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The portrait in front of you is of Tom K. Barton (T.K.) It is a photo of a painting that embodies the lifelong community at CC. T.K. was a well-loved American History professor who taught Afro-American history courses before they became…

Many institutions and businesses tend to have art displayed around their campuses, office spaces, etc. The pieces that are on display tend to tell any visitors what that institution values. Around Colorado College, visitors can find a wide range of…

This black and white photograph is a moment in time between a coach and her players. It is a team huddle in which there is a jumble of outstretched hands, serious sentiment, but also excitement, focus and determination. The coach in the center is…

More questions than answers abound with this beautiful landscape that hangs in the living room of Montgomery Hall, a female-identifying small house on campus. The style deviates from Western avant-garde art in the postwar period, which was dominated…

This story of the Rolling ball sculpture is one of a small dream coming true. The story of Matthew Gaulden and the work that he has created is one of small but strong dreams. But first we must take a few steps back in time and look at how Matthew…

Every time I hike up the main staircase or walk through the first-floor hallway of Palmer, I notice a white man holding a cane behind his back. The stark contrast between a dazzling gold-leaf frame and meticulously painted walls always hovers over…

“Settlement of the West”, painted in 1948 in the rotunda of Cossitt Hall, catches the eyes of those who glance above. But does the art itself outweigh the problematic pro-colonial message it portrays? Eric Bransby, the artist of “Settlement of the…

It is the 5th block of 2022, spring semester. Freshman Loomis resident Max M. is in an art studio 3D-design class in the old Honnen Ice Arena. The space is slated for renovation. The professor of the class has given the students permission to make…

Kathleen was a student in Colorado College’s Anthropology department from 1976 to 1980. While enrolled in the environmental studies graduate program at the University of Colorado, Denver, she tragically passed only a month into the school year from a…

This mural, Homage to Guernica, was completed in 2004 at the Smokebrush Gallery in Colorado Springs. Kat Tudor, Bob Tudor, Encho Avramov, Holly Parker, Lindsay Rat, and Adam Conard created it as a team. Later, the artists gifted it to the school. The…