Open Shutter to open two shows
The Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., will present an exhibit of color photo transfers by Michigan-born, now-local artist Arista Slater-Sandoval, in a show titled “Segmentations” in the Red Room, Aug. 7 through Oct. 14.
Slater-Sandoval works at the intersection of alternative photographic processes and contemporary media. By using photography as a base from which to experiment, along with contemporary methodologies, she builds photographically influenced objects and prints. Her work is largely autobiographic.
Open Shutter also presents an exhibit of color photo collages by Boston artist Fran Forman in a show titled “Out from Under,” which begins Aug. 7 and continues through Oct. 14.
Forman constructs alternative realities with found images as well as her own photography.
An artist’s reception with the opportunity to meet Forman and Slater-Sandoval will take place from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 7. Forman will be signing her new photography book, Escape Artist.
For more information, call 382-8355 or visit www.openshuttergallery.com.
First Thursdays Art Walk to be held
First Thursdays Art Walk will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at participating galleries and alternative art spaces around Durango.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/DGOFirstThursdaysArtWalk.
DAC Applause to perform productions
Alpine Bank and Durango Arts Center will present the Durango Arts Center Applause! performing art camp productions of “101 Dalmatians, Kids” and “Once on this Island, Jr.” at 1 p.m. Thursday, 1 and 7 p.m. Aug. 7 and 1 p.m. Aug. 8.
Tickets are $8. Children ages 4 to 6 will recreate the Disney story of the “101 Dalmatians.” The second production, produced by children ages 11 to 16, will be “Once on this Island, Jr.” which is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid.
For tickets, visit Durango Arts Center at 802 East Second Ave., www.DurangoArts.tix.com or call 259-2606.
Applications sought for artist residency
Applications are now being accepted for an artists’ residency partnership with Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center.
The applications deadline is Aug. 7. In 2014, the Durango Arts Center launched a partnership with Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center to support an artists’ residency program for artists of various mediums living and working in La Plata, Archuleta, Montezuma, Dolores and San Juan counties.
DAC and Willowtail offer one-week residencies.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org or email Cristie Scott at cristie@durangoarts.org.
Artwork sought for DAC exhibition
Members of the Durango Arts Center are invited to enter one piece of artwork, in any medium except film, for this year’s “Members’ Exhibition: The Natural World: A Fragile Harmony” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday.
There is no entry fee for DAC members for this exhibit, which will open Aug. 7 with an artist reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and run through Sept. 2.
The theme this year is “The Natural World: A Fragile Harmony.” Although this exhibit is not juried, there will be cash prizes for Best of Show and second- and third-place winners. The $250 Durango Chamber of Commerce “Reflections of Durango” award will be given to a piece of artwork in the exhibition and will be reproduced and distributed to all Chamber of Commerce members.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Herald Staff
