Deadline today for fashion luncheon
Durango Friends of the Arts will hold its Fall Fashion Show and Luncheon and Silent Auction, “La Petite Robe Noire,” on Sept. 27 at the DoubleTree Hotel. The silent auction will begin at 10:30 a.m. and lunch will be served at noon.
Fashions will be presented by Appaloosa Trading Co., Blu Boutique, Dolce, Eureka!, Giddy Up 409, No Place Like Home, La Plata Gifts at the Doubletree Hotel, M. Moose, Overland Outfitters and Renae Mari.
Tickets cost $40, and the deadline to register is today.
For reservations, call Myriam at 375-0804 or email mharp4@bresnan.net.
Artists invited to apply for Snowdown exhibition
La Plata Open Space Conservancy is accepting submissions for the 20th annual Snowdown Fine Art Exhibition.
Selection will be Nov. 19. Selected artwork will be auctioned at the Exhibition to raise funds for land conservation in Southwest Colorado.
Artists will receive 50 percent of proceeds from the sale of their work.
For more information, email info@lposc.org, call 259-3415, or visit www.lposc.org.
Community Taste features local food, chefs
The fourth annual Community Taste will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Ridgewood Event Center at Blue Lake Ranch.
The event celebrates locally grown food prepared by local chefs.
Entertainment will be provided by Tim Sullivan & the Narrow Gauge Band.
Tickets cost $45 per person and are available at the Community Foundation office in Room 20A of the Smiley Building, 1309 East Third Ave., or by calling the office at 375-5807.
All proceeds benefit the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado.
The Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado is committed to increasing philanthropy in Southwest Colorado. It invests and manages contributions and awards grants to meet the needs of a five-county area.
In 2012, the foundation managed $3.4 million and infused more than $1 million in grants and scholarships into Southwest Colorado.
Arts Center to hold members-only exhibit
The Durango Arts Center invites all member artists to enter one piece of artwork, in any medium except video, for the nonjuried annual exhibit, “Sentinels of Change: Drought in the West.”
There is no entry fee for this exhibit.
The Members’ Exhibit will show Oct. 25 through Nov. 16. Artists may drop off artwork from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 22.
The exhibit opening and artists’ reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 25.
For more information, call 259-2606 or visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Author Givón to present re-release of Ute texts
The Ute Language Program and the Ute Museum will host a party from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the library room of the Ute Museum to celebrate the publication of the revised and expanded Ute Texts collection (núu-’apahapi pu-sariniya-qa-tu- po-’o-kwa-tu-).
This book is a revised, corrected and expanded edition of the Ute Traditional Narratives (“The Blue Book”) published by the tribe in 1985. All the oral text originally published in that “Blue Book” is included in the new one, together with several added texts from Southern Utes, Uintahs and Southern Paiutes. Ignacio author Tom Givón worked on the latest edition.
The stories in the book were transcribed from recorded tapes but otherwise are given very much the way they were told with little editorial tampering.
For more information, visit www.southernutemuseum.org.
Mesa Verde artist to show photos Thursday
Artist-in-Residence James Branaman will give a free lecture featuring his photography, including never-before-seen images of the park from his residency project, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Far View Lodge Library in Mesa Verde National Park.
The Florida-based photojournalist’s project focuses on combining two photographic techniques, light painting and astrophotography, often spending several hours working on a single image in the backcountry at night.
Branaman combines artistic training with visual journalism to tell the story of places in the present and past. He worked on similar projects as an artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain and Everglades national parks in 2012 and will continue his project at Acadia National Park in 2014.
The Artist-in-Residence program is managed by the nonprofit Mesa Verde Museum Association, the park’s educational partner that inspires life-long stewardship of the Mesa Verde region’s cultural and natural heritage.
Through MVMA’s operation of park bookstores, free or low-cost seminars, workshops, lectures and special programs, visitors gain a new, behind-the-scenes understanding of Mesa Verde. Proceeds from all association programs support Mesa Verde National Park.
Learn more at www.mesaverde.org.
Author C.J. Box to speak at Literary Festival
C.J. Box, New York Times best-selling author of Open Season, Breaking Point, Back of Beyond and The Highway, will be the featured author for the fourth annual Durango Public Library Literary Festival.
The festival will begin with a 5:30 p.m. opening reception Sept. 27, followed by a 7 p.m. presentation and book signing by Box.
The festival will continue with a Friends of the Durango Public Library benefit luncheon featuring Box from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 28. Tickets for the luncheon are on sale for $30 (cash or check) and may be purchased in person at the library.
After the luncheon will be the Local Authors Fair from 1 to 3 p.m. in the lobby.
For more information, call 375-3387 or visit www.durangopubliclibrary.org.
Miniatures club to donate dollhouse
The Four Corners Miniatures Club will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at a member’s home. The club is working on the interior design and layout of a 1-inch-scale wood dollhouse. The dollhouse will be fully furnished and decorated by club members and donated to a children’s facility in the Four Corners.
The Four Corners Miniatures Club is for dollhouse and miniaturists of all skill levels. Meetings are held monthly and include workshops in creating a wide variety of miniatures.
For more information and directions to Saturday’s meeting, contact Marilyn White at 259-9401 or email paintedady49@frontier.net. To learn more about the club, visit www.4cornersminis.com.
Herald Staff
