WELCOME...

      ...to a celebration of the arts!

      The Obscura club came together for the first time in 2004 as a humble collection of students meeting in the name of exhibiting the creative work and talents of fellow Red Rocks Community College students. Under the guiding hands of mentors like Amy Braziller, Paul Gallagher, Elyse Marsh, Sandra Sajbel, and Sara Fall, Obscura now stands as an official class credit and presents its 17th edition to you today.

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      Every spring semester, we invite students to submit their art, poetry, photography, fiction, and non-fiction to us and possibly feature in a printed, published work (if you want to submit your own work to Obscura next edition, the submission guidlines can be found on the school website at https://www.rrcc.edu/obscura ). The staff is entirely students with roles decided by popular vote, which are guided by this year's two mentors, Professor Sajbel and Professor Fall. 

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     Thus begins the first online edition of Obscura. More accessible, easier to share, and a brainchild stemming from our campus's sudden and unfortunate closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rendering the printed edition impossible to distribute on a wide scale and unrealistic business to conduct while undergoing social distancing. 

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      If you're reading this after everything's blown over one way or another, it might be fun to conduct a historical reenactment and go in your room, turn to the arts for comfort, try not to become a germaphobe or a hypochondriac, and video call your significant others just for the sake of it. You could pretend to experience a shortage in sanitary supplies and sanity itself, desperately in need for a taste of normality, beauty, sweet slice-of-life, supernatural romance, and heart-wrenching memoir. 

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