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Event Series Construction of a Portrait

Construction of a Portrait

This four-week class will focus on a better understanding of the foundation and proportions of the face. Learn and practice the key locations that build the facial structure — the key to creating better portraits and capturing a likeness. Explore the best of the Reilly and Loomis methods and the technique of Hogarth to develop …

Event Series Construction of a Portrait

Construction of a Portrait

This four-week class will focus on a better understanding of the foundation and proportions of the face. Learn and practice the key locations that build the facial structure — the key to creating better portraits and capturing a likeness. Explore the best of the Reilly and Loomis methods and the technique of Hogarth to develop …

Event Series Construction of a Portrait

Construction of a Portrait

This four-week class will focus on a better understanding of the foundation and proportions of the face. Learn and practice the key locations that build the facial structure — the key to creating better portraits and capturing a likeness. Explore the best of the Reilly and Loomis methods and the technique of Hogarth to develop …

Sunday Spotlight: Tattoo Artist Richard Curtis

Explore the traditions and artistic expressions in Tattooing: Religion, Reality and Regret. Grab a stool and listen to invited artisans discuss their craft. Hear from tattoo artists and tattooed living canvases as they discuss their art, influences and inspiration. From there venture into the galleries and enjoy the exhibition at your own pace. Free for …

Read the West Book Club: Lady Long Rider: Alone Across America on Horseback

Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream— or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. More than once she is traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains. Lady Long Rider: …

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tattooing: Religion, Reality and Regret

Tattooing is a custom dating back thousands of years in North America. Traditionally, women and men used them to visually express tribal affiliation and war honors, as well as connections to divine beings, maturity rites and social and religious affiliation. These expressions of identity continued with the person after death — ensuring their place in …

Brown Bag Lunch Series: A Brief Overview of Body Modification and Tattoos

All cultures practice some type of body modification, be it body painting, piercing, tattooing, scarring or re-shaping. In many cultures, body modification is done to indicate social position, family affiliation, marital status, identify with a particular ethnic or gender group, perform a rite of passage, ward off or invoke the spirits, or to transfer information. …

Date with the Duke: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

When Senator Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns home to Shinbone for the funeral of Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), he recounts to a local newspaper editor the story behind it all. He had come to town many years before, a lawyer by profession. The stage was robbed on its way in by the local ruffian, Liberty …

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Southeastern Tattoo Traditions

An Indigenous tattoo revival is in full swing all over the world. J.P. Johnson will discuss the importance of ceremonial tattoo traditions amongst tribal peoples of the Southeast but, more specifically, Cherokee tattooing and the reclaiming of Cherokee identity through ceremony. J.P. Johnson has worked with the Cherokee nation for 13 years teaching language and …

Read the West Book Club: Letters of a Woman Homesteader

This book is composed of letters written by a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she …

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