Docents at the Durango Arts Center play a big role on educating the community about art.
Martha Snow, a docent with Durango Arts Center, talks to eighth-graders about sculptures on display in the Barbara Conrad Gallery. The students were visiting the center from Mesa Alta Junior High School in Bloomfield, N.M. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Taima Lopez, 13, creates a drawing of things that matter to him after Pam Arbeeny, a docent at Durango Arts Center, presented the art of Jacob Lawrence. Eighth-graders from Mesa Alta Junior High School in Bloomfield, N.M., visited the arts center Monday. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Joanne Bagley, a docent at Durango Arts Center, describes art in the Barbara Conrad Gallery to Mesa Alta Junior High School eighth-grade students from Bloomfield, N.M. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Halle Payne, 14, creates a drawing of things that matter to her after Pam Arbeeny, a docent at Durango Arts Center, presented the art of Jacob Lawrence. Eighth-graders from Mesa Alta Junior High School in Bloomfield, N.M., visited the arts center Monday. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Joanne Bagley, a docent at Durango Arts Center, describes some of the art in the Barbara Conrad Gallery to Mesa Alta Junior High School eighth-grade students from Bloomfield N.M. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Pam Arbeeny, a docent at Durango Arts Center, presents the art of Jacob Lawrence to Mesa Alta Junior High School eighth-grade students from Bloomfield, N.M. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Pam Arbeeny, a docent at Durango Arts Center, presents the art of Jacob Lawrence to Mesa Alta Junior High School eighth-grade students from Bloomfield, N.M. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
Taima Lopez, 13, creates a drawing of things that matter to him after Pam Arbeeny, a Durango Arts Center docent, presented the art of Jacob Lawrence to Mesa Alta Junior High School eighth-grade students from Bloomfield, N.M. Photo by Jerry McBride/Durango Herald
A group of kindergartners created art in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe after enjoying a presentation in the Durango Art Center’s Docent Art in the Schools program. Courtesy of Joanne Bagley
Students at the Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center have shown their creative side as they participate in the Durango Art Center’s Docent Art in the Schools program. Courtesy of Susie Bonds.
Students at the Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center have shown their creative side as they participate in the Durango Art Center’s Docent Art in the Schools program. Courtesy of Susie Bonds.
Students at the Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center have shown their creative side as they participate in the Durango Art Center’s Docent Art in the Schools program. Courtesy of Susie Bonds.
Durango Arts Center docent Sandra Mapel shows a student a mobile during a presentation about Alexander Calder. Courtesy of Durango Arts Center.
A student works on creating a mobile in the style of Alexander Calder after hearing a presentation by Durango Arts Center docents in their Art in the School program. Courtesy of Durango Arts Center.
