Arts Festival Weaves Colorful Connections

Colorado Academy’s 2025 All-School Arts Festival, celebrated May 6-9, showcased the creativity of the CA community, as visual and performing arts wove together students, teachers, and families across campus.

The week’s worth of events kicked off with the Lower School and Middle School Concerts in the Leach Center for the Performing Arts. Tuesday, May 6, featured the Lower School Orchestra, Lower School Choir, Sixth Grade Choir, and Seventh & Eighth Grade Choir. The Leach Center’s Mainstage was the setting for performances by the Sixth Grade Orchestra, Seventh & Eighth Grade Orchestra, Sixth Grade Combo, and the Seventh & Eighth Grade Jazz Band.

The following evening, Upper School vocalists and musicians impressed in the Academy Orchestra, Chanteurs, two student-led Rock Bands, the new A Cappella Choir, and Academy Jazz.

CA’s visual art instructors took over the Sculpture Garden Thursday and Friday with “Heart to Heart,” a celebration of art-making featuring weaving, needlework, and textiles, including the work of guest artists the Ladies Fancywork Society, a Denver-based weaving collective that describes itself as “a diabolical art hydra” that creates large-scale installations made from yarn.

Around the guests’ colorful centerpiece were arrayed a cornucopia of creation stations that encouraged visitors of all ages to weave, embroider, and play. Older students got to try their hand at using a tufting gun to craft original wall artworks, while the youngest artists explored finger-weaving, chalk art, and sensory experiences like yarn balls and snakes.

Just as at every year’s Arts Fest, the occasion was as much about the threads that connect the CA community as the colorful creations all around.

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