More info: Work will also be viewable online at aspenartmuseum.org
. Reservations for timed entry are recommended, as the museum is operating at a limited capacity due to COVID-19 public health restrictions.
Young people’s art is back in the Aspen Art Museum, filling two lower level galleries with more than 400 works, adorning the Veit Laurent Kurz sculptural installation from the museum’s recently concluded “Winterfest.”
The Roaring Fork Youth Art Expo asked artists from kindergarten through 12th grade to reflect, in pandemic-appropriate prompts, on what they miss, their favorite things or rooms and meals they enjoy.
The result is an immersive experience where a viewer can take in this massive volume of work while navigating Kurz’s sculptures and survey the pandemic experience of young people from Aspen to Glenwood Springs to Parachute.
Hours:
Closed Mondays
Installation view: Barbara Kasten, “Scenarios,” 2020.
Photo courtesy the AAM.
Mary Weatherford, “Blue Cut Fire,” 2017.
Flashe and neon on linen. 17 x 104 x 5 in.
Olivia Erlanger, “Roseville”, 2020
Plexiglass, architectural model, urethane resin, Dibond,
lichen, charcoal, wood, acrylic, paint, artificial snow #15
45 x 30 x 30 in.
Veit Laurent Kurz, “Window III (AOA Series),” 2018.
Acrylic, pen, chalk, ink and paper on canvas and wood.
The Aspen Art Museum (AAM) is an admission-free, globally engaged contemporary art museum, with community, education and member programs that provide ever-changing onsite and online exhibitions, workshops, and events.
Opened as the “Aspen Center for the Visual Arts” in 1979, the museum was officially accredited as the Aspen Art Museum in 1984. The AAM’s downtown building was designed by 2014 Pritzker Prize for Architecture winner Shigeru Ban and completed that same year with 100% private fun
Adam Stamp, “Old Finished Toys R’ Us Edifice,” 2021. (Courtesy image)
The Aspen Art Museum is encouraging young artists from Aspen to Rifle to submit artwork for its new Roaring Fork Youth Art Expo, to run Feb. 27 through March 14.
The student show, open to area K-12 students, marks the first time local student art will hang in the museum’s galleries since its new building opened in 2014 and the first time the museum made an open call for local student art since the Valley Kids Art Show was discontinued in 2005.
Los Angeles-based artist Adam Stamp is organizing the exhibition, titled “Still Lifes and Works from Home.” It will center around artwork created at home and inspired by three thematic prompts for works of varied sizes: something or someone you miss (8.5-by-11 inches); your favorite object or room in your home (11-by-17 inches); and a meal you enjoy eating (18-by-24 inches).
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