From residencies to readings, exhibitions to activism, concerts to Q&A sessions, the VCFA calendar has events to keep you entertained and inspired.
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The VCFA summer 2023 residency will take place for nine days from July 21 to July 29, 2023. All six of our MFA programs will converge on the Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs, Colorado for concurrent residency programming. Select college-wide and program-specific events will be made available via livestream. Please note that all events […]
The summer 2023 residency will open with a college-wide convocation on July 21 at 9:00am MT.
Speculation, co-creation, projection, science fiction, moral imagination. We are in an unprecedented time to imagine how future climate action and equity is taken. Now more than ever, designers have a crucial role in visualising and creating pathways into our future. This talk will explore the intersection of design and futures work, share a collection of […]
When the brain registers disparate stories about a topic, it invents a construct into which those stories fit in order to avoid cognitive dissonance. Such construct-making can have good effects, like giving you the impression that you are the same person today that you were yesterday, or binding a group of people together by giving […]
We continue our series of presentations featuring boundary-breaking designers from around the world. Ignace Cami will introduce his cookieboard project, its history, the craft, and the playful artistic possibilities. The session will focus on the material as a co-worker. In the case of Cami’s practice, it will be about wood and dough specifically. But the […]
The Greeks had 2 words for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos is the line or the circle, always marching on, represented by the ticking away of the hand of the clock. Kairos, on the other hand, is incalculable. It is a point in time, or what we refer to as “the right time.” Mountain time, […]
A short presentation and critique of student outcomes from the "Mountain Time" workshop. Recommended for individuals who attended the Mountain Time workshop earlier in the week.
The summer 2023 residency will also renew a treasured VCFA tradition: the presentation of an honorary degree. VCFA is proud to announce the conferral of an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to renowned author and poet, Naomi Shihab Nye. The honorary degree will be conferred at our commencement ceremony on July 29, 2023 MT. Download […]
Graduation ceremony for the summer 2023 class! Let’s celebrate our graduates!