Article by Stephanie Schuck
Local Art Scene – June 2002 – Colorado Central Magazine
MANY A GREAT IDEA first surfaced on a beverage napkin while the creator wielded a pen in one hand and a cocktail in the other. And rumor has it that Salida’s Artwalk had similar origins. “I think it basically started over a couple of beers by Michael Boyd and Michael Parry,” says Geraldine Alexander, who, along with artist Boyd, co-owns the Salida working studio, cultureclash.
Brief by Central Staff
Local Art Scene – November 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
Creative, sure. Fresh air, indeed. But affordable?
The third edition of The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America has just come out, and Salida has moved up in the ratings. It wasn’t listed at all in the first edition, ranked 41st in the second, and now holds 30th place.
Another town in our area, the old silver camp of Creede near the headwaters of the Rio Grande, made its first appearance, coming in 82nd.
Brief by Central Staff
Local art scene – April 1998 – Colorado Central Magazine
Art in High, Dry Places
The San Luis Valley sits just upriver from Taos and Santa Fé, and the connection appears to be growing.
The Denver Post featured Valley art in a March 15 article, which observed that “The arid, mountainous landscape and the multicultural mix of Anglo, Spanish, and Indian traditions that inspired the Taos school of Southwestern art … exist here, too. Even the culture of Taos’s fabled artist colony earlier this century has been somewhat replicated…”
Brief by Central Staff
Local art scene – August 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
We’ve lost track of how many art galleries Salida has, and any count would be obsolete before we could publish it anyway, since new ones appear constantly.
It must be a considerable number, though, as evidenced by a short article in the June edition of Lapidary Journal, a national monthly magazine which covers gems, jewelry arts, beads, and minerals: