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Wilderness Workshop Seeks Abstract Photographers For 11th Artist-In-Wilderness Residency

The application for Wilderness Workshop’s 2019 Artist in Wilderness program is now open.  Artists spend a week in the wilderness surrounding Aspen for the residency.  

Wilderness Workshop board member Mary Dominick-Coomer started the program 11 years ago to honor Dottie Fox, a watercolor artist and co-founder of the organization.  

Each summer is focused on a different media; this year, for the first time, Dominick-Coomer explains, the residency is for abstract photographers.  

"It's their impression, in form, color and space, of the texture, the feeling, the imagery of wilderness," she said.

Dominick-Coomer says in the residency’s first year, eight artists applied, all from Colorado.  As the program has grown, artists have come from overseas, and even from the Yukon.

A link to the application can be found on the Wilderness Workshop website.  The submission deadline is March 15.

 

Contributor Christin Kay is passionate about the rich variety of arts, cultural experiences and stories in the Roaring Fork Valley. She has been a devotee of public radio her whole life. Christin is a veteran of Aspen Public Radio, serving as producer, reporter and interim news director.