Arts & Culture

Local filmmaker, author and National Geographic photographer Pete McBride has spent the past two decades documenting some of the world’s most remote places. His new book, 'Seeing Silence: The Beauty of the World’s Most Quiet Places,' explores — through photos and essays — the changing auditory landscape across seven continents.

The festival kicks off at the Wheeler Opera House and Isis Theatre in Aspen and Carbondale’s Crystal Theatre amid changing public health policies in Pitkin County due to the delta variant, with a focus on the organization’s local roots.

In response to the climate crisis and commercial space operations, a group of Roaring Fork Valley artists opened the Aspen Space Station last month. The project is the site of futuristic space art installations and events aimed at climate advocacy.

Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights Festival offers a ground level look at the creative process through a series of one-person plays.

Ayana Mathis received her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she became the first African-American woman to hold the position of Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing. Mathis’s first novel, “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” (Knopf, 2012), was a New York Times Bestseller, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, NPR Best Book of 2013, and second selection for Oprah’s Book Club.

Artist Forrest Kirk's new exhibition at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in downtown Aspen features seven paintings, and runs through Sept. 12.

Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer, educator and performance artist in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University. Named by Southern Living as “One of the 50 people changing the South,” the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals, essay collections, and news outlets, and is co-author of the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook, “Soul Food Love.”

Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls have been fighting against sexism and racism in the art world since 1985, and this week, they'll be at Anderson Ranch Arts Center as part of Recognition Week.

As part of our series “Young Artists: A Collage of Creative Voices” about how local kids have kept creating during the pandemic, arts and culture reporter Kirsten Dobroth spoke with two-time Aspen Words Youth Poetry Slam winner Ruthie Brown, and sent this audio postcard.

This year’s Eisner/Lauder New Views Documentaries & Dialogue Series features three films honoring the lives and legacies of trailblazers for gender and racial equity.