Colorado Art Ranch is a nonprofit nomadic artist and writer's residency and Artposium.

The program travels to two Colorado towns each year and adopts themes that reflect the area's heritage, natural resources, topography and people.

The program is composed of two parts: a two-day Artposium open to the public and a one-month residency for literary and visual artists.

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Denver Artposium October 4, 2008

What's So Funny About Art?

For people who appreciate the power of humor in the arts and life.
The Artposium is an event exploring the intersection of writing, art with humor. This is not a comedy event, but rather a deadly serious exploration of how humor helps convey messages and educate audiences. Ok, maybe not deadly serious. Probably pretty funny, but we're not kidding around here.

	Schedule
	Bill Amundson, Denver artist and one-time stand-up comedian, appreciates the spread of tan-colored housing developments along the Front Range. It’s all material for his series of works entitled I (heart) the Burbs.
	Roz Chast, cartoonist for The New Yorker, uses her Theories of Everything to help us understand guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, and real estate.
	Marj Hahne, Colorado Art Ranch Poet Laureate. Marj is currently working on a series of poems that fit in the periodic table of elements.
	Adam Lerner, a funny guy with a PhD and the Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, will give us his irreverent (but scholarly) review of Art, Humor & the Human Condition. He is probably best knownas the youngest member of the Brooklyn Squares, Square Dance Club, at age 9
	Patricia Marx, columnist for The New Yorker, novelist, and comedy writer, will provide insight into why It’s Not Easy Writing Humor.
	Chris Ransick, City of Denver Poet Laureate. A lover of all things literary, Chris has 27 years of professional experience with college-level courses and community workshops.
	Libby Rowe uses humor in her photography and installations to help understand this wacky, angst-ridden world. She will take us on a whirlwind tour of her observations and reflections during In the Pink.
	Jon Spayde, a writer, Utne journalist, and performance artist from Minnesota, is the Eminent Emcee for What’s so Funny About Art?
	Brady Udall, a creative writing teacher at Boise State University, grew up in a big Mormon family in Arizona. He’ll give us a preview of his upcoming novel, The Lonely Polygamist.
	Meredith and David Vaughn are Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders based in Denver. They will entice the audience to take a spoonful of Laughter Medicine.