Joan Benson and Stephen Kent created their first piece of shed antler decor for a client who’d hired them to renovate her three-story, 5,000-square-foot condo in Snowmass, Colorado. Kent had been making furniture and doing design/build in the Aspen area, and Benson was working in...
In the spring of 1998, a handful of the country’s finest Western craftsmen — a group that was, itself, not much larger than a handful — gathered to talk about heritage. And about legacy. They gathered in recognition that their specialized art forms — saddlemaking,...
There is a nine-foot-long parade of rabbits in Dan Ostermiller’s Loveland, Colorado, studio right now — 12 chubby, precocious characters, each with a different personality, doing something entirely its own: leaping, napping, playing, scratching. The piece, A Good Hare Day, is one that Ostermiller has...
Architect Stephen Dynia is the person you want to sit next to on the plane. Or at a dinner party. He’s funny and humble and just the right amount self-deprecating. Dynia has been an artist his whole life and an architect for more than 30...
Jeremy Lipking keeps trying to wrap his head around the fact that he and more than 30 of his paintings are subjects of a retrospective at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. “Honestly,” he says, “when they asked me, I thought, ‘Have I been...
Set at the foot of Mount Saint Helena, high in the Mayacamas Mountains, Knights Valley forms a bridge between the adjacent Napa and Sonoma valleys. Remote and rural, graced by rolling hills and picturesque valley vistas, buffeted by weather and light, the beauty of this...
It’s rare that a homeowner buys a spectacular vineyard property in California’s Wine Country without hurrying to get a house sited, designed, and built as quickly as possible. But when Kim Jordan and Dick Cantwell purchased property in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, they...
When thinking of important American photographers and their iconic images, names like LA Huffman, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams come to mind. But did you know that many Indigenous people were making photographs at the same time? In the new book, In Light and Shadow:...
From a distance, the River of Stars residence in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley rises like a barn from a field of wildflowers against the backdrop of the Elk Mountains. It doesn’t require much imagination to picture a handful of Red Angus cows ambling across the steep...
Trekking poles, camping gear, and hiking boots – essential tools for Terry Gardner’s painting practice – fill one corner of his studio, ready and accessible for sojourns into Colorado’s public lands where he frequently travels for inspiration. “Every summer, I map out hikes,” he says. “I...