Dr. Julianne De Sal, Author at Colorado Academy News

Finding our better selves through art

Dr. Julianne De Sal·June 4, 2019

There is nothing better in Denver than a day in June, so long as it doesn’t give audience...

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The future of learning as an artist

Dr. Julianne De Sal·April 26, 2019

Overheard on the patio of Keith’s Coffee Bar on Downing one sunny Sunday in April—“I don’t go...

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To see art as a child

Dr. Julianne De Sal·March 22, 2019

True confession—I was never the parent to post on the refrigerator every single crayon drawing that...

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An example of Makayla Sileo's work, which she has titled “Emotion Sickness”

Art and language

Dr. Julianne De Sal·February 27, 2019

I told my colleagues recently that conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner is my present “art throb.” Picasso had his...

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At the Table with Dr. King

Dr. Julianne De Sal·February 27, 2019

In February, in honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the entire Colorado Academy community...

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Brenda Bartel with Lower School music students

Gesamtkunstwerk at Colorado Academy

Dr. Julianne De Sal·January 25, 2019

A recent cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a splendid portrait of the fiery...

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Art and PLAY

Dr. Julianne De Sal·December 19, 2018

A number of years ago there was a movement to integrate courses into college curricula that taught students...

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Art as subtle activism

Dr. Julianne De Sal·November 29, 2018

A recent Quartzy newsletter included an article which discussed novelist Haruki Murakami’s speech at an October New York...

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Morning stars among us

Dr. Julianne De Sal·October 29, 2018

This first weekend of November, The Conservatory of Theater will present Thornton Wilder’s beloved play—Our Town. The past...

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The graceful return

Dr. Julianne De Sal·October 1, 2018

As I walked into the Dance Studio for the pre-trimester Conservatory intensive, I was most excited to see...

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Kindergarten and First Grade Musical performance of Dr. Seuss at Colorado Academy

Beauty in performance

Dr. Julianne De Sal·May 29, 2018

I recently had the pleasure of seeing a performance of the revival of Edward Albee’s play, Three Tall...

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Authentic artistic collaboration

Dr. Julianne De Sal·March 9, 2018

In 1949, Pablo Picasso, then 68 years old, was living in Vallauris where he was visited by photographer,...

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Answering the Call

Dr. Julianne De Sal·February 1, 2018

As the Dance Ensemble of Colorado Academy prepares for its February performance, In Concert ‘18, I am reminded...

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The Serious World-Making Power of the Arts

Dr. Julianne De Sal·December 5, 2017

Last trimester, a theater colleague and I were honored to be invited to the Upper School’s Gender Studies...

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Capturing and Carrying the Artistic Experience

Dr. Julianne De Sal·September 26, 2017

In October of 1991, my husband and I packed our children into the Toyota and made the drive...

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Sweet Culminations

Dr. Julianne De Sal·May 2, 2017

You cannot work at a school without thinking about the succession of beginnings and endings—commencements to be sure,...

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The Art of Building the Dome

Dr. Julianne De Sal·March 27, 2017

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy unabashedly campaigned for public support of the arts. He alluded to two...

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