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Mel Strawn: Artist and Activist

March 1, 2021July 1, 2020 by Mike Rosso

By Robert Parker Editor’s note: Renowned Salida artist Mel Strawn passed away on May 17, 2020 at the age of 90. We reached out to local artist and climate activist Robert Parker for his thoughts about this talented and beloved man. Mel Strawn was nationally known as an accomplished non-objective artist and printmaker. He was …

About the Cover Photographer: Teresa Golden

July 17, 2020April 17, 2019 by Mike Rosso

Teresa Golden lives in the small mountain community of Gunnison. Her love of photography began as a child, and was influenced by many family members. Her grandfather showed her photography books of mountain scenery at the tender age of four years old. Her parents gave her a Nikon camera for her sixteenth birthday. Her grandmother …

About the Cover Photographer: Dan Downing

April 14, 2020November 14, 2018 by Mike Rosso

Although my fascination with photography was born at a very early age, it did not become reality until 1980 when I purchased a studio and began making my living as a photographer. Soon my work was becoming recognized both in my native state of Kansas and at a national level as well. My portrait work …

About the Cover Artist: Sally Mather

September 20, 2016June 20, 2016 by Mike Rosso

Although I spent my professional life as a nurse-midwife providing women’s health care, the need to be creative has always been pervasive throughout my life. Taking art classes and workshops through the years, I have explored many different mediums – clay, print making, oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors and mixed media.

About the Cover Photographer: Eve Nagode

August 17, 2016March 1, 2016 by Mike Rosso

I like to tell stories, sometimes in a single image and sometimes as a series. I treat my subjects like digital paintings inspired by real-life events. Careful thought is put into composition, texture, color and light. Themes range from a century-old farm to jubilant, wild polar bears playing in the snow. If my photographs speak to …

About the Cover Photographer: Steve Sunday

August 15, 2016January 1, 2016 by Mike Rosso

Steve Sunday’s passion for photography and the outdoors began when he was a teenager living in Bailey, Colorado in the early 1980s. After graduating from Platte Canyon High School, he served for six years as a photographer in the U.S. Navy. Answering a strong call to return to the mountains, Steve hiked the Appalachian Trail …

A Docent Out of Retirement

November 13, 2015November 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Photographer Grey Villet had a saying: “Every story should be as real as real could get.”

Grey was an award-winning lensman for Life magazine back in the 1960s, and he never had any idea that someday I’d be representing his photos at the annual Art for the Sangres here in Westcliffe.

Each year the San Isabel Land Protection Trust organizes Art for the Sangres as its major fundraiser for the year. The annual art sale brings together artists of many mediums from all over the country, as well as locally, to raise funds for land and water conservation in Southern Colorado. Celebrating its 20th year in 2015, San Isabel has administered 128 conservation easements protecting 40,000 acres of land, 174 water rights and 61 miles of stream frontage.

Q & A with Photographer Bill Ellzey

June 16, 2015March 1, 2015 by Mike Rosso

Crestone resident Bill Ellzey has travelled the planet as a photographer and teacher. His works from India, China, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Alaska, Egypt, Ireland, Bhutan, Zambia, Chilean Patagonia and the American West have been published in the U.S. and abroad. Ellzey’s images can be found in magazines, books, calendars, newspapers, catalogs, annual reports, galleries and …