I have two photographic art shows underway this month: Reverence at the Hagnauer Gallery in Manitou Springs, Colo., (through 11/14), and {Un}Reverence, as part of the Red Threads group show at Kreuser Gallery (through 10/30), in Colorado Springs. ABOUT {UN}REVERENCE & RED THREADS {Un}Reverence is an extension of the Read more…
A new round of Humanitou portraits will be on exhibit in the 1st Amendment Gallery at the Manitou Art Center, opening August 3 with First Friday events throughout the area. For the past two months, framed 11″ x 14″ prints of Floyd Tunson, Layla Redding and Peter Maksimow have been on Read more…
Why Exhibit Art? Three portraits I’ve made during Humanitou conversations with fantastic people in our community, Manitou Springs, CO, are on exhibit through the end of July in the First Amendment Gallery of the Manitou Art Center. (Thank you to Layla Redding, Floyd Tunson and Peter Maksimow.) This work is Read more…
Spiraling down the iron stairs Kyle Frerichs installed in the center of his house, we enter a tightly organized workshop. It goes far beyond the common — peg boards holding the hand tools and a workbench with a vise mounted at the corner — to another height of possibilities. There Read more…
Dustin Booth leans back in a chair in the Manitou Art Center, something he rarely gets to do while juggling many hats as manager of the MAC. He uses the word “fortunate” often as he tells his story. He laughs and smiles. He’s easygoing. An artist with a varied background, Read more…
Rhonda Van Pelt has a one-of-a-kind role in Manitou Springs. As Managing Editor of the Pikes Peak Bulletin since April 2015, she’s immersed in all things news and conversation-worthy in this mountain town, population 5,000+. Having grown up in Pueblo, Rhonda moved to the Pikes Peak region in 1993. “I Read more…
Melanie Audet turns off the rock polisher her young daughters, who now are at school, like to use. “My kids love to collect rocks. They take after their mother, I guess. I don’t know. I always collected a rock from wherever I went, too.” The noise settles to silence in Read more…
There’s 2,000-degree fire lighting up a 10’ by 10’ corner of the Makerspace at the Manitou Art Center. A pair of torches blow heat and possibilities, where straw-like sticks of colored glass morph on command by hand. This is Manitou Glassworks. Two lampworkers — Marc Croswell, 42, and Tanner Sauvan, Read more…
Update: Create Cafe closed in May 2018, nine months after this conversation. Yet the history, heart and craft of chef Lyn Harwell continues. So, this story lives on. An Ohio farm boy by way of New Orleans. A chef with hands in the soil that breathes life into the kitchen, Read more…
‘Creativity’ is so broad. I’ve always approached creativity from the crafting and engineering side. I think that’s how my brain is wired. Jordan Kerr, a leathersmith by profession and blacksmith by hobby, talks while sweeping the worn strip wood floor in his open studio and tidying up. Today’s music of Read more…
Alain Navaratne leans back on the family couch. Relaxed. His paintings hang on the wall behind him, and throughout the room. Alain’s most recently completed work, a bit larger than those on the walls, rests on a sizeable easel. It reflects light from the large, sliding door that is open Read more…
When I was a young kid I had access to a small, counter-top printing press. I’d place each metal character in order, right to left. I’d use a rubber roller to coat the backward letters in black ink, readying them to be mirrored onto light-blue poster board. Only one word I Read more…