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Senior artists balance individuality and collaboration

Katy Wood HillsOctober 30, 2019

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...

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Habits that instill creativity

Katy Wood HillsSeptember 24, 2019

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...

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What is the right thing to say to your young artist?

Katy Wood HillsAugust 29, 2019

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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Finding our better selves through art

Dr. Julianne De SalJune 4, 2019

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 ...

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The future of learning as an artist

Dr. Julianne De SalApril 26, 2019

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...

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To see art as a child

Dr. Julianne De SalMarch 22, 2019

True confession—I was never the parent to post on the refrigerator every single crayon drawing that my children brought home, although I did suff...

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

Art and language

Dr. Julianne De SalFebruary 27, 2019

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...

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Brenda Bartel with Lower School music students

Gesamtkunstwerk at Colorado Academy

Dr. Julianne De SalJanuary 25, 2019

A recent cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a splendid portrait of the fiery colors of the male bowerbird, which Ferris Jobr explains ...

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Art and PLAY

Dr. Julianne De SalDecember 19, 2018

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...

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Art as subtle activism

Dr. Julianne De SalNovember 29, 2018

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, ...

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Morning stars among us

Dr. Julianne De SalOctober 29, 2018

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...

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The graceful return

Dr. Julianne De SalOctober 1, 2018

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...

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

Beauty in performance

Dr. Julianne De SalMay 29, 2018

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...

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Authentic artistic collaboration

Dr. Julianne De SalMarch 9, 2018

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...

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Answering the Call

Dr. Julianne De SalFebruary 1, 2018

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...

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The Serious World-Making Power of the Arts

Dr. Julianne De SalDecember 5, 2017

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 ...

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Capturing and Carrying the Artistic Experience

Dr. Julianne De SalSeptember 26, 2017

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 ...

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