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Play dress-up, get creative with your formal attire, and come to Studio& this Friday, March 11th to help us celebrate turning 6! Since March 11, 2010, it has been our pleasure to serve Durango with exhibitions, concerts, performances, classes, and conversations that couldn’t have been possible without the participation and engagement of our community. Please join us as we say THANK YOU for making the last six years possible.
One of the most challenging yet satisfying parts of putting on shows at Studio & is selecting artists for our group and themed shows. Our talent pool is large and varied, and to work toward a selected theme or be given a particular artistic task can be difficult for artists and curators alike. But we have found time and again that the artists of Durango have stepped up to each challenge and have continually surprised us all with their creativity and execution.
SO FAR: RECONSTRUCTING 40 Years should prove to be no different. Five artists, all high school graduates in 1994, and all turning 40 this year, present a look at their collective progress from children of the eighties to working Durango artists in 2016. The show will feature sculpture, vector graphics, literature, video, collage and photo.
Check out this interesting piece on a lesser-known of the greats– Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-tragedy-of-avant-garde-artist-ernst-kirchner/
Much of what we remember of that glorious decade that brought us Flock of Seagulls, Mister Mister, and ALF we might like to forget. But at a party a few days ago, to kick off our week of Snowdown celebrating, when a blonde guy with his gelled hair and polo shirt collar sticking up above a pastel turquoise sweater vest offered me a friendship bracelet from his neon pink fanny pack, I knew all was well in Durango with this week’s look back to the 80′s. A pink bow prom dress,a Harlem Globetrotter wearing her zipper pocket ‘Roo sneakers, a California Raisin. And this is only the beginning. Those of us in Durango this week should consider ourselves lucky to be in a place that allows itself, if only for a few days, to not take itself so seriously. To get creative, to pull out all the stops. We all there’s plenty of time for being serious, and plenty to be serious about, but this week, let’s let out our A-Team, let’s wear those shorty short O.P.’s like Magnum P.I., and be sure to give ALF a high five when you see him on the street.
STUDIO & was born in March of 2010, and next week, we celebrate five years of creating, exhibiting, promoting, and engaging ART. Much of it seems like a dream – the kind where interesting surprises wait around every corner and you wake up feeling part confused, part giddy, and hope to pick up right where you left off next time you fall asleep.
One day at STUDIO &, you walk past plaster mountains. Another day, you watch a woman with pink paint running down her thigh as she throws blue eggs at the wall. You bring an item to a shrine honoring death, and a skeleton puppet, nine feet tall, dances for you. You have your photo taken with Andre Agassi. You ride a flying bicycle. The American flag flies upside down, and Teddy Roosevelt wears a ski mask. On a warm summer evening, a gorilla leads you outside the gallery, hangs an armadillo pinata from a tree and beats it with a stick until limes, garlic, and radishes spill out.
Let’s not wake up from this one; join us in the dream. And if you are one of the many who have joined us already, it is your artistic, financial, spiritual, and psychic support that has made our first five years possible. We offer you our utmost gratitude, and look forward to keepin’ it weird with you for a long time to come.
The Bizarre Bazaar
December 12 • 5-9pm
December 13 • 10am-6pm
December 14 • 11am-3pm
Studio & • 1027 Main Ave • Durango, Colorado
We are very excited about the upcoming Bizarre Bazaar. If you didn’t get to experience it last year, think of an American holiday bazaar crossed with a Turkish bazaar. We have invited 22 artists from around the region to cram into Studio & hawk their wares for 3 days.
The idea is to help put unique and handmade artwork in one place so you can give the gift of local art to those on your list this year. You will get to meet the artist that you are buying the work from.
This weekend is one of our favorite events, and we’ve got a few tricks up our sleeve for this year’s bazaar.
The Bizarre Bazaar is your marketplace for all your gift giving needs.
Artists to include:
Deb Morgan, Martee Walker, Crystal Hartman, Darcy Alden, Maryellen Morrow, Kacie Bernhardt, Sam Lyons, Brett Masse, Cannon Bank, Daniel Hinds, Dawn Adams, Amanda Sellers, Daniel Garner, Stevie Stevenson, Mariposa Velez Sentner, Bronwyn Strickland, Peggy Cloy, Laura Moorefield, Jade Heath, Elizabeth Kinahan, Minna Jain, Shay Lopez, Tim Kapustka
Noel Night is here already! Stop by Studio & and get walloped by all the holiday spirit. There may be twinkly lights. Sip some wine with us and check out the art of our member and represented artists, including a bunch of new work for the holidays.
Happy Cyber Monday. Stay in. Shop without pants. FIRST FIVE TO BUY ONE OF OUR STUDIO & T-SHIRTS ONLINE OR AT THE SHOP TODAY GET A FREE PIECE OF ART CREATED BY THE ARTISTS OF STUDIO &.
Shop Small. It’s Small Business Saturday. Stop in, hang out in our bathroom, rifle through all our new whosits and whatsits and bask in the truly vibrant buy-local culture of Durango, Colorado. We’re grateful to be here and stronger than ever after nearly five years and it’s all because of you art loving, local small business supporting, mischievous and marvelous Durangoans. Thank you! Come see us today 11am-5pm. THE FIRST FIVE PEOPLE TO BUY A PRINT GET A SPECIAL FREE PIECE OF ART CREATED BY THE ARTISTS OF STUDIO &!