Professor Jon Rubin will be a fellow at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs’ Heller Center for Arts and Humanities from April 30 through May 7.
During his fellowship at the Heller Center, Rubin will launch a new site-specific project in The Yard, a project space and site for public art run by Jessica Langley and Ben Kinsley MFA ’08 in their front yard in the Divine Redeemer neighborhood of Colorado Springs.H ome to the Peterson Space Force Base, Schriever Space Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station, U.S. Space Command, and Space Operations Command, Colorado Springs has the largest contingent of space service military installations in the world. Given this reality on the ground and in space, Rubin’s project “Survival Studies Institute” posits a series of propositions about what the future holds for the property at 1010 N. Logan Avenue, Colorado Springs, U.S.