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Summer Series: Las Nietas de Nonó & Erin Christovale | Contemporary Art Lecture | Anderson Ranch

Join Las Nietas de Nonó in conversation with Erin Christovale as part of the Anderson Ranch Summer Series, a renowned lecture series featuring leading contemporary artists, curators, and cultural leaders. Hosted at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, this event explores contemporary art, creative practice, and the ideas shaping today's visual arts community. Learn more about the Summer Series: https://www.andersonranch.org/events/summer-series/ Explore workshops and visiting artists:

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Summer Series: Aliza Nisenbaum & Jane Panetta | Contemporary Art Lecture | Anderson Ranch

Join artist Aliza Nisenbaum in conversation with curator Jane Panetta as part of the Anderson Ranch Summer Series, a renowned lecture series featuring leading contemporary artists, curators, and cultural leaders. Hosted at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, this live conversation explores contemporary painting, portraiture, artistic practice, and the ideas shaping today's visual arts community. Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/

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Summer Series: Athena LaTocha & Valerie Cassel Oliver | Contemporary Art Lecture | Anderson Ranch

Join artist Athena LaTocha in conversation with curator Valerie Cassel Oliver as part of the Anderson Ranch Summer Series, a renowned lecture series featuring leading contemporary artists, curators, and cultural leaders. Known for monumental works on paper that explore the relationship between the natural world, industrial landscapes, and the histories embedded in place, Athena LaTocha discusses her artistic process, materials, and evolving contemporary art practice with acclaimed curator Valerie Cassel Oliver. Recorded at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, this conversation explores environmental narratives, material experimentation, Indigenous perspectives, and the evolving role of artists in today's visual arts community. Athena LaTocha's multidisciplinary practice investigates landscape, geology, memory, and displacement through works created with ink, lead, soil, wood, and other natural materials. Drawing on her upbringing in Alaska, she creates powerful artworks that examine the intersection of ecology, history, industry, and place. Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, discusses her curatorial practice and decades of organizing groundbreaking exhibitions that have shaped conversations around contemporary art, African American artists, performance, material culture, and conceptual art. Whether you're an artist, curator, collector, educator, or student, this lecture offers valuable insight into contemporary artistic practice, museum curation, environmental storytelling, and the creative process. Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/

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Summer Series: Marilyn Minter & Lisa Phillips | Artist Lecture | Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Join internationally acclaimed artist Marilyn Minter in conversation with Lisa Phillips as part of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center Summer Series in Snowmass, Colorado. The Anderson Ranch Summer Series features leading contemporary artists, curators, collectors, and critics discussing today's most important ideas in contemporary art. Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter To learn more about our Visiting Artists and Critics Program: https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/ To see a full list of Visiting Artists, Critics and other lectures, please visit:https://www.andersonranch.org/events/

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Advice from painter Aliza Nisenbaum

Finding your voice as an artist takes time. And that's okay. @alizanisenbaum offers this to her students: treat your own work like evidence. Get curious. What keeps showing up? What do you reach for without thinking? That pull is yours. That's your voice. It's the same spirit at the heart of the artist community at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

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Advice from Jane Panetta

Jane Panetta’s advice for artists: when in doubt, keep going. Tune out the noise and focus on what feels important to you. @janepanetta is the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the @metmuseum Watch her full Summer Series talk with Aliza Nisenbaum — free on the @andersonranchartscenter YouTube channel.

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Advice from Roberto Lugo

Ceramic artist and sculptor Roberto Lugo gives his artist advice. Figure out what you love to do in your artistic process so it doesn’t feel like work, so it brings your joy, and that is the greatest artistic success. This summer @andersonranchartscenter Roberto Lugo gave one of the best artists talks we’ve EVER seen. It’s on our YouTube channel under Summer Series.

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Advice from Dr. Deborah Willis

Dr. Deborah Willis gives her artist advice. We asked Dr. Deb while at @andersonranchartscenter if she had one piece of advice to give her younger self and her response is the same advice that she gives to her students: believe in yourself, believe in your work, believe that you have an important story to tell. It’s so simple, and yet we as humans, as creatives, need to continue to remember this sage advice. Thank you @debwillisphoto for sharing your advice with us all.

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Guest Faculty Lecture | Robert Pruitt & Sachiko Akiyama | Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Join acclaimed artists Robert Pruitt and Sachiko Akiyama for a thought-provoking Guest Faculty Lecture at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Robert Pruitt discusses a multidisciplinary practice spanning drawing, sculpture, photography, and animation, with a focus on monumental figurative drawings that blend science fiction, African American history, hip-hop culture, mythology, and speculative futures. Through richly detailed imagery and symbolic storytelling, Pruitt explores identity, race, memory, technology, and the power of imagination to reframe history and envision new possibilities. Sculptor Sachiko Akiyama shares her distinctive approach to hand-carved and painted wooden sculpture. Inspired by nature, wildlife, folklore, and the expressive qualities of wood, her work combines bold forms with intricate surface carving to create contemplative figures that balance strength, movement, and quiet emotion. Working from her studio in New Hampshire, Akiyama draws on traditional sculptural techniques while creating deeply contemporary works that celebrate craftsmanship and the natural world. Recorded as part of the Anderson Ranch Guest Faculty Lecture Series, this conversation explores contemporary drawing, sculpture, storytelling, figurative art, wood carving, material exploration, artistic process, and the many ways artists use visual language to communicate personal and cultural narratives. Artists, students, collectors, educators, and anyone interested in contemporary art will gain valuable insight into two unique creative practices. Anderson Ranch Arts Center is one of the nation's leading nonprofit visual arts organizations, offering workshops, artist residencies, lectures, exhibitions, children's programs, and community events in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter Join us for an engaging guest artist lecture, part of the Anderson Ranch’s summer of free artist lectures in Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado. Held on Sunday and Tuesday evenings from June through September, these events highlight renowned contemporary artists and faculty through dynamic slideshow presentations. Artists share insights into their creative process, studio practice, influences, and current work, offering a behind-the-scenes look at contemporary art today. Connect with leading artists and discover new ideas in a welcoming, creative setting.

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Guest Faculty Lecture | Brent Greenwood & Jack Fox

Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter Join us for an engaging guest artist lecture, part of the Anderson Ranch’s summer of free artist lectures in Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado. Held on Sunday and Tuesday evenings from June through September, these events highlight renowned contemporary artists and faculty through dynamic slideshow presentations. Artists share insights into their creative process, studio practice, influences, and current work, offering a behind-the-scenes look at contemporary art today. Connect with leading artists and discover new ideas in a welcoming, creative setting.

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Guest Faculty Lecture | Barbara Bosworth & Emily Sheffer

Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter Join us for an engaging guest artist lecture, part of the Anderson Ranch’s summer of free artist lectures in Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado. Held on Sunday and Tuesday evenings from June through September, these events highlight renowned contemporary artists and faculty through dynamic slideshow presentations. Artists share insights into their creative process, studio practice, influences, and current work, offering a behind-the-scenes look at contemporary art today. Connect with leading artists and discover new ideas in a welcoming, creative setting.

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Guest Faculty Lecture | Valpuri Remling & Damien Davis

Never miss an artist lecture! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter Join us for an engaging guest artist lecture, part of the Anderson Ranch’s summer of free artist lectures in Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado. Held on Sunday and Tuesday evenings from June through September, these events highlight renowned contemporary artists and faculty through dynamic slideshow presentations. Artists share insights into their creative process, studio practice, influences, and current work, offering a behind-the-scenes look at contemporary art today. Connect with leading artists and discover new ideas in a welcoming, creative setting.

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Take a contemporary and experimental approach to sumi ink drawing - this summer at the Ranch.

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Take a guess, can you crack the code of Hien’s latest creations?

Take a guess, can you crack the code of Hien’s latest creations? Meet Hien Nguyen (they/she), our artist-in-residence who was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam. Hien creates immersive sculptures that reflect the experiences of immigrants in America, especially first-generation Vietnamese. By utilizing Vietnamese folklore and history, their work evokes empathy and nurtures concepts that have anchored them in their experience. Using wood and fabrication techniques, Hien creates installations and game-like objects that facilitate interaction and are thought-provoking.

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Advice for Artists: When to Push Back

As an artist, there will be times when you feel pushed to do things that you don't want to do. Maybe it's a commission that doesn't fit your style, or a workshop where the teacher is pushing their own agenda. In this video, photography artist-in-residence Rey Londres talk about how to know when to push back and stay true to yourself as an artist. For more artist inspiration, creativity and community follow us @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Advice for Artists: How to Follow Your Obsessions and Turn It Into a Career

Are you an artist who's been struggling to find your way? Are you feeling lost and confused about what to do next? Watch this video with artist-in-residence AO Roberts for advice from on how to follow your obsessions and turn them into a successful career. For more artist inspiration, creativity and community follow us @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Artist Advice: 3 Tips for Trusting Your Artistic Practice

As an artist, it can be difficult to trust your creative practice. You may second guess yourself or feel like you're not "good enough." In this video, artist-in-residence Amythest Warrington offer tips for trusting your artistic process, making mistakes and staying connected to your creative intuition. For more artist inspiration, creativity and community follow us @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Ever wondered how a photograph transforms into a unique piece of art? #screenprinting

Get a sneak peek into the process of creating multilayered, dynamic, and unique screen prints from original photographic imagery. Watch as participants bring their vision to life, layer by layer, color by color, transforming a simple photograph into a vibrant work of art. Don't miss out on future print making workshops! Subscribe to our channel @AndersonRanchArtsCenter

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Pumpkin peep with priceless pastel p-o-p! #pumpkincraft #jackolantern

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Abstract geometric painting in acrylic with Rob Hill #paintingideas

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