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ASFLC Meeting 3/12
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Fall Crafts

Photos by Lucy Schaefer

The beauty of Fall is here. Fall is the transitioning season from one extreme to the other, floating down the river and flying down the slopes. The following images are Fall inspired crafts representing and imitating the beuty and change of the season.

The beauty of Fall is here. Fall is the transitioning season from one extreme to the other, floating down the river and flying down the slopes. The following images are Fall inspired crafts representing and imitating the beuty and change of the season.

Distribution Box Contest!

The Independent is looking to redesign the distribution boxes on campus, and we want YOU to help! We are looking for artists, graphic designers, painters, illustrators, anyone with a flair for visual arts to submit ideas for how to redecorate the Indy’s yellow boxes. All you have to do is email Allison Anderson (awanderson@fortlewis.edu) for a template and return a completed submission by Wednesday, December 14th. We here at the Indy will select our 11 favorite redesigns - one for every box on campus. If yours is chosen, you get a box to put it on AND we’ll pay for the supplies (within reason) to decorate it!

 

Please note that any submissions featuring graphic or explicit content will be automatically disqualified. By submitting content to The Independent you turn over the right for us to utilize and reproduce this content as we see fit.

 

Please click on the image to see the full poster. The Independent is looking to redesign the distribution boxes on campus, and we want YOU to help! We are looking for artists, graphic designers, painters, illustrators, anyone with a flair for visual arts to submit ideas for how to redecorate the Indy’s yellow boxes. All you have to do is email Allison Anderson...

Meow Wolf: Interactive Multimedia Art

Photos by Celeste Matovich

Meow Wolf is an arts production company who specialize in creating immersive, interactive multimedia pieces of work.

Meow Wolf is an arts production company who specialize in creating immersive, interactive multimedia pieces of work. This is Meow Wolf’s first permanent installment called the House of Eternal Return located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is appropriate and enjoyable for all ages and people. Meow Wolf is a lot like a jungle gym, and is also a lot like a haunted house, all while being an...

A History of KDUR

Story by Izzy Farrell Graphic by Allison Anderson

Fort Lewis College students and Durango locals who are interested in radio, being a DJ or just sharing their eclectic musical tastes have a rare opportunity to do so right here on campus in the form of KDUR.  

Fort Lewis College students and Durango locals who are interested in radio, being a DJ or just sharing their eclectic musical tastes have a rare opportunity to do so right here on campus in the form of KDUR.     "One of the things we pride ourselves on here is to play music that’s not heard on commercial radio," Bryant Liggett, Station Manager at KDUR, said....

History of FLC

Photos Courtesy of Center of Southwest Studies and University of Oregon Archives

The following is an excerpt from the "More Than Just Words: A Look at the Mission and History of FLC by Matthew Roy"

 

But what exactly is the legacy that Fort Lewis has left? And how did a military post turn into a college?

 

The following is an excerpt from the "More Than Just Words: A Look at the Mission and History of FLC by Matthew Roy"     But what exactly is the legacy that Fort Lewis has left? And how did a military post turn into a college?   Duane Smith, retired FLC professor and specialist in southwest Colorado history, said FLC has an extraordinary history that...

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