FRCC Students’ 90-Foot Butterfly Mural Brightening Up Downtown Longmont

Front Range Community College art students painted an 1,800-square-foot butterfly mural in downtown Longmont. See the project—and meet the artists.

Front Range Community College art students painted an 1,800-square-foot butterfly mural in downtown Longmont. See the project—and meet the artists.

As part of this year’s celebration, we’re proud to spotlight a student artist whose work explores emotional depth, surrealism and personal identity, including their connection to their Mexican heritage.

Supporting yourself as an artist takes more than just talent and passion. It takes dedication—and a quality education is a strong foundation too.

Heidi Cordova Strang, art history faculty at Front Range Community College’s campus in Westminster, has been named the Colorado Higher Education Art Educator of the Year. The honor recognizes that Strang has served “the art education community for the last two decades with an incredible amount of energy and passion. Noted for the vibrancy with […]

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 […]