Past Exhibits

Student Art Exhibit

Miniatures Art Show & Sale

"Celestial Beauty in the Night Sky

The Allure of Nebulae"

Michael Marino Exhibit

Members Art Exhibit

"Wandering Toward Delight"

Lee Wanderer Exhibit

"Painting at the Speed of Joy"

Mary Pat Ettinger Exhibit

"Americana Portrait Sessions"

Jeff Fasano Exhibit

"A Photo Journal"

Penny Heuscher Exhibit

"25 Years an Artist"

Hendrika Cegielski Exhibit

Hendrika was born in the Netherlands a year before her family emigrated to the United States. They settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she grew up, married Martin Cegielski, and raised three children. Seeking a quiet and simpler lifestyle once the children had grown, they found it in Delta County, Colorado. It was here that she finally found the time to pick up a paintbrush and begin the best journey of her life.

Retrospective

"Celebrating Past Art Exhibits, Part 2"

Retrospective

"Celebrating Past Art Exhibits, Part 1"

Student Art Show

Cedaredge Elementary School

Student Art Exhibit

Miniatures Art Show & Sale

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.

"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.

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.

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

Like Stained Glass

I intuitively select subjects to paint, but if I analyze later I realize that I am attracted to patterns. They can be natural patterns created by wind or water or man-made patterns created by farmers plowing their fields or geologic patterns that are millions of years old. My work is also informed by the changing light, as it is for most landscape painters since the French Impressionists started painting outside in the 1800s.

"Interpretations of the West"

Peggy Judy Exhibit

Colorado Skies

Peggy Judy was born and raised in Colorado and now living in Southwest Colorado, Judy attended Colorado State University receiving a BFA in Illustration. Married to an equine veterinarian, raising two children and breeding, raising and training horses for thirty years left little time to pursue a career in art until the last eight years or so. Now represented by top art galleries with an emphasis on contemporary western art around the country and Europe.

"A Shared Vision"

Lanny Grant & Rebecca Swain-Grant Exhibit

Mendota Peak

A native of Western Colorado, Lanny Grant resides near the small community of Silt not far from where he grew up on his father's ranch in Peach Valley. Family camping and fishing trips in the Colorado mountains became sketching trips as Lanny began his artistic efforts at an early age. Developing a lifelong love for the high country, Lanny was mostly self-taught and started painting in oils at the age of ten.

Coxcomb Peak

Lanny met New Mexico artist Ben Turner in 1965 and was impressed with Turner's ability to paint mountain landscapes. After graduating from high school in 1971 Grant attended Adams State
College in Alamosa, Colorado where he gained a knowledge of art history, painting,
sculpture and life drawing. During his study at Adams State, Lanny made frequent trips to
New Mexico, gaining an appreciation for the early master painters of the Taos and Santa
Fe area. Grant studied portrait painting with Dallas artist Ramon Froman during the
summers of 1972, 1973 & 1974 in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.

Independence Pass

Froman's teaching
concentrated on five solid fundamentals of painting: Observation, Drawing, Design, Values & Color. Grant focused on these principles and has evolved his own style of
painting through dedicated work and practice. Another local western artist, Jack Roberts, also encouraged Grant throughout his career. Lanny met Conrad Schwiering in Jackson,
Wyoming in 1985 who critiqued his work and encouraged him to work directly from Nature.

Uncompahgre Peak

Greg McHuron, another Jackson artist who became a close friend and mentor, also stressed the importance of plein air painting. Lanny took the advice to heart, and has devoted many years to working outside, resulting in his accurate translations of the many
moods of the high country. Always drawn to remote and wild places, Grant continues to
explore new areas to paint, including making annual painting pack trips with fellow artist Tucker Smith into the vast Wind River Range in Wyoming.

Cedaredge Elementary School

Student Art Show

"A Colorado Artist in the Natural World: Nature and Beyond"

Jean Stortz Exhibit

Chronicling an ever changing life through art is my journey as an artist. My Art has changed over the years, depending on where I lived. My lifetime of art has included: painting oil and acrylic, collage, pastel, colored pencil, 2D and 3D mixed media.
After a dry spell during the Covid years, I am newly inspired. Currently an intense use of color in 2D mixed media is giving me much joy. Nature and abstraction are my go to.

“Aquarius Dance”

Dani Tupper Exhibit

Hidden Lake

Dani Tupper is a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society, the Southern Colorado Watercolor Society, and Western Colorado Watercolor Society, a lifetime member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and a member of the National W/C Society and International Society of Experimental Artists. She is affiliated with numerous art centers and other art groups. In juried and non-juried exhibitions, her work will often be recognized with an award.

Pink Posies

Tupper studied at Hastings College, NE and ENMU, Portales, NM. She started working in oils while living in Australia and has also tried her hand in acrylics and other media but her love is watercolor. She is self-taught in watercolor but continues to learn through experimenting and taking numerous workshops from well-known artists. She likes to experiment and to share different techniques with her students. Her subject material is as varied as the techniques she uses. She likes to paint the seasons so spring and summer brings bright sunshine filled landscapes and beautiful florals, autumn is the time for fall foliage and colorful leaves.
Winter brings snow scenes and staying inside to delve into portraiture, figures, still life, abstracts and whatever else presents itself.

OK Corral Amigos

Some of the techniques she likes and also teaches are wet into wet, traditional, negative painting,
poured paintings, ink resist, wax resist, pen and ink with watercolor, limited palette, painting through webbing or webbing spray and collage with watercolor. Some of the surfaces Dani likes besides the 100% rag watercolor paper (rough, cold and hot press) are Yupo, watercolor canvas, Masa and other oriental papers (smooth or crinkled), gessoed surfaces and has even used illustration board and mat board. She also teaches Alcohol Ink and a new workshop called Alcohol Ink meets Watercolor.

Beach Architects

Tupper teaches classes and workshops in her own studio in Delta, CO and also gives workshops around the USA. She also takes her students on painting trips abroad. They have visited Spain, Italy, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica in January, 2018. She takes her weekly class on location to paint and each summer, she offers a retreat to the mountains in Colorado or Utah for three or four day plein air painting.

“Small Town America: An Artist’s Rendition of Rural Colorado”

Rita Pacheco Exhibit

Young Cowboy

Rita Pacheco is a
contemporary impressionist oil painter residing in Ridgway, Colorado.
She was born in Southern California, and began her formal training at Art Center College
of Design there in Pasadena.

Student Art Show

Miniatures Art Show