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I drove out with a friend to Genoa, Colorado (“Ja-NO-a”. Please don’t pronounce it like the Italian city where Columbus started for the New World) to see the World’s Wonder View Tower. The Tower, once a crumbling roadside attraction off I-70, is now being refurbished in a way that is sensitive to both its small…

I propose classes at the school where I teach months in advance, to facilitate their scheduling and promotion. I already know my tentative schedule for late Spring and Summer: A youth class in August; an adult class evenings in July, and a class for advanced beginners in late April through May. Nothing in June. The…

Wild Things, the Maurice Sendak show at the Denver Art Museum, is an absorbing show that only indirectly addresses some of the very complex issues that surround the artist. This is not too surprising; For one thing, the show was set up as one of those blockbuster, cattle call audience building shows, and at a…

I had participated on the organizing committee that launched Month of Printmaking in 2014 and ’16. I remember that we were sort of shaking our heads at just how many printmakers there were working in Colorado. They seemed to be coming out of the woodwork. I still volunteer on various associated events every MoPrint Biennial,…

2024 is a MoPrint year, thus, I’m very busy right now. There’s a lot of preparation goes into it in the Fall preceding. There are larger shows which require framing; and smaller “market” type shows which need smaller work. During my travels, I didn’t get any studio work done, now I’m trying to add work…

I took a break from studio. It makes me anxious to get back, and there tends to be more in my mind than I really have time to do, so it becomes a sort of settling in process, about sorting out my various experiences and trains of thought. During my travels I saw some things…

Fall is my happy place. The summer was very busy with shows and classes, so a lighter schedule is welcome. I do most of my longer travels in Fall; this year I spent time in Toronto and Western New York. It’s hard to think of a place where more can be done, in such a…

I somewhat offhandedly posted a picture of me at work on a monotype in the last post. It seems fair to post the final image. I now have a professional shot, as opposed to my rushed iPhone shots taken while moving between phases. They’re bad, and I generally get professional shots of the bigger, more…