High Country News

Can an old mine become a work of art?

The old Ute-Ule mine site outside Lake City, Colo., is under scrutiny by the Hardrock Revision Team, which wants to clean up the mine and yet preserve it as a living and historic work of art.

by Laura Pritchett, Dec 01, 2011
Caught in the Headlights

Personal obsession leads one woman into a world of scientists, wildlife rehabilitators and eccentric artists who are fascinated by the bloody relationship between wildlife and roads.

by Eliza Murphy, Feb 07, 2005
Colorado's ancient past

Using art and science to visualize lost landscapes.

by Lisa Song, Jul 19, 2010
Conspiring with caddisflies

A Seattle artist known only as Ferg works with tiny caddisfly larvae to make jewelry from the insects’ intricate casings

by Eliza Murphy, Nov 27, 2006
Dear friends

Sculptor and newspaperman Bob Wick; congrats to Paul Koberstein, Alex Pasquariello, Michelle Nijhuis, and Ed and Betsy Marston; correction

by Greg Hanscom, Mar 21, 2005
Food on every plate, art on every wall

In A More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists and Public Art in New Mexico, Jacqueline Hoefer explores the wide range of public artworks created in the state in the 1930s, under Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration

by Laura Paskus, Jun 21, 2004
His photographs trace the passage of time

Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago

by Renee Guillory, Sep 30, 2010
INNOVATE, Part III

Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, such as: Redefining rancher politics, A rediscovered renewable, Creating public nooks and crannies and more.

by Marty Durlin, Ray Ring, Sandra Tassel, Sarah Gilman, Terray Sylvester, Jennifer Anderson , Mar 12, 2009
Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front

In Little Things in a Big Country, Hannah Hinchman shares a beautifully hand-drawn, hand-lettered journal of her adventures in Montana with her dog, Sisu

by Staff, May 30, 2005
No bones about it: two books on the disappearing Everett Ruess

Two new books tackle the mystery of Everett Ruess, who vanished somewhere in the Four Corners region in 1934.

by Traci J. Macnamara, Sep 18, 2011