Your Ah Haa Moment: Billings featured at New Year's gala in Telluride
[click "Play" for Lauren Metzger's conversation with Susan]
The date's a given: December 31, 2010. New Year's Eve. The featured artist for the 2010 Ah Haa auction is a given too: Susan X. Billings. Very few artists are as well known, well respected and widely collected in the greater Telluride community as Susie Billings.
Few have as long a history with the town's community arts center, the Ah Haa School for the Arts, where she has served on the board and been a long time and very popular teacher. Her work has been represented for years by the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, now celebrating its 26th anniversary. Susie's latest images literally and figuratively lend color and vibrancy to Ah Haa's gala, an evening of fine art, wine, food, entertainment – SquidShow and Mike Pale Trio – and friends. The dinner party takes place from 6:30 – 10 p.m. One of Susie's new works, "Wilson Range in Blue Diptych" is to be auctioned off live mid-evening.