Category: ART

My friend Shanan Campbell Wells owns Sorrel Sky Gallery in Durango. We talked recently about the gallery business and her new venture SCW Art Consulting. “The art business is a really tricky, tricky business because you do what you love and what your passionate about and what you believe in and what your behind and…

Review “On the River,” Sharon Abshagen’s oil of a rowboat. “Ready Made #4,” a sculpture by Bryan Saren. “Beauty and the Beast,” a steel sculpture by Bryan Saren in the foreground, eagle photograph by Claude Steelman, canyon photograph by Marv Poulson and an oil painting by Sharon Abshagen are part of the “Image, Technique, Form”…

Tell your story. Make it a good one with a beginning that draws the reader or listener in, weave in some characters overcoming challenges and give us a splashy or simple ending. Now put it all down on paper and call it a press release. Getting your story in the paper is easy. Make it…

Photos: These ceramic vessels were fired in an Anagama kiln by artist Terry Inokuma from Philomath, Ore. Wearable sculpture by Mary Darwall from Ivins, Utah. Susan Del Szajer from Silver City, N.M. creates fabric collage. One hundred and four artists. Eight local galleries. I spent Saturday afternoon at the Main Avenue Arts Festival. My goal:…

Pagosa Springs, Colo.—Every 18.6 years the moon stands still at Chimney Rock. On July 22, in the wee hours of the morning, the crescent moon will rise between the spires of companion rock and chimney rock, loiter for a five to fifteen minutes, then disappear behind Chimney Rock, leaving a lingering moon glow. The cycle…

There out to be a more creative phrase, a less conformist way of saying, “out-of-the-box.” Isn’t it interesting that a phrase, meaning original and different, is so overwrought and overused? I read a quote in Bliss magazine recently from George Steiner. In his book, Grammars of Creation, he says post-structural theorists have argued convincingly “that…

Photo: Shanan Campbell Wells relaxes at her Sorrel Sky Gallery on Main Avenue in Durango. When she was 12 years old, Shanan Campbell Wells met a woman who glittered, and she knew she wanted to grow up and be just like her. That woman wasn’t a movie star; she was a gallery manager in Santa…

Town Council, the Planning Commission, and Mayor Aragon are selling the soul of our town to big box retailers. In a work session on July 18, Council and Planning worked with staff on the town big box ordinance. The ordinance will require an impact study and clarify some design guidelines, but it doesn’t do what…

Leanne GoebelJournal Correspondent PAGOSA SPRINGS —With the “big box” moratorium set to expire in mid-September, town council, planning commission and staff met for a work session July 18 to discuss the draft ordinance regulating “big box” development. The ordinance will require proposed development more than 50,000 square feet that submit an impact study with their…

“Red,” mixed media, Karen Holmgren“Hosiery,” mixed media,Karen Holmgren“College Collage,” detail,Amy Vaclav-Felker The Invitational Recycled Show will be at the Durango Arts Center through July 31, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. By Leanne GoebelSpecial to the Herald The Invitational Recycled Show at Durango Arts Center is edgy, experimental, funky, and a fun way to spend an…