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“Flourish” curated by Alicia Bailey

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Show runs May 17 – June 8. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 21 5 – 7 pm in the Kinder Padon Gallery.

Flourish – an exhibition curated by Alicia Bailey, Director of Abecedarian Artists’ Books, for the Crested Butte Center for the Arts and the Mountain Words Literary Festival.

Show Statement

Although not specific to the realities of health, climate and global crisis, the works in this exhibit exemplify how turning one’s attention to visual and verbal expression can be useful as a strategy to flourish through times that are troubling on many fronts.

Artists
– Aaron Cohick – Colorado Springs, Colorado
– Alicia Bailey – Auora, Colorado
– Brenda Gallagher – Niwot, Colorado
– Chip Schilling – Telluride, Colorado
– Gail Watson – Black Hawk, Colorado
– Laura Russell – Tucson, Arizona
– Merike van Zanten – The Netherlands
– Rhiannon Alpers – Denver, Colorado
– Sha Towers – Woodway, Texas
– Suzanne Moore – Tucson, Arizona

Connor Scalbom Gallery Opening

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Join us on February 18th 5 -7 pm for Connor’s “Nature’s Moments” gallery show opening. Celebrate with complimentary CBD cocktails and adventure-landscape photography.

Artist Statement

How I got into photography always cracks me up. For as long as I can remember, I always loved taking pictures. However, the true moment that put me here was the summer of 2017. I graduated high school, my girlfriend at the time and I were planning a road trip to the West. I had always wanted an actual camera, but I also wanted to lift my car for the road trip. For weeks, I was back and forth on what I wanted to do. I don’t remember exactly what made me decide to go with the camera side of the coin, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. Oh how my life could be so completely different if I went with the other option.

Hobby turned career, photography has led me down so many amazing paths. I moved to this valley to go to college, and begin that chapter in my life. It turned out, I was taking the first steps on an unexpected journey of my life. The Gunnison Valley could not have been a better place for me to chase my passion, and tune my skills into what is now my full time job. I bounced around from portrait photography, to events, thinking this was the only way to make a career out of this form of art. Or at least the easiest way.

Landscape and nature were always what I loved to photograph the most. I was always drawn to it, even before I always had a camera in my hands. The textures, movements of the planet, and how the conditions and weather can make any landscape look so completely different. I loved to the ability to go explore and capture everything from the smallest details to the greatest views. I quickly was sucked into photography, and going out to capture scenes almost daily. I fell in love with it, and was able to share these places I had been with so many other people. Being able to share a nice photo for others to look at, give them a smile, or even give them a dream of “I want to be there one day for myself” is a feeling I love to have. It feels like we’re surrounded by so much negativity today, having the opportunity to bring even a tiny bit of positivity to others makes me so happy.

About 

Connor Scalbom is a local photographer living in Crested Butte, Colorado. He grew up in Centennial Colorado, originally wanting to begin a path down the culinary arts. That desire quickly shifted to a different form of art. Connor is a full-time photographer at the age of 23. The support from his family, friends, and colleagues is what has allowed him to make this his career. Finding a way to combine a love of traveling, and a passion of creating brought him to this very point where he’s able to do so for work.

Connor began his career in photography in the Autumn of 2018 and has only grown from there. He got his first magazine cover this past summer on the “Crested Butte Magazine” summer edition. Aside from photographing nature, Connor has found a passion for photographing architecture and properties. Recently, he just got the cover of “Luxury Home Magazine” for a home he photographed here in Crested Butte. While quite a bit of Connor’s work features scenery found here in Crested Butte, he has a lot of work outside of the Gunnison Valley. Some of his favorites include Iceland, Utah, and Arizona.

Aside from photography, Connor loves to enjoy time on the mountain snowboarding. He and his dog Gracie go on many adventures together just to explore and get outside. His best friend and he love to explore new places, go camping, and meet new people. Gracie love’s it especially.

Learn more about Connor Scalbom: www.connorscalbom.com

Connor Scalbom “Nature’s Moments” Gallery Show

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Join us on February 18th 5 -7 pm for Connor’s gallery opening. Celebrate with complimentary CBD cocktails and adventure-landscape photography.

Artist Statement

How I got into photography always cracks me up. For as long as I can remember, I always loved taking pictures. However, the true moment that put me here was the summer of 2017. I graduated high school, my girlfriend at the time and I were planning a road trip to the West. I had always wanted an actual camera, but I also wanted to lift my car for the road trip. For weeks, I was back and forth on what I wanted to do. I don’t remember exactly what made me decide to go with the camera side of the coin, but whatever it was, I’m glad it did. Oh how my life could be so completely different if I went with the other option.

Hobby turned career, photography has lead me down so many amazing paths. I moved to this valley to go to college, and begin that chapter in my life. It turned out, I was taking the first steps on an unexpected journey of my life. The Gunnison Valley could not have been a better place for me to chase my passion, and tune my skills into what is now my full time job. I bounced around from portrait photography, to events, thinking this was the only way to make a career out of this form of art. Or at least the easiest way.

Landscape and nature were always what I loved to photograph the most. I was always drawn to it, even before I always had a camera in my hands. The textures, movements of the planet, and how the conditions and weather can make any landscape look so completely different. I loved to the ability to go explore and capture everything from the smallest details to the greatest views. I quickly was sucked into photography, and going out to capture scenes almost daily. I fell in love with it, and was able to share these places I had been with so many other people. Being able to share a nice photo for others to look at, give them a smile, or even give them a dream of “I want to be there one day for myself” is a feeling I love to have. It feels like we’re surrounded by so much negativity today, having the opportunity to bring even a tiny bit of positivity to others makes me so happy.

About 

Connor Scalbom is a local photographer living in Crested Butte, Colorado. He grew up in Centennial Colorado, originally wanting to begin a path down the culinary arts. That desire quickly shifted to a different form of art. Connor is a full-time photographer at the age of 23. The support from his family, friends, and colleagues is what has allowed him to make this his career. Finding a way to combine a love of traveling, and a passion of creating brought him to this very point where he’s able to do so for work.

Connor began his career in photography in the Autumn of 2018 and has only grown from there. He got his first magazine cover this past summer on the “Crested Butte Magazine” summer edition. Aside from photographing nature, Connor has found a passion for photographing architecture and properties. Recently, he just got the cover of “Luxury Home Magazine” for a home he photographed here in Crested Butte. While quite a bit of Connor’s work features scenery found here in Crested Butte, he has a lot of work outside of the Gunnison Valley. Some of his favorites include Iceland, Utah, and Arizona.

Aside from photography, Connor loves to enjoy time on the mountain snowboarding. He and his dog Gracie go on many adventures together just to explore and get outside. His best friend and he love to explore new places, go camping, and meet new people. Gracie love’s it especially.

Learn more about Connor Scalbom: www.connorscalbom.com

community artwalk

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Please note that for events at the Center, proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test from within the last 72 hours are required for entry. Get a free COVID test here.

Visit the Center’s Kinder Padon Gallery during ArtWalk for a dramatic photography exhibit and complimentary drinks. Artwalk is a self-guided tour of the galleries in downtown Crested Butte hosted by Artists of Crested Butte.  As you leisurely stroll through the galleries, experience the diverse artistic expressions of local artists and be inspired by these special ArtWalk evenings. See you there!

“Outliers” by Teri Havens

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PLEASE NOTE:  Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test must be shown for entry to events at the Center.  See our current COVID policy HERE.

Please join us Thursday, December 9th 5 – 7 pm at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte to celebrate at the gallery reception of Teri Havens’ “Outliers” in the Kinder Padon Gallery.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Teri Havens has been documenting fragments of American culture for over thirty years. Recurring themes in her work include individuality, isolation and the enduring self-sufficiency of people and places that are often left behind. Her photography is a study – and ultimately a celebration – of cultural and geographic desolation. 

After studying photojournalism at the University of Texas and serving as an intern at the Magnum photo agency in New York, Teri developed her printmaking skills by improvising darkrooms in kitchens and motel rooms across the country while working as an itinerant cocktail waitress.

Teri’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in numerous publications including: The Huffington Post, The London Sunday Times, The Sun Magazine, Photo District News and Adore Noir. In 2016 she was a recipient of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Teri is immensely grateful for the funding she has received from the Puffin Foundation, Dave Bown Projects, The Mind’s Eye and The Luminous Endowment. She currently lives in rural Colorado with her husband Mike and their beagle, Louise. When not lost in the backcountry, or in her darkroom producing palladium prints, she can be found in her beloved ’88 Ford Van on the track of the perfect roadside bar.

For more information about Teri and her work visit terihavens.com

ABOUT THE SERIES

I’ve always had a thing for bars. The more marginal the better. I’m mostly drawn to rural or urban outliers – raw, dilapidated joints that evoke an earlier, grittier era. An authentic down-to-its-rotting-bones refuge where a hard-edged world is numbed and softened by alcohol and dim lighting.

Defiant vestiges of the past, the bar always seems the last to go. After the grocery store, the lumberyard and the barbershop long ago surrendered to the future and shut their doors for the final time, the bar stayed on. Slumped alone on the edge of a discarded town, its neon spills out onto the asphalt and burns through the night. Inside, the beer is cold, and the jukebox stocked with George Jones and dirges from an irretrievable past. Outliers is an homage to the humble bar. Handcrafted palladium prints of simple, solitary structures shrouded in loneliness and isolation, yet miraculously, as if blessed by some divine patron, still open. The images are captured using either moonlight or ambient streetlight. The finished palladium print, a hybrid of modern digital technology and 19th century printmaking techniques, reflects the context of the antiquated buildings – still alive, but barely – within contemporary society.

 

Gallery Reception – Golden: Interpretations of Fall

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Please join us at the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte to celebrate at the gallery reception for 11 talented artists in the show Golden: Interpretations of Fall.  Friday, October 1, 5 – 7 pm in the Kinder Padon Gallery at the Center.

PLEASE NOTE:  Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test must be shown for entry into this event at the Center.  See our current COVID policy HERE

Featuring:

Patrick Duke
Adam Freed
Harriet Huff
John Ingham
Jackie Kingsbury
Jessica Loving
Michael Mahoney
John Miller
Suzanne Pierson
Donna Rozman
Mary Tuck

Show runs September 29 – November 5, 2021.  Gallery hours are 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday.  Please wear a mask to visit our gallery during these hours.  

  

John Miller                                                          Adam Freed                                                        Jackie Kingsbury

    

Donna Rozman                                                      John Ingham

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Mary Tuck                                          Suzanne Pierson

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Harriet Huff                                                                                   Patrick Duke

     

Jessica Loving                                        Michael Mahoney

 

Golden: Interpretations of Fall. In the Kinder Padon Gallery

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Eleven talented artists show paintings, pottery, and jewelry in this gorgeous show reflecting the fall season.  Featuring:

Patrick Duke
Adam Freed
Harriet Huff
John Ingham
Jackie Kingsbury
Jessica Loving
Michael Mahoney
John Miller
Suzanne Pierson
Donna Rozman
Mary Tuck

Opening Reception Friday, October 1st from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Gallery hours are 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday.  As per our building-wide policy, please wear a mask to visit our gallery during these hours.
*And please note that for EVENTS at the Center, proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test are required for entry. Read more HERE.

John Miller                                                          Adam Freed                                                        Jackie Kingsbury

   

Donna Rozman                                                      John Ingham

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Mary Tuck                                          Suzanne Pierson

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Harriet Huff                                                                                   Patrick Duke

     

Jessica Loving                                        Michael Mahoney

 

 

Opening Reception for Denise Liebl & Arthur Turner: Things Seen and Understood

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Join us for the Opening Reception of Denise Liebl and Arthur Turner’s show, Things Seen and Understood, in the Kinder Padon Gallery, Saturday, August 21 from 5 – 7 pm.  Light appetizers and beverages will be served.

The show runs from August 18 – September 12, 2021.

Read more about the artists HERE.

Arthur Turner
Denise Liebl

Opening Reception for “Here and There, Then and Now” Gallery Show by Anne Kinder

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Join Anne Kinder for the Opening Reception of her show “Here and There, Then and Now.”  Anne shows shows vibrant watercolors depicting Crested Butte scenes, still lifes, animals and people.  Enjoy the show and light appetizers and beverages.

Artists of Crested Butte’s monthly ArtWalk is also happening concurrently this evening from 5 – 8 pm.

Anne’s show runs from August 3 – 15, 2021.

       

Western Student Juried Art Show in the Kinder Padon Gallery

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The Art and Music Departments at Western Colorado University are proud to present the 2021 Western Student Juried Art Show at the Center. This exhibition of visual art features finely-crafted paintings, photos, prints, ceramics, jewelry, and installation work by 27 current art students at Western Colorado University. This exhibition was juried by Rosalind Cook, an internationally recognized sculptor who lives and works in Crested Butte. As Rosalind describes in her juror’s statement, these 27 carefully selected works convey “both strong pictorial elements but also make an impact on an emotional and intellectual level.”

The exhibition opening reception will be held April 9, 4:30 –7:30 pm.

The Western Colorado University Music Department will also provide a sonic backdrop to the event with a three-hour-long musical performance in the first-floor atrium. The musical performance will feature both individual student and faculty performances along with larger ensembles that will encompass different musical styles throughout the evening. This event is free and open to the public, but capacity may be limited due to COVID restrictions. If you are unable to attend the opening, the exhibition will run until April 30, 2020. A very special thanks to the Student Art League, Art and Music Departments, and the Council for Creative Expressions for supporting this event. Exhibiting Artists: Sarah Ackerman, Daniel Lesh, Evan Allison, Aaron Mason, Catherine Barisas, Tanner Marcus, Ariel Benney, Nia Morales, Erica Casey, Erin Riley, Tyler Catalioto, Mallory Siebenneicher, Emma DeHaven, Matt Smith, Aly Hargrove, Danielle Vitulli, Jay Hickox, Nathan Walsh, Brenna Hilgers, Ruby Woodings, Meghan LaHatte

Center Kinder Padon Gallery Open Hours: Tuesdays, 1 – 3 pm and Fridays, 10 – 12 pm.

Gallery Reception for Harpel & Cook at ArtWalk

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Join us for the opening reception for Bethany Harpel and Rosalind Cook’s “Movement through Form & Color” in the Kinder Padon Gallery from 5 – 8 pm.

Presented in conjunction with Artists of Crested Butte‘s ArtWalk, a self-guided tour of the galleries in downtown Crested Butte.  Take the evening, attend Bethany & Rosalind’s receptinon, and then leisurely stroll through the other galleries participating in ArtWalk!  Experience the diverse artistic expressions of local artists and be inspired by our local talent.

If you are unable to attend the reception, stop by the Center’s 6th St. entrance during our OPEN Gallery Hours, Tuesdays from 1-3 pm and Fridays from 10 am – 12pm to view Bethany and Rosalind’s show.  

   

Bethany Harpel & Rosalind Cook’s Movement through Form & Color

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In the Kinder-Padon Gallery, March 1 – April 2. Opening reception Friday, March 19, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. during ArtWalk.

“Movement through Form & Color” showcases Bethany Harpel’s oil paintings and Rosalind Cook’s bronze sculptures.  Harpel reinterprets reality through the use of broad strokes, vibrant color, and impressionistic perspective in oil on canvas. Rosalind captures the inner spirit of her subjects through impeccable composition and design, celebrating life and lifting the human spirit.

Also view the show by stopping by the Center’s 6th St. entrance during our OPEN Gallery Hours, Tuesdays from 1-3 pm and Fridays from 10 am – 12pm.  

            

Iron Pour: Windows to the Imagination

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The Crested Butte Community School and the Center for the Arts is pleased to present Windows to the Imagination an installation of student iron pour pieces from the last several years. Students worked with Artist in Residence, Jesse Blumenthal at CBCS in both art and design classes. The installation includes pieces from a project focused on imagery and student imagination and mounted together in a tower display. Also on display is student molds of their faces transformed into ‘masks’ of different styles and mounted on bases. The CBCS Jazz band will provide music to accompaniment to the reception. All mask and separation protocols will be followed to make for a safe and fun evening. Please come and support our student artists and their beautiful work!