A Campus Refurbished...

Many Springs ago, I attended a Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators Rocky Mountain Chapter workshop for Illustrators. It was an educational day,  but what really stuck with me was where it was held.. at the Rocky Mountain College of Art, in Lakewood, Colorado.  I snapped a bunch of photos and have never put them up, but now here they are...

Celebrating a half a century, RMCAD  moved to this gorgeous campus in 2002.

Sculptures and outside installation  adorn the center, green  "rectangle" as they should at an art school.

and the students, make their own statement, as they should at Art School...

But the studios, housed in mostly red brick buildings, hint at a time gone by...

50 years farther back, at the turn of the century, the campus did have another purpose, it was a Tuberculosis Asylum, built by generous Jewish Ladies Auxiliaries back East, as the plaque below the water tower attest too...

The Tri Boro Dining Hall was erected by the New York Ladies Auxiliary, Long Island Division, Florence Hoberman Auxiliary of Brooklyn.

The New York Ladies Auxiliary Pavilion...

J.C.R.S stands for the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society and the organization cared for many affirmed who were sent to Colorado, to benefit from the dry air. 

Our Illustrator Workshop took place in the Mary Harris Auditorium, built much later in 1941, when the campus had changed focus as a medical research facility....

 Screaming "Art Deco" in its Architectural Style, it was sometimes hard to focus on the speakers in the glowing auditorium ...

Or at our  hands on workshop,  in one of the classrooms where no surface was safe from adornment....

Oh, how hard it was not add my own creativity, my ballpoint pen just laying there, but alas, not my art school and not my time....