Thursday July 29, 2010, join us at the Paradise Theater, 215 Grand Ave., in Paonia. The monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform a Lama Chopa ceremony to invoke the blessings of the enlightened masters for individual, communal, and environmental healing. The ceremony involves chants, traditional musical instruments and various offerings of light, food and flowers. Participants usually bring personal offerings of cakes, cookies, fruits and flowers, which are blessed during the ceremony and then shared with others afterward. There is a $15 offering suggested for this amazingly magical event. Please call Jane McGarry at 970-527-6132 for more information.
Lama Chopa Ceremony
The Dancing Elephants Arrive at the Creamery
In November, 2006, the seven foot tall bronze Dancing Elephants arrived at the Creamery Arts Center. Paonia Sculptor Jim Agius, welder and crane operator James Hardin, and Creamery supporters Jim Cazer and Micah Yates carefully placed ‘Herb’ and ‘Helen’ on their pedestals.
A Walk in the Country in the Churro Gallery, Aug 2010
The Churro Gallery will host a show entitled “A Walk in the Country,” featuring Creamery artists, artists from the Delta Fine Arts Council, and students from the Creamery classes of Suki Strong. This agriculturally themed show celebrates summer in our bountiful community and honors the Delta County Fair.
Sayulita Seis in the Peach Gallery, Aug 2010
“The Sayulita Seis,” a group of six women from Golden, began painting together in 2003 when they travelled together to Sayulita, Mexico. Spending a week in two adjoining casitas, they shared many artistic endeavors and discussions, and carried the supportive energy generated there back home with them. Seven years later they continue to meet at least once a month to paint, critique, and discuss art. The fruits of their labors will be on display in the Peach Gallery from August 13 through September 6.
“The Sayulita Seis,” representing diverse backgrounds and many artistic media in a talented array of images, are Catherine Haskins, Jean Widman, Jean Bright, Roberta Law, Gayle MacDougall and Marilyn Hogan.
Our Little group formed in 2003 when the six of us went to Sayulita, Mexico to paint for a week. We had known each other, but had not painted together. Getting 6 busy women to land in one place for a week was miraculous. We stayed in two adjoining casitas and shared many artistic endeavors and discussions.
The supportive energy we found in each other down there remained here in the Golden vicinity. Thus, we continue to meet, paint together, critique our paintings, and discuss art at least once a month.
Our paintings have been juried into many shows, taken awards, and are displayed in several venues in Colorado, including the Shadow Mountain Gallery in Evergreen, the Lakewood Arts Council, the Evergreen Artists Association, Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Clear Creek Books in Golden, and The Gilpin County Artists Association Gallery in Central City.
Art Classroom
The CAC Art Classroom is a well-lit workspace with many of the amenities necessary to teach artist workshops. With excellent lighting, five large tables and 30 chairs, it provides a pleasant space for group meetings, parties and functions, as well.
Thanks to the Hotchkiss Fine Art Association, we also have a demonstration mirror, which allows the audience to see exactly what an instructor is demonstrating. Multiple water supplies, ample workspace and beautiful display panels round out the ameinites.
Non-profit organizations may schedule the space, free of charge, during the regular hours of operation (or pay a reasonable fee for an after-hours attendant).
For-profit organizations may schedule the space for a nominal fee. All organizations and individuals must submit a Facilities Use Agreement and a refundable cleaning deposit.
Please contact Jodeen or Cheryl if you would like to schedule a class or event in the classroom. 872-4848 education@northforkarts.org
Teaching a class is a great way to meet your volunteer hours committment!
We understand that instructors put in quite a lot of preparation and planning for classes. Therefore, you will be credited with 2 volunteer hours for each hour you teach.
Interested? Contact Jodeen at 872-4848 or education@northforkarts.org.
City Market
The Creamery is now enrolled in the City Market Cares program. The way it works; we sign up friends and family. All purchases from the value cards of those signed up are tracked. Each quarter, all purchases are tallied and we will receive a donation based on the total. This won’t affect your gas credit or any other reward program. If your card is already signed up with another non-profit, signing up with the Creamery will redirect all of your purchases to the Creamery. We need 50 names/card numbers to get started. Help us receive a quarterly cash donation and send your name, telephone number and the 12 digit number on the back of your value card to: information@creameryartscenter.org , or bring it to the front desk. (The only place your information will go is back to City Market.)
Office Depot
Do you shop at Office Depot in Montrose or Grand Junction? If you do, as you are checking out, ask the cashier to credit your purchase to the Creamery, 872-4848 throught the Work Life rewards program and the Schools program. (Yes, our non-profit status and the classes we offer classifies us as a school!) Office Depot will give us a cash donation of 10% on paper, ink and toner and 1% of everything else purchased plus an additional 5% for the school. Empty ink cartridges? Take the to Office Depot, they will credit the Creamery $3 per cartridge up to 5 per day.
Peach Gallery July 2010
Western Colorado Watercolor Society is pleased to present “Plein Air Watermedia 2010,” their second exhibition at The Creamery. All paintings in this exhibition have been painted on location with no or just a few finishing touches made in the artists’ studios. WCWS is comprised of over 200 members from all over the United States. For more information about WCWS, call Dani Tupper at 970 874-3088.
Churro Gallery July 2010
Upstairs in the Churro Gallery, five western slope potters will display their work in a show whimsically and
appropriately entitled “Comin’ Round the Mountain.” These artists hail from Crested Butte and Gunnison, and
together represent several masters degrees in Fine Arts and decades of professional claywork and teaching.
Mary Jursinovic, founder in 1979 of Creekside Pottery in Crested Butte, now lives in the North
Fork Valley, and has collaborated with the other four artists for years. “We each have a distinct
personal style,” she says. “It is exciting to display our combined talents at the Creamery.
Pottery to me is an art form that serves to bring beauty and excitement to the ordinary aspects
of our lives,”
Sheila Anderson is an artistic functional potter whose love of working with clay began as a
young teen in Denver. After stepping away from her ceramic hobby for 22 years to raise her five
children, she emerged at the Gunnison Arts Center in 2004 to pick up where she left off.
Currently she is the Clay Center Manager at the Gunnison Arts Center and teaches several
children’s and youth classes there. “For me, the fun of working with clay comes from feeling it
glide through my hands and begin to take shape,” says Sheila.
Karen Immerso is a Gunnison artist who enjoys producing functional wheel thrown and hand
built pottery. She has a Masters Degree in Experiential Education from the University of
Colorado in Boulder. Both in ceramics and other realms of teaching, her philosophy has always
been about “hands-on” learning: her own and others. “Hands-in-clay is a connection with the
earth, with beauty, with a natural process. I choose high-fired stoneware clay and glazes that
give me, and the user a sense of simple, earthy and useful” says Karen.
Laura Cooper Elm is a highly diversified artist who freely uses a wide range of styles, media and
techniques. She is an established and nationally recognized professional with over 20 years
experience teaching and working in clay, and she received a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. Painting remains her primary emphasis whether on porcelain or canvas. Laura adds, “Throwing on the wheel is pure mediation. Any kind of clay work is sheer concentration. My
subconscious just takes over… I do my best thinking when I’m not thinking.”
Donna Rozman received her BFA from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana and MFA in
ceramics from Kansas State University, Manhattan. Donna works at her studio south of Crested
Butte, Colorado. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, written articles for
ceramic publications, and taught many workshops at colleges across the United States. Donna is
currently a ceramic instructor at the Gunnison Art Center and teaches ceramics through the
Extended Studies program at Western State College. Donna says, “My current work investigates the
tantalizing relationship between spirituality and sexuality. As I build wheel-thrown and altered forms, I add
spiritual as well as erotic symbols”
Youth Classes July 2010
Summer Art Camp June 15th – July 22nd – Age appropriate arts and crafts projects following a weekly theme.
Tues – Thur 10a-12p ages 4-8 $9 per day, purchase 5 sessions at $45 and get 1 free. (2 weeks for $45)
Tues – Thur 1p-4p ages 9-12 $12 per day, purchase 5 sessions at $60, get 1 free. (2 weeks for $60)
Photography for Kids with Jodeen Stephenson—-July 10th 9am-12pm. For kids 9 and up. Cost is $15
