Inside This Issue 

Just in case you haven’t heard, there is a new art space in Denver. The Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton addition to the Denver Art Museum opens on October 7, 2006. It is the influential German architect’s first North American project to be completed. The lead article in this year’s ArtScape, beginning on page 8, is devoted to this major Rocky Mountain Region cultural event. It has been estimated that the new wing will attract as many as 1 million visitors in its first year, with some 30 percent coming from outside Colorado.

The new Carol and Don Dickenson Sculpture Garden at Foothills Art Center, funded by 200 donors and featuring internationally known sculptor Jesús Moroles, is profiled on page 27. Several other sculpture gardens from the Loveland area are illustrated on page 113.

Two of our ArtScape participants have provided us with articles on their area of expertise. Kathleen Gallagher’s (Heritage Appraisal) What is it Worth? offers her suggestions regarding art appraisals on page 81. And Bill Bickerton of Columbine Gallery (Frisco) provides framing advice in The Art of Framing (page 166).

The soon-to-be-built Clyfford Still Museum (page 60) will be located in the Golden Triangle Museum District near the Denver Art Museum and the Bannock Art Center (page 58).

Other articles profile a few of our artists, galleries and art shows … Stefan Geissbühler (page 90), the Loveland Sculpture Invitational Show (page 19), the Loch Vale Scottish Art Festival (page 102), the Gallery at Rich Designs (page 118) and The Squash Blossom (page 130). The Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery (page 22) celebrates three and one half decades of work by their artists with the special show Then and Now: A 35-Year Retrospective opening on Friday, October 27 at the Canyon Gallery of the Boulder Public Library.

The distinctive Museo de las Américas is profiled on page 69. We’ve repeated two of our favorite articles by regular contributors. Carol Dickinson’s thoughtful Toward a More Artful You is on page 140 and Claudia McAdam’s helpful Collecting Art: Ten Tips is on page 168. Tom Delapa’s Framed on Film series continues on page 85.

The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts’ Hugh Grant is one of the area’s most respected authorities on Colorado artists and early art movements in the region. A regular contributor to ArtScape, he builds the case that Denver is indeed A Center for 20th Century International Design on page 12. A separate article on early Colorado artists affiliated with the Broadmoor Art Academy appears on page 123.

And finally, noted jeweler, horseman, Olympian and senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Renaissance Man of the West, is the subject of The Jewelry of Ben Nighthorse on page 21. A special exhibit by the same name continues throughout the end of 2006 at the Colorado History Museum. Don’t miss it.