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In honor of Colorado’s 150th Anniversary! See Colorado through a new lens. Now on view at the PACE Center Gallery, Through the Lens – Photography Across Colorado showcases the work of six talented Colorado photographers whose images capture the beauty, character, and spirit of our state. Featuring photography by Stephen Hume, Evan Anderman, William Matthews, Susan Artaechevarria, Sherri Mabe, and Hollie Giannaula, the exhibition highlights a wide range of styles and subjects, from sweeping natural vistas and intimate environmental details […]
Shoutout Colorado, Sherri Mabe-Artist Hi Sherri, how has your background shaped the person you are today? Northern Colorado was home for my first 26 years, both my childhood and college years. I was born in Denver. Our family history dates back to the pioneers who settled on the eastern Colorado plains to become farmers, and also, to the Spanish settlers who migrated from the Santa Fe area to the San Luis Valley, becoming farmers and ranchers. During the 1930’s, my […]
“He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used to come upon the embers of a hunter’s fire on the prairie, after the hunter was up and gone; the coals would be trampled out, but the ground was warm, and the flattened grass where he had slept and where his pony had grazed, told the story. […]
