Cult of Color: Call to Color–A Collaboration at Arthouse at the Jones Center
While I was in Austin, Texas in April to hear Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders talk to MFA students and the public at UT Austin, I stopped in to see the exhibition at Arthouse. Cult of Color:Call to Color–Notes on a Collaboration featured the work of visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills and … Read more
ArtPace: New Works–08.1
Past participants of the International Artists-in-Residence program at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas, reads like a whose-who of art stars from the contemporary art world: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Antony Gormley, Glenn Ligon, Shahzia Sikander, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Edgar Arceneaux and Wangechi Mutu, just to name a few. In residence January 13 to March 17, 2008 … Read more
The Continuing Evolution of Minimalism: Susan York at Lannan Foundation
Three black-silver columns are installed in the white cube gallery at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, NM. Two are six feet tall and about ten inches wide and are placed almost in two opposite corners of the space. Almost, because they do not touch the perpendicular wall, a tense space of an inch between … Read more
BootJack Ranch hosts an Irish evening, Durango Herald, July 18, 2008
Review Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul played a Celtic Celebration on Wednesday at BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs. Eileen Ivers plays on the grounds of BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs before her Celtic Celebration concert as part of Music in the Mountains. It was an Irish evening at BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs. The rain … Read more
A Midsummer Night of Laughter in Pagosa, Durango Herald, July 15, 2008
Lovers in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” fall under the spell of Erica Curnutte as Puck in the rear of the picture. They are, left to right, Jessi Hampton (Hermia), Andrew Evans (Lysander), Chris Budreau (Demetrius) and Rachel Morgan (Helena). There is nothing better than a night of theater that transports one from a theater … Read more
Larkin returns after the mess, Durango Herald, July 8, 2008
Note: I’m not crazy about the title the Herald gave this story. My suggestion was Patti Larkin–Independent Troubadour, but I suppose those words are just too long for the column width! Patty Larkin demonstrates one of the many techniques she will use in the Abbey Theatre on Friday. She plays an electric baritone guitar with … Read more
Blind singer/songwriter an inspiration, Durango Herald, July 1, 2008
Sarah Michelle Getto, a blind singer/songwriter who also has a cleft palette, will perform twice in Bayfield over the Fourth of July weekend. Born blind and with a cleft palette, young singer/songwriter Sarah Michelle Getto hasn’t let anything hold her back. A summa cum laude graduate with a degree in music from Southeastern Oklahoma State … Read more
