2020 CMC Sustainability Conference

January 17, 2020 By cmctestgenesis

Foresight 2020 Resilient Futures for All

April 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

See Foresight 2020 Calendar Event for Location/Map/Contact

For communities to be resilient and desirable over the decades ahead, they must contain life-supporting ecosystems, equitable social institutions, and prosperous economies. For many communities, however, these traits are absent or threatened.

The goal of this conference is to convene diverse stakeholders from our communities to envision and create the futures we want.

Please join our celebration by registering to present on your, or your institution’s, contribution to community resilience. If you don’t want to present, you can still attend. There is no charge for conference participation, and up to three meals will be provided.

Keynote Speaker Beatriz Soto

Keynote speaker Beatriz Soto studied architecture in Chihuahua City and now runs Defiende Nuestra Tierra – a program that taps into in influential voice of Latinos in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys – for Wilderness Workshop. She joined CORE to develop a culturally appropriate workforce development program for Spanish speakers, and volunteers in schools to encourage young Latinos to see themselves as stewards of the land.

Schedule (subject to minor change)

9am-9:50am: check in, breakfast and opening remarks
10am-10:50am: Concurrent Presentation Session 1
11am-11:50am: Concurrent Presentation Session 2
Noon-12:50pm: Lunch
1pm-1:50pm: Concurrent Presentation Session 3
2pm-2:50pm: Concurrent Presentation Session 4
3pm-3:50pm: Poster Session and dinner hors d'oeuvres
4pm-5pm: Keynote address by Beatiz Soto: "Identity and Cultural Connections for an Inclusive Sustainable Future"

Call for Presentations

All CMC students and employees and all community organization are encouraged to present.

All conference participants (presenting or attending only) must register by March 20.

Sustainable Educator of the Year

January 14, 2020 By cmctestgenesis

Dr. Nathan Stewart, 2019 Sustainable Educator of the Year

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Honors CMC Sustainability Studies Associate Professor and Program Chair

Students in the Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Studies program step toward their careers with internships and work-study jobs thanks to Dr. Nathan Stewart and his colleagues at CMC.

The Yampa Valley Sustainability Council recognized Stewart's contributions and those of five other award recipients.

In addition to teaching and chairing the Sustainability Studies program, Stewart is Program Director for the Rocky Mountain Land Management Internship Program. This innovative, two-year paid internship places CMC students with the U.S. Forest Service. Working collaboratively as land managers, natural resource specialists and mountain sports rangers, the interns have an inside track to possible full-time employment with the Forest Service.

Stewart also helped create local work study opportunities including:

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council's ReTree and Waste Diversion programs
Youth education with Friends of the Yampa
Monitoring air particulate matter and VCAPS planning for Routt County Department of Environmental Health

Read more about the YVSC Sustainability Awards

See Dr. Nathan Stewart's profile

Pro Photography Portfolio Review

December 3, 2019 By cmctestgenesis

Join us in the Calaway Academic Building at Colorado Mountain College - Spring Valley as graduating photography students from the Isaacson School showcase outstanding works created during their time at Colorado Mountain College.

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!

When: 4:30-7pm, Thursday, December 12, 2019

Where: Calaway Academic Building, Room 140, Spring Valley Campus

Dickerson’s ‘Ocular Patterns’ featured at CMC ArtShare Gallery

December 2, 2019 By cmctestgenesis

Oil painting by Staci Dickerson, "Kindness", 40x23

Staci Dickerson’s "Kindness", oil, 40 by 23 inches, is one of the works featured at a free reception for the artist’s “Ocular Patterns” exhibit.

Dickerson’s ‘Ocular Patterns’ featured at CMC ArtShare Gallery

The CMC ArtShare Gallery will present a free artist’s reception Dec. 13 for the exhibit “Ocular Patterns,” which features the work of abstract expressionist Staci Dickerson.

Dickerson, who is a staff member at Carbondale Arts, has been a resident of Carbondale and the Roaring Fork Valley for more than 40 years. She began her journey as an artist in the late ’90s by taking a few classes at Colorado Mountain College. She continued studying art at the Naropa University in Boulder, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in visual art in 2011.

The title of her new exhibit, “Ocular Patterns,” describes the involuntary movements of the artist’s eye as she creates her abstract paintings. She invites those viewing her work “to thoughtfully experience and respond to the painting; to just notice what the eye notices … and to experience their own ‘ocular patterns.’”

Dickerson shows her work frequently in local and regional art shows, where she has received numerous awards. She received the People’s Choice award at the Carbondale Arts Valley Visual Art Show in 2006, 2012 and 2017. Her work is currently on display at the Colorado State Capitol through her affiliation with the Carbondale Creative District and Colorado Creative Industries.

The reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Dec. 13 at the CMC ArtShare Gallery at Morgridge Commons, 815 Cooper Ave., 2^nd floor, Glenwood Springs. The public is invited and encouraged to attend and enjoy light refreshments.

The exhibit is on display at the gallery now through Jan. 19, 2020. Visit CMC ArtShare Gallery for more information.

‘The Veil’ Opens Friday, Nov. 30

November 25, 2019 By cmctestgenesis

By Carrie Click

From left, cast members Jeff Carlson and Cassidy Wiley, director G. Thomas Cochran and, behind Cochran, cast member Lisa Langer rehearse for Sopris Theatre Company's next production, "The Veil," which opens Nov. 30 at Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley. Photo Brad Moore

At first glance, “The Veil,” Sopris Theatre Company’s upcoming production, seems as if it’s a ghost story. There’s an overtone of 19^th century Irish mysticism, complete with a haunted house, a séance and the supernatural. However, to the play’s director, G. Thomas Cochran, it’s about a lot more.

“It’s really about redemption,” said Cochran. “People need to be forgiven. People need to forgive themselves. It is a ghost story, but it’s so much deeper because of the message of redemption.”

Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College is presenting “The Veil,” by contemporary Irish playwright Conor McPherson, for six performances starting Nov. 30 at CMC Spring Valley. Note that because of the Thanksgiving holiday, opening night is uncharacteristically on a Saturday.

Cast and crew redux

Aficionados of Sopris Theatre Company productions will recognize many cast and crew members in “The Veil.” A longtime director, stage designer and actor, Cochran was a faculty member at Colorado Mountain College for 27 years and the director of what was then called CMC Theatre for 20 years before retiring from full-time work in 2007.

His many credits include directing “The Rocky Horror Show,” which starred Nyle Kenning as Frank-N-Furter and Cassidy Willey as Columbia. Both Kenning and Willey now have roles in “The Veil.”

In the company’s 2016 production of “Uncle Vanya” were four Sopris Theatre Company members – Willey and Cochran, plus Chip Winn Wells and Lisa Langer. Wells and Langer will also appear in “The Veil.”

Rounding out the cast in “The Veil” are Kelly Ketzenbarger, Peyton Wild, Jeff Carlson and Brendan T. Cochran – all of whom have experience on the regional stage.

This production of “The Veil” is also a bit of a family affair. Brendan T. Cochran, who plays the role of spiritualist Charles Audelle, is director Cochran’s son. Like his dad, he believes the play is more than just a story about a haunted house and ghosts.

“Ghosts become the metaphor for those things that haunt you,” he said.

If you go

Sopris Theatre Company presents Conor McPherson's ‘The Veil’

New Space Theatre, James C. and Connie L. Calaway Academic Building, CMC Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs, 3000 County Road 114

Show times

Saturday, Nov. 30 – 7 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 1 – 2 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 5 – 7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 6 – 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 7 – 7 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8 – 2 p.m.

Tickets

$18 adults

$13 seniors, students, and CMC employees and graduates

Tickets are available at Eventbrite or by emailing the CMC box office. For more information, email Brad Moore, call 970-947-8187 or visit Sopris Theatre Company.

CMC photography student accepted into prestigious workshop

November 19, 2019 By cmctestgenesis

CMC photography student accepted into prestigious workshop

Laurel Smith of Carbondale recently returned from Jeffersonville, New York, where she attended the international Eddie Adams Workshop, an intense, four-day gathering of top photography professionals. Admission to the workshop is extremely competitive and limited to 100 (50 students and 50 emerging photographers), who attend tuition-free.

Smith is two classes away from graduating from Colorado Mountain College’s professional photography program at the Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media. She said she wants to work as a photojournalist and is most interested in documenting social justice issues. She is the fourth student from CMC’s professional photography program to gain admission to the prestigious workshop since students began applying in 2016.

Eddie Adams was a photojournalist whose most well-known, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph was the execution of a Viet Cong lieutenant on a Saigon street in 1968. One of the most published photographers in the U.S., Adams enjoyed a career that spanned journalism, corporate, editorial, fashion, entertainment and advertising photography, as well as covering 13 wars.

He started the workshop in 1988, to provide professional opportunities to photojournalism students based on their skills – and not on their ability to pay tuition. Adams died in 2004 at age 71.

Final group presentations can be seen at Eddie Adams Workshop 2019 – including Team Orange’s “Costume,” presented by Smith’s team. Her photo essay is called “Sophie,” and starts 5:28 into the group presentation.

2020 CMC Sustainability Conference

Foresight 2020 Resilient Futures for All

April 17, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Keynote Speaker Beatriz Soto

Schedule (subject to minor change)

Call for Presentations

Sustainable Educator of the Year

Dr. Nathan Stewart, 2019 Sustainable Educator of the Year

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Honors CMC Sustainability Studies Associate Professor and Program Chair

Pro Photography Portfolio Review

Dickerson’s ‘Ocular Patterns’ featured at CMC ArtShare Gallery

Dickerson’s ‘Ocular Patterns’ featured at CMC ArtShare Gallery

‘The Veil’ Opens Friday, Nov. 30

CMC photography student accepted into prestigious workshop

CMC photography student accepted into prestigious workshop

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