The Art of Change from Aspen Magazine Summer 2017

LAND & SEA ART Aspen artist Celia Gregory fuses her love of nature with community. When designing the Aspen Institute during the mid 1950s, Herbert Bayer honored the Bauhaus philosophy of merging design and the living world in one holistic creation. But it is Bayer’s earthen works, “Earth Mound” (or “Grass Mound”) and “Marble Garden,”…

M12 – The Big Feed: On Rural Contemporary Art and Community Engagement from adobeairstream.com

In small towns across America, a tradition of throwing a big social gathering at the end of harvest season prevailed. It’s an idea we still see purported in films and on TV, but in reality, these events are disappearing as the populations of small, rural communities dwindle. However, in Byers, on the eastern plains of…