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Written by Aaron
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:46 |
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RMNPguide.com is the place to find the answers to your lodging, dining, and recreation questions. Along with info on planning your trip to the park as well as your stay in the park, we also have a forums community so you can talk with others about your trip to RMNP. And if your looking for even more, check out the podcast! |
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Artists-in-Residence Selected for Rocky Mountain National Park |
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Written by Aaron
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 09:01 |
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Six artists have been selected for the summer 2008 Artist-in-Residence Program at Rocky Mountain National Park. Artists will be provided with a creative, contemplative environment in which to generate artistic works and share their works with the public. Artistic diversity, new ideas and creative uses of media were encouraged in the application process.
Six artists were selected out of seventy-eight applicants from throughout the United States. The artists selected along with their art
medium are: Kevin Muente, Visual Artist from Erlanger, Kentucky; Daniel Kellogg, Composer from Erie, Colorado; John Taft, Visual Artist from Longmont, Colorado; Laura Jacques, Visual Artist from Cromwell, Connecticut; Cory Hills, Storyteller, Musician and Performing Artist from Lawrence, Kansas and Will LaPage, Poet from Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Artists are given two-week residencies at the William Allen White cabin from June through September. During their stay at the park, artists share their vision in two public presentations. Dates and times of public presentations will be announced.
Artists have had a long-standing impact on the formation, expansion and direction of our country’s national parks. Musicians, composers, painters, writers, sculptors and other performing artists also draw upon the multifaceted quality of parks for inspiration. All of these artists translate the national park’s purpose, as a place of pleasure and preservation, into images which bring others enjoyment and a deeper understanding of the parks some may never visit. Rocky Mountain National Park’s Artist-In-Residence program provides artists the opportunity to become a part of a long established tradition of artists in our national parks.
For more information about Rocky Mountain National Park and for specific dates and locations for the artist programs please contact the park information office at (970) 586-1206. Discuss this article at rmnpforumc.com, click here! |
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Science Behind the Scenery Series |
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Written by Aaron
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 07:37 |
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Back by popular demand, is the Thursday evening Science Behind The Scenery Series in the auditorium at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park. The programs begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Following is the schedule for this summer:
June 26 Bears, Cougars, Frogs, and Butterflies: Wildlife Research Cheri Yost, McGraw Ranch Manager and Research Volunteer Coordinator, will explain how wildlife biologists help the park keep track of creatures great and small.
July 3 Humming Along: Rocky’s Hummingbirds Fred and Tena Engelman, Citizen Scientists, will describe the life of Rocky’s hummingbirds. Learn about how the Engelman’s band the birds, what species they find, and what patterns are emerging from their study.
July 10 Native American Lives and Sacred Landscapes Learn more about Native American park inhabitants from Dr. Bob Brunswig,
Anthropology Professor at University of Northern Colorado. These early inhabitants once viewed the park’s natural landscape as an integrated natural-spiritual-mythological realm where ritual and prayer were conducted in special places. Summer subsistence activities were often accompanied by ceremony and ritual in a seamless fusion of everyday life and the spiritual world. |
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