Welcome to the beginning of another week in the Roaring Fork Valley! This is Week in the Arts, a curated list of upcoming exhibitions and events.

Wintersculpt is underway on the Aspen pedestrian mall. It’s a Winterskol tradition, where teams carve a snow sculpture in 48 hours. Competitors use spades, shovels and chainsaws. Getting the snow ready for carving takes different equipment: Dump trucks, front loaders and a lot of elbow grease from the city’s Parks and Rec department.  

A new photography exhibit at the Art Base invites visitors to create the final masterpiece.

  This week, it’s in the people’s hands now - a new Lift One measure is on the ballot, and we now have two top executive positions open in Aspen government, what will this mean for the next mayor? And Aspen’s election season is underway.

On Monday morning, snow fell on an already wet Highway 82, making the roadway slick. There were several accidents, which made for a long and dangerous commute for those heading up-valley.

  This week, a human rights lawyer fighting sex trafficking in Colorado, Nobel Laureate Arthur Ashkin explains his prize-winning invention, and an extended look at SkiCo’s sustainability report.

This week, hosts Zoë Rom and Christin Kay bring you the week's news from the Roaring Fork Valley. 

Aspen Skiing Company released its annual sustainability report last week, and the format was different than past years. Zoë Rom spoke with Auden Schendler, the Senior Vice President of Sustainability, about the tradeoffs SkiCo makes when it’s reporting on, and mitigating, its role in climate change.