Monday, September 6, 2010
Art Bistro at the Red Rocks Country Club
Be sure to come to the annual Art Bistro at the Red Rocks Country Club on October 17, 2010. Enjoy meeting 18 artists and purchase their art from 11am to 6pm. There will also be great food to purchase, a kid's station and plen aire artists creating art on site. The Art Bistro will showcase artists along Lariat Loop and benefit the Lariat Loop Heritage Alliance, the organization that manages the Lariat Loop National Scenic Byway. The Red Rocks Country Club is located on west Belleview Avenue, west of C470 approximately 1 mile. Information: Call Holly Tempel at 303-697-0160.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Katsinas in Clay at Hiwan
“HOPI TILES 1882-PRESENT”
Exhibit at Hiwan Homestead Museum
Hiwan Homestead Museum is very pleased to announce its newest exhibit, Katsinas in Clay: Hopi Tiles 1882-Present. The exhibit consists of the third-largest collection of antique Hopi tiles in the world, as well as a smaller collection of contemporary tiles. The collections are on loan from Tad Anderman of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are more than 160 antique tiles dating from 1882 until approximately 1910, and more than 20 tiles done by contemporary Hopi-Tewa artist Mark Tahbo between 2007 and 2009. “Katsinas in Clay” will be the first time that this private collection will be on display in a public forum.
The exhibit will be open to the public Tuesday, April 27 through Sunday, November 21, 2010, and can be seen during the Museum’s open hours. Hiwan Homestead Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 PM September through May, and 11 AM to 5 PM June through August. Please call 720-497-7650 for more information. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to see this never-before-seen collection!
Hiwan Homestead Museum is a 17-room log mansion constructed in the Rustic style of architecture. It is located in Evergreen at 4208 S. Timbervale Drive and is a Jefferson County Open Space facility operated through a partnership with the Jefferson County Historical Society. The Museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Exhibit at Hiwan Homestead Museum
Hiwan Homestead Museum is very pleased to announce its newest exhibit, Katsinas in Clay: Hopi Tiles 1882-Present. The exhibit consists of the third-largest collection of antique Hopi tiles in the world, as well as a smaller collection of contemporary tiles. The collections are on loan from Tad Anderman of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are more than 160 antique tiles dating from 1882 until approximately 1910, and more than 20 tiles done by contemporary Hopi-Tewa artist Mark Tahbo between 2007 and 2009. “Katsinas in Clay” will be the first time that this private collection will be on display in a public forum.
The exhibit will be open to the public Tuesday, April 27 through Sunday, November 21, 2010, and can be seen during the Museum’s open hours. Hiwan Homestead Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 PM September through May, and 11 AM to 5 PM June through August. Please call 720-497-7650 for more information. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to see this never-before-seen collection!
Hiwan Homestead Museum is a 17-room log mansion constructed in the Rustic style of architecture. It is located in Evergreen at 4208 S. Timbervale Drive and is a Jefferson County Open Space facility operated through a partnership with the Jefferson County Historical Society. The Museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Events--Coming Up Fast!
Exhibit opening reception May 7th-- Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Tickets are $50/person or $90/couple. Order online at the Depot General Store, but do it today!! Proceeds benefit programs at all three organizations.
Special exhibit --- Lost Heroes Art Quilt ---
Friday, May 7 from 4-7pm --- Free and Open to the Public.
Exhibit will feature quilts from our most recent acquisition ranging from mid 1800s to Mennonite Quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to rare baby quilts, to quilts of the roaring 20s. Come share in the celebration of our 20th birthday!
May 8th--Happy 20th to the Quilt Museum
The Colorado Railroad Museum and Foothills Art Center celebrate the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum's 20th Anniversary with an exciting joint fundraiser on May 8, from 5:30 - 8:00PM at the Colorado Railroad Museum
Enjoy a unique Golden, Colorado experience back in time...
- Sip a choo-choo tini
- Ride a 1930's vintage Galloping Goose,
- Stroll the gallery of train themed quilts and art work by Colorado artists
- Swing to the music of a Dixieland band
- Savor southern-style food
- Bid in a benefit auction of unique art, quilts and railroadiana.
Tickets are $50/person or $90/couple. Order online at the Depot General Store, but do it today!! Proceeds benefit programs at all three organizations.
Special exhibit --- Lost Heroes Art Quilt ---
First exhibit in Colorado as part of the National Tour will be at Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum from May 1 - May 10.
RMQM will be the first of three Colorado locations in the national tour for exhibiting this 15 foot quilt honoring America's fallen heroes in Iraq & Afghanistan. After it leaves RMQM it will go to the CO Capital and then to Fine Arts Museum in Co Springs (AFA unable to host event due to security --- so this is the closest off-sife venue for AFA). We are very excited to be hosting this magnificent quilt and honoring fallen heroes, especially those from Colorado. If you want more information, check this website!
Friday, April 9, 2010
National Byway Ribbon Cutting
Lariat Loop National Byway! It's been official since last October, but we haven't celebrated yet! Join us for the ceremonies and party in recognition of Lariat Loop's designation as a National Byway!
Meet at 3 p.m. on May 3rd, 2010, at the Morrison Mural in downtown Morrison, where we'll enjoy ice cream cones and hoola hoops and brief speeches. The mural was a Lariat Loop project in 2007, and is the centerpiece of Morrison's downtown heritage hub, which includes the interpretive kiosk and Morrison's historic school bell.
Then, we'll adjourn to the Ship Rock Grille, at the Red Rocks Visitor Center, for finger foods and drinks (cash bar) until on into the evening.
The festivities offer a fun time for all, a great photo op, and a chance to kick off another terrific year of foothills heritage touring! Come celebrate with us!
Meet at 3 p.m. on May 3rd, 2010, at the Morrison Mural in downtown Morrison, where we'll enjoy ice cream cones and hoola hoops and brief speeches. The mural was a Lariat Loop project in 2007, and is the centerpiece of Morrison's downtown heritage hub, which includes the interpretive kiosk and Morrison's historic school bell.Then, we'll adjourn to the Ship Rock Grille, at the Red Rocks Visitor Center, for finger foods and drinks (cash bar) until on into the evening.
The festivities offer a fun time for all, a great photo op, and a chance to kick off another terrific year of foothills heritage touring! Come celebrate with us!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Annual Meeting March 24th
Lariat Loop Partners—
The Annual Meeting is scheduled for March 24th from noon to 2pm at the Bear Creek Tavern and Country Dining located at the east end of Kittredge adjacent to Bear Creek. Address if you want to Mapquest the restaurant: 25940 Hwy 74 (674-9929). Please RSVP to joe_tempel AT dinoridge DOT org, so he can let the restaurant know the number attending.
Highlights of 2009:
On October 16, 2009 Lariat Loop was designated a National Scenic Byway!
Ten Year Celebration: On April 2, 2009 we held our 2008 Annual Meeting and our 10-year Celebration at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and Foothills Art Center; respectively. We had a great time and raised more than $1,000 at the silent auction. See earlier post for details.
Progress on the Buffalo Herd Overlook: Little was done to complete the final design of the Overlook because we were anticipating an additional $125,000 from CDOT's Byway Program. While we were not successful, Denver will be proceeding with a $300,000 project using existing Byway and Denver funds. Construction is expected to be underway in 2010, once the contract with CDOT is complete.
Participation in the National Scenic Byway Conference: About nine Loopers participated in the National Conference held in Denver at the end of August. We led four field trips along the Loop and received a great reception from the participants.
Progress on developing a Marketing Plan for the Loop: Holly Tempel is coordinating the development of a marketing plan for the Loop. The Marketing Committee is looking at our current brand and will be suggesting revisions to the full board. This brand will be incorporated into any of the collateral materials developed for the Loop. Terry Barnhart, a marketing professional with over 30 years experience in the Denver area and who lived on Lookout Mountain for 25 years, will meet with Marketing Committee and other members at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center on Monday, March 8th from 9am to 2pm to help work toward a marketing plan.
The Annual Meeting is scheduled for March 24th from noon to 2pm at the Bear Creek Tavern and Country Dining located at the east end of Kittredge adjacent to Bear Creek. Address if you want to Mapquest the restaurant: 25940 Hwy 74 (674-9929). Please RSVP to joe_tempel AT dinoridge DOT org, so he can let the restaurant know the number attending.
Highlights of 2009:
On October 16, 2009 Lariat Loop was designated a National Scenic Byway!
Ten Year Celebration: On April 2, 2009 we held our 2008 Annual Meeting and our 10-year Celebration at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and Foothills Art Center; respectively. We had a great time and raised more than $1,000 at the silent auction. See earlier post for details.
Progress on the Buffalo Herd Overlook: Little was done to complete the final design of the Overlook because we were anticipating an additional $125,000 from CDOT's Byway Program. While we were not successful, Denver will be proceeding with a $300,000 project using existing Byway and Denver funds. Construction is expected to be underway in 2010, once the contract with CDOT is complete.Participation in the National Scenic Byway Conference: About nine Loopers participated in the National Conference held in Denver at the end of August. We led four field trips along the Loop and received a great reception from the participants.
Progress on developing a Marketing Plan for the Loop: Holly Tempel is coordinating the development of a marketing plan for the Loop. The Marketing Committee is looking at our current brand and will be suggesting revisions to the full board. This brand will be incorporated into any of the collateral materials developed for the Loop. Terry Barnhart, a marketing professional with over 30 years experience in the Denver area and who lived on Lookout Mountain for 25 years, will meet with Marketing Committee and other members at the Lookout Mountain Nature Center on Monday, March 8th from 9am to 2pm to help work toward a marketing plan.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
A Little Publicity
Steve Knapp wrote a nice review of the Lariat Loop's 10th birthday and last week's party for the Canyon Courier. Check it out!
Thanks for the good words, Steve!
Thanks for the good words, Steve!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Report on Annual Meeting and Celebration
From President Joe Tempel:
I just wanted to thank everyone for attending a successful Annual Meeting and 10 Year Celebration. Twenty-one people attended the Annual Meeting and about 60 people attended the Celebration. We raised almost $1,000 from the Silent Auction so congratulations to everyone— especially Holly Tempel for organizing it and Kathy Filgo for assisting.
We appreciate all those who donated the many auction items in an impressive display. The party food prepared by Betsy Martinson and Steve Friesen of the Buffalo Bill Museum was fantastic too! We hope to use them to cater future events! (Here's Steve, Joe, and Don in discussion before the meeting. Unfortunately our photographer failed to capture photos of the party!) (Click to enlarge any image.)
Thanks to Cyd Pougiales for designing and producing 50 Lariat Loop hats, some of which were handed out to paid-up members of the Lariat Loop Heritage Alliance. Here's Cyd cajoling partners to renew their memberships, and offering hats to those who do!
We want to thank the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum for hosting our Annual Meeting and the Foothills Art Center for hosting our Celebration. We especially thank Brenda Ohlschwager, the Director of the Quilt Museum, and Riley Sanborn, the Director of the Art Center. I think it was the most colorful setting ever for a Lariat Loop meeting because of all of the beautiful quilts surrounding us! We also got to be the first to experience the blockbuster of a show at the Foothills Art Center that opened to the general public the next evening. [Here's Joe discussing our new display panels.]
Awards: A framed photograph of Morrison and Red Rocks was presented to Sally Pearce for Enthusiastically supporting the Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway. A Lariat Loop Lassie Award was presented to Susan Baird for supporting us from our beginning as a Heritage Area. Sally was there to receive her award, and we will hand-deliver Susan's award next week.
Sally Pearce also updated us on plan's for the National Byway Conference to be held in Denver in August. It will include four field trips to the Lariat Loop on August 24th, so we need to start planning for those. They will be an excellent opportunity to show off the Loop to Byway enthusiasts from all over the United States.
Marketing and Image: We also focused our discussion on re-evaluating our current logo and tagline. Karen Meyer produced about 20 different logos for us to review and comment on. Each of us received 5 pins to push into the logo(s) we liked best. The logo that received the highest number of votes (18) was the one portraying the mountains (in three colors) with a road running up into the mountains.
The next highest number of votes (15) went to our existing logo. Finally, the logo portraying the mountains (in one color) with the roads running into and down from the mountains, conveying more of a “loop” received 6 votes. Eleven people liked one or more of the logos portraying the lariat prominently. I think we all agreed upon the idea that the Loop is the best thing going for tourists and residents in the Denver Metro Area wishing to experience the mountains and historic towns just west of Denver. I will ask Karen to further refine the logo(s) for our final approval with the following elements: The words “Lariat Loop” in a simple to read typeface; the mountains with a road; a lariat that wraps the logo.
There was no real consensus on the slogan or signature image, but we appreciate the feedback received. The historic postcards of the pillars at Morrison and at Golden, the Lariat Trail postcard used for the invitation, and the “Mountain Parks Girl” continue to be favorites of the group. One item under discussion is reprinting a few postcards in the future. (Click if you'd like to see a bigger image.)
Businesses along the Loop—and their customers— are interested in what we do and in supporting our efforts. We are developing free-standing brochure stands to display the Loop brochure at businesses and museums/visitor centers. We also hope to encourage people to use this blog to discuss ways to collaborate with each other and to post upcoming events and activities. We will be a stronger organization if we do.
The goal of all of this marketing discussion is to position ourselves to submit a grant application to the Colorado Tourism Board sometime in June to fund our marketing plan for the Loop. We will be scheduling additional meetings with anyone interested in helping finalize our marketing plan.
Again, thanks to all who helped make Thursday's events such a success. It was wonderful to see everyone and get together to discuss accomplishments and plans.
I just wanted to thank everyone for attending a successful Annual Meeting and 10 Year Celebration. Twenty-one people attended the Annual Meeting and about 60 people attended the Celebration. We raised almost $1,000 from the Silent Auction so congratulations to everyone— especially Holly Tempel for organizing it and Kathy Filgo for assisting.
We appreciate all those who donated the many auction items in an impressive display. The party food prepared by Betsy Martinson and Steve Friesen of the Buffalo Bill Museum was fantastic too! We hope to use them to cater future events! (Here's Steve, Joe, and Don in discussion before the meeting. Unfortunately our photographer failed to capture photos of the party!) (Click to enlarge any image.)
Thanks to Cyd Pougiales for designing and producing 50 Lariat Loop hats, some of which were handed out to paid-up members of the Lariat Loop Heritage Alliance. Here's Cyd cajoling partners to renew their memberships, and offering hats to those who do!
We want to thank the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum for hosting our Annual Meeting and the Foothills Art Center for hosting our Celebration. We especially thank Brenda Ohlschwager, the Director of the Quilt Museum, and Riley Sanborn, the Director of the Art Center. I think it was the most colorful setting ever for a Lariat Loop meeting because of all of the beautiful quilts surrounding us! We also got to be the first to experience the blockbuster of a show at the Foothills Art Center that opened to the general public the next evening. [Here's Joe discussing our new display panels.]
Awards: A framed photograph of Morrison and Red Rocks was presented to Sally Pearce for Enthusiastically supporting the Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway. A Lariat Loop Lassie Award was presented to Susan Baird for supporting us from our beginning as a Heritage Area. Sally was there to receive her award, and we will hand-deliver Susan's award next week.Sally Pearce also updated us on plan's for the National Byway Conference to be held in Denver in August. It will include four field trips to the Lariat Loop on August 24th, so we need to start planning for those. They will be an excellent opportunity to show off the Loop to Byway enthusiasts from all over the United States.
Marketing and Image: We also focused our discussion on re-evaluating our current logo and tagline. Karen Meyer produced about 20 different logos for us to review and comment on. Each of us received 5 pins to push into the logo(s) we liked best. The logo that received the highest number of votes (18) was the one portraying the mountains (in three colors) with a road running up into the mountains. 
The next highest number of votes (15) went to our existing logo. Finally, the logo portraying the mountains (in one color) with the roads running into and down from the mountains, conveying more of a “loop” received 6 votes. Eleven people liked one or more of the logos portraying the lariat prominently. I think we all agreed upon the idea that the Loop is the best thing going for tourists and residents in the Denver Metro Area wishing to experience the mountains and historic towns just west of Denver. I will ask Karen to further refine the logo(s) for our final approval with the following elements: The words “Lariat Loop” in a simple to read typeface; the mountains with a road; a lariat that wraps the logo.
There was no real consensus on the slogan or signature image, but we appreciate the feedback received. The historic postcards of the pillars at Morrison and at Golden, the Lariat Trail postcard used for the invitation, and the “Mountain Parks Girl” continue to be favorites of the group. One item under discussion is reprinting a few postcards in the future. (Click if you'd like to see a bigger image.)Businesses along the Loop—and their customers— are interested in what we do and in supporting our efforts. We are developing free-standing brochure stands to display the Loop brochure at businesses and museums/visitor centers. We also hope to encourage people to use this blog to discuss ways to collaborate with each other and to post upcoming events and activities. We will be a stronger organization if we do.
The goal of all of this marketing discussion is to position ourselves to submit a grant application to the Colorado Tourism Board sometime in June to fund our marketing plan for the Loop. We will be scheduling additional meetings with anyone interested in helping finalize our marketing plan.
Again, thanks to all who helped make Thursday's events such a success. It was wonderful to see everyone and get together to discuss accomplishments and plans.
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