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MWLF: Reception: Writer-in-Residence Readings + Karen Chamberlain Award

May 20, 2022 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Reception: Writer-in-Residence Readings + Karen Chamberlain Award with Kaveh Akbar, Dominque Conway, Stephanie Maltarich, Megha Nayar, Bernardo Wade. Aaron Abeyta receiving Karen Chamberlain Award

Help us celebrate the 2022 Writers in Residence as they read work produced this month of residency followed by the Karen Chamberlain Award recipient reading Aaron Aberyta. Bites and cash bar available.

As part of your festival pass, or pay what you can.

Tagged With: 2022 Mountain Words Literary Festival, aaron abeyta, Bernardo Wade, Dominque Conway, kaveh akbar, megha nayar, readings, reception, stephanie maltarich

2022 Writers in Residence Community Welcome Reception

April 25, 2022 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

2022 Writers in Residence Community Welcome Reception
wed may 4
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm | free

Join us in welcoming the 2022 Mountain Words Writers in Residence to the community over drinks, bites and tantalizing conversation. The international cohort includes:

— Pushcart award-winning poet from Tehran, Kaveh Akbar
— author and prison rights activist Dominque Conway
— writer, visual artist from New Orleans Bernardo Wade
— India-based fiction writer Megha Nayar

— Local writer and audio producer Stephanie Maltarich

The writers will spend the month of May writing, enjoying the community, and presenting at CBCS before reading produced work at the Mountain Words Literary Festival May 25 – 29.
Help us welcome them in proper Crested Butte style!

Tagged With: Bernardo Wade, Dominque Conway, free food & drinks, kaveh akbar, megha nayar, Mountain Words Writer in Residence, reception, stephanie maltarich

Golden: Interpretations of Fall. In the Kinder Padon Gallery

September 13, 2021 by Melissa Mason Leave a Comment

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

 

 

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

July 30, 2021 by Rachael Stubbs Leave a Comment

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

Tagged With: art show, artwork, gallery, reception

Writers in Residence Read + Reception

April 2, 2021 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

The 2021 Mountain Words Writer-in-Residence Chris La Tray, Chelsey Johnson, Lee Anderson and Adam Valen Levinson read from work produced during their monthslong residency in Crested Butte. Drinks and bites included. In the Center’s Steddy Theater.

Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His next book, Becoming Little Shell, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2022. Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.

Chelsey Johnson’s debut novel Stray City came out with Custom House/HarperCollins in 2018, and her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, and NPR’s Selected Shorts, among others. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Signal Fire Arts. Born and raised in rural northern Minnesota, she now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she is an associate professor of fiction at Northern Arizona University’s MFA and undergraduate programs. A second novel is in the works.

Lee Anderson is a nonbinary MFA candidate at Northern Arizona University, where they are the Managing Editor of Thin Air Magazine. They have been published sporadically but with zest, with work appearing or forthcoming in The Rumpus, Columbia Journal, Unstamatic Magazine, and more.

Adam Valen Levinson is the author of the “nonfiction novel” The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W. W. Norton, 2017) — dubbed “Eat, Pray, Laugh” by The New York Times but/and not without its controversy. National Book Critics Circle award winner for poetry Morgan Parker called him “an incredibly generous, compassionate, and thorough writer who gorgeously blends lyricism with reportage and philosophy with confession.” Adam has written, filmed, and photographed for Al Jazeera, The Paris Review, Haaretz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and VICE, and done college stints at the Meccas of real fake news: The Colbert Report and The Onion. He has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and an MPhil in Sociology from Yale University, where he is a fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology. All of his stories are true.

Tagged With: Adam Valen Levinson, Chelsay Johnson, Chris La Tray, Lee Anderson, Mountain Words Literary Festival, Mountain Words Writer in Residence, reception, theater

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

February 23, 2021 by Melissa Mason Leave a Comment

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.  

            

Tagged With: artwork, Bethany, bronze, gallery, kinder padon gallery, oil, reception, Rosalind

PHOTOVOICE: Real Food Stories from Across Gunnison Valley

November 19, 2020 by Brooke Harless MacMillan Leave a Comment

Since the start of the COVID-19 breakout, Mountain Roots has interviewed folks across the valley to document the pandemic’s impacts on food security. People have shared their personal stories through a multitude of pandemic response programs; during home deliveries, at free pop-up produce markets, and in their own backyard gardens, where some have sown seeds for the first time. We wanted to know more about what their food situation is like at home—during the pandemic and prior—to learn more about our community’s food sources, health habits and nutrition, and whether or not individuals are able to provide food for their families. This project showcases these faces and food stories, aiming to open the door for more meaningful conversations regarding food security. We believe everyone deserves access to healthy food, regardless of their economic situation—it’s a basic human right.

 Opening reception, Friday, December 4, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Exhibit runs through January 14. Free

Mountain Roots Food Project believes in fostering a future of food that is socially equitable, environmentally regenerative, and economically sustainable. We are growing the next generation of young farmers, growing food and regenerating the land, teaching K-12 nutrition and environmental education, and increasing equitable access for all.

To help Mountain Roots Food Project build a healthier, more resilient local food system, please visit:

mountainrootsfoodproject.org/donate to create solutions today.

Tagged With: art opening, Mountain Roots Food Project, reception, social justice

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