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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER JOAQUIN SALAZAR TO GIVE FREE PRESENTATION
Photographer Joaquin Salazar of Bluff, UT will give a free slide/lecture presentation in the Durango Arts Center Education Center on Wednesday, April 25 at 7 p.m.
Joaquin will show 25 never before released photos taken on extensive travels throughout the west. He will also discuss the importance of art and wilderness, imagination and why we should teach the art of wilderness to children, much like we teach them language. He will discuss his themes of Consonance and Agreements Made, based his own travels through the high desert where the agreements he made are what led him to understand.
Joaquin’s art “training” started in the second grade, when he won several state contests for pen and ink. He won a national contest in the 5th grade for a pencil drawing of the space shuttle. By the eighth grade he was taking college level art classes. After graduating from the Berklee School of Music, he custom-designed sophisticated artistic interiors for some of the finest residential structures in Seattle until a spinal injury brought him back home to the desert.
Born and raised under the big skies of northern New Mexico, Joaquin spent his last six years since moving to Bluff documenting his relentless travels through the canyons of southeastern Utah where he found beauty like he had never known before.
Joaquin’s work in on exhibit for the month of April at the Fifth Corner Photo Gallery upstairs at the Durango Arts Center. The Fifth Corner is co-owned by local photographers Kathy Myrick and Linda Pampinella.
Durango Kentucky Derby Mad Hatter Workshop with Jane Gould
Wednesday, May 2
4 to 6 p.m.
Rochester Hotel Courtyard
Come and make your own unique hat for the Durango Kentucky Derby, a fundraiser for the Durango Arts Center. Please bring the following supplies: base hat, tacky glue, scissors, needle and different color threads to match your trims. You can also bring whatever trims you would like to work with (lace, ribbon, tulle, cording), feathers, silk flowers, beads or anything else that you would like to put on your hat. Bonnie Cabrera will be at the event selling vintage trims, feathers and flowers, and Jane will help you be creative with what you bring and will show you how to put your creation together.
This workshop is free to anyone purchasing a ticket to the Derby event, a fundraiser to benefit the Durango Arts Center on Saturday, May 5. Tickets are available at the Durango Arts Center and the Rochester Hotel as well as on line at www.durangoarts.org.
Decorated hats will also be on sale at Durango Antique Market, 600 E. Second Avenue.
Durango Kentucky Derby
Saturday, May 5
2 to 5 p.m.
Rochester Hotel Courtyard
726 E. Second Avenue, Durango, Colorado
Celebrate the Kentucky Derby in style at the 2nd annual Durango Kentucky Derby, a fundraiser for the Durango Arts Center. Included in the event will be a derby hat and suit contest, mint juleps, and silent auction of a painting by Colorado artists Nicole Finger. At 4:24 p.m., watch the broadcast of the 138th Kentucky Derby.
Tickets are $65 for DAC members and $75 for non-members and includes two drink tickets, prizes and hors d’oeuvres catered by Mutu’s Italian Kitchen. Call the Durango Arts Center at (970) 259-2606 or the Rochester Hotel at (970) 385-1920.
In the event of rain, festivities will be moved to Mutu’s Italian Kitchen.
Open Art Surgery: An exploration of public art
A show of local and regional artists, co-creating new messages through public art forms
Please join us for a special reception for YPOD at the Durango Arts Center
April 11, 5 – 7 pm
$3 beer/$4 wine
The reception will include a live graffiti demonstration.
YPOD/DAC docents and the artists will be available to answer questions.
Alpine Bank’s Arts Card
A Great Way to Earn Money for Your Arts Center
Could you afford to give your Durango Arts Center 10 cents every time you use your debit card?
Can you imagine how much money DAC would collect in a year if every one of our nearly 900 active members made this donation each time he or she made a debit card transaction? Can you imagine the increased programming we could support in our gallery, in local elementary schools and in after-school and weekend programs?
Alpine Bank is offering DAC members the opportunity to participate in the Alpine Bank Loyalty Check Card program.
Here’s how it works: When DAC members open an Alpine Bank checking account, they can sign up for the Alpine Bank VISA debit card and specify their preference for the Alpine Bank Arts Card. Alpine will donate 10 cents per transaction to DAC every time you use your debit card.
If you bank with Alpine or if you are considering opening a new checking account, please sign up for the VISA Arts Debit Card and start earning money for your Durango Arts Center. In 2011, DAC received a donation in the amount of $1,000, the proceeds from this program.
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In 2010, 26,000 people participated in DAC events. With the expansion of the education, gallery and theater programs and events in 2011, we are expecting that number to increase to nearly 30,000 people.
Join us and be a part of this growth.
TOP Calls for Entries
Durango’s original fashion forum – TOP – is calling aspiring and accomplished designers to submit entries for its third annual juried garment design exhibition and fundraiser to benefit the Durango Arts Center. Sponsored by First National Bank of Durango, this year’s fashion show, live and silent auctions will be at the Arts Center, September 21.
“We are encouraging artists to submit innovative, original fashion designed using the garments or blank fabric we provide,” explained Regina Hogan, TOP chair for New Face Productions, which is sponsoring this event designed to serve artists, residents and visitors in our community. “Our mission is to assist and create adult, cutting-edge, exciting and profitable benefit events for the DAC,” she added.
Artists may pick up garments or fabric May 4-5 or June 1-2, at There’s No Place Like Home, 820 Main Avenue. The prospectus is available here. Delivery deadline for finished garments is August 25.
Fees for first entries are $25 and $15 for additional entries. Students’ fees are $15 for the first entry and $10 for each additional. For the first time, this year TOP is offering limited number of sponsorships for students. Two People’s Choice Awards of $500 each also have been added.
All entries will be judged and accepted for the live auction and fashion show by a jury of noted fashion and textile designers, including Ilze Aviks, Susan Rogers and Becky Surmeier. Artists receive 50 percent of the auctioned price of their pieces.
For more information, contact Regina Hogan at (970) 385-4989 or top.nfp@gmail.com.
The Durango Public Art Commission needs you!
The Public Art Commission is seeking a community volunteer to serve on a small Selection Committee for a permanent artwork that will be installed in the Florida Road Roundabout, commemorating the upcoming USA Pro Cycling Challenge and Durango’s enduring legacy for all things cycling. No prior experience in art is required, but you must be available on April 6 and April 20, from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. (coffee and light breakfast provided).
More information on the project can be found at http://www.durangogov.org/art/calltoartists.cfm.
If interested, please contact by March 30: Sherri Dugdale, City Manager’s Office, (970) 375-5002 / art@durangogov.org .
DAC’s Summer Theater Production: “Beehive, the ‘60’s Musical”
Don’t miss the 1960’s summer extravaganza at the Durango Arts Center. Beehive the ‘60s musical, by Larry Gallagher, will open Friday, June 15, and run Fridays and Saturdays, June 15 – September 1. Bring your families, lovers, and friends to a night of singing, dancing, and fun. The audience is invited to experience all the passion and vibrations of the 1960s as the cast belts out beautiful ballads and rock ‘n roll tunes. The 1960s was a time of huge hair but also radical reform. While Act I focuses on the early girl groups of the 1960s who sang of love found and lost, the social and political themed songs of Act II represents how the tone of the country changed during the final years of the decade.
There wasn’t a capacity on earth large enough to hold the dreams that were born during that era. This musical illustrates the profound influence these prolific singers had on their listeners. Janis Joplin could sing the blues so bad you thought you had a hard life, whether you did or not. She represented a new kind of freedom for women. The ‘beehive’ was history and the natural look was in.’ Towards the latter part of the decade, these women made it clear that it was time for people to make their ‘own kind of music. Feelings of empowerment and liberation are sure to arise as the audience is captivated by the aesthetic declaration of the 1960’s.
Come to the DAC theater this summer to chronicle the decade of the 1960s through girl groups like the Chiffons, the Shangri-Las, and the Shirelles to duos like Sonny and Cher to individual sensations like Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, and Janis Joplin. Whether it was a decade you lived through or one you sang along to with the radio, whether to remember memories or to make new ones, audiences of all ages can appreciate this musical revue. Cast includes Traci Lyn Thomas, Erika Beardsley, Jessica Hagemeister, Danni Lyn Parker, Jeannie Wheeldon and Rachel Pollack.
REQUEST FOR SUBMISSION: CALL TO ARTISTS
Florida Road Roundabout: 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Budget: $20,000
Deadline for Submissions: March 30, 2012
The City of Durango, Colorado invites interested artists or groups of artists to submit qualifications and artwork proposals for original three-dimensional artwork to be installed in the roundabout at the intersection of Florida Road and Riverview Drive. The purpose of this public art installation is to commemorate the legacy of cycling in Durango, including the city’s recent selection as the overall start city for the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which will commence on August 20, 2012. Therefore, artwork of a cycling or kinetic theme is sought. The final proposal selected will become a part of the City’s permanent art collection.
Please submit any questions related to the project by Monday, March 19. A synopsis of the questions and answers will be sent out via email to applicants by Friday, March 23 so that all can be informed. Submit questions to Sherri Dugdale, at art@durangogov.org.
Download a submissions form in PDF here.
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