Category: Faculty
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Theater professor named CMC Faculty of the Year
Gary Ketzenbarger takes top collegewide honors GLENWOOD SPRINGS – It was standing room only recently in Associate Professor Gary Ketzenbarger’s classroom at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley. That’s because a cadre of college administrators and guests interrupted Ketzenbarger and the dozen or so students in his Theatre Script Analysis class for a special…
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CMC art instructor featured in prominent Arkansas exhibit
This article was published in the Steamboat Today. By Teresa Ristow. Despite his obvious commitment to the project, he was surprised when he was contacted by two men traveling the country in search of exceptional art for a gallery exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The curatorial duo from the…
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Jimmy Westlake: First comet landing
The first successful landing of a space probe onto a comet took place yesterday. CMC physics professor Jimmy Westlake’s column, written the day before Wednesday’s successful landing in the Steamboat Today and reprinted here, gives the back story on this landmark event. Steamboat Springs — If all goes according to plan, a little space probe…
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CMC professor starts running target club on campus, eyes big future
This article was printed in the Steamboat Today. By Ben Ingersoll. Steamboat Springs — Colorado Mountain College math professor Alex Krolik longs to bring a different kind of Olympic sport to Steamboat Springs. It’s no secret that the city has pumped out more Winter Olympians than any other in North America. But Krolik has a…
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Cesark presents ‘Floating Compression’ at CMC ArtShare Gallery
By Carrie Cilck. For those familiar with the work of the late architect Buckminster Fuller and his one-time student, sculptor Kenneth Snelson, the artwork of K Rhynus Cesark may strike a distant yet distinct chord. Cesark’s art is the focus of a solo exhibition, “Floating Compression,” at the CMC ArtShare Gallery in downtown Glenwood Springs…
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What It Takes to Keep a Community Theater Running
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the diverse, innovative approaches community theaters around the country are utilizing to stay afloat. The long running Aspen Community Theatre and Colorado Mountain College theatre program faculty Brad Moore were featured in the article by Kevin Brass. All the world may be a stage, but theater…
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Wall Street Journal consults Isaacson School teacher
New headset makes virtual reality mobile Wall Street Journal Video recently reviewed Altergaze, a 3D-printed headset which connects to smartphones, giving users a virtual reality experience from their mobile device. For the review, WSJ Video sought the expertise of Steve Kaufman, an instructor at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School for New Media. Kaufman is involved…
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Jimmy Westlake: Partial solar eclipse coming Thursday
Jimmy Westlake’s Celestial News column appears Tuesdays in the Steamboat Today. Find more columns by Westlake here. Steamboat Springs — The shadow of the moon will swoop across almost all of North America on Thursday when the moon crosses paths with the sun This eclipse will not be total or annular from anywhere on Earth;…