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,”…
Living in Pagosa Springs, a small town in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, I have participated in lengthy community debates about how to develop our local economy, which is primarily based on tourism. There is lots of talk about importing companies, both small manufacturing and big box retail, as ways to drive growth.…
Crested Butte, CO.; Taos, NM; Marfa, TX and Saratoga, WY made the list of the Top Twelve Small-Town ArtPlaces for 2013. The twelve communities on the list were chosen based upon per capita numbers of arts related non-profits, arts-oriented businesses and workers in creative occupations among small towns in the United States. The small towns…
In SW Colorado the town of Pagosa Springs comes together to replace a decaying downtown mural. The new mural designed by artist Jeffry Haas and Hayley Goodman was completed with the help of local high school students.
Alas. It will take a very special buyer or someone who doesn’t care about the politics of the community to make it work.
“If we would never have the process, we would never realize the object,” Christo has said.
A blogger since July 2005 Leanne Goebel has moved her blog to wordpress. Her preferred subject matter continues to be contemporary art and culture based in or connected to the Rocky Mountain West and Southwest.
State proposes slashing budget by Leanne Goebel Imagine Durango without the arts. No music festivals, no dance, no theater, no art galleries, no children’s programs, no singing, no film festivals, no sculpture, no debates in the newspaper about differing perspectives, and probably no opportunity to read this article, because without the arts, there’s no need…
Read the transcript of an interview on Air America with Christo and Jeanne-Claude about their work, including the in process “Over the River” that may happen in Colorado. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.
News Release from CCA: First-Of-Its-Kind Study Reveals Higher Student Achievement at Colorado High Schools That Offer More Arts School leaders say time is the biggest barrier to providing more in-depth arts education to hone in-demand work force skills such as imagination, creativity and innovation. A first-of-its-kind study by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) and…
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