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by Lisa Barlow

Bean Chili use Hey Super Bowl fans, what are you planning to eat during the Big Game? Mac ‘n Cheese Jalapeno Poppers? Mile High Nachos? Grilled BBQ Potato Skins? Smokin’ Hot Buffalo Wings?

Football and food seem to go together so inextricably that even a fair weather fan like myself knows that I need get my game on in the kitchen this Sunday. And there is plenty of inspiration out there to help me plan my menu. Every celebrity chef with a TV show seems to have weighed in with his or her variation of a classic gridiron favorite. 

The statisticians are busy thinking about Super Bowl fare as well. But their numbers have often been a little wonky. It is probably closer to 8 million pounds of avocados used to make guacamole this weekend than the 80 million that is often reported. That’s still an awful lot of chip dip.

05 February, 2011 /

Announcing:  2011 Winter Puppet Program for San Miguel County Elementary Schools:

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Paddy the Paleontologist with his library

The Watershed Education Program Puppet Theater of the Telluride Institute is entering its 4th season with exciting new additions to its repertoire. We have been rehearsing, working on our stage, and making some new puppets such as "Paddy the Paleontologist" who tells the story of the dinosaur bones recently discovered on Norwood Hill. The puppeteers include Ashley Boling, Sally Davis, Jeb Berrier, Laurie Lundquist, and Colin Sullivan. Buff Hooper has been working behind the scenes with Sally and Laurie on props and puppets. We will be performing up and down the watershed in various schools and libraries with the goal of educating and entertaining. It will be lots of fun!

The basic concepts of watershed awareness are introduced in simple ways that form a foundation for childrens’ later participation in our Watershed Education Program (WEP). The real stars of these shows are the animals and insects of the watershed. When you come to a show you are likely to meet a bear, a coyote, a beaver, a cricket, an eagle, and even a mosquito! All of these wild creatures have a point of view; we can learn a lot by listening to them interact. The dynamics of our watershed are rich and complex. It is good to hear about this place from the horse's mouth… and the dog's bark and the cricket's chirp…!

Our fun filled puppet shows for the 2011 season include :

27 January, 2011 /

Unknown The Telluride Foundation’s Board of Directors met Thursday, December 29 for its bi-annual meeting.  Highlights of the meeting included approving $1,000,940 in Community Grants to community and nonprofit organizations and four new donors were elected to serve on the Telluride Foundation’s Board of Directors.  The newest members include: the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong; along with Alpine Bank Regional President, Andrew Karow; Telluride Sport’s Scott Leigh; and nonprofit activist Megan McManemin.

“The Telluride Foundation’s Board of Directors has a diverse range of knowledge, talent and experience that helps us serve the unique character and needs in the Telluride community,” said Joanne Corzine-Brown, co-chair of the Telluride Foundation’s Board of Directors.  “We are thrilled to welcome the insight, experience and commitment to the community that each of these new Board Members will bring to the Telluride Foundation.”

22 January, 2011 /

IMG_8638 CoolSculpt night peacocks CoolSculpt 2011 in Mountain Village was a fantastic event with the four sculpting teams putting forth inspirational and creative efforts.

Sculptures were presented throughout the Mountain Village core areas: Heritage Plaza, near the bottom of Chair 4, and at the top of Chair 1 Meadows Run in the Sunset Plaza. New for this year was judging by Ben Rand. Ben is the 2010 Gold Medalist at the Olympic Ice Art World Championships. He judged remotely based on images because he was busy developing and testing new sculpture concepts for an extensive competition tour.

1st Place went to “Love Fear,” sculpted by The Telluride Mountain School Middle and High school art classes. The prize:  $750.  Sponsored by Wells Fargo.

21 January, 2011 /

 by Tracy Shaffer

Image002 When the Denver Theatre District launched its Outdoor Art Gallery in September of 2009 it offered a means to showcase Denver’s prestigious artists, galleries and institutions, in an effort to raise the profile of our local arts community. During the first year the city was gifted by the works of Vance Kirkland, Riva Sweetrocket, Mel Strawn, Bill Amundson, and Angela Beloian along with others from Denver’s creative talent pool. Two-dimensional artwork is a bit of a rarity in public display which generally favors large-scale sculpture; mosaic and mural being the exceptions.

This year, the DTD decided to “push the limits” a bit with its recent offering, “Faces of Colorado Art”, discretely placed on the back side of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at 14th Street and Champa. The project, curated by Plus Gallery owner, Ivar Zeile, is a large-scale quilt of portraiture, representing the influential people who’ve put the “thrive” in our thriving visual arts scene. Faces of independent, gallery, and museum collected artists, sit squarely next to one another. Including the faces of art dealer, Michelle Mosko, artist and RiNo founder/director, Tracy Weil and Denver Art Museum Director, Christoph Heinrich, brings these sometimes disparate streams together as one.

18 January, 2011 /

by Lisa Barlow

Melting potatoes I’ve been getting a lot of diet advice lately. Who hasn’t? It’s January and if you turn on the television, pick up a magazine in a doctor’s room, click open your email or drive past a billboard, you’re a target.  “Hey Fatty” one publication taunts, “those Iced Oreo Balls we told you to make for your office party last month, now you’re wearing them!” There’s penance to pay for holiday fun and everyone from Britney to Dr. Oz want to tell us how to reclaim our inner Skinny Bitches so we can fit into our new pajama jean britches.

Thus prompted by the media, this year I have begun my own reformation with the same dedication and rigor with which I begin every new year.  Each morning I drink a slimming protein shake laden with green powder, flax seeds and a series of unpronounceable berry extracts that are cultivated in the Himalayas, the Hunzu Valley of Pakistan and the Costa Rican rainforest. And I feel great!

18 January, 2011 /

The Telluride AIDS Benefit holds auditions for the 2011 TAB Fashion Show Monday – Wednesday, January 25 – 27. To prepare, the Telluride AIDS Benefit and The Ames Conservancy are offering a prep class for models and dancers. Fashion Show choreographer, Amanda Sturdevant, is the mentor...

17 January, 2011 /

Wayne, booth MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, CO, January 7, 2011 -- The Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association (TMVOA), sponsors and organizers of the Telluride Festival of the Arts (TFA) announced today the dates for 2011, which will take place Friday, Aug. 12 through Sunday, Aug. 14. The TFA celebrates the visual and culinary arts and will play host to over 5,000 local, regional and national visitors. Highlights of the event include nationally juried professional visual artists and the signature “Grand Tasting” event showcasing renowned culinary establishments, spirits and wineries.

Visual artists are invited to go online now and apply to be one of the exhibitors at the 2011 TFA. Prospectus and application are available at http://www.Zapplication.org, where artists create an online artist profile, prepare and upload images, and complete the online application. The deadline for application is midnight (MST) on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. The Cherry Creek Arts Festival, one of the nation’s most respected and competitive juried arts festivals, produces the show. The exhibition experience for the visual artists is like none other and includes breathtaking mountain views in a European-style resort town with a year-round population of second and third homeowners that embrace the visual arts. The artists' success and exhibition experience are the core values and measurements of success for the Telluride Festival of the Arts.

15 January, 2011 /

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2009 BVLC students take a close look at the plants in learning identification skills

by Alessandra Jacobson

Telluride Institute is proud to announce the upcoming offering of a fourth year of Bridal Veil Living Classroom (BVLC) to the region’s sophomore and junior high school students!  This is a dual accredited intensive summer science program offered free of charge by the Telluride Institute, every-other summer.  BVLC representatives will be making appearances in Telluride, Norwood, and Nucla schools in the coming weeks to present this one-of-a-kind environmental education program to prospective students. 

The six-month long course kicks off this summer with two weeks of intensive fieldwork in the beautiful and ecologically rich headwaters of Bridal Veil Basin, and culminates with a fall component of writing scientific research papers about the work conducted and presenting results in a public presentation.  Topics covered in the field by intriguing regional experts include:  biodiversity, botany, forest ecology, aquatic insects, water quality, ornithology (birding), threats of climate change in the alpine ecosystem and art in nature.  Individual research projects are structured according to students’ realized interest in those subjects, and are carried out with meticulous mentor oversight in a low student-to-mentor ratio. 

Past students of Bridal Veil Living Classroom have often been inspired enough to seek out educational and career paths in the environmental sciences and conservation, and Bridal Veil Living Classroom has helped to open doors to their future.

12 January, 2011 /