John Hazlehurst
A few days ago two back-to-back emails popped up on my screen â the first from the Denver Art Museum and the second from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.
The FACâs missive announced a summer show featuring âforty-eight works from renowned photographer Ansel Adamsâ Museum Set, a series which he felt best represented his lifeâs work.â The traveling show was âorganized by Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA, in association with Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.â Itâll be up from May 26 to Sept. 4.Â
Created more than a decade ago, the show is well traveled, having been exhibited in scores of small museum venues throughout the country (including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins in 2011 and the Foothills Arts Center in Golden in 2016). For the FAC, it seems like a worthwhile but somewhat lazy endeavor, prepackaged, pleasant and predictable. Think of it as summer brea
Colorado Farm & Art Market
Spring markets: Every other Sunday, May 9 and May 23, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Hillside Community Center, 925 S. Institute St.
Summer markets: Wednesdays, 3-7 p.m., June 9-Oct. 9, Pioneers Museum, 215 S. Tejon St.; Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Margarita at Pine Creek, 7350 Pine Creek Road
Winter Market: Cottonwood Center for the Arts
COVID protocols: Social distancing required, sanitizer available, samples and other food to-go only, staff and vendor masks required, customer masks strongly recommended.
Amy Gillentine, Publisher and Executive EditorÂ
As the pandemic winds down (and donât we all wish it would just be over already?), thoughts here at theÂ
Indy are turning to a season much different than the socially distanced, way-too-quiet, anxiety-filled summer of 2020.
And we decided what we need â what the entire city needs â is music. And lots of it.Â
So, weâre introducing Music at the
Indy. (Yes, actually AT the Indy: 235 S. Nevada Ave.) Weâre bringing local bands to our awesome offices â the big church across the street from the Pioneers Museum. People can shop at the Wednesday-afternoon farmers market at the museum and then head over the third Wednesday of every month for some music, food â and maybe, a libation or two.
oath of office on April 20 at the Pioneers Museum.
Members later elected new leadership. Tom Strand will serve as Council president, and Richard Skorman as president pro tem. Wayne Williams was elected to chair the Colorado Springs Utilities Board, and Mike OâMalley will serve as vice chair.
On April 23, former President Trumpâs
Navigable Waters Protection Rule went into effect in Colorado, stripping some
25,000 miles of streams, rivers and wetlands of
Clean Water Act protections due to an appeals court lifting an earlier stay preventing the rule from becoming effective.
The
2020 Census has determined that Colorado will gain its eighth seat in the
Katrina âKatâ Miller-Stevens spent her young life moving frequently, as the daughter of a political science professor who taught at colleges and universities in Arkansas, Illinois, Wyoming and Utah. Following in her fatherâs footsteps, Miller-Stevens is an associate professor with Colorado Collegeâs Department of Economics and Business. She earned her undergraduate degree in history from Colorado State University, her masterâs in nonprofit management from Regis University and her Ph.D. in public affairs from the University of Colorado, Denver.Â
Her academic focus includes nonprofits, business management, public policy, social movements and collaborative causes. Sheâs especially interested in comparisons between benefit corporations and nonprofit organizations.Â