Carbondale artists Leah Aegerter and Mila Rossi have joined creative forces with the help and curation of Lauren Mayer. They are now the focal artists of an exhibit at Colorado Mountain College’s (CMC) Aspen Campus, which opened on June 14 and will run through Aug. 25. Aegerter and Rossi each moved to the Valley six […]
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Unveiling of Aspen’s first public art installation echoes Carbondale precedent
Aspen is embarking on a new artistic journey with its first-ever public art installation as part of its new Public Arts Plan. The inaugural project, a temporary street mural near the Wheeler Opera House, will be unveiled during the opening weekend of the Aspen Ideas Festival. On June 25, from 10am to 4pm, community members […]
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Shining Mountains Pow Wow returns to Aspen
There is a very special event scheduled for the Memorial Day weekend at Aspen High School in the Big Gym. It’s suitable for the whole family, it’s inexpensive, and it’s both educational and great entertainment. Deanne Vitrac-Kessler, local organizer of the upcoming Shining Mountains Pow Wow and co-founder of the Aspen Indigenous Foundation, said: “This […]
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El festival inaugural Raizado trae a líderes de innovación a Aspen
Cuando Mónica Ramírez y Olga Segura se propusieron cambiar algunas de las dañinas narrativas sobre la comunidad latina en los Estados Unidos, decidieron que la mejor vía para hacerlo sería a través de un festival, uno que valida el dolor y las dificultades que muchos latinos han experimentado al mismo tiempo que celebrar sus logros […]
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The Crystal Palace has fallen
My childhood home was built around a blue spruce in Aspen’s West End. It wasn’t a good climbing tree — its bark rough with budding pine needles, slathered in sap and opportunistic ants. Still, we struggled up the trunk, planning tree forts and pretending to be pirates peering out of our crow’s nest across the […]
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‘Real’ powwow gathering comes to Aspen
This weekend, April 15 and 16, the Aspen Indigenous Foundation will host its largest native gathering yet. The nonprofit, responsible for organizing dance expositions, the Shining Mountains Film Festival and a single day powwow in 2019, is expecting upwards of 300 Native Americans representing as many as 75 tribes, plus attendees. “Aspen has never had […]
