If you’ve been anywhere within the Roaring Fork Valley arts scene, you’ve run into Brian Colley — it seems he’s everywhere. On May 12, if you’re at Carbondale’s Crystal Theatre, you will see him in the movie “Paint.” Let me clarify that… three of Colley’s paintings star alongside actor Owen Wilson who plays Carl Nargle. […]
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Works by local women highlighted in Clay Center show
The Carbondale Clay Center opened its current exhibition, “The Way We Are: Women of The Roaring Fork Valley”, on Jan. 16 and it will remain on display until Feb. 24 with a First Friday reception on Feb. 3 from 6pm to 8pm. As the name implies, the exhibition features diverse works from local women. Materials […]
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Making magic with The Art Base’s new director
Taking the executive director role at The Art Base is a full-circle moment for Lisa DeLosso. After moving to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2017, she became “intimately involved” with the Basalt nonprofit community arts center by attending exhibitions, workshops and the annual fundraising gala. She added, “Art is really important to me, and supporting […]
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Redstone Connected: another mountain gem
The Crystal River Valley has unearthed its newest gem this season at Redstone Connected, an inspiring and welcoming community-centric internet cafe. Located at 450 Redstone Blvd, Redstone Connected is a co-working space for visitors and residents alike to enjoy refreshments, use high-speed internet and browse locally created art and crafts. Perhaps most importantly, the quaint […]
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Surviving Hurricane Ian
Growing up in Central Illinois, I witnessed first-hand the damage that tornadoes could do. They could carve a path of destruction through any terrain. There was a tornado warning siren on the water tower that stood just 300 feet from our brick home on Walnut Street, and it was not unusual to hear the siren […]
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Catto’s artistic efforts reveal Nature’s designs
In an essay titled “The Study of Color in Nature”, published in the 1896 edition of The Observer: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, naturalist and artist F. Schuyler Mathews noted: “Color in Nature is illimitable; there is positively no end to its complexity.” The essay offers the reader a few simple color theory experiments to perform, […]
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Beauty in the basic
Elliot Norquist has a thing for shapes and colors. And, it makes sense, having settled in the Rocky Mountains, atop Missouri Heights, with towering triangular peaks permeating the horizon and the seemingly daily changes of colors. Norquist, a metal sculptor, has a show opening at the Launchpad on First Friday, Oct. 7, with a reception […]
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Godzilla exhibit examines fallout from the nuclear age
In their first collaboration, visual artists Brian Colley and Andrew Roberts-Gray present “The Godzilla Show: Planet Eater.” The exhibition, which takes its title from the 2018 computer-animated film of the same name, will explore two man-made phenomena: Godzilla and the nuclear bomb. The multimedia installation opens Thursday, Sept. 29 at The Art Base in Basalt. […]
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Carbondale Clay Center: A ‘grassroots, community organization’
The doors to the Carbondale Clay Center opened 25 years ago, and from the beginning it’s been a creative space for this mountain community and connected ceramicists from other parts of the world with its workshops and artists-in-residency programming. “That end of the street, for years, was the ‘dark end of the street,’” as the […]