Ragtime, early jazz festival to be held
The Strater Hotel will host the third annual Durango Ragtime & Early Jazz Festival from March 20 to 22.
Festival-goers will be entertained by live music, symposiums, silent movies, after-hours parties in the Diamond Belle Saloon and more.
There are a variety of ways to enjoy the festival, from single-day tickets to full-festival passes. To purchase tickets, visit http://henrystratertheatre.com or call 375-7160.
Arts Center names MicroGrants awardees
Durango Arts Center MicroGrants, a funding program for artists in southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico, has named its latest grant recipients. MicroGrants distributes small but impactful grants to emerging and established artists to help further their work in rural Southwestern communities.
The $250 grant recipients are Page Elliott, Emily Haefner, Jerry McElroy and Deborah Sussex.
The $500 grant recipients are Adreana Cerda, Esther Greenfield, Devon Parson and Kevin Dean Ramler.
The $1,000 grant recipients are Arista Slater-Sandoval and The Sugar Rockets.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Sorrel Sky to feature artist Stephen Day
Sorrel Sky Gallery will feature artist Stephen Day for two shows in April.
Day’s work will be exhibited during the First Thursday ArtWalk from 5 to 7 p.m. April 2 in the Durango gallery, 828 Main Ave., and during the First Friday Art Walk from 5 to 7:30 p.m. April 3 in the Santa Fe gallery, 125 W. Palace Ave. in Santa Fe. The show will remain up through the end of April.
Day is a full-time artist in New Mexico. Primarily painting in oil, he says his subjects are from life, but landscape is his first love.
For more information, visit https://sorrelsky.com.
Landscape painting workshop to be held
Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave., will host “Elements in Landscape Painting,” a three-day workshop with artist Peggy Immel in which students will use field studies, photographs and sketches to develop studio landscape paintings, March 27-29 in Durango.
The gallery’s third annual Artists Workshop Series encourages artists to spend a weekend learning from a master and getting to know the arts community in both Durango and Santa Fe.
For more information or to register, call 247-3555. A list of workshops is available at www.sorrelsky.com.
Arts Center names in-residence artist
As the first Durango Arts Center-sponsored resident of 2015, Crystal Hartman of Durango will spend a week in her art at Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center in Mancos.
Hartman has been invited to exhibit a solo show of her drawings in Denver, opening on April 11 at Studio Colfax. She will use her residency to complete a large portion of the work for this show by studying insect pollination and its relationship to human life.
Applications are now being accepted for the next Durango Arts Center residency. There is no fee to apply, and the residency is open to Arts Center members and non-members. For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Navajo artist to present workshop
The Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will present “Working In Full Color – Exploring Monotypes” with Navajo artist Melanie Yazzie from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 25 and 26.
The workshop will introduce the monoprint and monotype methods and working with AKUA soy-based inks. Students will learn about making non-editioned prints using a variety of two or more technical approaches. These processes will be discussed and demonstrated in depth.
Works made in the workshop will be featured this summer in a group exhibition at the University of Colorado Boulder, where Yazzie is a professor of printmaking.
The cost for the workshop is $225 for Arts Center members and $250 for the general public. For more information or to register, visit www.DurangoArts.org.
Herald Staff
