Posts Tagged ‘Colorado’

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Dancing with Matt

July 25, 2012

Denver and back

My plan today included writing a blog post about the rest of our trip to Colorado but the list was so long of other tasks that it just didn’t happen. With the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative 4-day summer institute for arts teacher leaders starting next week there are many tasks. Instead of providing another blog post on Colorado, I have included a YouTube link that music educator Kate Smith sent to me.

In the past I had been introduced to the videos called “Where the Hell is Matt?” about a young man who travels around the world dancing with groups of people. It has been some time since I have seen any new ones so I was happy that Kate sent me this link. And, sure enough “Matt” dances in Denver in front of a very tall, skinny people sculpture created by Jonathan Borofsky called Dancers. We passed the sculpture each day in a park on our way to and from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design where the conference was held.

The sculpture was a tiny part of my experience in Colorado and this video provides a great big good feeling!

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Colorado

July 20, 2012

Elevation high, temperature also

Catherine Ring and I are in Denver for the Assessment in the Arts Conference being held at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design which starts today. Our adventure started yesterday morning when our plane was delayed in Portland which caused us to miss our connecting flight in Cleveland. We finally got to our hotel last night at 12:45 Maine time.

We are looking forward to the full schedule with interesting workshops and presenters including three keynote sessions. You can read more about the event by clicking here. I will post tomorrow to provide the highlights of today. Tomorrow Catherine and I present on the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative and the work many of you are doing throughout the state in arts assessment.

It has been 33 years since I’ve been to this part of Colorado and it certainly has changed. Denver is very large and everyone has been very friendly and welcoming!