Events
14th Annual Recognition Dinner
Celebrating Creativity and Service to the Arts
Honoring Betty and George Woodman and
Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio
Call 970/923-3181 ext. 208 or email tshepard@andersonranch.org for ticket information.
Viceroy Snowmass
Each year, Anderson Ranch Arts Center celebrates creativity and service to the arts by recognizing the accomplishments of key figures in the art world. The 2010 honorees are Betty and George Woodman, National Artist Award, and Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio, Service to the Arts Award. Gala event includes cocktails, dinner, dancing and silent auction. Proceeds benefit Anderson Ranch educational programs.
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National Artist Award
Internationally recognized as one of today’s most important artists, Betty Woodman began her career in the 1950s as a production potter with the aim of creating beautiful objects to enhance everyday life. Since then, the vase form has become Woodman’s subject, product, and muse. In deconstructing and reconstructing its form, she has created an exuberant and complex body of ceramic sculpture. Its signature is its reflection of a wide range of influences and traditions and an inventive use of color.
After a New England childhood, George Woodman was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, studied ceramics with Betty Abrahams and married her, then moved to Boulder, Colorado where he taught painting and philosophy of art at the University of Colorado until 1995. He was an influential figure in the Colorado art scene being associated for many years with Criss-Cross Art Communication and one of the founding members of the seminal Spark Gallery. Current projects involve camera obscura photography, painting on photographs, juxtapositions of models with art in museums, and “Pictures and Words,” a collaboration with a poet.
Service to the Arts Award
Garth Clark, aside from being an art dealer since 1981, is the field’s most active speaker, historian and writer. He has written, edited and contributed to over 50 books and is author of more than 200 essays and articles. He has curated many significant museum exhibitions. Garth Clark is co-founder of Garth Clark Gallery.
Mark Del Vecchio managed a business providing ceramic slides for educators before joining the Ceramic Arts Foundation (then The Institute for Ceramic History) in 1981. He was the organizing director for Modernism and Ceramics, CAF’s second international ceramic symposium at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. In the same year, in partnership with Garth Clark, he opened Garth Clark Gallery in Los Angeles, and then moved to New York in 1983 to direct GSG’s new gallery on West 57th Street.
- Location:
- Anderson Ranch
- Address:
- 5263 Owl Creek Road
Snowmass Village - Email:
- tshepard@andersonranch.org
- Phone:
- 970/923-3181 ext. 208
- Link:
- www.andersonranch.org