Clay is an impulsive medium. It begs to be touched, formed, and shaped. At the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, curator Ingrid Schaffner and associate curator Jenelle Porter have brought together 22 artists spanning 4 generations of “significant” works. One of those artists is Betty Woodman, a former ceramics teacher at the University of Colorado. Woodmans ceramic sculptures are in the collection of the Denver Art Museum and on More …
All relationships have expiration dates and bands are no different. This is a eulogy from a distance to Unit7Drain, a band that had major impact on Albuquerque. Bands are usually the most fragile of relationships due to having so many breakable parts. They often tear themselves apart after only a couple of years by the force of their own artistic centrifuge. Especially if the big money doesnt enter the picture More …
Since demolition began in 2009 at the Santa Fe Indian School, many watchers have wondered if the Paolo Soleri Ampitheatre would be spared. Threats now to its continued existence as an architectural treasure find Santa Feans and others gone activist. Tonight, June 9 is a Santa Fe City Council meeting at which the fate of the Paolo, as it is called, is on the agenda. On Facebook this morning Frances More …
Printmaking is a very fine art. Whether lithography, monoprints, woodcuts, or chine collé, the act of making a print is often painstaking, detailed and precise. To get the results an artist is looking for often requires intense collaboration with a master printmaker. Artists from around the world venture to a small printmaking studio in Lyons, Colorado to work with just such a master-Bud Shark-a printer unafraid to challenge the assumptions More …
Julius Shulman at 98 is the man responsible for forging a relationship between photography and the built environment.