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Colorado Springs women artists showcased at Pioneers Museum
If museums don’t collect women’s art, women’s stories won’t be told. And that would mean losing half of American history. “Across the globe museums are taking time to reflect on their role as gatekeepers and tastemakers,” said Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum’s Curator of History Leah Davis Witherow. “By not collecting women artists we’re not exhibiting…
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Behind the scenes at downtown nonprofit arts complex in Colorado Springs
Cottonwood Center for the Arts was a different animal when Jon Khoury arrived in Colorado Springs from New York City in 2012. There were 14 artists renting studios in the large building east of downtown. The parking lot was always empty. The buildings around it were vacant. There was no activity. But then Cottonwood blossomed.…