Commercial inventoryFollowing last week’s article, “Commercial inventory remains scarce in Carbondale,” Amoré Realty’s Lynn Kirchner and Kathie Jaycox invited The Sopris Sun to view a database tool that hadn’t existed when our counting efforts began in 2017. A quick search revealed five properties available to lease in Carbondale, including a 1,968-square-foot space on West Main […]
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Letters – July 25, 2024
Southern hospitalityMy friend and I met Raleigh a couple of weeks ago in the delightful little town of Redstone. I wanted to share with you how much my friend, Jodi, and I enjoyed meeting you and Gina. Jodi and I were college roommates over 40 years ago and have remained good friends throughout all of […]
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Scuttlebutt & Calendar
Spruce it up!The Sopris Sun invites youngsters to submit illustrations for its annual Spruce Up The Sun contest. The winning image(s) will be featured on the cover of our Dec. 21 holiday issue. Contestants, or their parents, can submit scanned submissions to news@soprissun.com or place a hard copy in the submission box outside The Launchpad […]
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Clay National XVII displays diversity in clay
The Carbondale Clay Center’s 17th annual Clay National show, “The Autobiography of the Object,” launched online on Aug. 21 and in-person on Sept. 1 with a First Friday reception. The show will run until Sept. 29. The title and theme were created by the Clay Center’s selected juror, Sam Harvey, a ceramic artist who maintains […]
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Reflecting on Sense of Place with Doug Casebeer
Young people are malleable, but every so often they find their forte early on. As was the case with ceramicist Doug Casebeer, who has “been working in pots since ’76 — coming up on nearly 50 years.” Back then, Casebeer was attending a community college north of Kansas City. At the time, he envisioned going […]
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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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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 […]
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Mata Ortiz, el pueblo que acudió a las vasijas
Traducción por Dolores Duarte Después de que el aserradero quebrara y el último tren dejara la estación de ferrocarril, los residentes desempleados del pueblo de Juan Mata Ortiz en Chihuahua, México, se hicieron creativos. Encontraron una forma de ganar dinero con cerámica. Llevándosela, no haciéndola. Desenterraron vasijas antiguas y fragmentos de arcilla colorida que encontraron […]
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El barro: Arte de supervivencia
A pesar de tener casi toda una vida en el Valle, como muchos inmigrantes, mis raíces están divididas entre el hogar que fue y el hogar que ahora es. Mis memorias de niña son imágenes combinadas de montañas y el desierto. Recuerdo estar en casa de mi abuela mirando las montañas en la distancia como […]