A sweet, fantastical origin story is attached to acclaimed pastel artist Lisa Gleim’s lifelong love for animals. “My father always told me that I was ‘born into a litter of puppies’ because when I was born, our golden retriever had just given birth to 12.”...
During his decades-long, successful illustration career, when Robert Rodriguez imagined himself eventually moving into fine art, he was clear about what he didn’t want to do. He was not interested in imagery that was dramatic or grandiose. He didn’t see himself using gaudy colors. And...
"Happiness,” sculptor Sabin Howard says, “is fleeting. Purpose gets you out of bed every day.” Howard’s all-consuming purpose for the last decade has been a 58-foot bronze sculpture featuring 38 larger-than-life-size figures moving through a cinematic homage to the men and women of World War...
ARCHITECTURE | Cushing Terrell CONSTRUCTION | Dick Anderson Construction INTERIOR DESIGN | James Thomas Interiors The process of creating any home succeeds only so far as everyone involved — homeowners, architects, interior designers, builders, and any number of other participants — works together to achieve an ideal balance...
ARCHITECTURE | Jeffrey Dungan Architects BUILDER | Big Valley Construction, LLC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | Ceres+ Landscape Architecture A Colorado home perched on 35 acres of rangeland with views of the Continental Divide opens its front door to expanses of untamed beauty. Surrounded by wilderness, every aspect of the...
The Arizona Inn opened on December 18, 1930, with a dinner and dance attended by a select group of couples from the nearby University of Arizona. In four years, the establishment’s founder and owner, Isabella Greenway [1886–1953], would be sworn in as the first congresswoman...
Drunk Love in a Log Cabin Quilt by Denyse Schmidt As one of four original quilts Denyse Schmidt exhibited when she launched her business in 1996, the Drunk Love in a Log Cabin design became the “poster child,” she says. That fall, it was a backdrop...
The founders of the Salt Lake City, Utah-based WOW Atelier didn’t connect on the well-trod path of so many architecture firms; they didn’t meet in architecture school or while working for other designers. No. They became good friends while working at Nordstrom, Gregory Walker in...
He was still a kid, just 16 or 17, when Richard Serra spent an afternoon at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco’s North Beach. The future artist was working in a steel mill to put himself through school at the time. He used his fake...
Eight years ago, Denver, Colorado-based artist Robert Spooner relocated from a 200-square-foot studio to a 700-square-foot space, and his paintings reflected the expansion. The new studio allowed Spooner to progress to larger works and create his process of “extreme indirect painting.” [caption id="attachment_29057" align="aligncenter" width="366"] Spooner...