Colorado Art RanchPhoto: David Peterson
 

Salida Artposium May 21-23, 2010

 

 

Proudly, Wade in the Water is Colorado Art Ranch’s seventh Artposium, and begins our fourth year of programming.  It is also a milestone for us: our return to Salida, the location of Colorado Art Ranch’s first Artposium, A River Runs Through Us. We have a number of very interesting people presenting with us and we know you will be excited about what they have to say. Everyone we invite to participate with us has a history of using the arts or writing to interpret or influence science, land use, or policy. This artposium is a collaboration with Salida Artworks.

 

Schedule in PDF

 

Speakers:

Greg Hobbs
Justice Greg Hobbs took office as a member of the Colorado Supreme Court on May 1, 1996.  He practiced water, environmental, land use and transportation law for 25 years before that.  He is a co-convener of the western water judges educational project, Dividing the Waters; Vice President of the Colorado Foundation for Water Education; and the author of In Praise of Fair Colorado, The Practice of Poetry, History, and Judging (Bradford Publishing Co. 2004), Colorado Mother of Rivers, Water Poems (Colorado Foundation for Water Education 2005), and The Public’s Water Resource, Articles on Water Law, History, and Culture (Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc. 2007).

Colorado
Mother of Rivers


When I was young the waters sang
of being here before I am,
of falling sweet and soft and slow
to berry bog and high meadow.
And held me in her lap and cooed
the willow roots, the gaining pools,
and called me through bright dappled grass
and called me O, My Shining One;
And shaped a bed to lay me on
and played the flute so high and clear.
And shape the stones to carry me,
when I am young and full of fight
for roaring here and roaring there,
for pouring torrents in the air.
When I am young as mountain snow
in crag and cleft and cracked window;
 
I call the green-backed cutthroat trout,
I call the nymph and hellgrammite,
I call the hatch to catch a wind,
I call upon the mountain track;
I call the scarlet to the jaw
as morning calls her own hatchlings,
call Yampa, White, the Rio Grande,
San Juan, the Platte, the Arkansas.
-- in celebration of the 30th year
of Colorado's instream flow law 

-Greg Hobbs

 

Craig Childs
Author Craig Childs' work focuses on natural sciences, archaeology, and mind-blowing journeys in the wilderness. He has spent years in the American Southwest canyon country, exploring the geography and the implications of water’s presence and non-presence. He has published more than a dozen acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure, including House of Rain and The Secret Knowledge of Water. Additionally, he’s a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition and has contributed to The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Outside Magazine, and Orion.

 

 Secret Knowledge of Water
Basia Irland
University of New Mexico Professor Emerita, author and artist Basia Irland often works with scholars from diverse disciplines building rainwater harvesting systems; connecting communities along lengths of rivers; filming and producing water documentaries; and creating waterborne disease projects around the world, most recently in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, and Nepal.

Basia is the recipient of over forty grants including a Senior Fulbright Research Award for Southeast Asia, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship Grant, and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Grant. She lectures and exhibits extensively. Essays about her work have been included in books published in Germany, England, Switzerland, and the U.S.

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Salida Artposium: Wade in the Water
May 21-23, 2010
Registration: $225 (includes all presentations, workshops, meals and reception)

You may register for the three presenters individually at $35 each

We have secure online registration, but if you don't like that new-fangled stuff, you can call Grant Pound (executive director) at 303.279.5198 or send a check to:

Colorado Art Ranch
6878 Taft Court
Arvada, CO 80004

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Lodging
The following motels are holding a few rooms at a reduced rate for Colorado Art Ranch. Mention our name when making a reservation. The rooms are on a first come, first served basis and will be available until May 1, 2010.

Woodland Motel (walking distance from SteamPlant)
903 West 1st Street
Salida, CO 81201
800.488.0456
719.539.4980

Comfort Inn
315 East Rainbow Blvd. (Hwy 50)
Salida, CO 81201
719.539.5000

 

See Tourist Information for other lodging.