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Telluride Foundation logo According to a 2010 Columbus Survey of 252 community foundations nationwide, the Telluride Foundation ranked as 4th most active grant maker as a percent of asset size, and ranked 3rd for total gifts per capita. The purpose of the survey was to benchmark community foundations beyond asset size, which is the most common question asked. While assets represent one way to describe how a community foundation operates, other factors, such as grant making, fundraising, donor engagement, and community context contribute to a community foundation’s unique attributes and challenges. 

03 July, 2011 /

Prices Same as Last Year

Telluride Ski Resort's annual Summer Pass Sale is on for the 2011-2012 ski season. The sale offers pass products at deeply discounted rates through Oct. 28, with maximum savings of nearly 65%. Prices are the same as 2010, with added benefits on season passes.

The 4Pass is back with the option for four people to save almost $1,000 each on an adult season ski pass at a cost of just $998 per person. Save almost 50% AND get three ski buddies!

03 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Julie Shelton Smith]

 

Portraits Her work suggests an affinity with British painter Lucien Freud. Julie Shelton Smith appears to scrutinize her subject matter deeply and then has that "Freudian" ability to render the hard truths of what she has taken in. Her portraits are intense and raw.

Julie Shelton Smith is a guest instructor in August at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts, teaching "Painting Portraits," Wednesday – Friday, August 3 – August 5, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

02 July, 2011 /

 

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By Elisabeth Gick

[click "Play" to listen to Elisabeth's conversation with Peter Gold]

Author/anthropologist Peter Gold is coming to the Telluride Institute’s Compassion for a World in Crisis Festival.

Peter Gold is a man of many titles - anthropologist, ethno musician, student of Buddhism, traveler, author, professor. Maybe it’s a result of his Buddhist training that he is so easy-going, with a great smile. He will give one of the keynote speeches at the Telluride Institute’s Compassion for a World in Crisis Festival, July 8 – 10.

30 June, 2011 /

The plein air artists working around Telluride this week always bring me pleasure by showing their unique perspectives on this beautiful place we call home. This morning on our morning walk, we encountered painter Jim Wodark right outside our door, working in the...

30 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Pamela Zoline's interview with Clifford Saron]

 

by Pamela Zoline

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Among the frontiers on which we, smart chimps or bruised angels, find ourselves, perhaps the most intriguing, dangerous and profound is right here and now as we peer into the galaxies within our brainpans and begin to understand. Dr. Clifford Saron, Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California at Davis, is at the helm of the starship. His research style, rather than swashbuckling, is exquisite, patient, impeccable, respectful, and has to do with the most powerful experiment design, and the most sensitive investigation of psychological and physiological processes. This is basic and rigorous research into how meditation affects the mind. It takes the exploration beyond religion and even beyond first-person accounts into the realm of what can be tested and measured.

29 June, 2011 /

By J James McTigue

I love geeks; therefore I love Telluride Wine Fest. This year’s 30th festival was full of wine geeks and Pouring foodies, all intent on enthusiastically sharing the intricate technicalities and personal stories behind their artfully crafted creations.

It’s hard not to listen to a geek, because their passion carries their stories. Before you know it, you’re fully engaged, tasting their, let’s say… mezcals…noting hints of smoke in one and earthy minerals in the other.

This past weekend’s Wine Festival was nothing short of a geek-fest, celebrating some of the best food and wine in the country, and possibly the world. Keeping true to the spirit of Telluride, it was an anything goes affair, colored by educational seminars, blowout tastings and intimate meals carefully paired with specialty wines in chosen venues.

28 June, 2011 /

Earlier detection, quicker diagnosis, and faster treatment of heart disease and cancer are just over the horizon, thanks to the current research of Sherwin Singer, Professor of Chemistry at Ohio State University.

Hear Singer discuss the vision and the science behind these technologies in his presentation, "Directing Traffic on Tiny Highways: Strategies for biomedical nano devices." The Town Talk is produced by the Telluride Science Research Center and will take place this Tuesday from 6:00 to 7:15 p.m. at the Palm Theatre.

 

27 June, 2011 /

by Ben Williams



Mtn V G 4 The gondola is one of Telluride’s best known features.  Sooner or later everyone rides it.  But did you know the gondola uses a lot of energy – more than 2.3 million kilowatt-hours every year?

With most of our electricity coming from coal, that’s a lot of emissions:  Approximately enough CO2 to fill 2,000 Washington Monuments each year, or the same amount of gas released by driving an average-sized sedan around the world 356 times!

Although the Town of Mountain Village purchases wind credits to offset some of this gas, The New Community Coalition is working on an additional strategy – one which will produce power right here, in Mountain Village.

26 June, 2011 /