According to the American Alliance of Museums, attendance five years post-pandemic is improving for many museums; however, most institutions are still struggling to bring back visitors and retain members, which is wreaking havoc on budgets. One theory is that people fell out of the habit...
If the love of art has a genetic component, Sue Simpson Gallagher’s penchant for collecting was surely passed down through many generations of hearty Westerners who helped cultivate art appreciation in the barren lands of Wyoming. My paternal great-grandparents were patrons and her maternal great-grandfather...
Spring sales of Western art brought hefty amounts for weighty works of headline artists including Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, and contemporary heavyweights such as Kyle Polzin and Gladys Roldan-de-Moras. Auction organizers, museum officials, and gallerists remarked on the exuberance of the genre’s admirers and...
Artists never cease to amaze me with their absolute dedication to craft and their drive to keep working despite regular visits from art’s capricious muse: One day is bliss, the next, pure struggle, uphill all the way. No matter, artists keep returning to the studio...
The Western installation-fiber-art duo Emilie Odeile and Ken Chapin are so in sync that they regularly finish each other’s sentences. Like when talking about winning an Arts in Society grant through Colorado Creative Industries, to make a life-sized replica of Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s book...
Alexandra Manukyan’s latest body of work is a surrealist exploration of femininity, mythology, and fashion. Born and raised in Armenia, she studied there at the Fine Art College and the State Pedagogical University before immigrating to the United States where she has made her home...
Patrick Michael Charron Stevens Jolly is a native of Detroit, a graduate of Western Michigan University, holds a BFA in sculpture, is a father, a grandfather, an art dealer, a recovering alcoholic, a painter, a woodsman, a prickly pickleball player, a printmaker, and a seeker...
Chaos. That’s what comes to mind in painter/woodcarver Gregory Lomayesva’s living room — aka studio — in the South Capitol neighborhood of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Even Lomayesva calls his routine chaotic, complete randomness. “You bounce around a bunch of things and suddenly it’s, ‘I’m going...
Bailey Placzek, curator of collections for the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, was relaxing at home one day a few years ago, listening to instrumental, ambient music with her eyes closed. “All of a sudden, one of Still’s paintings popped into my mind. I wondered,...
Since opening his firm, Tryba Architects, in 1988, David Tryba has had a lasting and profound influence on his hometown of Denver, Colorado, and beyond. After graduating in 1981 from the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning, Tryba began professional practice in the...