I’ve been obsessed with drawing and painting classic cars and motorcycles since I was a kid. I guess all those bright colors, shiny metal and chrome just grab my attention at a car show, whether it’s a fully restored 1932 Ford or if it’s an abandoned truck rusting away in the prairie. Most of my […]
Lydia Brokaw grew up knowing art would be her life’s work—and it didn’t take long for her to discover teaching, too. “I knew from the time I was a very young person I was going to be in the arts in some way,” says Lydia. In the 1970s, she began her education at the University […]
Front Range printmaking students and their instructor have created works of art for an online gallery that stems from a unique perspective: veterans returning to college. Yvette M. Pino, an Army veteran who returned from duty in Iraq and enrolled as an art student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, founded the Veteran Print Project. She found herself becoming
Five students at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins have been nominated to participate in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Irene Ryan Scholarship Auditions. The students: Jeremy McReynolds and Kaila Moyers, who acted in “The Royal Wedding of OZ,” the July 2011 presentation of the Front Range Family Theatre Project; and […]
Christine Thorn of Loveland, a ceramics student at Front Range Community College, has an ensemble of four raku ceramic pots in the annual international exhibition, “Line Into Shapes,” at the Arts Center of Estes Park. FRCC offers a broad range of art, photography, and multimedia classes. — See all Front Range Community College Press Releases. […]
Paul F. Morris, an art instructor at the Front Range Community College campus in Fort Collins, received an honorable mention award at the 9th International Ceramics Festival and Competition, Mino in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The two works he sent for this festival and competition have been acquired for the permanent collection of the […]
Art doesn’t have to last a long time to be inspiring. I saw a lot of smiles on the faces of artists and pedestrians alike when the Art Club at the Boulder County Campus sponsored a Sidewalk Chalk Art Event on Sept. 22. Students and instructors came outside into the beautiful end-of-summer weather to help […]
In 1866 the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) was founded. The rest of the story is a well-known history of a world-class museum of art and school of art established together in 1882. SAIC is among a handful of professional art schools that continuously produce professional artists who very often are the […]
