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03 Feb Telluride Arts Art Walk, Highlights
Telluride Arts’ programs director Britt Markey is more than just a pretty face. She is executive director Kate Jones’ abundantly talented aide de camp – and then some. With degrees in graphic design and fine art, Britt brings substantial design, organizational, and communication skills to Telluride...
02 Feb Telluride Jazz: Artists in the Schools, Nosostros
The Telluride Jazz Festival’s educational initiatives represent excellence in music education. The Telluride Jazz Festival’s Artists in the Schools programs offer informal music education to area youth. Visiting musicians in town for the WinterJazz programs give their time, talent, and energy to the program, performing and interacting...
27 Jan Outlaw Reflections: “Back to Telluride” & “Rust”
Sharing two stories from TIO regular contributor Oleh Lysiak. The first, “Back from Telluride,” is an edited excerpt from the “Telluride” chapter of one of his edgy, funny, insightful books, “Art, Crime & Lithium,” published May 2013 by Tao Fish Books. The second paragraph and last words...
22 Jan TIO NYC: Telluride Playwright Festival, “Ayn/Sister”
Last summer, the Telluride Playwright Festival featured a new work by the nonprofit’s artistic director Jennie Franks. Jennie’s play,”Ayn/Sister,” is about the Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter Ayn Rand, whose sister pays her a surprise visit from the Soviet Union of the 1970s. The goal of the Telluride Playwrights...
21 Jan Telluride Fire Fest: So Hot, It Was Way Cool
The first-ever annual Telluride Fire Festival was a blazing success. As expected, the five-day event drew attendees from Telluride, Mountain Village and the Four Corners, but also crowds from addresses as far away as New York, Texas, Illinois, and California. The Wednesday night Festival kick-off featuring fire-themed art...
18 Jan Telluride Foundation: New Website & Communications Strategy
Board Adopts New Mission, Values, and Approves Community Grants The Telluride Foundation Board of Directors’ recent bi-annual meeting produced a flurry of actions and updates that will create significant and lasting positive community impacts. The board’s actions included approving $949,750 in community grants to support...
11 Jan Telluride Fire Fest: Anton Viditz Ward
When the first ever Telluride Fire Festival ignites Wednesday, January 14, the guest list of founders Erin Ries and Christ Myers includes a number of very hot kinetic artists: Duane Flatmo, who brings his now legendary fiery beast “El Pulpo” to town ( see related story here); metal sculptor and...
06 Jan Telluride Fire Fest: Duane Flatmo Brings “El Pulpo”
Art and technology meet in the two-story (26-feet tall) fire-breathing, steampunk windup toy affectionately known as “El Pulpo Mecanico” (Mechanical Octopus). El Pulpo is a found object masterpiece fashioned from junk found at at local scrap yard in Arcata California by Humbolt County’s most famous...