Skatepark Mural
SKATEPARK MURAL
Location: Telluride Skatepark, Town Park
For this Telluride Skatepark project, Paul Distefano created a mural depicting a woman looking toward the mountains surrounding Telluride. The work explores resilience, reflection, and the ability to move forward, while connecting the painted figure to the landscape and community around it. For Paul, mural painting is an opportunity to create bold, accessible work that becomes part of its environment.
Telluride Properties
TELLURIDE PROPERTIES - CURATED BY TELLURIDE ARTS
SATELLITE SPOTLIGHT EXHIBITION: BEN ENG
LOCATION: 567 Mountain Village Blvd #106a, Mountain Village
Telluride Properties in Mountain Village is the host for a Telluride Arts curated Satellite Spotlight Exhibition, featuring local photographer Ben Eng.
Gaiascope
GAIASCOPE
Location: Heritage Plaza, Mountain Village
Gaiascope is an interactive public artwork featuring three suspended kaleidoscopic sculptures. Visitors are invited to look inside mirrored chambers where original video art, light, and reflection unfold into immersive worlds of shifting color and pattern. For the complete illuminated and interactive experience, visit after sunset!
Mountainfilm 2026 Mural: “Well”
WELL
Location: 212 W Colorado Ave, Telluride
Hosted by the Telluride Company, on their exterior seating wall, the Mountainfilm mural series returns with an artwork by National Geographic Explorer at Large Ami Vitale - titled “Well”.
Tony Newlin Gallery
TONY NEWLIN GALLERY
LOCATION: 100 W Colorado Ave, Telluride
The Tony Newlin Gallery features the wild and authentic nature photography of Tony Newlin.
This summer/ fall season we are excited to present the New Release photographs captured this year: Wapati Legacy, Bounding Tommy, and Serengeti Sunrise.
tonynewlin.com • @tonynewlingallery
Ursa Ravus (Penny Bear)
URSA RAVUS (PENNY BEAR)
LOCATION: 635 E Colorado Ave, Telluride
Ursa Ravus, or the Telluride Penny Bear, is 15 feet tall. Her fur is made of 187,000 embedded pennies in concrete over a body or carved styrofoam and a frame of steel tubing.
Citizens State Bank
CITIZENS STATE BANK - CURATED BY TELLURIDE ARTS
LOCATION: with access from 201 South Fir Street, Telluride
Citizens State Bank is pleased to display art from local artists Celeste Bickford and Susan B. McCormick. We also partner with local merchants to enhance the ArtWalk experience at CSB with surprise pop-ups.
The Butcher & The Baker
THE BUTCHER & THE BAKER
LOCATION: 201 E Colorado Ave, Telluride
The Butcher and Baker is featuring a solo exhibit of artworks by Judy Haas.
Bella Fine Goods
BELLA FINE GOODS
LOCATION: 213 West Colorado Avenue, Telluride
BELLA Fine Goods presents you with an exquisite and lovingly curated fine art and fine jewelry collection that brings together the work of artists and designers from around the world.
For the September 2026 Art Walk BELLA Fine Goods will showcase the following artists:
Peter Skidd
Specializing in custom metal sculpture, Peter Skidd has built a distinctive art business dedicated to creating amazing spaces within the luxury residential, hospitality, and corporate environments. Skidd’s meticulously built indoor/outdoor metal sculpture is crafted using an intense process of plasma cutting, forming, grinding, welding, and painting - producing high-impact, stunning, statement artwork.
Alex Sepkus
Alex Sepkus is a visionary jewelry artist who made a name for himself with his intricate and unusual jewelry designs combined with exquisite gemstones. He is known for his distinctive micro-mosaic-like patterns that are created using tiny hand-crafted elements.
Fringe Gallery
FRINGE GALLERY
LOCATION: 307 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride
"Liminal Spaces: New Paintings by Rebecca Crowell" is on view from September 3rd to September 27th, 2026, at Fringe Gallery in Telluride. This new body of work explores the "in-between," or the areas where one state gives way to another. Rebecca Crowell, a pioneer of using cold wax medium, will be in the gallery for the opening on Thursday, September 3rd, from 5 - 7pm. Refreshments will be served.
fringegallery.com • @fringegallerytelluride
Milk Moon Gallery
MILK MOON GALLERY
LOCATION: 307 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride
For the September, 2026 Art Walk, Milk Moon Gallery is pleased to present 'Conversing with the Land,' a group show featuring work by Vanessa Valero, Melissa Loop, Rene Gonzalez, and Carolynn Haydu. Through textile, three-dimensional paper collage, and painting, our four artists dialogue with landscapes, flora, and fauna in a series of intimate conversations with the natural world we inhabit. From London's forested green spaces, to the peaks of the Colombian Andes, these artists utilize varying degrees of abstraction to describe their unique relationships to the wild spaces they hold dear. Drawing on folklore traditions, historical context, and deep connections to craft, their works capture the energies of the natural world while simultaneously repositioning humanity not as its central character, but as one part of a much broader picture.
milkmoon.art • @milkmoongallery
Ah Haa School for the Arts
AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
LOCATION: 155 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride
Join Ah Haa in welcoming Arleene Correa Valencia’s solo exhibition “Me Quiero Ir Contigo / I Want To Go With You”, a powerful body of work rooted in personal history and shared family experiences. Arleene is a Mexican-born, Napa-raised, embroidery and textile artist known for imagery painted with thread and reclaimed textiles. This exhibition, based on the emotional impacts of migrations through the perspective of family separation and identity of families migrating for a better life, also incorporates the use of glowing and reflective materials creating a visual representation of connection versus physical separation.
“The 32-year-old artist traces her earliest creative spark to letters she wrote in her youth to her father — intimate messages that now serve as the inspiration for her work. The letters, rooted in love, laid the groundwork for an exploration of immigration and family, memory and survival — themes relevant to her community, she says, now more than ever, as U.S. immigration enforcement operations have led to recurring protests in Napa and across the country.”
Additionally during Art Walk, shop the Pop Up Makers Market featuring eight local and regional artists as well as live music on the Sky Deck from Meghan Knowles!
ahhaa.org • @arleenecorreavalencia
Wilkinson Public Library: Blueskites
WILKINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY - CURATED BY TELLURIDE ARTS
BLUESKITES EXHIBIT
LOCATION: 100 W Pacific Ave, Telluride
BluesKites premiered at Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in September 2025 and will be displayed again this year at the festival’s Blues Stage. Curated by renowned kite artist Terry Zee Lee in collaboration with Music Maker Foundation, Music Maker’s BluesKites is a celebration of American roots music featuring art kites designed by some of the nation’s leading kitemakers.
Each kite highlights an iconic blues musician from Music Maker’s roster of partner artists, including Winston-Salem bluesman Guitar Gabriel and eastern North Carolina luthier Freeman Vines (Hanging Tree Guitars). The selected musicians also appear in Music Maker’s 30th anniversary anthology, Song Keepers.
La Cocina de Luz
LA COCINA DE LUZ
LOCATION: 123 E Colorado Ave, Telluride
La Cocina de Luz is featuring "Portals in Steel", imaginary world paintings by Jane Marshall and sculpture by Jane Marshall and Justin Glidewell.
On exhibit here, "The Raven’s Repast", we see a dinner party with the guests including a river running down the middle of a torn tablecloth, a rainbow and a series of planets who showed up late to the party. Also invited and flying in were crows and two tropical and delightful oropendolas who brought along their nests to the dinner party.
All the paintings in this exhibit are enlarged prints from the original paintings fabricated on AluPoly (aluminum composite printed on high resolution UV flatbed printer with UV curable ink). This direct print process endures the ink bonds permanently to the polyester coated aluminum, producing vibrant smudge-proof and weather resistant signage.
Telluride Arts HQ
TELLURIDE ARTS HQ GALLERY
LOCATION: 135 West Pacific Avenue, Telluride
For September’s Art Walk, join Telluride Arts for the grand opening of the Telluride Skatepark Mural, created by Paul Distefano with his 2026 Telluride Arts Flash Grant.
With his grant, Paul created a mural depicting a woman looking toward the mountains surrounding Telluride. The work explores resilience, reflection, and the ability to move forward, while connecting the painted figure to the landscape and community around it. For Paul, mural painting is an opportunity to create bold, accessible work that becomes part of its environment.
Tellurado Studio
TELLURADO STUDIO
LOCATION: 219 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride
The Tellurado Studio proudly features the artwork Markus Pierson, who explores a mythic narrative with his Coyote Series, each piece symbolic of wanderlust and living beyond the boundaries. The protagonists of these hand-embellished prints are the Coyotes: enigmatic figures searching for the next big adventure. Stop in and see the newest editions of Pierson’s collection.
Elinoff & Co.
ELINOFF & CO. GALLERY
LOCATION: 204 West Colorado Avenue, Telluride
Elinoff Gallery specializes in luxury fine jewelry and fine art. Visit the gallery to view their offerings of diamond, gemstone and designer jewelry from Waskoll of Paris, Mikimoto, Daniel K, Chopard, as well as men’s and women’s watches from Chopard, Biacograt, Meyer’s and Tag Heuer. They also specialize in modern art including originals and graphics by Cassatt, Degas, Picasso, Chagali, Russian, American and European contemporary artists.
Atelier Telluride
ATELIER TELLURIDE
LOCATION: 215 East Colorado Avenue, Telluride
Atelier Telluride is featuring work created by local artist Joanie Schwarz. Fine jewelry, hand stitched clothing, oils paintings and encaustic. Living in wonder and exploration is the artist’s way.
ateliertelluride.com • @ateliertelluride
Baked In Telluride
BAKED IN TELLURIDE
LOCATION: 127 South Fir Street, Telluride
Baked in Telluride welcomes local artist Steven Green, whose work reflects a lifelong passion for capturing the beauty and spirit of the Colorado landscape. Green grew up in Colorado Springs, received his BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and moved to Telluride in 1979.
Inspired by the San Juan Mountains and nearby canyons, Green creates paintings and drawings that offer a fresh perspective on his surroundings. His work features bold colors, strong, simple shapes, and expressive elements—from trees dancing in the wind to rivers cutting through cliffs and sparkling in the sun. Through his paintings, Green aims to capture the magic and soul of the natural world.
Forest Creatures
FOREST CREATURES
LOCATION: Mountain Village
A collaboration between Telluride Arts, Town of Mountain Village, and Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association.