Welcome to the debut issue of Wet Ink! We’re excited to launch this space for sharing ideas, highlighting accomplishments, and building a stronger, more connected arts community. Our newsletter is dedicated to celebrating the people and practices that make up the vibrant world of art, architecture, design, and museum studies at CC— bringing together students, staff, faculty, alumni, and anyone who shares our enthusiasm for creative endeavors.
Our newsletter image was created by Asa Mizock ’25 as part of a collaborative project in Technical Drawing in 2025. We love how it captures our art community on campus!
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| CC Supports Mo’Print 2026
CC printmakers came out in full force for Mo’Print 2026. Student printmakers are currently featured in a show at 40 West Gallery in Littleton, CO. Back on campus, Clara Clara Hartman ’26 and Clio Quilter-Vagts ’26 marked the grand opening of the Bemis Community Printshop with a Nutella Silkscreening event at the reception for the Colorado College Printmakers: Recent Work exhibition in Fleming Gallery. Professor Kate Leonard’s recent large-scale etchings are featured in Mo’Print events at the Center for Visual Arts Gallery and Space Gallery in Denver.
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Owen Hodgson ’26. Photo taken March 7 by Print Shop Supervisor H. Oelklaus.
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| Photopolymer plate workshop led by Heather Oelklaus, Print Shop Supervisor
In this hands-on workshop, participants explored photographic and printmaking possibilities while learning how to expose, develop, and print with photopolymer plates. Photopolymer plates are “etched” by ultraviolet light and developed in water to produce a plate that can be used for intaglio printmaking. Experimentation was encouraged and the workshop produced many fine and unique prints. A special thank you to CC Art Majors Clara Hartman ’26 and Owen Marchant ’26 for volunteering their time and expertise to this community building workshop.
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Join B-Side, an inclusive student arts group, in painting a community mural that will be installed permanently along Shooks Run! Open to all regardless of prior experience. Painting sessions will be held in the B-side space in McGregor Basement every Monday at 5 p.m. until the last week of April. Snacks and pizza provided will be provided.
Contact Haley (h_goetting@coloradocollege.edu) or B-side@coloradocollege.edu for any questions
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| Maiya Ponsky ’25
Check out the first edition of an independent publication titled Hi, Have We Met? It was funded through a grant from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Maiya has some of photography and a short essay in it, and wants to share it with the department as she “found the other contributions to be incredibly relevant, personal, comforting, and inspiring.” Maiya goes on to say, “I thought CC students would especially relate to the publication as it talks about making art outside of traditionally ‘buzzing’ city hubs, finding creative inspiration and community in unexpected places, and creative use of found materials. I feel that each of these factors are hugely relevant to the art major's experience at CC. I related to this prompt from the perspective of growing up in Ohio, but I know I would have also greatly appreciated reading it as a student in the Springs.”
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Brian Arnold ’93
Brian just returned from a month-long writer's residency in Split, Croatia with the Kurs Association, where he received support for a new book he is writing—working title Something About YU: Photography and the Western Balkans.
He was also just awarded a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant to develop a collaborative photo project with the Bosnian American Community Association, really documenting the Bosnian/Yugoslav refugee community in Utica, NY.
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The Edith Kirsch Prize: The Kirsch Prize is awarded to a CC student to fund an independent project involving summer travel to study works of art or architecture. All continuing students are eligible to apply. The Kirsch Prize may be combined with Venture Grants or other grants. Questions? Contact Gale Murray. The deadline to apply is April 3.
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| Third Annual Senior Art Minor Showcase
Senior Art Minors, the Department of Art is excited to invite you to submit one or two pieces for the upcoming third annual Art Minor Senior Showcase! You’ve put in a tremendous amount of hard work over the last few years, and we would love to celebrate your accomplishments by giving you the opportunity to share your artwork in a gallery setting with friends, family, and the campus community. We can’t wait to see what you’ve created!
Contact carfsten@coloradocollege.edu for more information.
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Spring Advising: Art Studio Majors, Packard Studio 131
The Art Department is excited to welcome majors to the spring Group Advising sessions:
Third week of Block 7: Tuesday, April 7, 3-5 p.m.
First week of Block 8: Tuesday, April 21, 3-5 p.m.
Come to Packard 131 to join Camila, Kate, and Scott for Cookies, Classes, and COIs.
**Attending one of these sessions is required for all majors.
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New York, New York!
Mandatory planning meeting for rising senior art majors.
Second Monday of Block 8, April 27, from noon-1:15 p.m. Pizza lunch will be provided.
We will discuss the AY 2026-27 Block 2 Senior Seminar New York field trip.
Read about last year’s trip!
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Students, staff and faculty in Senior Art Seminar Block to New York at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Photo taken Oct. 13, 2025, by Director of Field Study Drew Cavin.
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| Block 7 Open House
Tuesday, April 14, 3 - 5 p.m.
Packard Hall and Honnen Arts space
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Shop Show Tectonics
The tectonics is an artistic way to express the corporeality of a building through architectural forms that visually reflect the actual structure.
Shop monitors, staff, and faculty were invited to participate in this exhibition to showcase work by the CC 3D Shop community. Participants were asked to submit works made from scrap materials found in the shop using shop tools and machinery for assembly. Participants were welcome to submit individual and/or group pieces. To see more from the show, check out the CC Creatives page.
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Junk Yard Bar Light, chains, lampshades, wire, bulbs, love, by Teddy Doggett ’27
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Got something to say? We’re listening!
Every issue, we’ll throw out a new question—and we’d love to hear your take. We’ll highlight responses in future editions of Wet Ink!
What is an "art rule" you think is total nonsense?
Email your response to carfsten@coloradocollege.edu.
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