For a full downloadable catalog and tour map click here. Tour catalogs will also be available in August at local businesses. Meet the artists and preview samples of their work at Crestone Charter School Friday October 11th from 5 to 7pm.
Crestone Artists Open Studio Tour
By Emmy Savage
Like many of the artists who live in Crestone and its contiguous Baca Grande subdivision, I was attracted to the landscape’s sublime and terrible beauty as well as the affordable land and housing. To the east of Crestone, the 14,000-foot Sangre de Cristo mountains rise almost vertically from the San Luis Valley beneath. To the south, Blanca, sacred mountain to the Navajo, guards the valley’s sand dunes, winds and intemperate moods and to the west, dwarfed by the sky above and the distance of the plain, the San Juan Mountains offer their mysterious presence in shades of pale blue and purple. When I moved here in 2011, I was reassured by the presence of a first-rate art gallery and newspaper, The Crestone Artisans Gallery and The Crestone Eagle as well as Shumei International Institute that, through a collaborative program founded by photographer Bill Ellzey and administered by artist Deana Wilfong, offers exhibit and lecture space to many local artists. 2011 was also the year that artists Robin Ross and Noah Baen moved here from New York City and founded CrestoneArtists.com and within a year took over the administration of an annual open studio tour founded by Wilfong in 2005. read more....
By Emmy Savage
Like many of the artists who live in Crestone and its contiguous Baca Grande subdivision, I was attracted to the landscape’s sublime and terrible beauty as well as the affordable land and housing. To the east of Crestone, the 14,000-foot Sangre de Cristo mountains rise almost vertically from the San Luis Valley beneath. To the south, Blanca, sacred mountain to the Navajo, guards the valley’s sand dunes, winds and intemperate moods and to the west, dwarfed by the sky above and the distance of the plain, the San Juan Mountains offer their mysterious presence in shades of pale blue and purple. When I moved here in 2011, I was reassured by the presence of a first-rate art gallery and newspaper, The Crestone Artisans Gallery and The Crestone Eagle as well as Shumei International Institute that, through a collaborative program founded by photographer Bill Ellzey and administered by artist Deana Wilfong, offers exhibit and lecture space to many local artists. 2011 was also the year that artists Robin Ross and Noah Baen moved here from New York City and founded CrestoneArtists.com and within a year took over the administration of an annual open studio tour founded by Wilfong in 2005. read more....
Welcome to Crestone, CO. Here you'll find deep tranquility and spirituality. The artists of Crestone offer you the opportunity to commune with them by visiting their web pages, inviting you into their studios and sharing with you their passions and visionary insights. They are sculptors, painters, photographers, craftspeople, installation and performance artists. Their goals are to facilitate mutual support, networking among local artists, making professional artworks and art education experiences accessible to the community. At the same time, building an awareness with the public at large of Crestone, as a center of committed art activity that parallels and reinforces the town’s concentration of spiritual centers and activities.
