The Sharon Prize, a $5,000 annual grant celebrating and supporting women and non-binary artists in Colorado, has been awarded to CSU Dance Professor Grace Gallagher for her innovative contemporary dance work, There is No Planet B, a multimedia performance that fuses art with environmental activism to address the urgency of climate action. This compelling dance and art experience will have its world premiere at the University Center for the Arts at Colorado State University on Nov. 21 and 22, 2025.
The Cherryfield Toy Company, which welcomes audience members to become part of the production by moving through a created world of spaces and scenes, has many more moving parts than you might expect for a typical seated stage production.
The Sept. 11 event will feature a lecture by Linda Wolk-Simon, a specialist in sixteenth-century Italian art with a focus on Raphael, along with 16th century Italian musical prologue of Renaissance Marian music CSU Professor of Music Joel Bacon.
From Van Cliburn stars to Juilliard and CSU professors to young pianists from across the globe, the one-of-a-kind Odyssiad® piano competition and festival returns to Colorado State University this summer. Since 2011, the International Keyboard Odyssiad® and Festival, U.S.A. has brought gifted pianists in riveting evening performances by professional guest artists, along with competitive “Olympic-style competitions for pianists ages 11-35, to the campus and city.
Tired of lugging your instruments to the University Center for the Arts? A new CSU courtesy shuttle app is now live, simplifying campus commutes for students.
Tellus Outdoors, The Haunted Game Cafe and Thrive Acupuncture are local establishments that recently started providing discounts for university employees.
A new School of Music, Theatre, and Dance course, Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries (MU 430), offers music majors the opportunity to produce original ethnographic research, which includes observing or interacting with people moving through their chosen environments. The research took place online and in the Fort Collins community – settings where the students found music and/or sound to be an aspect of the human experience – including a local record store, The R Bar, a YouTube channel, and the Harbinger coffee houses.
