Category: ART

  • Exhibit Showcases Female Memories, Durango Herald, Sept. 19, 2008

    “The Insistence of Memory,” an exhibit at the Durango Arts Center’s Local Expressions gallery, is a show featuring “five women, five forms, five perspectives not to be forgotten,” according to the news release, also suggesting the show was “fresh.” “Fresh” and “memorable” for Durango, or the greater art world? “The Insistence of Memory” is a…

  • Changes imminent for Arts Center’s future, Durango Herald, Nov. 6, 2007

    After 11 years, Executive Director Brian Wagner is leaving Durango for a job in Oregon. A reception for him will be held Nov. 30. Long before Brian Wagner announced in October that he was leaving after 11 years as executive director of the Durango Arts Center to take a new job at the Oregon Arts…

  • “Speak Truth to Power,” timely, startles, Durango Herald, Oct. 23

    FLC play gives voice to activists for human rights Director Felicia Meyer speaks with Fort Lewis College students during rehearsal for “Speak Truth to Power” on Oct. 10. Ariel Dorfman’s play “Speak Truth to Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark” is not subtle. Nor should it be. This is a play about human rights. About…

  • A Night for 70s Nostalgia, Durango Herald Oct. 23

    Pure Prairie League, Firefall Acoustic to play FLC Concert Hall Country rock band Pure Prairie League has mastered a formula for success in the new millenium: combining nostalgia with fresh passion for that old, familiar music. “We try to make our audience feel young and old at the same time,” said Craig Fuller, the lead…

  • Ceramics on Display, Durango Herald, Oct. 16, 2007

    Boots Brown’s pit-fired vessels “Star Lighting,” “Super Nova,” “Fire Cloud” and “Fire Runner” appear in the David Hunt Ceramic Invitational at the Fort Lewis College Art Gallery. Lisa Pedolsky’s work is in the foreground, and extruded porcelain lamps by Jennifer Neff are in the background. The David Hunt Ceramic Invitational at the Fort Lewis College…

  • Women Forge Beauty at Durango Arts Center, Durango Herald, Oct. 12, 2007

    Ekaterina Harrison’s “Still Dreaming of Tomorrow” sits before Kathleen Holmes’ “Autumn Arbor” with Pip Howard’s “What Time Is It?” in the background. Pip Howard’s “Cityscape.” “There is no more beautiful color than a bar of steel at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit glowing in the sun,” sculptor Kathleen Holmes writes in an artist statement. She is one…

  • Cortez photographer Mumaw chooses his focus, Durango Herald, Oct. 5, 2007

    John Mumaw’s photographs are about light and composition. As a surveyor by trade, Mumaw has access to places people don’t normally travel, and he has plenty of time to study the way the light plays across the southwestern land. Never without a camera, he photographs in the tradition of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston: dreamy…

  • Artists in Residence Share Their Work, Durango Herald, Sep. 28, 2007

    Marj Hahne, left, and Emily Wortman-Wunder, recipients of artist-in-residence awards from the Durango Art Ranch, spoke about their work Wednesday at Maria’s Bookshop. For Emily Wortman-Wunder, a biologist and author, her science and her fiction use similar tools of observation. “Though I’ve never radio-collared a character,” she said Wednesday night at Maria’s Bookshop. Wortman-Wunder and…

  • Gallery Walk offers feast for senses, Durango Herald, Sept. 25, 2007

    Regional artists’ works plus free food, drink highlight annual tour Courtesy of Ellis West Gallery Local painter Krista Harris’ new pieces were showing at the Ellis West Gallery during Friday’s Gallery Walk. These paintings,including “Asheville,” shown here, represent for Harris amove into modernism. It’s September. The air is crisp, and on the third Friday of…

  • Chris Richter book

    I recently finished a 40 page book for Chris Richter, an artist from Santa Fe. I met Chris at SITE Santa Fe in February 2006 and have watched his career blossom. In May, Hahn Ross Gallery featured him as one of three artists in a terrific show. Chris sold nearly every painting on display. This…