Visual Arts https://www.the-journal.com/feeds/visual-arts/ 2026-05-26 02:40:09 -0700 en-us https://www.the-journal.com/articles/animas-high-school-students-host-under-one-moon-arts-festival/ We’re quickly heading into graduation season, and for four seniors at Animas High School, they’ve got one more big project to complete before putting on their caps and gowns. It’s not a 20-page paper ... 2026-04-16 03:16:02 -0700 54e824f3-7316-4068-8876-3b06604d3d92 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/local-photographer-chronicles-the-people-of-durango-bayfield-and-beyond/ Cary Lindley didn’t start out as a street photographer. The retired schoolteacher, who hails from Houston, has taken his photography hobby to the streets of Bayfield, Durango and around the Southwest,... 2026-02-12 01:37:07 -0700 8458d40e-c860-4ba6-9d44-124522d3028d https://www.the-journal.com/articles/review-flcs-center-southwest-studies-mounts-major-exhibition/ “Constellations of Place” is a big exhibition with a big purpose. It opened last week at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College and is comparable to a museum show in a major American ci... 2026-01-28 02:43:25 -0700 cd3dd425-b4bd-45dc-baf9-069f37efb2a3 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/review-leonard-davies-revitalizes-landscape-art/ Say Happy New Year to the Durango Arts Center. And while you are at it, shout out “Welcome back” to the Barbara Conrad Gallery. At last, DAC has finally decluttered, repainted and returned its main ga... 2026-01-23 05:00:00 -0700 19d7363e-3203-4a1d-9123-105da616a5d8 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/extreme-knitting-2026-takes-craft-to-unexpected-places/ For some, the word “knitting” conjures up images of grannies wearing shawls, sitting in rockers knitting ... shawls. Bah(hhhhh) to that! For the third consecutive year, our friends and neighbors – and... 2025-11-20 05:00:00 -0700 4d7ed279-b59a-4bf9-a5d4-8a370867f4c8 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/durango-area-photographers-go-head-to-head-at-concert-hall/ Durango is known for its shootouts in the Wild West days, and now, we’re about to witness a shootout – of the photographic kind. The gunslingers will be replaced by five local professional photographe... 2025-11-13 03:23:35 -0700 e62cbe1a-2018-4b32-8de3-eaada7d8f64f https://www.the-journal.com/articles/durango-creative-district-hosts-indigenous-comic-book-art-exhibition/ The Durango Creative District is gathering artists together for its latest exhibit, “Super-Powered Sovereignty: Indigenous Comic Book Art,” which will kick off with an opening reception Friday at the ... 2025-11-06 05:00:00 -0700 c2d49962-8796-4b9f-8000-147e3ec4390e https://www.the-journal.com/articles/review-flc-invitational-exhibit-showcases-seven-local-artists/ The intriguing invitational art exhibit now on view at Fort Lewis College is well worth a trip to the ivory mesa. Featuring works by seven area artists who are in their prime, this quiet show is a dis... 2025-09-24 04:43:02 -0700 cd186a25-952c-4a12-a293-38fa0b92c379 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/native-american-art-and-culture-class-hosts-fashion-show/ It’s not very often Durango gets a fashion show, but on Tuesday, the Department of Native American & Indigenous Studies at Fort Lewis College will send models down the catwalk displaying pieces made b... 2025-04-10 05:36:37 -0700 416344c5-c1b6-4dde-a854-0fc0dc0da5bc https://www.the-journal.com/articles/immerse-yourself-voices-inside-my-head-combines-visual-art-poetry-augmented-reality/ Visual art, poetry and augmented reality collide in a new exhibit at Create Art & Tea. The exhibit, “Voices Inside My Head” features paintings by artist Tad Smith (who is also manager of creative serv... 2025-02-06 02:54:24 -0700 0283b8e7-5670-44f6-85dc-e4447c58be83 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/colorado-sending-nearly-2-million-to-support-arts-and-culture-groups-around-the-state/ The Colorado Creative Industries Division announced a significant round of investment in the state's arts and culture scene this week. Over the next two years, 125 arts organizations across 33 Colorad... 2024-09-02 09:00:00 -0700 bad5e911-13fe-457a-864c-4035f6f7f4ca https://www.the-journal.com/articles/league-of-women-voters-to-host-screenings-of-undivide-us-ahead-of-june-primary-elections/ The League of Women Voters of La Plata County and Montezuma County will host a screening of “Undivide Us,” a documentary film about bridging the political divide. in Durango, the screening is schedule... 2024-06-16 10:00:00 -0700 4c6c049c-26e3-406c-b8c9-df671e44dfca https://www.the-journal.com/articles/david-yarrow-returns-to-durango/ Photographer David Yarrow and his crew spent this week in Durango for their third photo shoot featuring a train from the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Along with the shoot, which also inv... 2024-01-18 06:30:49 -0700 2f4c8be9-aab1-4d32-bbea-92cb77aec2af https://www.the-journal.com/articles/the-wide-world-of-stanton-englehart/ If there’s one thing the Southwest has, it’s expansive views aplenty. And a local artist who captured those massive vistas was landscape painter Stanton Englehart, who founded Fort Lewis College’s art... 2023-09-07 05:37:41 -0700 c139e3aa-ec33-4b72-a5d2-e4a1a0316e61 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/to-challenge-to-learn-and-or-heal/ Three current related exhibits continue the spirit of November’s Native American Heritage Month. You can see all three now: two at Fort Lewis College and one at the Powerhouse Science Center. FLC’s sh... 2022-12-01 06:15:14 -0700 caddc709-4def-4c88-89b3-e8dac1d443a7 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/fort-lewis-college-graduate-artist-on-netflixs-unsolved-mysteries/ The theme song and logo. Robert Stack in his trench coat. The re-enactments and frustration of knowing stories on “Unsolved Mysteries” are featured for a reason. “Unsolved Mysteries” originally began ... 2022-11-03 01:20:09 -0700 7dcef37f-43fa-44be-9c33-1a559d7a516f https://www.the-journal.com/articles/artist-kayla-shaggys-comic-book-adventure/ Kayla Shaggy wants to take you on an adventure. Her latest comic, “Anathema,” is the story of twin Diné sisters who embark on a journey to find their mother’s murderer. What’s unique about this comic ... 2022-10-07 10:55:39 -0700 f18e3167-9943-4f57-92fe-ad5da5369237