The 2011 BIG FEED
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Photograph from a previous BIG FEED; Richard Saxton Next month (October 15-16) the M12 art collective will host their annual BIG FEED celebration at the Yuma, Colorado Fairgrounds….
The Yuma Project: Adrianna Santiago
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Adrianna with Yuma residents in Shop All; Richard Saxton Today we have the honor of presenting Adrianna Santiago’s work from Yuma. Below we’ll feature Ms. Santiago, in some…
The Yuma Project: You Jin Seo
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
At You Jin Seo’s installation; Richard Saxton For more information on the work of Richard Saxton and his students in Yuma, Colorado, please see our introductory article. Today…
The Vernacular: A Freak Of The Wild And Woolly West
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Casper, Wyoming Sept. 6, 1914 Dear Ma: At last I am here and like it very much. This is a great country. The people are so sociable one…
Introducing The Yuma Project
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Yuma, Colorado; from the Baseline Group flickr page Today we’re excited to present The Yuma Project, a collaboration between art students at The University of Colorado-Boulder and the…
Contexts: Benton Flippen and Gillian Welch
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
photograph courtesy the Music Maker Relief Foundation Today the Southern Folklife Collection is reporting that the legendary Mount Airy fiddler Benton Flippen has passed away. We had a…
From Extraction to Preservation in Colorado
Monday, June 13, 2011
This morning on NPR’s Neda Ulaby submitted a report from Ignacio, Colorado, the site of the recently-completed Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum–a $38 million dollar building that…
Filming The Land Arts Of The American West
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Sunny Tang at Point Sublime, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 9-2-2010; Land Arts Filmmaker Sam Douglas is currently raising funds on the USA Artists crowd-funding site…
Contexts: Crooked Roads, Quilts and Meth
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
From considering Gabriel García Márquez’s imagined Macondo to the confluences of Christo and federal land-use, we turn today in our Contexts series to one of the most valuable…
Native American Basketry: A Living Tradition
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Autry National Center in Los Angeles is currently offering The Art of Native American Basketry: A Living Tradition, a wide-ranging look into the basket arts across cultures…
