Last weekend, August 13, 14 & 15, was the Telluride Festival of the Arts in Telluride Mountain Village. It was a nice event to be sure, put on once again by the Cherry Creek Art Festival organization, and they did a top notch job. The festival had a couple of major problems, though, one mine, and one theirs.
Mine was that I was sick...I found out right at the end of the show that I had pneumonia. Not much to be done about that but to suffer through, which I did. Many thanks to Sue and Dr. Dan for putting us up anyway, and to Dan for his medical advice. I hope you are staying healthy!
The festival's major flaw was that hardly anyone showed up! I participated in this show last year, and was not expecting huge droves of people, but I did expect a lot more than what we got. It was a bit like the short film "The Lost People of Mountain Village", although not quite as bad. It was a shame, as there was a lot of really good work at the show. I'm not sure how (or if ) the show was advertised, but it clearly wasn't very effective. Even during the Grand Tasting event Saturday night, when some people actually showed up, the focus was on food and wine, with the visual art being more of a side show. Maybe that's appropriate for a rag tag bunch of freaks who make our living this way, but it doesn't help to pay the rent.
While I wish more people had shown up, some of those who did really appreciated the work...so thanks to you for coming and checking it out. I got to look around a bit and here is a selection of some of my favorite work from the show, by no means an exhaustive list:
Jackson Schwartz- cool glass. This guy needs a website!
To see the rest of the artists on the festival website, click
here.
This weekend, in between the Crested Butte Arts Festival and the Telluride Festival of the Arts, I'll be working at my other job. Plenty of people have two jobs, but I don't know many who like their other job as much as I do. Mine is working for Alison White Photography, my wife's company. Not only do I get to work with my lovely wife, I get to figure out lighting problems and sometimes get behind a camera. I find photography to be a good counterpoint to furniture design and making...a creative cross pollination of sorts. Both deal with light in their own interesting ways- one using surfaces and textures to shape and direct light, and the other using light on an object or person to create or evoke a mood or feeling. I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with Alison, who's work continually amazes me, and also to have a bunch of friends who are also really good photographers. You can see some of Alison's work here or here.
