Tag: Pagosa Springs

  • Making a Handmade Difference in Pagosa Springs

    Making a Handmade Difference in Pagosa Springs

    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.…

  • Pagosa Springs Exhibit Shows Off its Art from The Durango Herald

    Pagosa Springs Exhibit Shows Off its Art from The Durango Herald

    There’s no place like home for the holidays. But when home is Pagosa Springs, Colorado where people are more interested in the latest ski report, and you’re an art writer, well, home is more a place you retreat to than a place you spend a Saturday viewing art. That’s not the case thanks to Michael…

  • The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs from adobeairstream.com

    The Chair at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs from adobeairstream.com

    Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Matisse and David Hockney. Edward Hopper chose a train car filled with mostly empty dark green chairs, focusing on a blonde female figure for his painting “Chair Car.” An exhibit currently open at Shy Rabbit Contemporary…

  • Pagosa Springs Community Comes Together for New Mural

    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.

  • Gallery loses home, flaunted dystopias and a virtual exhibition

    Pagosa seeks new home for arts council was published December 11, 2009 in the Durango Herald. The Pagosa Springs Town Council  voted unanimously Nov. 3 to demolish this log cabin that was home to the Pagosa Springs Arts Council, leaving the organization without a home. New video and drawings flaunt dystopias from adobeairstream February 13,…

  • Pagosa actors put on Into the Woods, Durango Herald, Nov. 21, 2009

    Play benefits music students’ education The childless baker’s wife (Jessica Krebs) and the baker (Bill Nobles) make a deal with the witch (Kathy Isberg) in Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for the Pagosa Springs’ Music Boosters’ production of “Into the Woods” at Pagosa Springs High School. Grimm’s fairy tales get a dose of reality in a production…

  • ‘Dialogues’ at Shy Rabbit in Pagosa elevates the conversation

    Note: This was the original text I submitted for the ‘Dialogues’ article. Ceramic artists featured in Ceramics Monthly and American Craft are on display in Pagosa Springs. Jeff Pender, from Charlotte, NC is one of the artists sparking conversation in “Dialogues” an exhibit at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Arts. Pender’s elegant stoneware pieces are like mystical…

  • Spurring Dialogues, Durango Herald, Oct. 10, 2008

    Pagosa Springs art show urges talk of intangibles “Bird Woman” by Carrianne Hendrickson is a ceramic sculpture featured in “Dialogues.” Ceramic artists stand out in the new show at the Shy Rabbit Gallery in Pagosa Springs. Jeff Pender, from Charlotte, N.C., is one of the artists sparking conversation in an exhibit titled “Dialogues.” His elegant…

  • 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.…

  • 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…