Have you ever stared at a blank canvas? If you haven’t stared at an actual blank art canvas, think of the metaphor it represents for you. Were you excited or da...
Imagine spending a couple of years working towards a project that will be on display for your whole community to see. Now, imagine you are only 17 or 18 years o...
The greatest gift of being on campus these last three months has been hearing so much laughter.
Last week, a group of Colorado Academy Second Graders invited...
Perhaps it is the absence of art in our lives right now that reminds us of its importance. It might be that we missed seeing our favorite artists on stage at Re...
The Field House space after students finished renovating it
What does a Theater Department do during a year where they have no theater and are in a global p...
The Ponzio Arts Center is a happy place to be these days. Not only have our young artists started to make art in the studios again, but our gallery walls are gr...
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, ...
