Patrick Kikut News Today

For most of those two decades though, water was just incidental to his subject matter.

Patrick Kikut has been painting and drawing the landscapes of the West for decades.

The laws that govern our region’s rivers and reservoirs are tough to wrap your mind around. But art can create an emotional connection that helps people understand what’s at stake, as seen in one painter’s depiction of the Colorado River.

Lawn Bash celebration at Red Brick for Aspen Public Radio On Wednesday, from 3-6 p.m., Aspen Public Radio will host a family-friendly gathering to on the lawn of the Red Brick Center for the Arts...

Deadmau5, Los Bukis, Shamir, Too Short, Banks and more in this week’s Superguide.

December 14, 2020 The cover illustration for “Vision and Place: John Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin” is by Patrick Kikut, titled “Reservoir Powell/Crossing of the Cultures.” Almost from the moment the oars of his wooden drift boat dipped into the flows of the Green River in Wyoming in 1869, John Wesley Powell began to shape Euro-American visions of this arid region. The Colorado River Basin, where Powell spent most of his time in the West, now supplies water to n...