We asked you, our brilliant and creative MCA community, to send in proposals for the MCA program of your dreams. And you delivered!
Presenting: Open Source: a series of programs by you, for you. Join us the first three Thursdays in September to see new faces and learn about new ideas.
Diagramming Sentences with Terry Talty and Steuart Bremner
Diagramming sentences — let’s get graphic and do grammar. We’ll go to the easel with a few sentences from contemporary news, and ask a group of thinkers from different walks of life to dissect the grammar carefully and visually — to diagram to understand meaning more deeply. We’ll reflect on what we learned from diagramming sentences, and how contemporary tools like headlines, tweets, posts, and videos might be helping or hindering deep understanding of ideas.
Schedule:
September 3, 1PM: Open Source- Multicultural Alliance Open Mic hosted by Christie Jones
September 17, 4PM: Open Source- Diagramming Sentences hosted by Terry Talty and Steuart Bremner
Terry Talty and Steuart Bremner have been working together on public sculpture, temporary environmental installations and hand-made book projects since the 1990s. Bremner received his BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder at the same time Talty was graduating with the same degree from the University of Denver. They met at SummerVail Art Workshop. Permanent public sculpture by Bremner and Talty can be found in Frisco, Breckenridge and Aspen, Colorado as well as in Italy and Luxembourg. Evidence of their temporary works remains in photographs and online but originally were placed in contemplative settings where they were encountered by chance and not by buying a ticket to a museum. Most recently, they have chosen their audience to be those who go to art museums, and have made one of a kind books that they leave in art museum bookstores. By choosing art museum book stacks, they hope these books will be found and taken by visitors who like books and visual art. Each book contains original pen or pencil drawings, and text-based art along with an explanation of their book leaving project. They’ve left a series of books in the U.K, New Orleans, Los Angeles and the Northwest, and in each series they include an essay about contemporary art making.
A native Boulderite, Susan Hellie is a tutor, editor and writing coach located in Boulder, Colorado. For thirty years, she taught Advanced Placement classes where she and her students analyzed the function of literary and rhetorical devices. Susan likes to read, hike, write, and pre-pandemic, enjoyed travel.
Max McKenna is a writer, editor, and musician living in Chicago. Since 2012, he has served as a teaching assistant for the massive open online course ModPo, a survey of modern American poetry.
Joel Swanson is an artist and writer whose work chiefly explores the failings and glitches of linguistic systems. His work critically subverts the technologies, materials, and underlying structures of language to reveal its idiosyncrasies and inconsistencies. His work ranges from interactive installations to public sculptures that playfully and powerfully question words and their meanings.
Chris Chiari is a producer and owner of the Patterson Inn hotel in Denver, Colorado. Known for his work on the feature film “Strive” (2019) as a co-producer, and for his feature documentary film “Public Enemy Number One” (2020), which he made along with director Robert Rippberger. He knows political messaging having run several campaigns and run for public office himself.
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