Business | Unsplash by Tyler Franta
Business | Unsplash by Tyler Franta
An artistic – and metallurgical – collaboration between Colorado School of Mines and a Denver music performance group has been recognized by the Colorado Business Council for the Arts (CBCA).
The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Department’s Hennebach Program in the Humanities and the George S. Ansell Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department were one of 12 honorees for CBCA’s 2023 Business for the Arts Awards, the only statewide event honoring companies and individuals for their outstanding partnerships and engagement with the arts.
The Mines group received the Arts & Business Partnership Award at a special luncheon March 7 in recognition of their work to design and fabricate a custom set of instruments for itchy-O, a 50 plus-member avant-garde music performance group based in Denver.
Inspired by a Balinese gamelan, the instruments featured a custom bell metal alloy created with recycled cymbals donated by the Denver music community and more than 50 individual pieces – gongs, metallophones and more. All of the pieces were cast in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department’s Hot Shop by Hennebach Artist in Residence and hot shop manager Sarah Harling.
“We are extremely honored to have been recognized for our collaboration with itchy-O,” Harling said. “This project would not have been possible without the effort and expertise of talented artists and engineers from Mines and throughout the musical and visual arts community in Colorado and beyond. We are so grateful to have been part of the collaboration that brought this instrument into reality."
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