Below you will find a list of artists who have shown at the Ah Haa School. Whether in the Daniel Tucker Gallery or the East Room Gallery. Browse at your leisure and enjoy the immense talent that has walked through the doors of the Ah Haa School.
live auction items 2010
From the famous to the locally famous, Ah Haa’s live auction items will dazzle you! Featuring custom Wagner skis designed by this year’s celebrity artist, Bill Kreutzmann, former drummer of the Grateful Dead, a one-of-a-kind Valley Cow cruiser by local artist Jon Hubbard and so much more!
Be the first to bid on our live auction items! Whether you will be attending the event or out of town, don’t miss your chance to get in on the excitement! Bid on our live auction items online at www.biddingforgood.com/ahhaa.
Online bidding will begin on Wednesday, July 7 and will continue through Wednesday July 21, 2010.
silent auction art items 2010
Browse a teaser of this year’s art items in this year’s art auction.There will be any more items and goods and services! If you have the privilege of joining us for this years annual art auction, ARTOPIA, on Friday, July 23, 2010 silent bidding will begin at 5PM.
Out of town this year? Don’t miss your chance to get in on the excitement and bid via our Absentee Bid Form. Click here to download.
For additional auction information click here, call us at 970.728.3886 or email us.
Bruce Gomez
Ah Haa Winter Gala 2009 featured artist.
“I’ve been working in pastels for thirty-six entirely-self-taught years with artistic influences such as Maxfield Parrish, Gustav Klimt, and my cousin Ernie Gallegos. I have been painting with the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art for twenty-four years and teaching at the Ah Haa School for fourteen years (thanks for asking me, Daniel Tucker!). You will often find me at the Telluride Gallery painting in the window or standing on Main Street with an Americano, studying - yet again - Ingram Falls.
Otherwise I live in Denver where I walk my grown children’s dogs and water the cat.
I am singularly fortunate enough to travel to these wonderful places: Telluride, Paris, Rome and Moab, which my subject matter reflects. My aim is to capture that one unique and spectacular moment of life. Many people ask if I paint plein air, and yes, I do, however I don’t like it. The light changes too quickly, it’s either raining or there’s lightning, and either it’s ten below or windy or 105 degrees. Oh yeah, and there are bugs and wild street people. In spite of these obstacles, I get to distill it all down to that essential moment of striking allure, and there you have it. I pride myself in painting something that anyone can see themselves if they hang around. No exaggerations, no symbolism, and no implied metaphor.”
Susie Billings
Favoring a bright, warm palette Billings incorporates a range of mediums in her work - watercolors are painted onto japanese rice papers to create an underlying image. Then pastels, charcoal, papers, ink and gold leaf are applied to develop depth and create transparent layers. Billings’ final images are ultimately simple, yet complex compositions. “Billings uses color to create a subtle yet definite spirit. Her paintings leave viewers with a sense of optimism about life.”
For many years she lived and painted in a solar adobe home and studio perched on 35 acres of pinon forest overlooking Naturita Canyon near Telluride, Colorado. The high mesas, open skies and rarely subtle light of this southwestern corner of the country provided an ongoing source of inspiration. Currently Billings splits her time between the high plateaus of the Southwest, the coast of California, and a recently completed solar powered home and studio on the desert East Cape in southern Baja. Windblown by nature, Billings is able to travel and paint, teaching classes and workshops - simply journeying in search of new and inspired landscapes.
Mixed Media Collage & Watercolor
June 11 - 13 | Friday - Sunday
10AM - 4PM | $375
Susan Billings runs international art workshops, and paints in far flung locales, but always returns to Telluride to re-connect with the “vibrant arts community and environment that defines the Ah Haa School.” This years workshop will guide participants through three days of artistic immersion, bringing multi-media to life. Delighting in the summer alpine experience provides the foundation for this class. Watercolor, pastel, collage, printmaking, drawing, and journaling will be the core of your daily experience. Uniting this mountain landscape with the synergy of the engaged group will be the pathway to expanded creativity. You will collect ideas and do quick renderings outdoors in journals, then have time in the Ah Haa studio to review concepts and work in greater depth on a variety of techniques. This workshop is open to students of all levels and ages, from first-time beginners to accomplished professionals. Workshop size is limited to ensure that every participant has ample one-on-one instruction.
Robert Weatherford
An eternal theme, flowers in a vase plunges me into wonder at nature’s generosity. We expect to feel awe watching a sunset. But flowers in a vase is something that catches us as We cross a room. It’s a glory that startles us in the moment of forgetfulness. Floral still lifes as well as everyday flowers in a vase are a shrine to nature.
We are out of balance if we focus on beauty to the exclusion of aggression. The fighter series deals with the darker side of life which is important to honor as well. I need to remember that suffering is as universal as beauty.
Between the extremes of beauty and strife, these fishermen’s flags sit in piles on the beach at Ossouria, Morocco. They are plain and man-made. What attracted me were the brilliant colors. Flapping in the breezes in comfortable chaos, they rest before the stint at sea. Everyday beauty that we appreciate when we can.
Robert is represented by the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. For more information and pricing on the works shown, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call them at 970.728.3300.
Diana Fayt
Diana Fayt was born in Los Angeles, California in 1964 and has lived in Northern California for most of her life. In 1983/84 she spent a year living with family in Budapest, Hungary and when returning began her journey towards her career as an Artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics and Printmaking from the College of Arts (and Crafts) in 1992. In 1994 she developed a process with ceramics in which she combines all of her loves; drawing, painting, printmaking and clay and refers to it as “as etchings in clay.” She has also dabbled in ceramic design and created a line of tabletop ceramic ware in 1999 and most recently has ventured into graphics and illustration. Diana is both a traveler and a lover of home. She gleans inspiration from nature, the mundane and life’s stories. Her ceramic pieces are often narrative with marks of time, events and images seen and experienced and then drawn into the surface of her clay platters bowls and vases. By doing this she hopes to leave a permanent mark that expresses her vision of what she experiences in the world around her. Diana currently exhibits her work in galleries and fine boutiques throughout the United States, Japan, Australia and Europe.
NATURE ON THE SURFACE
June 4 - 6 | Friday - Sunday
10AM - 4PM | $495
Using simple three dimensional forms we will explore composition, drawing on the form. We will take into consideration all aspects of the three dimensional surface and not be limited by edges and boundaries. Diana’s daily demonstrations will include using molds to build simple forms, surface applications such as layering of slips and underglazes to create rich fields of color, drawing on and in the clay, the use of oxides, firing and tips and tricks to obtaining clean crisp lines in clay. Diana will also discuss and demonstrate other ceramic mediums and processes to create rich and interesting surfaces on your three dimensional forms, using things like cardboard letter stencils and old letterpress typeface, as well as how to transfer your images onto clay surfaces without sophisticated drawing skills. During her demonstrations, Diana will discuss elements of design, how to push the boundaries and see your pieces as limitless surfaces for expressing your visual ideas.
To see more of Diana’s work please visit her website, blog or on flickr.
http://www.dianafayt.com
http://www.oneblackbird.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianafayt/
