Category: News Releases
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CMC photo students to give free portraits via Help-Portrait Dec. 5
The faculty, staff and students of the professional photography program at Colorado Mountain College’s Isaacson School for New Media will be at the college’s Lappala Center in Carbondale on Friday, Dec. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m., providing free portraits as part of the international Help-Portrait movement. Help-Portrait is a global movement of photographers using…
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CMC grant pays forward two years’ tuition for in-district students
Application deadline Dec. 12 Imagine a high school graduate handing his Colorado Mountain College tuition checks to a trustworthy source for safekeeping while he earns his associate degree at CMC. At graduation, that same tuition money is paid forward to a four-year college or university to help the student complete his bachelor’s degree. That’s essentially…
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Colorado Mountain College wins marketing, public relations awards
Materials and a website created for Colorado Mountain College recently received three regional awards from the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations. In addition, a Denver-based digital agency earned a fourth award from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts for its work with the college. Within NCMPR’s six-state District 4 region, the Colorado…
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Startup Weekend Western Colorado to turn ideas into business ventures
[Glenwood Springs, CO] – The weekend of Nov. 21-23, entrepreneurs and creative minds are invited to Colorado Mountain College’s Glenwood Center for Startup Weekend Western Colorado. This event will provide not only inspiration, but the resources required for building and launching a viable, scalable company. During the weekend, participants share ideas, form teams around top…
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Colorado Mountain College landscape painting exhibit comes ‘Close to Home’
Five renowned artists are your neighbors By Carrie Click Usually, it goes something like this: You arrive at an art exhibit and look around. If it’s a landscape show, you admire the talent and perspective of the painters, but you don’t recognize the scenes depicted. They depict a far-off beach or city, or maybe a…
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The Whole Works launches Kickstarter campaign
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 1990 and 2011 the U.S. lost 750,000 apparel manufacturing jobs. A new company based in Rifle is attempting to get some of those jobs back. The Whole Works is a new sewing facility that provides skilled sewers to designers of softgoods and clothing. Besides training people to…
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Colorado Mountain College honors veterans, military all year
Veterans Day, Nov. 11, reminds us to honor those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Colorado Mountain College supports both veterans and active-duty military by offering to them and their dependents its affordable in-district tuition rates, regardless of residency. The discounted rate applies to CMC’s online courses, as well as at the college’s…
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Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees meets in Aspen
Colorado Mountain College’s Board of Trustees held its November 2014 meeting Monday at the college’s campus in Aspen. During the meeting the board unanimously voted to approve: The college’s preliminary 2013-14 and first quarter 2014-15 financial reports Reserve appropriation and spending resolutions A new lease with Charter Communications for space on the Leadville campus Ongoing…
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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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Lois Gibbs to Speak at CMC in Edwards Nov. 6
Love Canal Activist to Interact with Students and the Public By Carrie Click You can count them off on a few fingers – a select group of young American women in the second half of the 20th century who dared to stand up, demand answers and enact change regarding grave environmental hazards plaguing their families,…