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A
creative confluence for the arts, ideas, and the
environment.
mission
statement
Deep
Creek Arts is a physical place, a community, and
a “point of presence” dedicated to
understanding the natural world and culture through
creative dialogue, interdisciplinary studies,
and artistic production.
history
Studio
art production at Deep Creek began in the middle
1970s when Alan
and Barbara Serota, young ceramic artists
fresh from Texas, leased the old stone house from
Elwood Collins, Dan's father. They spent the next
ten years perfecting a beautiful local saltware
and offering lessons in wheel throwing and ceramic
production to other local artists such as Elisabeth
Gick and Julie McNair.
In
the early 1980s, Dan
Collins and Charles
Garoian used the facilities at Deep Creek
to conduct summer workshops that highlighted a
program called ARTrek. Charles, a high
school teacher in Los Altos, California (and former
teacher of Dan), enlisted students from his art
classes. This lasted for two years. The third
ARTrek was organized by Dan Collins while
he was an MFA candidate at UCLA. It involved undergraduate
students from UCLA. The instructors included graduate
students at UCLA (Skip
Arnold, Lisa
Findley, Karen ______, John ________), two
poets from San Francisco (Jerry
Estrin and Laura
Moriarty) and a photographer from Los Angeles
(John G____).
From
about 1985 to 1992, Pam
Hall and Dan Rist, a husband-wife team of
jewelers and potters, upgraded the old house and
kiln. They traveled extensively to art fairs and
eventually started "Telluride Gold"
on Colorado Ave. in Telluride. In 1992 (?) they
moved to Lawson Hill, three miles west of Telluride.
Their son Nathan Daniel Rist was born in Montrose
and spent the first 5 (?) years of his life at
Deep Creek.
The
first Deep Creek School, held the summer of 1992,
was organized by Dan Collins and Laurie Lundquist.
Dan and Laurie wanted to move away from the "roadtrip"
model to a residency program on site. They ran
the program summers from 1992 through 1999. Learn
more about the Deep Creek School here.
Due
to complications witih local zoning ordinances
and family issues, the Deep Creek School was discontinued
in the late 90s. But in its place, the facilities
at the foot of Deep Creek became the home to year-round
studio production for a number of artists and
craftspeople including Christoph
Neander, Rick
Thompson, Rich
Cieciuch, all fine art furniture makers. Barbel
Hacke, a long term Deep Creek resident, has supported
Deep Creek artists as manager of the Telluride
Gallery of Fine Arts. An art center in Telluride,
The Ah Haa School, has conducted workshops in
silk dying, metal smithing, and ceramics since
the late 90s and continues to do so. In the summer
of 2004 (?), Jon Hubbard and his wife Hilary Douglass,
recent MFAs in metals from Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, arrived on site inquiring about
studio space. Jon subsequently renovated the old
ceramics and metals "half-shed" into
a state of the art facility for fine art metal
production. He continues to conduct regular workshops
in welding, forging, and other forms of metal
work. Anton Viditz-Ward engages in his pyro-technic
sculpture production on site and Duncan Mackenzie
explores a range of processes in the old Ice House.
Deep
Creek Arts now encompasses both the physical site
at the confluence of Deep Creek and the San Miguel
River and a community of artists dedicated to
creative dialogue and studio practice. It functions
as a point of presence within the San Miguel River
watershed and a nexus for connection with other
institutions such as the Telluride Institute,
Ah Haa School, the San Miguel Watershed Coalition,
San Miguel County, and the Town of Telluride.
directions
to Deep Creek Arts
On
any standard road map of SW Colorado, look for
the T-intersection where Colorado State Highway
145 butts into a spur leading into Telluride (also
called Highway 145). This will bring you to about
3.5 miles east of your ultimate destination at
Deep Creek Arts.
We
are located 7 miles west of Telluride on State
Highway 145 (corner of 145 and Deep Creek Road).
Mile marker 75. The property (70 acres bisected
by county road and the creek) encompasses the
lower end of Deep Creek canyon which feeds into
the San Miguel River just below us. Across the
highway from us, at the lower end of the property,
is a CDOT State Road Shed. Not exactly award-winning
architecture, it's nevertheless a good landmark.
When you see their grey road base "igloo"
you are close. Look for green and white sign marking
the entrance to Deep Creek Road a hundred feet
further west and across the highway (north side).
Also called Forest Service Road 639 (FS 639).
If
you are flying, your closest aiport (and the highest
commercial airport in the US) is Telluride, Colorado,
only 3 miles away. You can also be routed through
Montrose, Colorado, some 65 miles north.
Deep
Creek Arts
26 Deep Creek Road
Telluride, CO 81435 USA
Phone: 970-728-5266
Email: deepcreek@asu.edu
Website
designed and maintained by Deep Creek Arts
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