The NCAR Community Art Program

The NCAR Community Art Program is hosted at NCAR's Mesa Laboratory. Galleries are open during normal business hours weekdays and from 9 to 4 p.m. on weekends and holidays. Each year numerous artists from the greater Denver Metro area participate in NCAR's annual juried Art Showcase. There, artists are selected to display their art during a given period over the following 12 months. Congratulations to the artists selected and listed below for 2011/2012. Click on the art shown below to see a larger sample of each work, or, we invite you to visit the NCAR Mesa Laboratory Visitor Center to enjoy the art in person throughout the year. Artists selected prior to 2011/2012 can be reviewed here. Additional information about the program can be obtained by contacting the program's coordinator, Laura Allen.

June & July 2011

Richard Greening, Gallery 1

Richard Greening recently began incorporating a new aspect in his photography using a fisheye lens to present a different interpretation of everyday objects and scenes. A fisheye lens is an ultra wide angle lens that captures panoramic images causing them to appear spherical.

Kevin Singleton, Gallery II

Kevin Singleton's exhibition of oil paintings on canvas captures the endless inspiration she receives to paint people of great character and scenes from the beautiful environment surrounding her. To the artist, creating artwork is a way of life that brings her enjoyment. Artist's Website.

August & September 2011

Dan Baumbach, Gallery 1

Dan Baumbach has been in love with photography since his teens when he began taking candid photos of people on the crowded streets of New York. Today his photography more often captures the amazing landscapes here and elsewhere that surround us. He believes that at our core, we are peace and love, and that art can help point us to that realization. Artist's Website.

Lael Har, Gallery II

A prolific artist, Lael Har works in vivid acrylic color in a contemporary impressionistic style. Her work is painterly, juicy, and expressive. Lael is inspired by natural beauty and is influenced by her spiritual upbringing, and her travels to Europe, Israel, India, and South America. Says Har, "I am moved by the exploration of beauty: color and light; movement and silence; the tensions of opposites that create harmony." Artist's Website.

 

October & November 2011

Nancy Myer, Gallery 1

Nancy Myer bought her first serious 35mm camera in 1976 as a means to capture and share the beauty she saw around her. 35 years later and with decades of workshops, training, awards, and experience behind her, she finds her favorite photographic subject remains the beauty around us all, but most notably the beauty of flowers, landscapes, animals, and abstracts. She has begun to experiment with a variety of digital manipulation techniques to give her work a fresh perspective. Artist's Website.

Kit Hevron Mahoney, Gallery 11

With over 25 years of experience as a fine artist, Kit Hevron Mahoney has been showing in galleries nationwide. Her work has received numerous awards and is found in both corporate and private collections. She is passionate about travel and painting landscapes and florals that represent the places she has been. Says Mahoney, "My paintings are a response to the passion and beauty I feel from and for Nature. As an artist I want to communicate visually and vibrantly the peace and serenity that I find in Nature, which I see as a visual and spiritual wonderland. I use my brush and palette knife to translate nature onto the canvas. I describe my dynamic compositions as a unique style of contemporary Impressionism with a bold use of color and texture." Artist's Website.

December & January 2012

Ken Schmeelk, Gallery I

Ken Schmeelk captures his artistic process best when he says, "For me, the process of image making in the photographic arts in from start to finish one of seeking and discovering a sense of 'rightness.' From moment to moment, finding the balance and harmony of light, color, and form may result in an image that is realistic, impressionistic, or abstract, but ultimately it is the dialogue and dance of the raw elements with the imaginative function that may reveal something that feels surprising yet true."

Erin King, Gallery II

Artist Erin King started Deadwilder Design & Illustration in 2007 after a long stint of hanging out in the natural history museum collection department. She has worked as a scientific illustrator, graphic designer, taxidermist, and a teaching assistant in the human anatomy lab at CU, but is now focused on working as an independent artist with a long term goal of illustrating a book on comparative primate anatomy. Artist's Website.

February & March 2012

Dan Friedlander, Gallery I

For Dan Friedlander, creation is the currency of life. Within his art, he takes clay and transforms it into living forms. Each form is a unity of his conscious and unconscious. Each form is a unique, organic expression of life’s possibilities. To maintain unity Friedlander uses only his fingers to sculpt each form. To maintain unity with nature he uses a solar oven to convert the fluid clay to a solid expression. Artist Website.

Ashley Williams, Gallery II

Ashley Williams studied studio art and art history at the University of Virginia. After graduation, she received the Aunspaugh Fellowship to continue her work at UVA for one year. She is currently completing an MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in addition to teaching classes in painting and drawing. Icebergs contain iron-rich minerals. When the ice melts, these minerals are released, enriching the surrounding water and attracting phytoplankton, jellyfish, and krill, creating what Williams imagines to be an abundant garden. As the icebergs drift into warmer waters, they drag these transient ecosystems along with them. Artist's Webiste.

April & May 2012

Julia Lunk, Gallery I

Julia Lunk began exhibiting her work in 2004 most notably in Boulder, Lyons and Aspen. Her paintings and prints are softly colored, sometimes whimsically, often carrying themes encompassing children, animals, and childlike innocence. Artist's Website.

Judith Trager, Gallery II

Judith Trager is an artist, teacher, and curator known internationally for her quilt artistry. Her work has appeared in many major exhibitions including Quilt National, Art Quilts at the Sedgewick, Crafts National, The Quilted Surface, and the International Quilt Festival. Trager is also a popular workshop teacher and lecturer, and has curated several traveling art exhibitions. See more of her work at the Artist's Webiste.

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