FESTIVAL POSTERS
As you may have noticed we are redesigning our website. We will be adding the Wildflower Festival Posters from previous years soon! Online purchasing of all of these items will be available in the Spring of 2008. In the mean time you can make purchases directly from the Wildflower Office.
Please Contact Us at 970.349.2571 anytime.
20th Anniversary Festival Book
A commemorative book about all of the fun and adventures we’ve had together over the years in celebration of an important milestone. Thanks to the talents of many friends of the Festival, we have page after page of beautiful wildflower photographs, reproductions of the first 20 posters, essays, poems, recipes, and lots more. Please Contact Us at 970.349.2571 to purchase this item.
2008 Wildflower Festival Poster
The Crested Butte Wildflower Festival is pleased to announce Dawn Cohen as the winner of the 2008 poster contest. Dawn’s oil painting is a classic scene from Gothic looking south towards Mt. Crested Butte. It is available for purchase from Crested Butte galleries and other local stores. To purchase, visit our web site or order from page 6 of this newsletter.
Dawn’s painting, “Gothic Wildflowers”, was inspired by a late summer search for wildflowers at Emerald Lake. Not having any luck there, Dawn returned to town through Gothic, and the scene in the painting unfolded before her. She returned to the site six times, at the same time of day. During one of the sessions a couple visiting from New York approached her and asked if they could buy the painting. Now, it is somewhere in the Big Apple serving as a little window into the Colorado summer.
A 6 year-resident of Crested Butte, Dawn received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of Georgia in 1994. In 2001, she received a Masters in Fine Arts from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. While there, she met her husband, Shaun Horne, also a Crested Butte artist. Shaun brought Dawn to Crested Butte, and in 2002 they moved here. This relocation was a labor of love, especially for Shaun, as this was his third move to, and third venture into being a professional painter in, Crested Butte. Please Contact Us at 970.349.2571 to purchase this item.
