May 1st, 2008 Daryle Dickens
1. Can you carve within the lines?
5. A place you will never find the work of Darren Mahuron. (His stuff is here.)
Can’t forget about number…
6. Who ever wants to sit down and argue about this list I’ll buy the beer. (I can start it off by saying #6 should be #1.)
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March 3rd, 2008 admin
Do you know about the Clyfford Still Museum? You will after reading this:
The Clyfford Still Museum was founded to promote public and scholarly understanding of the late artist’s work and legacy, through the presentation and preservation of the Clyfford Still Estate, totaling approximately 2,400 artworks bequeathed to the City of Denver in 2004.
Considered one of the most important painters of the twentieth century, Still (1904-1980) was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II.
Still’s estate—now understood to be 94 percent of the artist’s total output—as well as his extensive archive, have been sealed off from the public since 1980. The Clyfford Still Museum will be located in Denver, Colorado, in the heart of the Civic Center Cultural Complex, near the Denver Art Museum and its new Daniel Libeskind-designed building, the Denver Public Library designed by Michael Graves, and the Colorado History Museum. For more information about the Clyfford Still Museum, please visit www.clyffordstillmuseum.org.
So why am I bringing up the Clyfford Still Museum? Today the museum offered press releases of the museum’s design. Ground is expected to break early next year with the museum opening in 2010. It will be located near the Denver Art Museum and Denver Library and have 10,000 square feet of gallery space.
Ok so now you know a bit more about the new Cyfford Still Museum. A bit more. Go to www.clyffordstillmuseum.org if you want to learn more.
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January 28th, 2008 admin
When I was a kid my dad and I would go to the movies a lot. I can remember one time when we set out to see The Empire Strikes Back after it had been re-released into theaters. Back before we all had home movie players of some sort this is how you got to see a movie again. Somehow we got our times mixed up and the movie showing was Raiders of the Lost Ark. A movie that was not even on my kid radar at the time, life was all about Star Wars. But since we were there and it was a single screen theater, we decided to see it. Which turned out to be serendipity.
Why am I telling you this? Because of one line in that movie. A mere moment in the film that I always wait for, to this day, every time I watch Raiders of the Lost Ark. It is about 2/3 into the movie. Indy has found the Ark, had it taken away from him, destroyed the plane it was supposed to leave on and is now hiding from the Nazis. His friend Sallah informs him that the Nazis have loaded the Ark onto a truck. Indiana then replies, "Meet me at Omar’s. I am going after that truck."
Sallah asks, "How?"
Indiana, "I don’t know, I am making this up as I go."
That is the line that over the years I have always loved to hear. I think because it sums up how I do a lot of things in life. Like this blog for example. The dialogue of my movie might go something like this:
Daryle: "Through a blog I am going to help the art and artists of Fort Collins."
Sallah: "How?"
Daryle: "I don’t know I am making this up as I go."
I bring this up because I have been getting asked about Art Palaver and ZAF622 quite a bit lately. What is my plan? Where are they going? Questions of that nature. I thought I would do some thinking out loud to help with those questions. I don’t have a plan. I have ideas. I have dreams. I have hopes. But I do not have a plan mapped out. I can almost hear some of you screaming at the screen, "You have to have a plan!" After all failing to plan is planning to fail. There is wisdom in that. But for me it was more important to act than to plan.
I do know that I want to help get the word out about art happenings around town. And I know I want to bring people together. And I believe a blog can do those things. I good blog can be a community of people having a constant dialogue. Art Palaver is not at the point yet but I believe one day it will be. I have talked to people who have made connections with each other because of ZAF622 and Art Palaver so I know it is possible, we just need to keep working at it.
It is important for me to know what you want to hear about. Do you like the artist interviews of ZAF622? (they will be back very very soon by the way.) Do you like hearing about art openings around town or do you see enough of that elsewhere? Do you want more links to interesting things going on in the larger art world? Are you looking for grant and funding information? How about how-to stuff? What mediums are you most interested in? Do you understand blogs and how they work? Do you know you can get each post emailed to you? Or read them via an RSS reader? Talk to me. You can either leave a comment in the form below or email me at daryle@artpalaver.com.
Bottom line I believe in art. I believe in artists. I believe in community. I am doing what I can.
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January 25th, 2008 admin
www.myspace.com/katalistkonsepts
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January 21st, 2008 admin
The Coloradoan reported over the weekend that Fort Collins band Tickle Me Pink has signed a 5 year recording contract with Wind-Up Records. This should be viewed as good news for all Fort Collins artists.
Read the Coloradoan article here.
Say hello to Tickle Me Pink here.
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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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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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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?
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November 15th, 2007 admin
Ah the Fort Collins Art Festival, that great time of year when the city’s artists show off their work to the community and the nation. People of all types come out to see art and meet artists. Discoveries are made, deals are struck, connections begin, and inspiration is in the air. And all those people from around the country who travel here to visit our city for it’s well known art, doing a little shopping in Old Town, and touring a brewery or two. The weekend is always a good time and quite a gem on the landscape of Fort Collins’ culture.
Hey wait a minute… There is no Fort Collins Art Festival. Sure we have a few events around where artists can rent a booth such as New West Fest. But there is no weekend that is accessible to artists of all levels and people in any tax bracket that really brings out and showcases the art community in Fort Collins. No one time people from around the world could come to Fort Collins and know they would see what we have to offer when it comes to art.
I am not complaining. I am starting dialogue to create change. I believe all the people of Fort Collins would benefit from a city wide Art Festival.
What do you think? Leave a comment and let us all know.
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November 13th, 2007 admin
Summit Studios is a photography studio in Old Town Fort Collins. The works produced at the studio are created by the husband and wife team of Darren and Lisa Mahuron. Their work is always inspiring with a “how did they do that?” element to most images.
I wanted to share some of Summit Studios latest work:
Click here to see more of Summit Studios work.
And if your an artist in or around Fort Collins and would like your work featured on Art Palaver just send me an email and we will go from there.
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