Editor’s note: Robert Pinsky has canceled due to the East Coast blizzard. His appearance will be rescheduled in the fall.

A former United States poet laureate, Colorado College alumnae turned professional dancers and a 13-foot-tall sculpture made of vinyl and zippers.

That’s what the annual Cornerstone Arts Week is all about – celebrating art and the collaborations between artistic disciplines.

The annual Colorado College event is 15 years old, says event organizer Jessica Hunter-Larsen, curator of the interdisciplinary arts program at Colorado College, and it’s designed to make attendees think about ideas in a different way.

This year’s theme, “What’s My Line?,” will flavor the lectures, presentations, theater and dance performances and exhibits. The event starts Monday with an opening reception for a new art exhibit and ends Jan. 31 with a one-act drama.

“It’s a particularly rich topic for lots of collaborations because it’s so open-ended,” says Hunter-Larsen. “Google the definition of the word ‘line’ – it’s crazy. It’s amazing how fluid the English language is.”

About 3,000 people attended the event two years ago when she last organized the week’s activities.

Special guests and events this year include keynote speaker Robert Pinsky, the former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1997-2000; dance duo HIJACK, who’ll present a lecture and site-specific performance; and the CC theater and dance department’s presentation of “Line,” an absurdist one-act drama about five people waiting on line.

“We think we know what an exhibit about a line would be – drawings made of lines,” says Hunter-Larsen. “You might not expect a 13-foot-tall sculpture made of vinyl and zippers, but that’s the really exciting thing about the arts. We’re invited to experience something we think we already know and understand, but that gives a new perspective and challenges us.”

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Various activities, Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado College, free; 389-6607, coloradocollege.edu.

– “Extending the Line,” two locations, works by William Anastasi, Herbert Bayer, Mary Chenoweth, Krysten Cunningham, Sam Francis, Susan Hefuna, Sol LeWitt, Senga Nengudi, Abbie Miller, Mark Saltz, Luca Veggetti and Anne Wilson, I.D.E.A. Space, opening reception 4-6 p.m. Monday, exhibit opens Monday, through March 7; works by Jean Gumpper and Jeanne Steiner, opening reception 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, exhibit opens Monday, through March 7, Coburn Gallery in Worner Student Center, 14 E. Cache La Poudre St.

– “Eye Sockets/Hip Sockets,” slide show lecture about visual art with HIJACK, a dance/choreography duo, Film Screening Room, 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

– Robert Pinsky, keynote speaker, 7 p.m. Wednesday.

– HIJACK, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, I.D.E.A. Space.

– “Line,” by Israel Horovitz, directed by Andrew Manley, Studio B, 8 p.m. Jan. 30-31

JEN MULSON, THE GAZETTE, 636-0270, 
JEN.MULSON@GAZETTE.COM