Mary Chandler, arts writer and critic: Long before earning a degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, I knew I wanted to work for a newspaper, and I have now worked for six, in both news and features, and as a reporter, critic and editor. That includes 20 years at the Rocky Mountain News, where in the late 1980s, with the encouragement of my editors, I began to craft a job that would involve being able to cover subjects of particular interest. So eventually a general assignment entertainment job added public art, then arts funding, then architecture and preservation, and finally the visual arts. Put it all together, and it presents an opportunity to watch closely — and tell readers about — changes in the way Denver and Colorado, particularly, relate to the creative energy of artists and the hits and misses in the built environment. Along the way, I’ve taught some classes and written some books, most recently a guidebook to Denver architecture, which gave me a new appreciation of how a city’s relationship to design reflects its maturity, social history and economic choices.
- Dale Chisman, 65, abstract painter
August 30, 2008 - CHANDLER: From landscapes to sculptures, Rule Gallery exhibition keys on relationship to nature
August 28, 2008 - IN THE GALLERIES: Assemblage & Recyclates
August 28, 2008 - Probe 'very active' in killing of Adams County prosecutor
August 28, 2008 - CELL exhibit targets terrorism, its causes, cures
August 28, 2008 - Light traffic keeps roads manageable during DNC
August 26, 2008 - Dorms filling up at Colorado universities
August 25, 2008 - Though no longer a weekly cartoonist, Feiffer still wields his political pen
August 24, 2008 - CHANDLER: Denver Art Museum eyes the human form
August 21, 2008 - CHANDLER: Cameras capture city's shift
August 14, 2008 - See full list of stories by Mary Voelz Chandler...
