Fine Art

It's all about bodacious shapes: some look like escapees from a story by Dr. Seuss; others are unapologetically voluptuous. Goedele Vanhille is a longtime, regional ceramicist whose phantasmagorical vessels amount to jewel-colored surrealistic paintings-in-the-round that allude to their modest ancestry: squash and gourds, aubergine, pears, and...

March shows at Ah Haa feature Goedele Vanhille and a Kenyan "Slum Art Slam" Telluride Arts' First Thursday Art Walk is a very good reason to go for a stroll. Galleries, eateries and art spaces celebrate artists and their work on the first Thursday of each...

Ah Haa Offers The Art of Story with Katie McDougall You’ve got a comfortable place to write, a great idea, a way with words and the gift of time. So why can’t that great novel just come spilling all over the page? Katie McDougall, an accomplished writer...

Event starts noon at historic Sheridan Opera House. Reception is from 6 – 10 p.m.   Her day job is director of the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. But for 19 years,  the indefatigable Baerbel Hacke has put together the Telluride AIDS Benefit's art auction. The...

Telluride’s winter scenery has never been so luscious. The mounds of sparkling snow set against Colorado’s indescribably blue sky beg the artist’s rendering. Whether it’s sweeping, long mountain views, or one of Telluride’s quaint, Victorian-era homes snuggled under snow-capped roofs, renowned pastel artist, Bruce Gomez,...

[caption id="attachment_37875" align="alignright" width="225"] Cocoon, by Julie McNair, featured at Ah Haa's Regional Art Show[/caption]  Jurist Amy Kimberly Will Choose Cash Prize Winners When the public views the Ah Haa School for the Arts’ latest exhibition, a collection of work from regional artists, most of the hard...

[caption id="attachment_37846" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Monks, Amy Levek[/caption] The Chimera of legend was a monstrous, fire-breathing creature composed of the parts of three animals, a lion, a snake and a goat. Today the term has come to describe any fictional beast with parts taken from various...

[caption id="attachment_37098" align="alignright" width="300"] Daniel Tucker Gallerrtists must reside (full or part time) in the Telluride vicinity, or nearby: Ophir, Rico, Placerville, Norwood, Naturita, Paradox, Ridgway or Ouray.[/caption] If you live within 100 miles of Telluride as the crow flies, you can (and should) participate! Telluride is...

Depending on your age and stage in life and the way things have been going lately, this time of year, a time of assessment, is not necessarily easy. Take refuge in art for the start of the New Year. Attend the Ah Haa School for the Arts'...