Silent Auction:

David Aguirre

Recognized early on as a talented ceramic artist, David Aguirre, began his career after receiving his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1987. Aguirre has since resided in Tucson, Arizona where he produces ceramic figurative sculptures in his desert art studio. He has taught ceramics at the University of Texas-San Antonio and Pima Community College focusing on the raku process. In the Spring 2007 he founded the Presidio Center for Ceramic Arts in Tucson. In Telluride he is represented by Lucas Gallery.

David Brankley

Studied art at Brigham Young University,1975-1978, with emphasis on figure drawing and painting.
A dedicated traveler for many years, in 1984 I took the plunge, and went full time.Over the decades I have circumnavigated the globe by bicycle,and kayak (using other transportation when necessary).Selling paintings,and picking up portrait commissions along the way, my sole means of support.

Recently I've begun slowing down,spending more and more time in Telluride.I love painting here,never running out of subjects to paint or inspiration.

John Clark

John is a self-employed glass worker/Macintosh computer consultant who has lived in Ridgway since 1982. Having started with the more traditional art of leaded glass in 1980 (and operated Alpine Art Glass since 1985) his emphasis has evolved to now focus on three-dimensional fused glass pieces, a variety of unique lighting fixtures, and lastly (if there’s any time left!), the occasional leaded glass panel . John’s major design influences are: geometric patterns of all kinds, from ancient mosaic tiles to Amish quilt patterns, including a deep appreciation of the “Prairie Style” designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.

John, under the nickname of The Mac Doctor, has been working with Macintosh computers since 1993, and doing part-time computer-consulting since the start of the new millennium. Discovering the Macintosh computer not only allowed him an incredible new level of flexibility in designing his glasswork, it also enabled him to tap into an alternate realm that involves much of the same attention to detail and  technical awareness that first attracted him to the glass medium. Curiously, he’s found that work in both disciplines often leads to similar experiences of an almost alchemical nature.

Brenda Colwell

Brenda Colwell is a local photographer.  Her first “official” training in photography was received at the Ah Haa School 6 years ago.  This is her second year donating to the Ah Haa School as a photographer.  While she owns her business “Photography by Brenda Colwell” shooting family and pet portraits, her passion is fine art horse photography.  She has been riding horses since she was a little girl and owns her own herd of 4 horses.  You can see more of her work at www.brendacolwellphoto.com <http://www.brendacolwellphoto.com/

Meghan Easley

Eric England

I am not greedy.  I do not seek to possess the major portion of your day.  I am content if, on those rare occasions, whose truth can only be stated by poetry, you will recall an image - even only the aura of my hand-printed B&W Photography.  And what more can I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious dreams - however rare - assume, sometimes, the forms of my images...EE

Michele Foote

Though Michele Foote minored in ceramics at Boston College, she is indebted to Ah Haa for introducing her to textile dyeing through instructor-friends Kathy Green and Wendy Kowynia.  Velvet and silk are Michele’s current focus; they produce strong color and beg to be touched. Michele’s pieces can be found at Telluride’s The Art of Being and Why Ever Not in Mystic, CT

Lisa Dawn Gold

Born in Philadelphia, PA in 1959, Lisa Dawn Gold works in Telluride, CO and NYC. Gold received her MFA and BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.  She also studied at the Byram Shaw School of Art, London England, and the Philadelphia College of Art. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the contemporary art world for the past 28 years in prominent museums and galleries.   Exhibitions include the Drawing Center NYC, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Worcester Art Museum, Katonah Museum of Art, Stux, and Josh Baer galleries in NYC. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Council on the Arts, and also received a Ford Foundation Grant.  Her work is found in many prominent private and public collections such as the ARA Art Committee, Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, and Corporate Art Progressive. Nationally and internationally, she has drawn the attention and recognition of the art press with reviews from New York Times, Village Voice, and Calgary Herald. Gold continues the pursuit of her life’s work and passion here with a studio in Telluride, CO.  The work she has donated for this exhibition incorporates her belief that artist are at best, when open, instruments of the divine to come through us.  Often completing works and wondering, “How did I do that?”FOR MORE INFORMATION -  http://Lisadawngold.com

Jenny Gummersall

Jenny Gummersall’s art has been exhibited for over 30 years. Born and raised near Chicago, Jenny graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1981. Her art career began while still a student at UNM when she was juried into the Santa Fe Armory Show. There have been pauses in her career for marriage and motherhood, while she raised three boys with her husband, abstract artist C. Gregory Gummersall, who all are finding success in the arts.

Piece: Truffle Trails is part of the The Cosmo Culinary Series is inspired by the exquisite presentation of Cosmopolitain Chef/Proprietor Chad Scothorn. The chocolate and confectionary creations beckoned Jenny to photograph.  

Gregory Gummersall

Ben Knight

Marki Knopp

Kent Harris

Kent Harris

Waltrand Lawaczeck

Sandra Perkins

After retiring to Telluride in 1996 I studied photography at the Ah Haa School. I was associated with the Locals Gallery in Telluride as a gourd artist. I have donated many of my gourds to the Ah Haa Auction in past years. This year I donate a canvas print of Trout Lake.

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Flair Robinson

Nancy R. Lee

Nancy R. Lee

B.J. Smith

Karen Weihs

Karen Weihs, a Charleston, SC native, started showcasing her paintings in the family restaurants before establishing a gallery in Charleston in 1995. She credits Franck Licciardi and Andrew Peters for her vision and love of painting and understanding of color. Karen is represented by John Collette Gallery in Highlands, NC, Premieres Gallery of Pawley’s Island, SC, Watson Gallery in Atlanta, GA and and is currently the “Artist in Residence” at the Heritage Grove Arcade Gallery in Asheville, NC.

Robert Weatherford

Eventually this wild child settled in Telluride, Colorado, where he later served on the town council. Further wanderings included studying at the Art Students League and earning a Masters Degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York. This course of study culminated in two exhibitions he designed and installed: Rouault’s fifty-eight-piece Miserere, followed by a show of his own paintings executed during seminary.

These experiences led to study at Claremont Graduate Art School in Claremont, California. It was while there that a compelling need for narrative took root. In his words: “I felt that I must seek to tell a story. Convey a particular thought. Feelings alone were no longer adequate.”

He has been with the Galleria Beretich for shows throughout the last nine years. His work has also been shown in galleries in Washington D.C., Scottsdale, and Telluride. Additionally, he was commissioned by the Sierra Club Books to create seventeen paintings for a children's book entitled Desert Dog, released in Fall 2001.

Weatherford now resides in Telluride, painting and tending his garden