September 2014

"Adding something fresh and necessary to the genre of portraiture may seem impossible, but in that realm, Jenny Morgan is crushing it. Don't label her paintings figurative or photoreal. Her extraordinary skills for rendering the human figure are besides the point. Layers of the unconscious...

Bear safety for the 21st century, presented by Telluride Theatre in association with Black  Bear Awareness Week. Wednesday, September 9 and Thursday, September 10, 8 p.m. at the Steaming Bean. FREE! Five years strong! BEAR IT! an original show, played to SOLD OUT Telluride audiences 2009, 2010, 2013...

Tickets for Telluride Blues & Brews here or by phone, toll-free, 866-515-6166   The summer music season of Colorado's Western Slope region will be capped off by three days of live music and craft libations at this year's Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. With only a week away,...

Six Companies Will Be Selected for Participation in Five-Month Entrepreneurship Program [caption id="attachment_41331" align="aligncenter" width="350"] MIT’s Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast featured TVA’s Thea Chase, then managing director of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.[/caption] The Telluride Venture Accelerator (TVA) announces the...

It has been one month since Second Chance Humane Society’s new ownership of the Telluride Thrift Shop and in that time there have been some changes at the Shop. But before we get to that I wanted to invite you all to a big celebration at...

and planning for 2015 2014 is a big 30th birthday year for the Telluride Science Research Center, and reflecting on the success of this summer’s Town Talks reminds me that with your support, we have established an annual tradition unique to our community. For eight consecutive Tuesdays in July...

In the second decade of the 20th century old-fashioned realism made way for abstraction, which became the Holy Grail of modern art. Cezanne and Cubism were two of the triggers that motivated painters and sculptors to stop copying what is and instead find the essence of what is. Commune...

Inspiring creativity on the deepest level [caption id="attachment_44808" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Pinkney, Wave Hill[/caption] When Robert Weatherford, board member and director of the center’s Telluride Painting School, Ah Haa School for the Arts, talks about painting, he doesn’t speak about technical skills. Instead the emphasis  is on the important journey that...