Boulder County Lifestyle March 2014

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hile putting together this issue, I’ve been able to reflect on the talented people in my life as well as the talent in our community. With any art being such a personal experience, from the ballerina perfecting her arabesque to the painter on Pearl Street, I am awed at the way each can share his or her talents for the world to see. It takes a fearless individual to partake in random—and not so random—acts of art. Almost everywhere you look in Boulder County, you can find someone’s art. The chalkboard hanging behind the coffee counter, the sculptures in City Park, singers and musicians playing in our plentiful local venues.

When thinking about the future of the arts, there’s no better place to begin than with our children. The arts experiences that children have in and out of school will shape the importance and relevance of art in their lives. Take a sneak peek into some local classrooms to see how art is included into our children’s studies (Growing Up with Art, page 20).

Art appears in unexpected places sometimes. WOW! Children’s Museum in Lafayette offers children the opportunity to advance their science skills and understanding. However, once you dive in, it’s easy to see how art plays a huge roll in understanding (WOW! Factor, page 18).

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editor Heather Shoning | HShoning@LifestylePubs.com

contributing writers Sheryl Hadley, Jordan Lebowitz, Camille Wilson

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Lafayette’s new hot spot, The Post Brewing Company and The GoodBird Kitchen have perfected that art of hearty craft beer and tantalizing fried chicken! (Chicken + Beer = Love, page 24).

Art is everywhere in our everyday lives. I know each of you partake in and enjoy the arts in your own ways. My own children have artistic talents that amaze me, which will one day take them places in life beyond their wildest dreams (A Lifetime of Art, page 34). And, personally, I couldn’t be more proud of them as well as all the great artists of this city who share their time and talents with those of us who endeavor to enrich our lives with the craft of others.

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Family Feature

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Home Matters

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Parting Thoughts

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Kids won’t know they’re learning at WOW! Children’s Museum.

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Around Town

CHILDREN’S PEACE GARDEN SPRING & SUMMER GARDENING PROGRAMS FOR KIDS The Children’s Peace Garden is offering spring and summer programs for children ages four to 10 to allow them to connect with the earth while learning about organic gardening, how food is grown, and the importance of nature and community.

A program of Growing Gardens, the Children’s Peace Garden is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating community through urban agriculture. Growing Gardens manages 11 acres of land in North Boulder and offers a variety of gardening programs. Children learn peace, respect, environmental stewardship and friendship at Growing Gardens’ children’s programs.

Beginning April 29, the Spring After School Garden Club offers a series of four Tuesday or Thursday afternoon sessions that are age-specific and only cost $12 per session. Activities include digging in the dirt, building insect and bird habitats, bottle-feeding baby goats, dressing up as beekeepers and tasting fresh honey and the grand finale is a planting extravaganza.

Summer Camp registration is also open with an updated, expanded list of summer camp activities, games and adventures. The half-day and full day camps begin June 16 and appeal to children four to 10 years old who enjoy summer in the outdoors. Weekly themes include Birds, Butterflies and Bees, Art, Tractors, Tools and Trucks, Tasty Treats, Bats, Insects and Spiders, Urban Safari and Green Thumb Detectives. Each weekly theme dives into hands-on, experiential activities geared to helping children feel a renewed sense of wonder and connection to the earth. Registration is now open and early registration is suggested due to limited class size.

Cost is $175-$275 per child, per week and run June through August.

The Children’s Peace Garden also offers spring and fall field trips and classroom visits for preschool and elementary age groups. All Growing Gardens’ instructors are experienced educators trained in CPR and First Aid. Classes are held in Growing Gardens’ beautiful garden located at 1630 Hawthorn Ave. in the heart of Boulder. Register at GrowingGardens.org or call Growing Gardens at 303.443.9952.

LOUISVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY WILL INCREASE OFFERINGS FOR CHILDREN The Louisville Public Library recently received a grant of $7,744 from the Colorado State Library through the State Grants to Libraries Act. The grant funds will be used to support the Library’s early literacy collection and to provide more popular titles.

“In the past year we have paid particular attention to our library materials for young children who’ve not yet begun to read, focusing 12 Boulder County Lifestyle | March 2014

on pre-literacy and early literacy skills,” says Beth Barrett, Director of Library and Museum Services for the City of Louisville. “This grant could not have come at a more opportune time, allowing us to add books and other resources we otherwise could not have afforded that will help children build those critical reading readiness skills.”

The Library will purchase picture books, beginning readers, book and CD kits, music CDs, graphic novels and easy non-fiction books, as well as the electronic TumbleBooks and PebbleGo databases. All will help non-readers and very early readers develop the skills necessary to learn to read. New materials have begun to arrive in the library and are available to check out.

CU SCIENTISTS STUDY LANGUAGE IN TODDLERS Shy toddlers may understand more than their speaking ability indicates. A University of Colorado Boulder study shows that a lag in using words does not mean that children don’t understand what’s being said. The connection between behavioral inhibitions—such as shyness or fearfulness—and delayed language acquisition has not previously been well understood.

The research team, from CU-Boulder’s Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, followed a study in the journal CHILD DEVELOPMENT. The study tested four possible explanations for the association between shyness and language acquisition.

The research team looked for patterns in how the children’s behavior changed over time for 408 sets of twins at 14, 20 and 24 months of age. They noted whether an increase in shyness, for example, followed or preceded a delay in speech. They found consistent evidence to support only the hypothesis that shy toddlers were delayed in speaking but not in understanding.

LAFAYETTE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION AWARD EDUCATION GRANTS Lafayette Cultural Arts Commission (LCAC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Arts in Education Grants. These $500 grants will allow local educators to implement cultural arts projects at these schools this spring.

The winners are: Angevine Middle School - Stories for a New Future: Part 2 Centaurus High School - Voices of Lafayette: An Inclusive Community Art Quilt Lafayette Elementary - 50th Anniversary Mural Lafayette Elementary - Creating Public Speakers via Lincoln’s Legacy and Shakespeare Lafayette Elementary - Pikes Peak or Bust Peak to Peak Charter High - New Historical Views Art and Writing contest Peak to Peak Charter High - Poetry Out Loud Competition Pioneer Elementary - Pioneer Makers Club Pioneer Elementary - The Ugly Project Pioneer/Sanchez Elementary - BaoBao Festival Ryan Elementary - Once Upon a Sock Sanchez Dragon Discovery Program - Dalcroze & Instrumental Study Class

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Around Town More than $25,000 has been granted over the lifetime of this grant program. It has provided programming to thousands of students who would have missed out on an amazing array of arts opportunities.

Teachers applying for the grant are able to partner with LCAC to do much larger projects than they otherwise would be able to attempt.

GEAR UP FOR BOLDERBOULDER 2014 For only the second time since 1987, the BolderBOULDER will offer colored race shirts instead of the traditional white. This year, the shirts will feature the slogan “RUNBELIEVABLE” and be available in green, blue or coral. Runners can purchase a long- or short-sleeved t-shirt, a short-sleeved technical shirt or all three as a package. The technical shirts, by Helly Hansen, are designed to reduce moisture and shrinkage, and new performance-enhancing technology pulls away heat and moisture from the skin. The 2014 t-shirts were designed by Denver’s Genesis Inc., which has been designing BolderBOULDER gear since 1979.

The BolderBOULDER, named America’s All-Time Best 10K by Runner’s World, is the 3rd largest running race in the United States and the 7th largest in the world. The race attracts over 50,000 runners, joggers, walkers and wheelchair racers, and draws professional athletes from around the world to compete for one of the largest non-marathon prize purses in road racing. The 2014 race starts at 30th and Walnut and winds through Boulder neighborhoods with live music and entertainment at every corner. The race finishes at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field and attracts over 100,000 spectators. The 36th annual BolderBOULDER will be held on Memorial Day, May 26th, 2014. Registration is open now.

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LAFAYETTE-BASED METALWORK COMPANY RECEIVES $250K GRANT Jessica Adams started Living Design Studios Inc. as a one-woman metalsmith in the 1990s after a history of jewelry design work in art school and an apprenticeship in Europe. The year 2010 was difficult for the company, but it bounced back, and 2012 marked the

best year for Living Design Studios financially. Since then, the company has taken on larger-scale projects for venues like the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center and Denver International Airport.

When Adams applied for a Chase Bank-sponsored campaign aimed to aid and grow local businesses, she thought it was a long shot. Living Design Studios was just one of 35,000 companies to apply for the grant. However, the company was chosen and will be one of 12 small businesses to receive $250,000, a marketing workshop at Google’s headquarters, a laptop, access to a “social media toolkit,” and an advertising offer from Google.

2014 HAERTLING HOUSE student DESIGN COMPETITION The Menkick House, designed by Charles Haertling in 1969, is iconic for the rock outcrop that is integrated into the building’s exterior, along with the elements of modernism and organic architecture. This year, Broker Associate Emily Gadacz of Colorado Landmark Realtors, announced the 2014 Haertling House Student Design Competition, a contest to give graduates of CU’s School of Environmental Design an opportunity to enter a local design competition and win a cash prize.

Competitors will submit a renovation proposal for the lower level interior, including materials and staircases if desired. Architect Stephen Sparn selected the winner, Michelle Harrison, on February 11th during a ceremony at the Menkick House. Harrison received a cash prize, recognition in the local community and a letter of commendation.

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Family Feature

Meet the Lupbergers Article Jordan Lebowitz | Photography Skipping Rocks Photography and Provided

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ed and Staci Lupberger reside in Old Town Lafayette with their son, Jaeger, 6, and two dogs, Izzi and Scout.

“We picked this area as a place to start the family,” says Ted. The members of the Lupberger family ooze both passion and compassion, centering their efforts within various community organizations—both local government and non-profit alike.

Young Jaeger’s community involvement is focused on the creation and distribution of joy. His father says that he has a great sense of humor, loves to laugh and create laughter. Jaeger currently attends kindergarten at a parochial school in Boulder and is active in basketball, soccer and skiing. Ted and Staci’s parenting style follows a simple philosophy: “As long as we teach you not to judge people for anything other than whether they are nice to you or not, that’s really all you need to know.”

Ted and Staci moved to Boulder County from New York City eight years ago. Ted earned his bachelor’s degree in English and his Master of Business degree. It is the combination of those two fields of study that enable Ted to be involved in so many community organizations including economic, cultural and artistically based groups. Ted is currently a board member for the Colorado Music Festival and Center for Musical Arts, which not only educates, but also holds in-house performances and coordinates an annual classical music festival in Chautauqua every summer.

Staci earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and has recently returned to school in order to obtain her Masters in Nutrition degree. While Staci is two years into her second term as

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Lafayette City Council member, she plans to use her new degree by helping children with childhood obesity.

Like many of us, Ted and Staci are not native to these parts, but the Lupberger’s embody what it means to be local. Ted supports his family and his community by owning and operating Coal Creek Brokers, a real estate brokerage. He describes the areas of Boulder County as the “Boroughs of Boulder” to which he aims to be the “expert broker in East Boulder County.”

“Every day I get a new boss when I get a new client,” Ted says.

“Each one of them is different and has different expectations.”

One boss is enough for most of us, but Ted insists all his clients end up becoming his friends. Now that’s community.

Home Matters

The Art of Organizing Article Sheryl Hadley Photography Henry Dietrich and Bryan Rowe

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ou know how sometimes you walk into a house and it just feels good? People remark on how it has “great energy?” That simply doesn’t happen when you walk into a space that’s messy, chaotic or overflowing with clutter. The energy is stale, and you feel off-balance the minute you open the door.

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Throughout this process the house becomes a home and the office becomes a place you look forward to spending time in. We want our clients to walk in, sit down, and feel that everything is in its place. We are committed to taking the stress out of the process and setting up organizational systems that work for them.

Our motto is, “It’s all in the details,” because the art of creating a beautiful space that has only what you need and use comes down to the little things.

However, organizing is not just about making sure everything is properly put away. It’s about creating beauty and sanctuary within a space. Even if you consider yourself among the creatively challenged, here are a few habits you can incorporate into your everyday life that will make organizing the kind of art you can master: • The Lifestyle Change: If you have less stuff, it naturally follows that you have less stuff to organize. Are you keeping that vase from grandma just because it was hers, even though you can’t stand

it? When making a purchase, consider why you are buying it and whether you really need it. Be thoughtful.

• The Art of Purging: Grab two trash bags, and walk around your house for 10 minutes. Label one bag “donate” and the other “trash.” Do you have piles of pens you never use because you make notes only on your phone? Do you have six spatulas but hardly ever cook? Be ruthless.

• The Burning Questions: Ask yourself these three things when purging: Do I use it? Do I love it? Do I appreciate it? If you don’t get a resounding yes to any of them...get rid of it. Make room for things in your life that you really want. Be honest.

• The Beauty of Colorizing: Use the same hangers, whichever style works for you and organize clothes by genre and color from white to black along the color wheel to make each closet a work of art. Be detailed.

• The Art of Art: Hang your art so that the center of the piece is 60” from the floor. Many people hang it too high, believing that it makes the room feel bigger. When it’s at the proper height, your room will feel balanced, and the piece will show better. BE PRECISE. • The Clutter-Free Home: Clear your surfaces and containerize, label and vertically store meaningful items you absolutely must hang on to. Be selective.

Organizing is a lifetime process, not a one-time event. You don’t have to devote an entire weekend to a massive project. Use ten minutes here, twenty minutes there. Do one drawer, one cabinet, one closet at a time. Try to impose order and beauty where there was none before.

As van Gogh pointed out, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” That’s the true art of organizing; focusing on the details so the masterpiece can be revealed.

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Field Trip

WOW! Factor Lafayette Children’s Museum disguises learning with fun Article Camille Wilson | Photography Provided

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ou don’t have to leave Boulder County to find rich, inspired educational opportunities so fun your kids probably won’t realize they’re learning. WOW! Children’s Museum in Lafayette delivers the chance to steer a pirate ship, make giant bubbles, play a percussion instrument, enjoy the beach and conduct a science experiment—and much more.

Established in 1996, the museum’s mission is to provide educational, interactive exhibits and programs for all children—bringing families together in a creative environment that sparks imagination, inspires learning through play and supports school readiness.

Executive Director Jennifer Hinderliter says her 16-month tenure at the museum has been focused on strengthening and expanding educational programs to help get kids school-ready and improve state test scores in science.

“We’re hoping we can help be a part of the solution by making science really fun and getting kids to have a better understanding of science even if they don’t go into it as a career,” she says.

To that end, WOW! offers monthly drop-in science classes on topics like weather and energy. It also offers a fee-based program for school districts to either invite a museum science instructor into the classroom or for the class to attend a session at the museum itself.

Other focus areas for Hinderliter have been on the museum’s financial strength and infrastructure. While 60 percent of budget18 Boulder County Lifestyle | March 2014

ed revenue comes from admissions and membership fees—both of which reached record numbers in 2013 with 66,000 visitors and 960 member families—the remainder of the budget is dependent on contributions from individuals and corporations.

“Many people don’t realize how much we depend on contributions in order to continue to operate,” says Hinderliter.

A newly enhanced board of directors just completed its first strategic plan to steer staff and volunteers toward guidelines and measurable performance standards for each exhibit. Hinderliter says this will help keep things fresh and always changing at WOW! “Recent investments have included air conditioning system improvements, a new toddler beach exhibit and several back-end function upgrades,” she says. “As we grow our budget, we continuously improve existing exhibits and bring new designs to the floor.”

Financial strength also means a growing scholarship fund.

Since adults are always free, WOW! offers families an affordable learning opportunity. For many families, however, admission is still cost prohibitive. Thanks to generous donors, those with financial need may be eligible for a $10 annual membership—normally a family of four would pay $85 annually. Two hundred families received this discounted rate in 2013.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer scholarships,” says Hinderliter. “We really want everyone to know that this is available so that WOW! can inspire learning in all families.”

WOW! Children’s Museum Events: March and April Build it WOW! Exhibit - On Display through April

WOW! Craft Club - 10am-12pm the second Saturday each

Put your building skills to the test and explore a variety of ways to build. Connect pipes, link an arch, weave a nest and more!

month (March 8 and April 12) Children ages 3 and up are invited to create a different themed craft project each month!

McTeggart Irish Dancers - 11am Saturday, March 15

Get into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit with a special dance performance by the McTeggart Irish Dancers. Event sponsored in part by Xcel Energy.

NanoDays - 10am-1pm daily March 25-27

Join us for NanoDays, celebrating the science of the small!

Explore how to make things invisible, investigate new nano products and materials, make nano crafts to keep, and launch nano particles with an air cannon! Organized by NISE Net, NanoDays is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering.

Discovery Days - 10am-1pm daily March 18-19 and April 15-16 Discover your inner scientist! Drop in and explore our monthly informal hands-on science sessions.

March Topic: Big & Small April Topic: Energy & Earth Day

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Students enjoy a variety of arts experiences at Boulder High including this pottery class. Photography Todd Van Fleet

Flagstaff Academy elementary students explore Viking history with art teacher Kyle Sumnicht. Photography Tina Fredo

Growing Up with Art A look at art in local schools

Article Dell Bleekman | Photography Todd Van Fleet, Paula Kehoe and Tina Fredo

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rts Education has undergone a transformation in the past few years. No longer is it merely an “art on a cart” experience where students toil to create forgettable macaroni art. Now, schools look to the arts as core in the curriculum. Administrators see the arts as vital in educating students for 21st-century jobs that require flexibility and creativity. Take a look at these artists, teachers and administrators who are moving the arts in BVSD to the next level.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Local artist Paula Kehoe began investing time at her kids’ school, Bear Creek Elementary, in 2007. She wanted to orchestrate a large-scale project, one where many students could be involved. One such early work was a sculpture where students created butterflies by tracing their hands, cutting out the shapes and painting with watercolor.

“We attached the butterflies and in bending the wings it appeared as if they were flying,” Kehoe recalls. That mural hangs on a classroom wall today.

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The focus class isn’t the only nod to arts education. While many successful programs are centered around bringing arts into the general education classroom, Manhattan also takes the conCollaborative Work tent classes into art.

Kehoe’s project from last year is prominently displayed in a “This allows students to use the skills they’re learning in core large hallway at Bear Creek. Inspired by an installation at Denver subject areas and apply them to the work they’re doing in the field International Airport in conof art,” Riggs explains. junction with the Denver Zoo, “It’s the grappling of a problem, the finding of a Luckily, Riggs has art teachKehoe envisioned a mural made Dawn Deming on his staff. solution—and a foundational education in the er entirely of recycled materials.

Deming, an 18-year veteran, exThe result, an 8 x 10-foot mural arts allows this to take place.” —Dawn Demming udes enthusiasm when discussof a bear riding a bicycle, won ing her role as art teacher in a Student art covers the walls at Manhattan praise from the entire school. school devoted to the arts.

Middle School. Photography Todd Van Fleet The fact that the mural was “We work collaboratively entirely composed of recycled with the content teachers to material played neatly into one create curriculum with art at aspect of the school’s science the core,” Deming says. curriculum, which focuses on For example, in an effort to how humans can affect the enintegrate science with the arts vironment. Kehoe collected Deming acquired books on how the materials — cereal boxes, to create a wildlife visual diary. brown grocery bags, plastic “Students can construct their bags, and much more. Then she own science logs,” Deming exsketched the idea, cut it into plains, “and they record obsertwo-inch tiles and called on her vations, make measurements army of artists. “Kids took my and calculations and sketch small tiles and scaled them up what they see.” It’s a vivid exto a square foot,” Kehoe says, “which required both math skills ample of how to capture scientific information in a visual form. and patience.” With focus and persistence, 30 students worked a This cross-curricular approach is valuable because it fosters total of 10 hours to complete the mural. critical thinking and reasoning skills, Deming asserts, which are Collaboration is at the core of Kehoe’s work; indeed, it’s her more important than ever. But sometimes answers don’t come guiding philosophy. quickly; that’s what Deming sees as the true teachable moment.

“I love seeing kids engaged in the artistic process,” she says. “We allow students to explore the concept of perseverance in a Kehoe also believes the outcome is better than if she had under- supportive atmosphere,” she says. “It’s the grappling of a problem, taken the project by herself. “I just set the stage; the kids make the finding of a solution—and a foundational education in the arts decisions and do the work,” she says. “What students can do con- allows this to take place.” tinues to amaze me.”

21st Century Students

MIDDLE SCHOOL One common lament regarding arts education is that it’s often the first item cut when budgets become tight. That’s not the case at Manhattan Middle School, an open-enrollment school with the visual and performing arts at the heart of its mission. One way the school succeeds in its mission is providing a “focus class” approach giving students the opportunity to dive deeply into a given artistic endeavor.

“A focus class is a two-period class,” Principal John Riggs explains. “Seventh and 8th graders who truly have a passion for art can take a two-period block, which gives them a big part of the day to explore that passion.” Students can fill that block with one class each of music arts, visual arts or theater arts.

Manhattan Middle School uses the arts as both a means and an end, teaching students to be creative and to be creative problem solvers in other subjects.

“We understand not every kid will be the next Jackson Pollack,” Deming states, “but we teach all our students the skills needed to succeed in jobs that require creative thinking.”

HIGH SCHOOL At the end of a renovated wing of Boulder High School sits a spacious room bathed in natural light thanks to curved walls of glass. Student art hangs everywhere. Welcome to Virginia Schick’s art room, a communal space where she and her students create, critique and collaborate.

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growing up with art

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This is Schick’s 28th year of teaching art, yet she seems more energized than ever. Her secret?

“What’s better than helping young people create art?” she asks.

“To see students open their hearts and minds to each other, to work hard and commit to a process, is simply amazing.”

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Schick excels at bringing established artists into the classroom.

Currently, her students are working with photographer Russell McDougal, who comes to Boulder High via Open Arts, part of Open Studios in Boulder. McDougal will be sharing with students his work in landscape still-life photography.

Another collaboration resulted in a striking aluminum relief mural that hangs prominently in the school. Photography students shot images of other students, and the drawing class used them to create high contrast silhouettes. The pottery students then created a sculpture of a woman holding a yoga pose and incorporated the silhouettes. They worked with another local artist to fabricate the piece into metal.

“So many students collaborated on this large project,” Schick recalls. “It truly felt communal to them.”

An Artistic Endorsement

This year, students at Boulder High have the opportunity to formalize their passion for the arts by enrolling in a new program called Arts Focus Pathway. Students can take more than 50 different visual and performing arts classes during their high school years and, with additional outside hours, can graduate with an endorsement on their diploma signifying their artistic achievement.

“More than 70 students have already signed up,” Schick says, “and we’re thrilled we have this new avenue for our students to reach their fullest artistic potential.”

Artist Paula Kehoe by a mural created by Bear Creek Elementary Students.

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Art at Manhattan Middle School is a collaboration between many of the classes in the curriculum. Here science meets art. Photography Todd Van Fleet

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The centerpiece of this unit was a massive, wooden Viking ship—really more of a handcrafted museum installation in an elementary classroom. The ship was integrated with touchscreen technology and packed with artifacts such as replica swords, baskets, coins, shields and much more.

The ship exemplified hands-on learning as students could touch every item. “It was like a museum without the glass barriers,” Sumnicht exclaims.

Each grade level explored a different aspect of Viking art by creating a variety of meaningful projects, many of which employed the same techniques used by the Vikings more than 1000 years ago.

“The ship’s environment provided a platform for us to base our discussions around while promoting learning through a uniquely enriching experience,” Sumnicht says. “It allowed our students to become fully immersed in the Viking Age and created a level of excitement and appreciation of art!”

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Owner and Founder of Big Red F, Dave Query, longed to open a brewery. However, since you can find one on every corner in this neck of the Front Range, he knew it had to be something special.

Query also dreamed—since the burger is, er, well done—of taking chicken to a whole new level. In comes Chef Brett Smith, formerly of Zolo Grill, and Culinary Director Jamey Fader. The missing piece was a brew master to add the “special” to the sauce.

Query posted an ad on Craigslist for a brew master. He never imagined who would respond—none other than television- and documentary-famous Brian Selders. Formerly with Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales in Delaware, Selders was the head brew master when the brewery was the subject of Discovery Channel’s “Brew Masters” and prominently featured in the documentary “Beer Wars.”

Query found his man.

The Concept

To make great chicken, Query and Fader traveled extensively eating fried chicken from all corners of the country seeking the best recipes. After countless pounds and painstaking testing, the duo came up with the best fried chicken recipe this side of The South.

Meanwhile, Selders busied himself with designing an eclectic brew menu to complement the good bird, as well as the other tasty offerings on the menu. And the concept “Hot Chicken Loves Cold Beer” was hatched.

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Clearly, the fried chicken is standard fare here. The bird is brined for hours, drenched in buttermilk and coated with gluten-free flour with the perfect blend of seasonings. Fried to perfection, it’s is insanely moist and grease-free.

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ral, sustainably raised birds are amazing, and the crust doesn’t fall off when you bite into it.”

The menu is dotted with comfort food goodness. The deviled eggs—do not think grandmas goopy eggs from Easter dinner— with horseradish louie and topped with a pinch of crispy pork cheek will blow your mind. As will the buttermilk cheddar biscuits. The sides include favorites such as mashed potatoes and gravy, green chili mac and cheese and creamy grits to name a few.

There are also nightly specials based on available local ingredients. The sides are served up family-style so choose a few to share.

Picking your main dish might be a challenge. In addition to the dynamic fried chicken, you’ll find rotisserie chicken, handcarved roast beef, wood-fired pork shoulder, Mississippi catfish and a vegetarian platter. To further complicate matters, Fader and Smith added platters and blue plate specials. Plan your week around the blue plate menu. Favorites: Tuesday’s chicken tamales, Wednesday’s chicken pot pie and Saturday’s chicken fried steak.

The beverage menu is equally as tantalizing. The beer, of course, is top shelf. The Post Brewing Company is releasing their own brews over a period of time until they reach a mainstay of about six options. They will sprinkle in some seasonals, and who can guess what other surprises the talented Selders might dream up? Current offerings include: Lil’ Buddy America-style bitter, Big Rosie porter and Tendulkar IPA. “Keeping my yeast happy is really my only job,” Selders says. “I like to eat and drink here, so I want it to be good!”

On tap, you’ll also find local favorites from Upslope, Avery and more. If you’re not a beer connoisseur, The Post has a full bar and a handful of specialty drinks such as the Post Manhattan and coin-style margaritas à la Zolo-style.

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King Avenue, Boulder

$2,395,000

$2,250,000

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14th Street, Boulder

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$1,025,000

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$925,000

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Snowmass Circle, Superior

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$819,000

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Pine Street, Boulder

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$789,900

100.00%

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2

Wonderland Hill, Boulder

$779,900

$780,000

100.01%

3

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Cheyenne Court, Niwot

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$773,000

96.64%

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Joliet Way, Boulder

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$760,000

100.13%

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$720,000

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$735,000

$705,000

95.92%

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$675,000

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what is believed to be the first observation of a light flare on the Sun. Hear Dr. Thomas Berger, Project Scientist for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope at the National Solar Observatory at the Sacramento Peak observatory in New Mexico, speak about how another Carrington Event would affect our world today. Chautauqua.com

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Each spring brings a new crop of greenery—and a new crop of aspiring gardeners. The Denver Botanic Gardens presents a comprehensive overview of the finest beginner gardening classes, such as “Beginning Vegetable Gardening,” “Annuals and Perennials for Color in the Garden,” “Garden Planning 101” and “Soils 101” all in one place.

Foster your green thumb and enjoy lunch from Chipotle, included. $60 members / $80 non-members. BotanicGardens.org

Colorado’s largest premier talent competition is holding auditions to find a team of the most talented youth and adults in the state to compete in this year’s State Regional Finals. All ages and talents are invited to represent their county and have a blast. ColoradoTalent.org

March 1–2 Boulder Opera Company presents “Vanessa” The Dairy Center for the Arts

The Boulder Opera Company presents “Vanessa,” the story of a beautiful aristocrat who is thrust into a dark and dangerous love triangle with her innocent niece and the son of her former lover. Samuel Barber’s rich score comes together with an astounding libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and Michael Tilley will conduct members of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Tickets start at $25. TheDairy.org

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March 7 An Evening of Wine and Cheese BookCliff Vineyards Tasting Room

BookCliff Vineyards has been making award-winning wines from 100% Colorado grown grapes in its North Boulder winery since 1999 and Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy has been producing premium high quality cheeses here in Boulder since 1989. The two teamed up to present a unique tasting for foodies who want to not only sample world class wines and cheeses, but learn about what makes the two taste so delectable together. Tickets $35.

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March 7 The Lyons Project Benefit

Kim Jongku: Steel Powder Painting and Landscape

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The Lyons Community Foundation showcases a series of artistic performances to benefit their flood relief fund. CollectiveArtsInk integrates live music, visual art, and recorded audio interviews to narrate the September flooding of Colorado at eTown Hall. Musicians from Lyons will perform at both Shine and Bohemian Biergarten and both locations will feature an art show. Tickets $45. TheLyonsProject.SquareSpace.com

Kim Jongku, a Korean artist on a two month visiting-artist residency at CU Boulder, will exhibit 4-6 of his large-scale, steel-powder paintings. An opening reception will precede the exhibition and will include a show-and-tell of the collaborative artist book by Jongku and Sammy Lee. The show will be an extension of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s rotating exhibits, located at Macky Gallery, in the foyer of the Macky Auditorium Concert at the University of Colorado Boulder. BMOCA.org

March 4 Delicious Vegetarian Cooking Class Botanic Gardens, Denver

Learn to prepare a variety of vegetarian dishes, including a savory salad, butternut squash curry, spicy cashew veggie stir fry, and pesto and roasted veggie pizza. Then enjoy a dinner featuring each of these dishes. $42 members / $47 non-members, includes $18 materials fee. BotanicGardens.org

March 6 Our Explosive Sun Chautauqua Community House

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March 7–9 Frozen Dead Guy Days Nederland, CO

This weird, iconic event celebrates Grandpa Bredo, a man who was frozen after he died in Norway in 1989 and ended up in the hills above Nederland, where he has remained ever since. The festival includes hearse parade floats, coffin race teams and costume polar plunging. New this year: Frozen Dead Poets Society readings. FrozenDeadGuyDays.org

March 7–May 11 Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters Boulder’s Dinner Theatre

Follow sisters LaVerne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews on their rise to stardom in the Boulder Dinner Theatre’s production of Sisters of Swing: The Story of The Andrews Sisters. The show, written by Beth Gilleland and Bob Beverage, offers a rare perspective of the lives of the three

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March 13 The Pink Floyd Experience The Boulder Theater

absorbing, the award-winning James McLindon spurs us to question (and, perhaps, affirm) our own faith. Directed by Mare Trevathan. DJ Savior Breath plays curated music pre-show. A discussion with McLindon led by Jill Rafson follows. Tickets $20 in advance / $25 at the door.

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Tom Quinn, lead guitarist and Pink Floyd enthusiast, started The Pink Floyd Experience in 1995 with bandmates Gus Beaudoin, Randy McStine, Jesse Molloy, John Cox and Bob Sale out of pure love for Pink Floyd. This spring they bring the experience to Boulder at the infamous Boulder Theater. Tickets $27.50. ThePinkFloydExperience.net

CMC 12th Annual Mountain Fest Center, Golden

Learn all about the Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) while enjoying the skills clinics, museum tours, open climbing and slacklining, as well as expo featuring CMC’s popular hiking, mountaineering, fly fishing, and camping schools, conservation program, mountaineering museum, adventure travel and youth education in this year’s program. CMC.org/MountainFest

Reading of “Faith” by James McLindon

In a suburban American home, a religious fanatic is coming of age. Simon, a 13-year-old outcast, is the only child of single mom (and apostate) Theresa, and is desperate to be deemed God’s prophet. So when a beautiful Harbinger of the Lord appears to him outside the Walmart, why does Simon’s faith begin to erode? Funny and charming, provocative and

March 21 American Mountaineering

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Indulge in live bluegrass music, farm and restaurant food stations, micro-brew and fine liquor tastings, while enjoying visits from adoptable animals. BoulderCounty.org

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A mix of up-and-coming and established local musicians come together at a new location to perform three 45-minute sets, while listeners relax in a coffeehouse setting with snacks and drinks. ArtsLongmont.org

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March 22, 24 Boulder Philharmonic “Rhapsody in Blue” Macky Auditorium, Boulder

Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and chart-topping recording artist Simone Dinnerstein perform Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as well of the Colorado premiere of Philip Lasser’s Piano Concerto. Lasser’s French-American heritage is complemented by Debussy’s “La Mer” and Heitzeg’s “Ghost of the Grasslands.” BoulderPhil.org

March 28–April 6 Boulder Arts Week Various Venues

Spring of 2014 brings the first citywide celebration of our city’s dynamic art community and all of its cultural offerings. Enjoy ten days of acclaimed arts and cultural programming, during which Boulder will host art walks, First Friday, exhibitions, performances, dance, music, theatre, artist demonstrations and symposia. BoulderArtsWeek.org

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Parting Thoughts

A Lifetime of Art Words and photo Heather Shoning

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dream of being able to sing in the shower without making my husband or kids cry. If I could only make a quick sketch to help illustrate a thought occasionally, I’d be so pleased. I wish I could dance without looking like a ’90s leftover and hurting my neck from swinging my head back and forth grunge-rock style.

I can’t do any of these things. I cringe at the thought of singing “Happy Birthday” even with a group. Thank goodness I’m good with words because I can barely draw a stick person. And the dancing—I’ve got nothing for that one. What I do have are two wildly talented daughters who I can live through vicariously.

My oldest child has an amazing talent for drawing. She spends hours with art pencils and spiral bound drawing pads. She pulls up photos of her friends on Facebook and draws them. The friend—perfectly reflected onto paper. The images are uncanny. Drawing

pad after drawing pad are filled with sketches of her favorite fashion models.

My younger daughter can croon “Happy Birthday” like nobody’s business. I think she sang before she started talking. Notes rarely stop coming out of her mouth. And when she puts her heart into it, which is often, she can belt it like Baker. (Anita, that is.)

I have no idea how these girls came across such talents. (OK, my husband can sing, but he keeps his gift to himself.) My greatest fear is they might cast aside those gifts like the dreams of children. To that end, my husband and I do everything we can to enable them to explore and grow in their genius.

As time has ticked along, I’ve watched them continue to love and honor their gifts. And now I am watching my oldest daughter take her flair for art and design to the next level as she seeks a college to foster her talent and help her reach new heights. My younger daughter came home from school with the business card of a talent

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I couldn’t be more proud of both of my talented children and their drive to succeed in the arts. I’m sure, as I watch them strive for success, they will encounter bumps and bruises, successes and failures as all developing artists do, but I know they will keep their heads high, pick up the pieces and march forth on a path of their own making. Whether they end up with careers in the arts or something entirely different, they will always have a talent that surprises me, amazes me and rocks my world.

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