I need your help supporting the visual arts in Steamboat Springs! I am bringing an amazing visual arts show to Steamboat Springs this September. I need to raise $1,500 towards exhibition and travel expenses for the artists. It takes a financial village to bring the arts to our remote corner of the state.
Show Costs:
$500 travel stipend. Amy and Ted will both be traveling across the state to bring their works to Steamboat and will spend the week of September 1-6 here. A $500 travel stipend will help defray their costs.
$500 exhibition materials and labor. Our beloved Depot Art Center’s historic baggage room presents unique creative challenges as a venue for fine art. We will be creatively upgrading the space using large scale photographs as backdrops for the art, which helps disguise the worn carpeted walls of the space. Other costs include fabrication and show installation.
Here’s a little about the show:
Mono No Aware – Beautiful yet Fleeting
Featuring Colorado artists Amy Laugesen, Ted Moore, and Wendy Kowynia
Bliss Hall at the Depot Art Center will welcome three nationally known Colorado artists in the show Mono No Aware – Beautiful but Fleeting, a September exhibition debuting during First Friday Artwalk on September 4, 2026 from 5:00-8:00PM.
Curator Wendy Kowynia focuses the show on the concept of mono no aware, a Japanese term meaning ‘beautiful but fleeting’. An understanding that everything is impermanent and changing. This exhibit features artwork that responds to the beautiful yet fleeting natural world around us in Colorado.
Ceramicist Amy Laugesen’s work is inspired by the Quarter Horse heritage and landscape of Northwestern Colorado, facilitated by an Art Ranch residency at the Carpenter Ranch in 2010 and 2012.
Durango based Woodworker and Painter Ted Moore’s work is all about trees and wood and what they say about ecology and the nature of being. He does realistic ink painting combined with small cabinetry. He is very interested in historical devotional objects such as triptychs, reliquaries, and actively use that visual vocabulary to talk about ecology.
Wendy Kowynia’s new series of textile works entitled Burn are inspired by an area of the Zirkel Wilderness that burned over twenty years ago. They capture the feeling of that area and use earth bound materials including charcoal, soot, and earth pigments.
