{"id":2457563,"date":"2020-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=324738"},"modified":"2020-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:00:00","slug":"anderson-ranch-artists-discuss-creativity-in-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/anderson-ranch-artists-discuss-creativity-in-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Ranch artists discuss creativity in quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/artworkcarona-atd-042320-4-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/artworkcarona-atd-042320-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/artworkcarona-atd-042320-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/artworkcarona-atd-042320-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/artworkcarona-atd-042320-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/04\/artworkcarona-atd-042320-4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A photograph from Anderson Ranch by Louise Deroualle for her project &#8220;In solitude there is consolation.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><em>Louise Deroualle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ceramic artist Louise Deroualle\u2019s graduate school thesis project was titled <a id=\"N0x1a76a10N0x1a73320:N0x1a76a10N0x1cc0f30\" href=\"http:\/\/www.louisederoualle.com\/in-solitude-there-is-consolation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cIn solitude there is consolation.\u201d<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> Naturally, amid the isolation and collective grief of the ongoing public health crisis and stay-home period, she has revisited that early work and the concept that inspired it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Alone in her apartment at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, where <a id=\"N0x1a76a10N0x1a73380:N0x1a76a10N0x1cc1050\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/staff-artists-go-two-by-two-in-pairs-at-anderson-ranch-arts-center\/\">she is studio coordinator for ceramics<\/a>, Deroualle is making a sort of sequel to the series based on the view from her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis time we are living in, there is a lot of solitude with our thoughts, a lot of introspection,\u201d she said. \u201cI find the consolation out my window looking at nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She is one of four Ranch staffers who lives year-round on the campus, which remains closed due to the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/at-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The view from her apartment looks out down on the Snowmass Club\u2019s golf course and across the Roaring Fork Valley to the forest above Woody Creek, a majestic view she\u2019s photographed regularly over the last year-and-a-half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When the stay-home period began in mid-March, she went though those hundreds of photos chronicling the view in every season, at nearly every hour of the day, in verdant summer and white winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Her University of Nebraska graduate school thesis \u201cIn solitude there is consolation\u201d is a series of ceramic landscapes inspired by the flatlands of Lincoln, Nebraska. She is continuing the project now with her valley view as fodder and our collective solitude as inspiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Once she is able to work in the Ranch\u2019s clay studio again, Deroualle is planning to make ceramic slabs with the valley landscape painted and glazed on them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Deroualle is aiming to share the work with the public in September at the Red Brick Center for the Arts\u2019 group exhibition \u201cResilience.\u201d The aptly themed show had been scheduled for June but has been pushed back due to the public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She printed the archive of images she\u2019s shot from the Ranch and is now conceptualizing what these new ceramic landscapes will look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The original body of work was born out of Deroualle\u2019s jarring move to Nebraska from her native Sao Paolo, Brazil, where her day-to-day life was urban and her escape was at the beach. On the plains in middle America, she found solace in the long and windswept horizons of Nebraska. Her mountain view is serving the same purpose today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI had to ask how I was coping, \u2018What are the things I look at to have peace?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Artists have some built-up immunity to the stir-craziness that\u2019s infecting much of the general public as Colorado\u2019s stay-home period drags on. Anderson Ranch special events director Hailey Walsh, also working from home and making textiles and letterpress pieces, is grateful to have art to make right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible time and there are horrible things happening, but I feel lucky to be someone who has this creative practice already in place,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cSo this time can feel a little bit like a gift. I\u2019m spending this time getting things done and being creative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She finds a sense of calm in creativity, especially in repetitive processes like hand-printing her line of cards and sewing patterns for her cloth pieces, which require a mind-numbing discipline and offer a sense of accomplishment when finished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMaking something with your hands, following a set of guidelines, is comforting and reassuring,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">She is also among the legion of local artists sewing non-medical masks for Aspen Valley Hospital and the wider ongoing effort to supply them to the general public. Walsh had been collecting fabric for months this winter, plotting sewing projects for a dreamed-of time where she might have time to tackle them. The public health crisis unexpectedly provided it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m slowly making my way through, now that we have all this extra time,\u201d Walsh said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Like many independent artists, locally and nationally, Walsh is also finding new ways to sell her work. She normally sells her cards out of the ArtWorks store at Anderson Ranch, for instance, and through her <a id=\"N0x1a76a10N0x1a733e0:N0x1a76a10N0x1cc1a70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/Inkytomato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InkyTomato Letterpress on Etsy<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i> and <a id=\"N0x1a76a10N0x1a73440:N0x1a76a10N0x1cc1b00\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inkytomatoletterpress\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i>. Recently, for the first time, she took part in a virtual art auction hosted for Colorado artists on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Both Deroualle and Walsh are also busy with their Anderson Ranch day jobs. Deroualle is taking part in the Ranch\u2019s Virtual Salon series and staying in touch with the students, teachers and artists booked for summer workshops at the Ranch, which have all moved online. Walsh is juggling the Ranch\u2019s summer special events calendar as public health advisories and projections evolve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Between the administrative duties and creative practices, both are also trying to make time to unwind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is a trauma we are all living,\u201d said Deroualle. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s just too much for the minds to take. So allowing myself to be silly and not think, that\u2019s also a part of this routine, just allowing myself to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\"><a href=\"mailto:atravers@aspentimes.com\">atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/entertainment\/anderson-ranch-artists-discuss-creativity-in-quarantine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photograph from Anderson Ranch by Louise Deroualle for her project &#8220;In solitude there is consolation.&#8221;Louise Deroualle Ceramic artist Louise Deroualle\u2019s graduate school thesis project was titled \u201cIn solitude there is consolation.\u201d Naturally, amid the isolation and collective grief of the ongoing public health crisis and stay-home period, she has revisited that early work and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 00:46:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}