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July 2011

Telluride Foundation logo According to a 2010 Columbus Survey of 252 community foundations nationwide, the Telluride Foundation ranked as 4th most active grant maker as a percent of asset size, and ranked 3rd for total gifts per capita. The purpose of the survey was to benchmark community foundations beyond asset size, which is the most common question asked. While assets represent one way to describe how a community foundation operates, other factors, such as grant making, fundraising, donor engagement, and community context contribute to a community foundation’s unique attributes and challenges. 

03 July, 2011 /

Prices Same as Last Year

Telluride Ski Resort's annual Summer Pass Sale is on for the 2011-2012 ski season. The sale offers pass products at deeply discounted rates through Oct. 28, with maximum savings of nearly 65%. Prices are the same as 2010, with added benefits on season passes.

The 4Pass is back with the option for four people to save almost $1,000 each on an adult season ski pass at a cost of just $998 per person. Save almost 50% AND get three ski buddies!

03 July, 2011 /

East Valley Icon Getting a jump on Telluride Art's upcoming First Thursday Art Walk, July 7, and at the tail end of the Sheridan Arts Foundation's Telluride Plein Air, an outdoor art show featuring American Impressionists that ends at 4 p.m. July 3, Lustre Gallery presents the work of Marshall Noice. The artist's reception is Sunday, July 3, 4 – 6 p.m., 171 South Pine Street, a great excuse for those who can't get enough light in their lives to continue to wave their plein air banner high.

Marshall Noice never met a sky or a tree he did not like. For 36 years, the artist has been obsessed by landscapes. What we see in his work resembles the outside world the artist depicts much in the way a guitar case resembles a guitar: Noice is not painting a grove of trees for instance. He is depicting his emotional response to a grove of trees, which makes him an Expressionist for those who require an "ist" or an "ism." Noice is an Expressionist with Impressionistic flourishes and a Fauve sense of color.

02 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Julie Shelton Smith]

 

Portraits Her work suggests an affinity with British painter Lucien Freud. Julie Shelton Smith appears to scrutinize her subject matter deeply and then has that "Freudian" ability to render the hard truths of what she has taken in. Her portraits are intense and raw.

Julie Shelton Smith is a guest instructor in August at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts, teaching "Painting Portraits," Wednesday – Friday, August 3 – August 5, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

02 July, 2011 /

June 30 to July 7, 2011

Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter   Evening: Saturn

The Sweet Love, Lust and Choice of Cancer Eclipse Energy

Cone rainbow I’m reading about climate change and thinking about 2012. It’s overwhelming. There is so much information available to us today. I’m stunned by and in awe of the Internet. I can’t express how lucky I feel to be living right here, right now on this magically beautiful planet Earth. In light of all the craziness, injustice, chaos and insanity of human life in our newborn millennium, I can still see and experience the enchanting power of a sunset, the blessings of rain and the drama of lightening; hallowed thunder and shimmering rainbows.

02 July, 2011 /