Dominic Anthony Walsh
Edlis Neeson Arts and Culture Editor and ReporterDominic joined the Edlis Neeson arts and culture desk at Aspen Public Radio in Jan. 2022.
Since then, he’s reported on Andy Warhol’s time in Aspen, a backcountry (mis)adventure and Aspen’s biggest party of the decade.
Dominic comes to the Roaring Fork Valley from San Antonio, where he covered energy, the environment and public health as a Report For America corps member for his hometown station, Texas Public Radio. He contributed to TPR’s national Edward R. Murrow Award-winning digital coverage of protests and the pandemic in 2020, produced a special report on workers dying from heat exposure with a national team that was recognized by Investigative Reporters & Editors and looked into chemical disasters across Texas for TPR and Houston Public Media’s “Fire Triangle” investigative series — which made NPR’s list of podcasts “NPR One listeners couldn’t get enough of in 2021.”
He graduated in 2020 from Trinity University, where he got his broadcasting start as a student host for the jazz-by-day, indie-by-night campus station, KRTU 91.7 FM. Before journalism, Dominic made music with the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, Trinity’s jazz ensemble and in San Antonio’s underground indie community.
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The Aspen Shortsfest film festival kicks off Tuesday. This year’s festival features 77 short films from around the world. By the end of the week-long event, five of the films will qualify for the 2023 Oscars.
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The organization's flagship program will feature 80 fewer students than planned, and performances by the all-student Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra have been canceled.
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From an early age, Madeleine Albright held a special affinity for Aspen. The rich intellectual dialogue at the Aspen Institute stood in stark contrast to the suppression of free speech in Albright's homeland.
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Fourteen artists from Florida recently wrapped up a five-week stay at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village through the Oolite Arts residency program.
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In this audio postcard, we hear from three backcountry skiers brought together by an unexpected accident. They remember John Galvin, a longtime Mountain Rescue Aspen volunteer who died two years later.
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Dance Aspen is a young nonprofit, but the group is making waves even as the pandemic continues to reverberate through the performing arts sector.
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"I except it: I accept it" is a busy, multimedia exhibition by artist Simon Klein. The show explores the passing of time — and our place in time — through a variety of works and collaborations.
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Andy Warhol — one of the most significant figures in modern art — had deep ties to Aspen. Before his death in 1987, he spent years cultivating a public persona as an idiosyncratic, superficial and unemotional person. An ongoing exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum casts light on a more private side of Warhol.
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Two new exhibitions at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen opened Thursday. “A Nod to Modernity” features two Denver-based artists who put a twist on the familiar themes of midcentury modernism. And four painters contributed to the second exhibition, “Intimate Appearances,” which explores relationships and connections through deeply personal portraits.
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The Aspen Music Festival and School’s flagship summer program is still more than four months away, but alumni of the program, including the Calder Quartet, are bringing live classical music to Aspen this month and next.