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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!!!!!

A Celebration of Life for Barbara Holden was held on Sunday, February 27th, 2022 at Brush Creek Pavilion in Eagle. Barbara was a long time supporter and artist with the VVAG. Guild member Raj Manickam put together this wonderful tribute!

Vail Valley Art Guild member Andrew Pranger worked with Eagle County Schools' Gifted/Talented Program to create a program for the county's gifted art students. Previously there were only gifted programs in areas such as math and science. Once identified, students had to put together a portfolio of their work and appear for an interview as part of the application program. 17 students were selected from Eagle Valley High School, Battle Mountain High School and all Eagle County Middle Schools. These students met for special classes culminating with a juried art show at the Vail Valley Art Guild Gallery on June 4, 2021. One of these students, a high school senior, had been adopted as a baby from China. She used this arts program to investigate her feelings about going to China to find her birth parents. In this painting, which was part of her portfolio, she depicts herself as a small child in the arms of her American mother and father surrounded by love with a dream bunny whispering in her ear. She has been accepted into the South Carolina School of Art and Design and will pursue a career in art.

Make sure to stop by the Avon library this month to see Guild member Tara Novak’s amazing work!! @taranovakart >>> New work! NOW Showing at the Avon Library >>> There is a special energy of an aspen glade waking up under the melting snow. Listen...contemplate the breath of this vast organism, its roots spreading for acres. Hear the creak of a tree trunk, the faint breeze through the branches, your own heartbeat as you become one with nature. “Spring Thaw” 24x48 diptych This Aspens Series exhibition will be on display for the months of February 2022. Open to the public, when the library is open. Reception date to be announced soon… Thank you! More info about Tara's work at TaraNovakART.com

When horses are free to roam. April 3rd opening night 4-6 pm, at the Pocket Gallery Raleigh NC. Show will be up for two months. Would love to see you at the opening. 24x30, acrylic, and mixed media. .#pocketgallery #vvagco #coloradoartists #vailartist #abstractart #horses. ❤️

Our Feb 11 show, The Color Red, was a great success. You can still donate online to our fundraiser for BMHS Art Students here. Make sure to note “BMHS Art” in the In the name of“ box.

Arvada Center - Art of the State 2022 January 20 - March 27, 2022 Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. This open call open to all Colorado artists garnered 2,067 submissions by 734 artists. The jurors worked diligently to select a comprehensive overview of work that strives to capture a wide scope of art from across the state. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected. Raj's Juniper's Last Gasp photo was selected for this triennial show. Arvada Center provided audio recordings of each artists' work and can be heard here: https://youraudiotour.com/tours/2352/stops/9894