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The Art Base in Basalt opened the 2021 edition of its Claudette Carter Art Mentors exhibition last week, showcasing the work of four local high schoolers mentored by professional artists over the past five months.
The Art Base is set to open in its new building next month. The community art center bought it last year for $1.7 million. Photo Olive and West With saws whirring and hammers banging nearby, on a recent walk-through of the Art Base’s soon-to-open, new two-story home in downtown Basalt, the community art center’s director said she has seen an outpouring of support for the nonprofit in recent months as it launched an ambitious fundraising campaign to pay for its new building and fund its post-pandemic future. “I was blown away by the response,” said Art Base executive director Skye Skin...
Miami-based artist Sue Montoya will open the solo exhibition “clouds dissipate” on Friday at the Art Base in Basalt.
The final push will begin this year on a long-touted park along the Roaring Fork River near downtown Basalt but it’s going to require more patience. The park won’t be completed until late 2022, town staff members told the council Tuesday night. The town aims to finalize its plans this winter and put the job out for bid, potentially in March, according to assistant planning director James Lindt. The first phase will feature a lot of important but relatively dull work — grading the site and putting in utilities and infrastructure. The public won’t be able to use the site in 2021 due to ...
When the Basalt River Park development was going through the town government’s review process a big selling point was providing a future, permanent home for the nonprofit Art Base. Due to unexpected circumstances — namely a pandemic — the Art Base changed direction and purchased an existing building on Midland Avenue instead. Now the big question is what’s going to happen to the 6,500-squre-foot space eyed for the community arts center in the River Park development. The Basalt Town Council will start sorting through the possibilities in a work session Feb. 23, according to Mayor Bill ...