July 20 - August 28, 2013, the City of Boulder is hosting a show at the Boulder Public Library. Artists who have created work on location or inspired by Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, will be hung in the Canyon Gallery for you to explore. The show is entitled "Art Inspired by the Land" and you can view my 52x52" art quilt, "Before Boulder." When my son, Joshua, was in the third grade, I chaperoned a field trip to South Boulder open space. There, the students and parents alike learned that the trees that we see today in Boulder were planted by settlers and are mostly non-native. What did grace the prairie rolling up to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, were three types of tall grasses. Thus, my art quilt reflects the distinctive "Flatirons" that lie before us spatially in Boulder and the tall grasses that grew chronologically before us. I've wanted to create a quilt of the Flatirons since I moved to Boulder in 2001, and this Ranger talk provided the added inspiration.
