Painting - The Durango Herald

Rawling opens full-service art exhibit with ‘Tracks’ at Studio &

Show features abstract painting, music

DATE: Feb 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Festival celebrates plein air painting

Create Art and Tea hosts juried event, exhibit and paint-out

DATE: Aug 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Paul Folwell opens studio for weekendlong show, celebration

Annual event now in its 29th year

DATE: Jul 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Artist Mariah Kaminsky celebrates series with pop-up show

‘Feminine Rising’ exhibit will be held July 29 at Durango Coffee Co.

DATE: Jul 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Photos: Artist paints ‘Love Letters’ in downtown Durango

DATE: Jul 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sorrel Sky Gallery turns the big 2-0

Birthday bash will be held Friday to celebrate milestone

DATE: Jun 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Photos: Painting sunflowers for the people of Ukraine

DATE: Mar 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local News

Downtown galleries open their doors for Fall Gallery Walk

Annual event to be held Sept. 17

DATE: Sep 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Artist Paul Folwell reopens studio doors for annual show

Show held online last year because of pandemic

DATE: Jul 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

To the moon: Durango artist’s painting to be launched in space as part of lunar time capsule

Mariah Kaminsky’s ‘The Hug’ part of The Lunar Codex project

DATE: Jun 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Bloomfield artist puts Sleeping Ute Mountain on exhibit in Oklahoma

The man was invited to participate in the Prix de West Art Show

DATE: Jun 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

College wraps up spring free lecture series with van Gogh

A conversation about van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” will be the topic of the final virtual presentation in the Fort Lewis College free lecture series at 7 p.m. Thursday. Now in i...

DATE: Apr 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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Colorado history gets weird, wild, wacky at Fashion Do’s and Don’tsAnnual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Cowboys. Fancy ladies. Gold miners. Even-toed ungulates that some in Durango might consider more like rats.Where can you find a runway show that takes you on a whirlwind tour through the weird, wacky and wildly exaggerated 150 years of Colorado history? Only at Durango’s annual Fashion Do’s and Don’ts, held Wednesday, where models and audience members donned costumes celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial – the theme of this year’s two-week Snowdown celebration.Standout acts included the Ghosts of Durango, which featured four of Durango’s most famous ghosts: a Rochester hotel ghost in a Victorian get-up of a more “modern” variation; the Strater Hotel’s head of housekeeping, also head of more discreet services; a young girl haunting El Rancho bathroom; and Sheriff Bob Thompson, killed in a 1906 gunfight. according to emcee Suzan Lane. A Another act was the secret circus society, featuring Rubi Starr, Jeni Gross, Tabatha Joy Bettin, Adrienne Young and Ethan Deffenbaugh dressed as a car and the roadside pests better known as deer. Group members said the inspiration for the costume came from lived experiences driving the Durango roads. The two-person Cantine Couture act starred Leslie Ponce and Tyler Frakes in an homage to the plentiful variety of Mexican restaurants found in any Colorado town. Ponce, dressed in comically large Mexican pointy cowboy boots, ambled down the runway as if taking a stroll under the hot, dusty, high-altitude sun, while Frakes flitted about the stage in a bright yellow salsa dress. Ponce said this years costume had been tough to decide, but the final decision was inspired by TikTok videos of Mexican cowboys in pointy boots. This was the duo’s third year strutting down the runway. Why they keep coming back for more, Frakes said laughing, was, “for the fame, the glory and the attention.”

Fashion Do’s and Don'ts has been one of the most highly anticipated Snowdown events since it’s inception in the 1990s. It has more than doubled in size over the past several decades. Last year, there were a record number of models, and in order to keep the event at a manageable size, this years fashion show was the first one to require the acts to audition. But many of the models were unphased by the change. “It was actually easy,” said Jodi Zuber, one part of the two-person duo that made up the 1950s Texas Invader Ski Couple. Her partner-in-costume, Danny Jaques, said they had been doing this for several years, and it’s good with everything going on in the world to “get some levity and let your hair down.” The performers were not the only ones in costume. Audience members also dressed in a wide variety of unique takes on what makes Colorado, Colorado. JonBenet Ramsey made a miraculous appearance, being played by an 82-year-old woman, as did Casa Bonita, an ensemble that included a taco, sopaipilla and gorilla in chains – to name some of the characters. By the end of the show, people were in high spirits, as usual. “It was just delightful,” said a first-time audience member. If blessed with the chance to get the much coveted tickets – he said he would jump on it. jbowman@durangoherald.com

Annual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Photos: Snowdown 2026 Fashion Do’s and Don’ts

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns

Rawling opens full-service art exhibit with ‘Tracks’ at Studio &

Festival celebrates plein air painting

Paul Folwell opens studio for weekendlong show, celebration

Artist Mariah Kaminsky celebrates series with pop-up show

Photos: Artist paints ‘Love Letters’ in downtown Durango

Sorrel Sky Gallery turns the big 2-0

Photos: Painting sunflowers for the people of Ukraine

Downtown galleries open their doors for Fall Gallery Walk

Artist Paul Folwell reopens studio doors for annual show

To the moon: Durango artist’s painting to be launched in space as part of lunar time capsule

Bloomfield artist puts Sleeping Ute Mountain on exhibit in Oklahoma

College wraps up spring free lecture series with van Gogh

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