Posted in Annual events, Colorado State University on April 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fort Collins adds one or two festivals to its calendar every year. Music, warm beer, sticky food.
But for beauty and grace, none match the May Fete at CSU in the 1920s–an annual display of “pristine femininity.”
”From the shrubbery, the fairies stole forth…Pan and his dancing nymphs, the four winds, moonbeams, and Neptune’s mermaids floated across [...]
Posted in Art, Colorado State University, Famous people, tagged andy warhol in fort collins, artists and cows, bruce conway, campbells soup can, Colorado State University art, CSU University Center for the arts, history of irony at CSU, John Denver and Andy Warhol, Museum Cache, pop art in fort collins on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Real pop art in Fort Collins? You betcha! An Andy Warhol soup right in front of the old high school on Remington. See? We’re not a bunch of hicks.
Here’s how we got the lawn art:
Posted in Colorado State University, tagged 1964 Fort Collins, Betram Wyatt Brown, Brown Palace, Colorado State University history, Fort Collins midcentury history, IHOP, Morgan Library, where renewal is a way of life, wide streets narrow minds on November 14, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Nobody articulates the cultural oppression of mid-century Fort Collins better than the unfortunate Bertram Wyatt Brown, a Baltimore academic who took his first job in 1964 at Colorado State University.
Posted in Colorado State University, Neighborhoods on August 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sigma alpha epsilon at CSU lost its charter. I think it was for getting teenage girls drunk–like, go to the emergency room drunk. Now the 1926 frat house is being replaced with something else, says the Coloradoan.
See those crumbling walls beside the stair? They used to hold the golden lions.
And sometimes those lions were painted red – [...]