Published February 11, 2021 at 5:20 PM MST
Jacqui Brown
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On today’s Colorado Edition: As districts work to get educators vaccinated, schools across the state are gradually welcoming back students for full-time, in-person instruction. We’ll talk with two teachers about what it’s like getting back to the classroom during the pandemic. We’ll hear about the unexpected flood of betting on an unlikely sport: table tennis. We talk with artist Narkita Gold about her project highlighting Denver’s growing Black community. And we’ll hear a review of the new movie
Today’s guests include: CarrieAnn Mathis, a teacher at Middle Park High School, and Jerry Roark, a first-grade teacher in Jefferson County; Denver-based artist Narkita Gold; Conor McCormick-Cavanaugh, sports reporter with
February 13 through March 12 Brian Rattiner brings liquid-looking abstracts in rainbow colors to David B. Smith’s main gallery from his Brooklyn studio, while Christine Nguyen helps celebrate Month of Photography 2021 with mixed-media cyanotypes and photo-based paintings in the project room.
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Narkita Gold
Anthony says the title of the Boulder show,
From This Day Forward, reflects on the state of the world during COVID-19 and ongoing political and civil unrest over the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain and other Black people.
“We decided that as artists, educators and designers, in order to move forward, we must address what was upon us as a community,” Anthony explains. “We would address grief and loss along with difficult conversations of what the world and society has been and could be, and maybe, just possibly, how to find a path to get there.”