Dione Holt, Redstone GalleryPress Release Editor’s note:The author, Dione Holt, is the assistant of the Redstone Gallery. If you pick up The Sopris Sun most weeks, you’ve seen Larry Day’s work. His cartoons have run in these pages since after he and his wife moved to Carbondale in 2019. What you may not know is that […]
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Ways of Making: Drawing like Pheidippides
Sitting in Julian Schnabel’s old crusty painting chair, I discussed art with Paul Manes in his Carbondale studio. Spacious and productively cluttered, the studio is active with supplies, works in progress and a delicious amount of debris. Turpentine vessels caked in substrate cling like lichen to rock, the groundwork for something new. There is a […]
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Drought Task ForceGovernor Jared Polis activated Colorado’s Drought Task Force and Phase 2 of the state’s Drought Response Plan on March 17 given record-breaking warm temperatures and low snowpack. As reported by Aspen Journalism, snowpack in the Roaring Fork River Basin is at 65% of normal as of March 13 and 75% of days from […]
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The Art Base displays ‘Creative Destruction’
On Feb. 6, The Art Base in Basalt debuted its current exhibition, “Creative Destruction,” featuring a collaboration between Carbondale artists Michael Stout and Lindsay Jones working under a shared pseudonym: Also Known As. During the artist talk on Feb. 7, Stout and Jones discussed their respective processes for pieces in the mixed-media show with a […]
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Ways of Making: What we don’t throw away
Last week, I joined Kathy Honea in her art studio to launch a new series, Ways of Making, which platforms how local artists think within the community. Honea is a distinguished artist with a long history across the Valley’s art institutions, including Carbondale Arts, the Art Base, the Aspen Chapel Gallery, the Aspen Art Museum […]
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Redstone Art Foundation celebrates art and justice with movie night at Redstone Inn
This Saturday evening, Feb. 7, the Redstone Art Foundation kicks off its third winter movie night series at the Redstone Inn with a combo of Mexican cuisine and screening of the 2015 film “Woman in Gold.” While the dinners are a paid affair, Crystal River Valley cinephiles can sit in on the screening for free. […]
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The Art Commons: A new community-centered space for connection
With the goal of encouraging creativity and bringing art closer to the local community, The Art Base in Basalt recently announced the opening of a new space called the Art Commons. Located in the front window of The Art Base’s main building and highly visible from Basalt’s main street, this space has been designed as […]
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Ann Korologos Gallery secures its future under new ownership
The Ann Korologos Gallery will remain part of our local arts community after coming into close proximity with dissolution. The gallery, approaching its 33rd year and representing 37 artists, will continue under the same management, now transitioning into new ownership. After its eponymous (namesake) owner passed away in 2023, uncertainty clouded the gallery’s future. The […]
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Spruce Up The Sun 2025: Holiday Harmony
Picking up a Valley Journal tradition, The Sopris Sun has highlighted youth artwork in each holiday issue. Every year, The Sun comes up with a different prompt and young people (kindergarten through high school) submit associated illustrations. An ad-hoc committee judges the pieces based on quality and how well they match the theme. Participants submitted […]
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At the Aspen Art Museum, Glenn Ligon inspects the record
Glenn Ligon’s exhibition, “Break It Down,” opened at the Aspen Art Museum on Nov. 21. The show explores the artist’s work over three decades, focusing on how a portrait of the self is created by examining external sources. As a Black man, Ligon consistently uses institutional documents to show the friction between his personal life […]