There is nothing better in Denver than a day in June, so long as it doesn’t give audience to that one more snowfall. It is a time to bloom and reflect, and the ...
Overheard on the patio of Keith’s Coffee Bar on Downing one sunny Sunday in April—“I don’t go to theater; it’s all about entertainment. That’s no substitut...
Dr. De Sal at the Lawrence Weiner exhibit
I told my colleagues recently that conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner is my present “art throb.” Picasso had his Bl...
In February, in honor of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the entire Colorado Academy community gathered in the new Athletic Center and participated...
A number of years ago there was a movement to integrate courses into college curricula that taught students how to solve problems—how to imagine, analyze, creat...
A recent Quartzy newsletter included an article which discussed novelist Haruki Murakami’s speech at an October New York Times event. The author explained how, ...
This first weekend of November, The Conservatory of Theater will present Thornton Wilder’s beloved play—Our Town. The past two months have been a journey in the...
As I walked into the Dance Studio for the pre-trimester Conservatory intensive, I was most excited to see my returning company dancers and to meet my five new F...
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a performance of the revival of Edward Albee’s play, Three Tall Women, on Broadway. It was brilliant, and reminded me of a...
In 1949, Pablo Picasso, then 68 years old, was living in Vallauris where he was visited by photographer, Gjon Mili, who was assigned the honor of taking picture...
As the Dance Ensemble of Colorado Academy prepares for its February performance, In Concert ‘18, I am reminded of how this fledgling company came into being...
Last trimester, a theater colleague and I were honored to be invited to the Upper School’s Gender Studies classes to speak to students in preparation for their ...
In October of 1991, my husband and I packed our children into the Toyota and made the drive from Pasadena to the Tehachapi Mountains of Southern California. It ...
You cannot work at a school without thinking about the succession of beginnings and endings—commencements to be sure, but culminations nonetheless. Not to sound...
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy unabashedly campaigned for public support of the arts. He alluded to two earlier presidential requests of the same nature: on...
