Fine Art

"Creative conservationist” and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Asher Jay at Mountainfilm 2015: Gallery Walk, East Gallery, Ah Haa, and panel discussion at the Telluride Library, Saturday, 12:45 - 2 p.m. Scroll down to bottom of story to find a podcast with Asher, whose work, conservation, is...

This year’s juried Youth Art Exhibition at the Ah Haa School brought in over 100 submissions from students from Nucla, Norwood, and Telluride, with artwork ranging from drawings and paintings to ceramics and mixed media. The show opened during Art Walk on Thursday, April 2,...

It must be a sign of the times. Boomers all over the world in the fall and winter of their lives seek reassurance: it’s not over ’til it’s over, right? [caption id="attachment_49904" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, exhibited 1842, J. M. W. Turner,...

At the nexus of painting and photography is – artist Richard Estes. [caption id="attachment_49813" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Estes, Plaza, courtesy of MAD[/caption] A show of Estes’ work from the early years to the present is on display at MAD, (Museum of Arts & Design), 2 Columbus Circle. It is ...

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up,” Pablo Picasso A mashup of the celebratory and the fanciful and frankly off-the-wall can be found on the walls of the Daniel Tucker Gallery at the Ah Haa School for the...

Lucy Perutz is on a mission. Telluride’s vegan chef and food-for-change activist, known for the outrageously delicious organic foods coming out of her pop-up Rabbit Rabbit restaurant kitchen, is determined to convert all food enthusiasts into “fooditarians.” “Food is medicine,” says Perutz. “My style really started...

 "The teaching of art is the teaching of all things," William Ruskin. Three talks about “What Makes Art?" feature visiting art historian/cultural critic Paul Evans, Monday – Wednesday, March 16 – March 18, 6 – 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Ah Haa School for the Arts, Telluride Library and Telluride...

There is an exciting new resource for regional artists at the Stronghouse Studios. A screen-printing lab, open to the public, has just come online thanks to the equipment and expertise of long time local Max Harrison. The lab is set up for large-format printing and has everything...

Sandy Skoglund creates subversive room-size installations such as “Radioactive Cats” (1980), a post-nuclear tableau starring a swarm of eerie chartreuse felines, which have invaded the drab gray kitchen (and drab gray lives) of an elderly Midwestern couple. [caption id="attachment_49105" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Radioactive Cats, Skoglund, Telluride Gallery...

The Telluride Arts District is now accepting applications for the Small Grants for Artists. Funding for individual artist’s projects, professional development, and artist-to-artist workshops. Small grants support the innovation, creativity and professional development of individual artists living in the Telluride region. The small grants program is generously...