Presented by Telluride Arts Twenty(by)Telluride is a fun and creative gathering held throughout the year at venues around town and in Mountain Village. The event is designed to showcase the innovation, knowledge and ideas of members of our extended community through very short, fast-paced presentations: participants are asked to adhere to a strict format of…
Have you ever heard of a fundraiser that offers a kid an opportunity to win $500? How will they use that money? New skis? Soccer camp? An iPad? During Pinhead’s Minecraft Mania, kids are the big winners. And it is all about supporting science in their community. On Sunday, May 19, the Pinhead Institute hosts…
Each year, the Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) hosts nationally recognized plein air artists. This year, the group gathers in Telluride Friday, June 28 – Thursday, July 4 for the 10th annual Telluride Plein Air event. Artists spend a week painting outside capturing the light, color, and unique character of our breathtaking region and the Town…
Telluride’s Art + Architecture Weekend is a unique opportunity to explore the distinct art, design, and culinary treasures of Telluride. For three days, artists, chefs, and architects open their doors, offering an insider’s glimpse into the Telluride Creative District’s immense talent. Each day offers a different mix of disciplines: Expect a weekend of fine art…
A visit to a ghost towns, an abandoned building, a forsaken mine, or an archaeological site cannot help but spark our curiosity and raise a long list of questions: What was this place like at its peak? Who were the people who lived or worked here? What did they eat? What did they wear? Why…
The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents the 21st annual Wild West Fest in Telluride, Colo., Monday, June 3 – Saturday, June 8, 2013 What: The Sheridan Arts Foundation presents the 22nd annual Wild West Fest, a week-long celebration of Western arts, culture and customs in Telluride, Colo. The annual event brings disadvantaged inner-city and Native American…
A heady tale of a treasure map, a perilous sea journey across the Spanish Main, a mutiny led by the infamous Long John Silver, and a lethal scramble for buried treasure, all witnessed through the eyes of a cabin boy, Jim Hawkins. It’s an action-packed adventure story that will hypnotize the young and entertain the…
Katherine Wells’s obsession with petroglyphs (images pecked on stone) began in the 1960s. Three decades later, after careers as a teacher, a businessperson, and an artist in Southern California, Wells and Lloyd Dennis, her partner, purchased almost 200 acres near Española in northern New Mexico. The large boulders on the property contained many examples of…
The Sheridan Arts Foundation celebrates the end of the ski season at the historic Sheridan Opera House with a foot-stomping bluegrass dance party featuring Whitewater Ramble, the Magic Beans and the Kitchen Dwellers. The fun takes place Friday, April 5 with doors at 7:30 p.m. and show at 8 p.m. (right as KOTO’s Street Dance…
A band named after a parasite. How and why? The band Deer Tick is synonymous with its guitarist and singer-songwriter John McCauley, who grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, where he began his career by teaching himself to play drums, guitar, piano, and pedal steel. When asked about the name, McCauley’s alleged answer is as…