One Year Ago Today

December 20th, 2007 admin

It was one year ago I first dipped my toe into the Fort Collins art blogging pool. And looking back at those early posts it is good to see how much it has evolved. Though I still feel I am finding my blog voice and I have kept things pretty safe this far. I know it will continue to evolve and that voice I am looking for will be found.

Thanks to everyone who reads this little blog. I do appreciate the comments and support I continue to receive. It is because of you I will continue to work at this and continue to develop it into a good source of information on art and artists in Fort Collins.

At the end of the day all I want to do is help artists in this community do what they do.

Raise your glass to another year of art palaver!

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Oil Painting Workshop

December 19th, 2007 admin

What: Oil Painting Workshop
Where: Roundhouse Art Gallery, 116 N. College Suite 3 (Avery Building)
When: January 15th, 2007, 6-9PM
Who: Instructed by Heather Burger

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Fort Collins Art In Public Places Board Meetings

December 18th, 2007 admin

I have been planning to attend an Art in Public Places board meeting for the past couple of months. I was going to do this so I could report to you, my ever faithful readers, what is discussed at those meetings. The website states that the meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of every month. But yet again they have canceled the meeting on the 19th because they already had it on the 12th. This has happened the past couple of months and is quite frustrating. How do you cancel a meeting and have it before the appointed time? Maybe they are trying to hide something? After all they are spending a lot of our tax payer dollars.

Click here to see the boards web page. I will keep trying so we can all learn what goes on in those meetings. And yes I have emailed them using the contact information posted on the site and I have yet to receive a response.

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2008 Pedestrian Paver Project

December 17th, 2007 admin

Between the ages of 3 and 18? Interested in having your work be a small part of the Fort Collins landscape? Then you might be interested in this project…

Project: The City’s Transportation Department works to provide safe pedestrian access by creating new pedestrian routes as well as improving existing areas. The City requests black & white line drawings, either representational or abstract concepts, demonstrating a transportation theme, or life in Fort Collins. The winning designs will be sandblasted into granite pavers and placed in various sidewalks. The artwork will be a signature piece in Fort Collins and be highly visible to the public.

Submission Deadline: Must be received by 5 p.m. on January 7, 2008

 Click here for the pdf application.

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Who Is Exploiting Who?

December 16th, 2007 admin

This morning Art News Blog had a post about Blocks of Poop by Santiago Sierra. The work is just as the title states, Human feces harvested from India in the form of huge blocks. Would you go see it? What kind of statement is it making? Am I giving it undo credit by even writing about it? Is art like this just created for the media attention?

Read the post here, and comment on what you think of art of this nature?

(Thanks Art News Blog)

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Fort Collins Coffee House Offers Free Music Download

December 14th, 2007 admin

Fort Collins Non-Profit Coffee House, Everyday Joe’s, has released a 19 song CD download of Christmas tunes. This is part of the statement released by Everyday Joe’s:

“One part of the vision of Everyday Joe’s is to give back to the community as much as possible…whether that be monetarily, through in-kind donations, not charging for the use of the building, and now, through a free CD compilation for you.

Love, Everyday Joe’s- vol. 1: No More Gloom is now up for download by clicking here. This is an idea that had been brewing in our minds for some time and to see it come to fruition is fantastic. All the music on the album was donated by musicians who have played here. This will only be available for a limited time (until about Jan. 1) so don’t dilly dally. Get downloading!”

The compilation includes Aboyandhiskite, Winderous Igloos, Eric Peters, Josh Dillard, Luke Flowers, Trace Bundy, Eva Holbrook, Kate Hurley, The Blackthorn Project, Tim Coons, Listener Project, The Apprentice, Jeremy Lister, Jonah Werner, Andrew Osenga, Katie Herzig, Aaron Strumpel, and Sleeping At Last.

The download is complete with album art. Click here to get it.

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Christmas Wish

December 14th, 2007 admin

Wondering what to get your favorite Fort Collins Art Blog? How about…

FCMOCA Gift Memberships

FCMOCA memberships make a perfect holiday gift. We will send a special holiday notecard acknowledging your gift, along with a membership card to the gift member recipient. If you email the form below back before December 17th, recipients will receive their gift by the 25th. We encourage you to lock in your membership rate this year. In 2008, membership rates will increase.

Your also invited to visit the museum with friends and family during the holidays. The museum will be closed December 22nd and 25th, but will remain open from December 26th through the 29th. A museum visit is a perfect holiday activity!

With all our best wishes,

FCMOCA Staff

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Join or Renew online: www.fcmoca.org

FCMOCA, 201 S College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80524 or call Gloria Boresen at 970-482-2787

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The Writer’s Strike Continues

December 12th, 2007 admin

And bringing us new and clever forms of entertainment…

Click here to see the Speechless videos.

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Issue 6 Of Ruminate Literature Magazine Released

December 11th, 2007 admin

This just in from the editors of Ruminate Magazine, a literary magazine published in Fort Collins:

Issue 06 is being released this week! It features exciting art from Brittney Williams and Vincent Berquez, fiction from Stephanie Dickinson and Colleen J. Clayton, poetry from Paul Willis and Sally Rosen Kindred, and nonfiction from Jessie van Eerden and Bethany Carlson. And all of it engages the theme of “epiphany” in suprising and ruminative ways. We hope you will enjoy.

Here are some reviews of Ruminate:

The well-respected literary magazine database “New Pages” reviewed RUMINATE for the second time saying “RUMINATE does what all good art should do: it challenges expectations. This magazine provides a refreshing look at all aspects of religious faith, without sounding preachy. Anyone interested in spirituality, Christian or otherwise, would find something to appreciate here. Just prepare to be surpised.” (New Pages, Oct. 2007)

Otto Selles reviewed RUMINATE in the November issue of “The Banner,” a denominational magazine of the Christian Reformed Church. He wrote: “Only a year old, RUMINATE is establishing itself as one of the finest Christian magazines dedicated to the ties between faith, art, and literature. Produced in Fort Collins, Colorado, the magazine blends reproductions of paintings and photographs with poems and short stories through a classy design.” (The Banner, Nov. 2007)

Click here for Ruminate’s Website.

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Bluegrass In Bellvue

December 10th, 2007 admin

What: The Fort Collins Bluegrass Trio at The Bellvue Store
When: Friday December 14th from 6:30PM to 8:30PM
Why: The store has over 20 artists represented over the next two weekends leading up to Christmas.

The Bellvue Store will also be open the 14th from 5-9PM, the 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd from 10AM to 5PM.

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