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Death Café And Art Salon
During the Lyons Art Weekend, Friday, June 7 through Sunday, June 9, the Death Café and Art Salon will be open between the hours of 12:30 and 5 p.m., at the Lyons Yoga and Wellness Center (310 Main Street). Visitors to the Death Café and Art Salon will spend time in a nurturing and open environment to talk about the art of death (or the death of art), and to explore resulting feelings and images through a process of creative “uncovery.”
Participants will be free to discuss topics of life and death from many points of view. Paper and art supplies will be provided for those wishing to explore their thoughts and feelings visually.
Art In Public Places
Spring brings with it a desire to be outdoors. Many Northern Colorado towns host Friday night walks where people take to the city streets, pop in and out of specialty shops, galleries, and/or museums, and partake of refreshments (often free). Daytime suggests a stroll to view art in public places. You’ll
Poetry Talk - April 11
Bucolic Plague
I’ve got the Bucolic Plague
All my thoughts
Pastoral, rustic
Serene
Non-toxic
No weeds
Strong root systems
Unkempt, growing, fertile
Green with expectation
Organic
Unmet?
Bursting forth
Poking through the cold snow
Rebirth, renewal,
Tilling over the brown dead winter
Expectations of possibility
Is it contagious?
By: Martin Soosloff
Unique Exhibit At Longmont Museum
The Longmont Museum (400 Quail Road) presents “American Visionaries - Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon,” which opened March 2, and is running through May 26. For the first time, photographs by Lange and drawings by Dixon will be exhibited together. These two twentieth century American artists share a closer bond than most people realize; they were married from 1920 to 1935.
“Although they were married for fifteen years, and tackled similar subjects, work by Lange and Dixon, until now, has not been shown together in a single exhibition. As artists living together through the 1920s and the first
BOMCA Events - April Events & Young Artists' Summer Workshops
DEMO & DIALOGUE
Thursday, April 11, 6:30-8:30pm
$5 / free for members of Art Students League of Denver & BMoCA
Learn how to empower your vision of presence with artist Jordan Wolfson.
Presented in collaboration with Art Students League of Denver.
DÍA DEL NIÑO
Saturday, April 20, 11am-1pm
Free
Celebrate Children's Day, a traditional Mexican holiday, and enjoy art-making,
storytelling, dance performances, and authentic food with your young ones.
Created in collaboration with The Mexican Cultural Center and The Mexican
Consulate in Denver.
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Millicent’s Magnificent Magic
By Chrystal DeCoster
This past Saturday evening, spring unfolded at The Corner Studio owned by Valerie Pellegrin. Bulbs were popping up in the front yard while bouquets of creativity were visually blooming inside. Artist Millicent Kang from Boulder, wearing a dress cut from cloth similar in palette to that which was exploding on her stretched canvases, cheerily greeted the opening reception’s array of guests.
Poetry Talk - March 7, 2013
Slow the Dance
Let your soul purpose be your sole purpose.
Let your arms float on the air
all around
Greeting the universe with the
cosmic sound
Let your knees bend
one by one
Sink into the earth
only to rise again.
Slow the dance
keep the energy high
You’ll make the right steps
For there are no mistakes
When you heart beats pure
essence of life
Slow the dance
Let the universe in.
By: Carol Pranschke
“Jobs Of Yesteryear” At The Cup
Lyons artist Tyler Voorhees will be the featured artist at The Stone Cup beginning this Friday, March 1. His show will hang for two months, through the end of April.
From his humble beginnings in rural South Dakota, Voorhees has always been drawn to the art of storytelling. With his paintings, and the characters that inhabit them, he seeks to spin a visual yarn by drawing the viewer in with the composition, and holding their attention with the details. His mixed media paintings depict jobs now forgotten by the majority of Americans, made obsolete by advancements in technology (which are also hidden in the paintings). These occupations existed a mere century ago, yet they have fallen to the wayside in the collective memory of our society.
“Lovin’Lyons” Art Opening At The Cup
By. C. Chrystal DeCoster
Hearty Smart Art!
Heartfelt thanks to Kahlie Sue Pinello, Anne O’Brien, and Jacob Leewenburgh for their orchestration of last Saturday’s Lovin’ Lyons community art show reception. Lyonsites flowed in and filled up The Stone Cup with lyrically inspired art,
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