An exhibition at the Steamboat Art Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, traces the beginnings of “New Western Art” to Lloyd Kiva New and the early instructors at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Fairland, Oklahoma, was a small railroad town where one could watch trains from...
For more than 15 years, Jeff Derebery worked on a design for his ideal home. As a builder for more than three decades, he’d experienced and constructed many different architectural designs and styles. One thing he knew without a doubt was that he wanted his...
Robert Townsend has spent his artistic career both fascinated and inspired by vintage Americana. His early large-scale watercolors focused on memories of Route 66 road trips with his family across the Desert Southwest. This early work eventually evolved into brightly colored Pop Art paintings depicting...
Adrian Aguirre grew up with a foot in two worlds. Born and raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just south of El Paso, Texas, he crossed the border between the cities twice every day: to attend his American school in the morning, and to return home...
Director Steven Spielberg once said his greatest fear was boring his audience. And that’s a fear artist David Yarrow takes to heart. “If his biggest fear is boring people, then we all better watch out,” Yarrow says, laughing. “But I think that’s a good starting premise...
An East Coast financial executive and art collector had a long-standing dream for a home in the Rocky Mountain West where she could ski, fish, hike, and replenish in the quiet of nature. The Yellowstone Club — a 15,200-acre private ski, golf, and adventure community...
When people talk about art meccas, New York City, Paris, and L.A. come to mind. Colorado Springs, however, not so much, if at all, which is unfortunate because, at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to philanthropic visionaries Julie and Spencer Penrose, the town...
Internationally renowned photographer Douglas Friedman is driving through a flat, empty desert in an open black Jeep on a lonely dirt road. Pulling up with a flourish in a cloud of dust next to a flowering white yucca framed against a brilliant blue sky, he...
This past summer, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) reopened its seminal exhibition, Here, Now and Always. More than 1,100 objects were uninstalled to give way to a new, re-envisioned museum experience that will once again become the standard for how museums relate...
At first glance, Fort Mountain, a recent large-scale landscape by R. Tom Gilleon, impresses with its breathtaking majesty and deft virtuosity alone, presenting a mid-range view of the title subject surmounted by a vast, cumulus-filled Montana sky. Then, like a hallucination, the scene somehow transforms....