Today, in the final week of school, I asked the students in my Colorado Academy Upper School architecture class if they are excited for school to be ending. I w...
The poet and historian John Milton is thought to have coined the term “silver lining” in a piece he wrote in 1634 titled “Comus.” It has some dark twists, as y...
With extra time at home, it is easy to become oversaturated with information coming at us through our screens. This week, the Colorado Academy Visual & Perf...
Junior Jordon Mills takes a selfie at the Monet exhibit
Struggle is good….and necessary.
“My life has been nothing but a failure.” – Claude Monet
As ...
While driving onto the Colorado Academy campus one day back in September, I pulled in behind a member of our music faculty. A bumper sticker on their car asked,...
My parents instilled in me at a young age the idea that we’ve been put on this planet to connect with other human beings. This connection comes from working tog...
Based on data collected in the Torrance Tests on Creative Thinking which have been conducted over the past 50 years, our IQ scores are increasing and our c...
Parents, have you ever looked at your child’s work of art or left a recital or performance and not known what to say?
Don’t worry! This is not uncommon.
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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...
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 ...
