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Aspen’s arts and culture organizations are asking city voters this fall to lift a $100,000 cap on grants from the real estate transfer tax that funds the Wheeler Opera House.

James Surls, “Spot On.” Courtesy image The internationally renowned sculptor and artist James Surls, based in the Roaring Fork Valley, will open a new exhibition in his home community. His “Complete Fragments” opens Friday at the Art Base in Basalt. The show features 30 new drawings by the artist, who calls them “sketches of psychological being.” The exhibition will be on view through Sept. 27. The gallery selected the pieces from a series of 56 vignettes that Surls completed during...

SUMMER IN … This feature was originally published in the 2021 edition of “Summer in Aspen/Snowmass,” which is on newsstands now around the Roaring Fork Valley. It as well as other 2021 visitor guides are available anytime at http://www.aspentimes.com/magazines. If you haven’t made the rounds in Aspen art galleries lately, you’ll find many new players and programs on the scene following an unexpected boom during the pandemic. Galleries were able to open quickly after the spring 2020 l...

The Art Base in Basalt will open an exhibition of nearly 50 watercolor paintings of animals by Aspen artist Leah Potts on Friday. The show marks Potts’ first solo exhibition. “The pure elegance of nature’s palette, textures and wildlife has become a constant source of inspiration for my watercolor paintings,” Potts said in an exhibition announcement. Her original cards and prints also will be on sale at the exhibition, running through July 31. The Art Base will celebrate Potts with an o...

With all the craziness in the world, artist John Przonek wanted to share a little love through his mural in Basalt.

Intersect Aspen, the art fair formerly known as ArtAspen, will return to the Aspen Ice Garden Aug. 1-5. Intersect Aspen, the contemporary art fair formerly known as ArtAspen, will return for an in-person 30-gallery event in the Aspen Ice Garden this August. Intersect Art and Design, which acquired ArtAspen in April 2020, hosted a virtual version of the fair last summer due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Its first in-person offing will include galleries from 24 cities in the U.S., Europe and...

The Art Base in Basalt will open the first group exhibition in its new North Gallery on Thursday. The nonprofit community art center last week opened its new Midland Avenue headquarters with a solo exhibition…

Paul Conrad/Aspen Times file photo Longtime valley resident George Stranahan passed away Thursday in Denver after suffering a stroke and complications after heart surgery. He was 89. Stranahan leaves behind a rich legacy in the Roaring Fork Valley. He founded the Aspen Physics Center, the Aspen Community and Carbondale Community schools, the Woody Creek Tavern, the Third Street Center in Carbondale, and several nonprofits centered on social justice, education and community organizing. He has he...

  The pandemic stripped away the social side out of Aspen’s historically lively art and gallery scene. Yes, galleries were able to open quickly after the spring 2020 lockdown and, yes, they provided sanctuary for people seeking solace or inspiration when most every other cultural hub was closed. But there were no opening receptions and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, no walk-throughs, no in-person artist talks. Art viewing has mostly been a solitary or virtual venture. Even as several new playe...

/ Roaring Fork High School senior Danny Carreno and his mentor through the Art Bases Claudette Carter Art Mentors program, Reina Katzenberger, at her Carbondale studio. The Art Base’s Claudette Carter Art Mentors program connects established artists in the Roaring Fork Valley with local students who have an interest in pursuing art in higher education or as a career. The mentorship culminates in an exhibition at the Art Base’s downtown gallery (through Fri. May 21). This winter, Roaring ...