news04/JazzMastersVerizon.html
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http://www.theothersidearts.com/
Mission: Integrating art into the every day lives of the Denver community
through art education for children and adults, experiential opportunities for
the public, and nurturing the creative process of artists.
TOSA
general
email The Other Side
Arts
80202 Art@theothersidearts.com
tel:
fax: 303 561 3000
303 561 3010
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like this?
After
3 years of Potlucks on Tuesday nights we have decided to move this community
event to Monday Nights at 6:30 P.M. If you haven't been to one of our
potlucks, it's a great way to meet local artists and art supporters. It's also
a great way to learn about what's going on at TOSA and how to get involved.
This change is effective immediately. I.E. Potluck Tonight! I hope this
doesn't inconvenience too many of you and I hope it allows more of you to
attend. Have a great Monday!
Jeff
Ball Founder/Director of Artist Development and Operations.
P.S.
We finally named the new TOSA Kitty... his name is Dali.. come down to potluck
and meet him!
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Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration
PRESS
RELEASE
Contact:
Beth Fox-Kret
KCIC
Special Events/Public Relations
(719)
597-3344 or www.imaginationcelebration.org
Imagination
Celebration Transition
Mary
L. Mashburn, affectionately known as the "Fairy Godmother of the
Arts," will retire in June
2005 as the Executive Director for the Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration
(KCIC), a nonprofit organization providing year-round arts and educational
programs that reach nearly 175,000 people of all ages each year. "Mary
has been leading this organization for 16 years while sprinkling children and
families with good wishes and amazing arts experiences. Now it is our
turn to thank and sprinkle her with good wishes," said Henry Tippie, Board
President for Imagination Celebration, "We are thrilled that Deborah
Thornton, Resource Development and Outreach Coordinator for Imagination
Celebration, will assume the position of Executive Director. Mary and
Deborah are working together with the Board and Staff to make Imagination Celebration
a model for an excellent transition!"
Mary Mashburn has been in charge of the
Imagination Celebration since the fall of 1988. Her career as an arts
advocate began as a means to put down roots in the communities she and her
military husband, Wayne, moved to so frequently. When Colorado Springs
became their permanent home in 1977, the arts and the children of the region
became her cause. Her efforts have been recognized with numerous awards
including: the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Russell
T. Tutt Award for Excellence in Leadership from El Pomar, the "Arts are
the Heart" Award from the Colorado Arts Consortium and the "Community
Builder of the Year" Award from
The Colorado Springs Independent
newspaper.
"I am proud of the sense of community that the Imagination Celebration has provided for the families of our region during the last 16 years," said Mashburn. "Helping to build the Imagina