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  • The Proof is in the Weaving, Durango Herald, Aug. 18, 2008

    Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series in which writers try their hand at learning new skills. Beginning basket students Glessie Drake, Leanne Goebel and Ann Jacobi get a lesson from basket instructor and artist Pat Jeffers during a wicker basket workshop in Pagosa Springs. (Photo by Judith Reynolds) It was 8:40 a.m.…

  • Artful Reading, Durango Herald, Aug. 15

    Rachel Slick shows a representation of the “Reading Tree,” a storyteller’s chair for the new library’s Children’s Room. “Reading Tree” was selected as the winning design for the storyteller’s chair after an open house at the Durango Community Recreation Center on Monday. A majestic Aspen “Reading Tree” and a larger-than-life-sized card catalog have been chosen…

  • The maestro and the visionary, Durango Herald, Aug. 5, 2008

    Review Music in the Mountains closed its season at BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs on Friday with a concert by the Festival Orchestra titled “Passion and Power” with Aviram Reichert as piano soloist. Change is good. Visionaries turn their creations over to another and watch as the progeny builds upon their ideas, adding their own…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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