{"id":2451391,"date":"2019-11-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316309"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:00:00","slug":"its-small-wonders-season-at-the-aspen-chapel-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/its-small-wonders-season-at-the-aspen-chapel-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s \u2018Small Wonders\u2019 season at the Aspen Chapel Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the song goes, it\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall Wonders,\u201d the annual art sale at the Aspen Chapel Gallery, is back for its 14th annual iteration. The budget-friendly, holiday-timed and hyper-local show is the official launch of Christmas shopping season in Aspen and remains one of the few places where you can buy affordable and original art here.<\/p>\n

Curated by Ada Christensen, the 2019 edition includes work by 32 locally based artists. Among the works are Western scenes by painter Linda Loeschen, abstracts by Linda Loeschen, watercolors by Amy Beidelman and photographs by her mountaineer husband Neal Beidelman, handmade pottery by Bonds and clay sculpture by Molly Peacock.<\/p>\n

No wonder it\u2019s grown in popularity and stature over the years, as it\u2019s not a cheap holiday season tchotchke and crafts show. Instead, it showcases the diverse creative output of valley artists and lets viewers bring some work home without breaking the bank.<\/p>\n

It is the community art gallery\u2019s most popular annual show, exhibiting and selling small works \u2014 none bigger than 12 inches-by-12 inches \u2014 from a select group of artists. Each artist makes at least eight works for the show and most sell out.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Small Wonders\u2019 definitely has an audience and it has all that history behind it,\u201d said Michael Bonds, co-director of the Aspen Chapel Gallery. \u201cPeople really look forward to it and plan for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonds also is a resident artist at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen, which opened a cash-and-carry show in mid-November modeled after the success of \u201cSmall Wonders.\u201d Showcasing resident artists\u2019 work and selling it at reasonable prices, the Red Brick show opened Nov. 14 and will run through early January.<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to \u201cSmall Wonders,\u201d artists and curators put together a puzzle of hundreds of artworks to make the show a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to put all the pieces and parts together for the 32 artists here, so it\u2019s crazy but it\u2019s good,\u201d Bonds said the week before the show opened Nov. 20.<\/p>\n

This year, \u201cSmall Wonders\u201d is being produced in partnership with the Holiday Baskets program, another beloved Aspen holiday tradition.<\/p>\n

For the past 35 years, the volunteer-run Holiday Baskets program has supplies food and gifts for some 250 Roaring Fork Valley families in need. It allows people to \u201cadopt\u201d families and provide the gifts they request for the holiday season. Visitors to \u201cSmall Wonders\u201d can sign up to adopt a family right in the gallery.<\/p>\n

And whether viewers are buying art or not, \u201cSmall Wonders\u201d is a community happening that draws crowds of locals and tourists who can get a quick one-room tour of the newest \u2014 and always surprisingly diverse \u2014 creative life of Aspen.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease come and be amazed by the variety of art by these valley artists,\u201d Christensen said.<\/p>\n

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