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Past Exhibits
Member's Art Exhibit
Exhibit Featuring Art by GMAEC Members
"Kachina Parade"
Connie Williams Exhibit
Connie Williams is a native of Colorado.
Williams Orchards is her home where she is partners with her husband Dan Williams.
Williams Orchards is her home where she is partners with her husband Dan Williams.
In 1972 Connie graduated from Western State College with a B.A. in Business Administration
and Education. As years passed her interest in art expanded and she returned to Western State and in 1984 received her B.A. in Fine Arts.
and Education. As years passed her interest in art expanded and she returned to Western State and in 1984 received her B.A. in Fine Arts.
Connie is active in local, regional, state & national art organizations and has served as regional representative and board member for many associations.
As a multimedia artist, water media is a personal favorite of Connie’s. Experimentation is her challenge, and the delight is in the creation, and the process.
The end results from traveling a path not yet taken allows Connie’s paintings to evolve from her minds stored impressions and images.
These paintings represent her inner feelings and spirit and reveal her perception of the world she lives in.
"Art-Awareness of Oneness"
Denny McNeill Exhibit
As Above - So Below
Denny was born in Cortez, Colorado in 1948. 1948 was a very good year. Growing up, a primary passion of Denny’s was laying in the shade of a tree and drawing and coloring. By the time he reached his teens Denny had become convinced that Sports, Student Council and girls were the keys to success and his future. By High School he had become the proverbial Rebel Without a Cause, ditching school and working more hours at the Gas Station in a week than he spent going to classes. Denny graduated High School from Littleton High School in Littleton, CO in 1966 and he is convinced the only reason they graduated him was because they didn’t want him back the next year.
The mid to late 60s were the days of Viet Nam and the draft which complicated the process of figuring out what one was going to do with their life. Denny’s solution was some combination of dropping out and trying to create an alternate lifestyle that ignored and avoided these remote and enforced realities. With the assistance of a Philosophy Professor, he explored ways to avoid the draft and Viet Nam. The upshot of all that was Denny dropping out of college and moving to Crested Butte in 1967 where he decided to openly defy the Draft Board by mailing his Draft Card back to them with a strongly worded request to stay out of his life. Apparently, this worked because he never heard another word from his Draft Board. Meanwhile his interest in creative endeavors was becoming rekindled.
The mid to late 60s were the days of Viet Nam and the draft which complicated the process of figuring out what one was going to do with their life. Denny’s solution was some combination of dropping out and trying to create an alternate lifestyle that ignored and avoided these remote and enforced realities. With the assistance of a Philosophy Professor, he explored ways to avoid the draft and Viet Nam. The upshot of all that was Denny dropping out of college and moving to Crested Butte in 1967 where he decided to openly defy the Draft Board by mailing his Draft Card back to them with a strongly worded request to stay out of his life. Apparently, this worked because he never heard another word from his Draft Board. Meanwhile his interest in creative endeavors was becoming rekindled.
Hope
Crested Butte held its first Arts and Crafts Fair in 1971. By this time Denny was actively pursuing wood carving and furniture making as a life’s work. He didn’t have a booth in the first or the second Arts and Crafts Fairs, but he was on the scene and active in the planning and setup for both Fairs. When it was time to start planning the 1973 Arts and Crafts Fair, Denny had a little different idea about how such a festival should go down. He came up with the idea of an interactive festival that would have artists creating art rather than sitting in a booth hoping someone would buy their work. The Crested Butte Totem Pole was created in 1973 in conjunction with the 3rd Arts and Crafts Festival. Denny was the spearhead of this project and, miraculously, the Totem Pole created 50 years ago still stands in the center of town. But Denny moved on.
The exigencies of life sent Denny into the real world of earning a living in earnest. He spent time in Denver, CO; Casper, WY; and Los Angeles, CA where he had a door installation business for 20 years. Then back to Colorado in 2002. After a couple more moves Denny has re-emerged on the Western Slope and is now living in Delta. Through all the years and trials and tribulations of life, art was always the first thing on Denny’s mind and many hundreds of pieces of sculpture, jewelry and wall art pieces have come to be – many of which are in homes all over the country and abroad.
The exigencies of life sent Denny into the real world of earning a living in earnest. He spent time in Denver, CO; Casper, WY; and Los Angeles, CA where he had a door installation business for 20 years. Then back to Colorado in 2002. After a couple more moves Denny has re-emerged on the Western Slope and is now living in Delta. Through all the years and trials and tribulations of life, art was always the first thing on Denny’s mind and many hundreds of pieces of sculpture, jewelry and wall art pieces have come to be – many of which are in homes all over the country and abroad.
Flower Earth
In 2023 Denny is going strong creating very original, “out of the box” wall art with the idea in mind to celebrate the oneness of existence, promote kindness, cooperation and gratitude. Sacred Geometry is a natural force behind his style and his love for color is on display in everything he creates these days. Denny is a completely self-taught artist, and he has been blessed to have a very good teacher. His work today is mostly in the realm of wall art using processed weathered wood and found objects creating scenes that are mostly from his imagination. Every piece seems to be a springboard to a new invention of how to do things, so it is difficult to describe his process. Suffice it to say the process is very labor intensive and requires a skill level that only comes from a lifetime of creating “outside the box”.
"Whether Patterns"
Virginia Unseld Exhibit