From Mary Beth Dodson: Last weekend, I went to the Loveland Sculpture Show with Mary Tanner and LynnDee Nielson, both sculptors in their own right. But first we registered at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver and spent the first day touring the new wing of the Denver Art Museum. If you haven’t seen it yet, make arrangements to go! The architecture itself is mind-blowing. Looking down from the fourth floor over-look made me so dizzy I had to hold on. The gift shop was fun. We toured the new wing, watched a couple of videos of how artists worked and arranged their studios. The most memorable art work we saw was was of the Clay Woman, a massive sculpture built on site. It was a Native American Story Teller with children. It had been constructed of straw in netting, then
coated with clay. My friends standing beside her were dwarfed by her size. We toured the Native American section, with totem poles, Indian beading and dolls, pottery.
The next day we spent the day touring the tents of the nationally famous Loveland Sculpture Show. Sculptors came from all over the U.S. and the average price of the works was $3,000. There were sculptures of bronze, glass, clay, wood, numerous other metals. After seeing every piece on display we walked to an adjacent park for the Loveland Art in the Park....again, overwhelming.
The next day we drove to Ft. Collins for West Fest, an annual art on the streets event. Two hundred bands played an hour each,on ten stages over a period of two days. My grandson, Cory Call, has a band called Arliss Nancy, and won a gold medal. It is composed of blocks and blocks of booths set up in Old Town, with art, vendors, food booths, and of course, music. Any of these events could have been a trip in itself, but we did three long days in a row. Oh, and went to Jerry’s Artarama in Ft. Collins for our own art supplies as well.
But what memories we made!
what a wonderful outing
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