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 […]
On Sunday, July 23, 9:00-10:00 am MST Visiting Artist, Mercedes Texido will give a presentation as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
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 […]
On Sunday, July 23, 1:00-2:30 pm MST Visiting Artist, Benjamin Spalding will give a presentation as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
On Monday, July 24, 9:00-10:00 am MST Visiting Artist, Gelare Khoshgozaran will give a presentation as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
On Monday, July 24, 1:00-2:00 pm MST Visiting Artist, Nasrin Himada will give a lecture as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
On Monday, July 24, 7:30 p.m. MT, the MFA in Music Composition program will host its Composer/Performer/Improvisor Showcase as part of the Summer 2023 residency. This event features works which, though they may be performed and engaged with by other artists, are illuminated through performance by the creator’s hand, voice, and mind.
On Tuesday, July 25, 8:30-10:00 am MST Visiting Artist, Kristen Ghodsee will give a lecture as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
On Tuesday, July 25, 1:00-2:00 pm MST Visiting Artist, Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand will give a presentation as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
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, […]
As part of the Summer 2023 residency, the MFA in WCYA will present a lecture by Visiting Writer Kelly Starling-Lyons on Wednesday, July 26, 2:00-3:00 p.m. MST.
As part of the Summer 2023 residency, the MFA in Writing will present a lecture by Visiting Fiction Writer Samantha Hunt on Wednesday, July 26, 7:30 pm MST.
On Wednesday, July 26, 7:30 p.m. MT, SonLingua (Tessa Brinckman, flutes; Colin McAllister, guitars; Haleh Abghari, voice; Andrés Carrizo, piano) will perform pieces composed by MFA in Music Composition students.
On Tuesday, July 27, 8:30-9:30 am MST Visiting Artist, Daisy Quezada will give a presentation as part of the Summer 2023 residency at Colorado College. Join us by clicking the link below.
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.
As part of the Summer 2023 residency, the MFA in Writing will present a lecture by Visiting Poet Bianca Stone on Thursday, July 27, at 6:00 pm MST.
On Friday, July 28, 1:30 p.m. MT, Anna’s Ghost (Ben Goldberg, clarinets; Geof Bradfield, tenor saxophone; Angelica Sanchez, piano; Carmen Rothwell, bass; Dana Hall, drums) will perform pieces composed by MFA in Music Composition students.
On Friday, July 28, 7:30 p.m. MT, the MFA in Music Composition program will host its Songwriting showcase as part of the Summer 2023 residency. The showcase highlights the diverse songwriting and performing talents of the students, alumnx, and faculty of VCFA’s MFA in Music Composition. From intimate solo pop performances to intricate arrangements for […]
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!