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Photos: Ellie Goodman, owner of Goodman’s Art Bin, displays the children’s art materials she will sell at 600 East Second Ave., Suite C, on Wednesday afternoon. Seventy-three-year-old Ellie Goodman is starting a new business. At an age when many people are thinking about retiring and spending time in their gardens, Goodman is exercising her entrepreneurial…

Photographers shine in Pagosa Springs annual show Photos, clockwise from top: Barbara Rosner’s digitally captured inkjet print “Morning Fence and Bench” won second place in the Pagosa Springs Arts Council juried photography show. “Ribbons of Dew” by Linda Pampinella won first place and “Rubrum Lily” by Al Olson third place. “Traces” by Al Olson. The…

Santa Fe family of jewelry artists make splash at arts festival. Photos by Leanne GoebelLeft: Best of Show winner Mitch Berg creates sculptures like “Enough for Everyone” from recycled metal, wire and glass.Right: Pendants created by Ravelle Robertson. I like art fairs. I like meeting the artists face-to-face. I like that art in a tent…

Photo by Leanne Goebel Donna L. Lish’s synthetic cotton, glass beaded and knitted “Subtext: Eruption” is part of the Fiber Celebrated show at the Durango Arts Center through July 31. For centuries, art has been created by counting. Counting stitches, beads per row, rows per inch. Knit one, pearl two. Weaving, tapestry, crotchet and needlepoint…

Photo by: JERRY McBRIDE/Herald Rain Dance Gallery owners Lori and Bob Curtis, sitting in their Main Avenue store on Thursday, look for work that has a Colorado feel, an ethnic feel or an indigenous feel. When Karyn Gabaldon opened her fine art gallery three-and-a-half years ago, she hosted an exhibition for local artists each month…

This collage of portraits, created by members of Kindred Spirits program, will be sold at auction tonight to help fund exhibits at the Durango Arts Center.ELI RUBEL/Herald photos Tonight’s auction of collaborative sculpture, painting, poetry and dance won’t compare to sales at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. No Rockefeller Rothkos for sale or Monet water lilies, but…

Photo Courtesy of Christopher MaronaPreston Parrott’s “Transition Point” ($4,300) is steel and copper and is made to hang from the ceiling. Preston Parrott has never considered himself an artist. In fact, he resisted the term. “Painting doesn’t make sense to me unless there are numbers on the canvas,” he said with a smile from his…

ELI RUBEL/Herald photos L to R: Rebecca Barfoot’s “Serena and Me 1917-2007” won Best of Show at the 31st annual juried art show “Emotion.” Prizes were presented at a reception at the Durango Arts Center on Friday, June 8. Judy DeVincentis Morgan received an Honorable Mention for “Chili Pickers.” Rod Craig’s pastel “Songs in the…

New owner focusing on art inspired by the Southwest Photo courtesy of Leanne GoebelWild Spirit Gallery closed this spring but re-opened May 1 under the ownership of Madeline Lyon, a teacher from Lumberton, N.M. The downtown gallery scene in Pagosa Springs is limited. In February 2005, Taminah Gallery & Gift Shop closed its doors. (Its…

Images (clockwise from top left): Best of Show, “The Channel Swimmers,” by George M. Schoonover; First Place, “Arithmetical Anecdote,” by Kim Olden; Second Place, “Brushes with Halo Objects #1,” by Ken Oehlen; Third Place, “Solitary,” by Ken Van Brott; Honorable Mention, “Mean Little Rattle,” by Amy K. Wendland. David Edgar has differentiated himself through plastic.…