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The EVBH booth located on Gore Creek just outside Mountain Standard. Stop by this weekend to see our cool artworks contributed by Margo Thomas, Melissa Nelson, and Tara Novak. Free raffle entry. Drawing happens after the event. Lots of cool prizes!! Including our art! More importantly, we love seeing such awareness and commitment to mental health in our valley. thank you Vail Health and Eagle County. Join the Guild today to find your soul in art therapy!

In collaboration with the Eagle Valley Library District https://www.evld.org, we are honored to present monthly installments by either theme, artist, or photographer. Stop by to support your local library and artists!! Many pieces are for sale at discounted prices compared to gallery and festival. Direct purchase enquiries to service@vvagco.org. Our month-long exhibit at the Gypsum Library features portraits of people and animals are now on display through June. More info here.

Our May 6, 2022, our Member Workshop featured guest instructor Christian Dore. This sold out event was the Vail Valley Art Guild's first joint workshop with the Art Students League of Denver (ASLD). Modeled on the famous Art Students League of New York, The Art Students League of Denver first opened its doors in 1987 with a handful of recognized artists teaching over one hundred students within its first year. Today, located in the historic Sherman School in the West Washington Park area at 200 Grant Street, ASLD engages over 900 students a month with over 200 noted artists who teach diverse fine arts classes throughout the year. Christian Dore is a 1999 transplant to the US from England where he was a graphic artist for the BBC. He became enamored with Colorado landscapes and merged his feelings of the outdoors into colorful, layered representational paintings of animals and tribal motifs. Christian opened the workshop by telling everyone that he was going to change our lives. Through a series of mini-demos and exercises he explained his process in creating an abstract painting in this one-day class - normally an 8 week course for his Denver students. The morning session focused on creating looseness by drawing random shapes in our sketchbooks. We were told to fill a page with doodle shapes, then overlap all the shapes. This created a drawing to give us ideas for the afternoon session. In the afternoon we painted our canvases black, then lightened them with unbleached titanium and drew lines across that with black paint. Next we colored between the lines using only black, titanium, and a green mixed to vary colors. We then added an accent color, scrubbed out most of what we’d done and looked to find an animal to bring out of the “mess.” Most didn’t finish this part but Christian's animals on his website are examples of the end result. All the students in this class came away with exciting new ideas and we hope that we can entice Christian to return again soon. For additional information on Christian Dore see his website: christiandore.com To find out information regarding our future workshops this summer please see our Events list. You can sign up for a future workshop online. All of our workshops are filling up quickly!!

The Vail Valley Art Guild Presents: Winter in the High Country Please join us each month for EagleARTS - 2nd Friday ARTwalk on Broadway! Stroll the sidewalks along the Historic Broadway Street in Eagle, Colorado, visiting our artist popups at several businesses locations, 5-8pm. Be sure to download our new Grandstand App, available at EagleARTS.org to have the interactive map and specials, right on your phone! Visit with our LOCAL ARTISTS Enjoy LIVE MUSIC Try FOOD selections of food vendors & Broadway Restaurants! SHOP Broadway Retailers APRIL 8th Schedule - This month's participating businesses listed North to South, updated daily: ARTSPACE/EagleARTS GALLERY 120 Broadway Street Exhibiting 15+ artisan members - @taranovakART - @pattrensofjoysewing - @firecatjewelry - @landreauxceramic - @metalkitchen - @artistmargaretthomas - @karenschumacher - @bluebirddesigns - @pitaflores - @heart2heart - @sunwardjewelry - @beckyhesseltine - @lieffink - @dreamcolorado - @mason.torry NURTURE SPA 139 Broadway, Unit B - @freeandfleeting - Jewelry Artisan ANTLERS & ROSÉ W. 2nd Street - @KaliMala - Jewlery Artisan ROAMING GOURMET W. 2nd Street - @taranovakart - Fine Art exhibit VAIL VALLEY ART GUILD 108 W. 2nd Street - "Winter in the High Country" exhibit of member photographers & fine artists MOUNTAIN LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES 217 Broadway Street - KC Crafts & Treasures EVERYDAY OUTFITTERS 330 Broadway Street - @sunwardjewelry - Jewelry & more... - @theknittencat - Hand spun yarns ................. FOOD - @roameagle - restaurant - @flavorstop - foodtruck - @elbajonchurros - foodtruck - @mountainminisdonuts - foodtruck Thank you to our amazing sponsors and supportive community! More details, registrations forms, and sponsor information on our website https://EagleARTS.org Follow us on Facebook & Instagram for updates and tag us @EagleARTScolorado #artwalkeagle

Last Friday, April 1, or rather "First Friday" in April, the Vail Valley Art Guild's Eagle Gallery was taken over by some very talented artists from Battle Mountain High School along with their instructor Max Devito. Rosemary Martinez's paintings were a backdrop for artists Crow Kirchner and Gracie Roberts with visitor MasonTomasic on the left. Several artists were in residence to talk with visitors who came to view the works which included paintings, drawings, ceramics, prints, cards, mixed media and a lighted Fairy House by Piper Scheer who is creating other houses using all natural materials. Gracie Roberts is a senior AP Art student and creator of several provocative paintings including Hyper-Feminine below. She will be attending CU Boulder next year to study art practices and gender studies. Lizeth Martinez' drawings drew lots of attention including "Hopeless" below. The students, along with art students from Battle Mountain High School, will return for the closed street Art Walk on May 13 with their work in a tent in front of our gallery. Please be sure to join us!

Every month, on the Second Friday, the Vail Valley Art Guild hosts the an exhibit where local artists display their work at the VVAG Gallery in Eagle. The theme for the April Second Friday is… - Winter in the High Country! - Members of the VVAG submitted works for this show. Cindy Kelleher presented an oil painting tilted "Winter Solitude." Rick Spitzer included a photograph titled "Early Morning Clouds on Jenny Lake" The exhibit will be Friday April 8th from 5-8pm at the Eagle Gallery at 108 W 2nd St, Eagle, CO. This is ARTwalk!, presented by EagleARTS and the downtown Eagle business community.

Join us Friday night April 1 for this fabulous show. Special note of appreciation to the Vail Daily for the coverage in today's paper. Details can be found on our Events page.

For those of you who missed out on Monday...... Monday's VVAG Members' meeting on Perspective with Mio Cirkovic, architect and artist, was an eye opener for most attendees! We learned how to find a horizon line, or eye line, on which to place vanishing points. Why do we want to know this and what is a vanishing point? For those of us whose houses, barns, fence lines or tree lines never looked quite right in our paintings, we began to understand why. Perspective adds depth and realism to our paintings. It leads the viewer into our works without their actually knowing this is happening. Mio showed us how our seemingly parallel roof lines, for example, when extended out eventually meet at a vanishing point on the eye line/horizon. From there you can calculate where new almost parallel lines, such as the top and bottom of a window or door in the building, should also meet. To illustrate two point perspective, Mio showed us a building view from the side with roof lines also slanting off in the opposite direction. Those almost parallel lines extended out to another vanishing point also on the eye line/horizon. He used the sides and top/bottom of our pads as the third point on three point perspective. Luckily, he told us we could likely ignore them. Then he took questions. "What if we're out in a field with mountains in the distance and trees nearby? How do we find the eye line/horizon?" Mio had us search for I-70 or a road in the distance with a truck on it, as an example. If we can see the truck's wheels, we and the eye line are below the truck. If we can't, we and the eyeline are above the truck. This helps us create a somewhat arbitrary horizon line. Now we can place train tracks, a fence line or telephone poles which vanish into the horizon line into our painting. Or we can build a cabin or insert people. He told us that our perspective line should pass through everyone's heads as they become proportionally smaller in the distance. We tried it on our pads and things started looking correct! Someone added cows with a decent result. Whoeee! Thanks to CMC for hosting our group and, of course, to Mio for stretching our minds!

A big shout out to the Colorado Snowsports Museum for an in-depth look at something not much of us have ever thought of: Can you name 5 women artists? After reading this fabulous article, you will. A special note of congratulations to Guild members Tara Novak, Melissa Nelson, Margo Thomas, Lynn Feiger, Joann Carhart Levy, and Beth Levine for their remarkable contributions to snow sports and visual arts. All of these women and more are featured in the article. Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has been asking this question on social media each March during Women’s History Month using the hashtag #5WomenArtists. -Colorado Snowsports Museum, Vail CO https://www.snowsportsmuseum.org/blog/5womenartists2022 Follow the Colorado Snowsports Museum for more great stories: Instagram Facebook Please consider joining or donating the Art Guild today to help support your local arts! photo credit: Tara Novak

Thank you Vail Daily for your continued support of th arts in our valley. Make sure to stop by the Gypsum Public Library to check out this cool show. Open during library hours through March. Contact us if you are interested in purchasing any of the works. The showcased piece is from Guild artist Bev Ruiz. Please consider joining or donating today to help support your local arts!

We love helping local nonprofits in their successful journeys. We partner with several local organizations including Eagle ARTS. Headed by Guild member Tara Novak, their team tirelessly keeps the arts alive in Eagle. A special note of appreciation goes to Jennifer Filipowski. Her dedication made an amazing difference at the March 11 “The Spy Who Killed Me” murder mystery event. Our Eagle gallery hosted seductress Golden Eyes and she had an amazing way with the gentleman! Enjoy the photos!! Please consider joining our donating today to help support your local arts!

Our Eagle Gallery has been transformed to the “Casino” Room for the Eagle Arts Mystery game: The Spy Who Killed Me. We are hosting a free art art exhibit, along with an Actor/Suspect, who will be telling their alibi to the groups of ticketed Game Players/ Detectives, as they come through on the stops of the game. There might be some fancy drinks and treats for the mystery players!! Get tickets while they last and check out the VIP Party!!!!!