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.
Charlotte Jorgensen
Adam Field
Adam Field is an accomplished potter who has recently returned to the states from a year in Korea where he was honored to study with sixth generation Onggi Master Kim Ill-Maan, whose family is among the last few potters in Korea to create Onggi using strictly traditional techniques with minimal use of modern machinery. Onggi is a style of Korean pottery that dates back generations; it is rooted in large-scale vessels essential for the making of Korean-staple foods such as Kimchi, soy sauce and miso paste. To see an artist create one of these massive vessels is as much a performance as it is a craft.
To view a time-lapse video of this beautiful and ancient technique, click here!
ARTIST STATEMENT I am fascinated with antique artifacts, the way they can speak of mastery of lost peoples, places, and cultures. This inspires me to create works that both radiate history and capture my own place and time. I work toward a clean aesthetic that celebrates the masterful simplicity of antique Far Eastern pottery, while retaining the modest utility of colonial American wares. The surface of my pottery is meticulously carved with intricate designs that borrow from nature and incorporate the human touch. Much of the carving on my work is informed by the pattern languages found in indigenous fiber art, such as Hawaiian tapa, Incan cordage and Zulu basketry.
Glenn Randall
Glenn Randall has been a full-time freelance photographer and writer for 31 years. For the past 17 years, he has been specializing in Colorado wilderness landscapes. His fine-art landscape photographs can be found in several galleries and gift shops, including Art Mart in Boulder and Mystic Mountain Gallery in Estes Park. During his career he has accumulated over 950 photo credits, including 64 covers, and sold more than 10,000 prints. Glenn’s favorite areas to photograph are Rocky Mountain National Park, the Indian Peaks Wilderness, the Maroon Bells/Snowmass Wilderness, the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness and the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado.
Glenn is a Visiting Artist and will be teach Ah Haa’s Winter Landscape Photography Workshop
February 12 - 14 | Friday - Sunday | $325
Meredith Nemirov
Leaps & Turns | Landscape into Abstraction
A show that maps the movement from representational drawings from nature to an abstract interpretation of the same, these works on paper are from several series of drawings completed over the last two years: FALL INTO WINTER, ASPENMAPS, and 100 VIEWS OF THE ASPEN TREE. Large works done during a residency at the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, CO during the winter of 2008 and more recent works will also be on view.
For more of Meredith’s work check our her website at www.meredithnemirov.com
Ally Crilly
The Elephants
Ally Crilly took wonderful Robert Weatherford’s painting class last summer. She had been dreaming about elephants and planning a trip to Thailand for yoga studies. After the class ended, she knew she had to keep painting. So she rented a studio at TCAHs Stronghouse Studios, and then didn’t paint for 8 months. “When the flow is happening, I know I’m supposed to paint. When it’s not, it’s excruciating. I’m learning to paint regardless and wait for the moments that it makes sense in, and just ride the rest of them out. I’m also learning to do this in my life. I’m very honored and grateful to Ah Haa for many things, especially the invitation to hang my work here. Thank you.”
The elephants are fascinating. Fierce, beautiful, brave, sorrowful, injured, angry, grounded, wise, complicated, they are a never ending source of inspiration and connection. I feel their pain, you can see it in their eyes along with their wisdom and a sense of the absurd. Ganesha, the hindu deity inspired my love as well. Beheaded and then re-elephant-headed by his father. He is the son of Shiva and Parvati, Ganesha is helpful with transition, boundaries, thresholds and of course much more. He creates the faith to remove all obstacles. He also places the obstacles in your path, as they really are the path.
Ally works as a free-lance graphic designer in Telluride and has for a long time. She can be reached at 970.728.4001 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Julie McNair
Being Human
Thirty ceramic figures, half created in the last year and never before shown, comprise the exhibit Being Human. Telluride sculptor Julie McNair began this series five years ago, and if at times she makes the viewer feel a tad squirmy, she constantly makes us laugh out loud. From attaining self acceptance to decoding man’s proper relationship with the Earth, these figures at once express core emotions and, if indeed art enjoys such power, helps us bipeds ponder a nobler course.
View more of her work at: http://juliemcnair.com/index.php
Julie is represented by the
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art
