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Artist Cecilia Cardman talks about her struggles with the English language and her experience in public schools as a young immigrant from Italy, and about her higher education in both Italy and in Boulder at the University of Colorado. She speaks about teaching art at early Mesa College and what the college was like at that time. She describes the “topnotch” teachers she had at Grand Junction High School. She discusses leaving her teaching career...
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Local artist and former director of the Art Center of Western Colorado Dave Davis talks about his beginnings as an artist and his move to Grand Junction, Colorado from Boulder. He speaks about his role in creating Art on the Corner, Grand Junction’s outdoor sculpture exhibit, in 1984. He discusses his directorship of the Art Center, which began in 1986, and his role in helping the organization gain financial solvency and regain regional relevance...
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Helen Johnson talks about helping teach a WPA-funded dance class during the Great Depression. She speaks about other government programs, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, and how they helped the people of Mesa County, Colorado during the Great Depression. She describes working for Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles to manufacture airplanes during World War II, where she became the lead in her section. She talks about her brief career teaching...
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Rachel Campbell-Osborne, the fifteenth artist-in-residence at the Mesa County Libraries 970West Studio, talks about using art to make sense of the world and her hope that her art brings happiness to her audience. She speaks about teaching classes on plein air painting through Mesa County Libraries and the value of being prepared to paint on the go. She discusses roller skating and how this hobby functions as a welcome reprieve from her art. She talks...
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Steve Friesen, longtime director of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Golden, Colorado, speaks to an audience at the Museum of Western Colorado about American folk art. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
