This weekend the Stanley Arts Festival is taking place at Stanley Marketplace, a "community focused marketplace" of over 50 Colorado businesses located in the former Stanley Aviation building in Aurora, Colorado. This retail center began when a number of area residents wanted to start a beer hall (perfectly logical to me), and the project mushroomed into a very popular dining and shopping hangout bordering the Stapleton neighborhood, which was developed on the site of Denver's old Stapleton Airport. The festival takes place outside the building along a path facing a greenbelt, in an event space that used to be an airplane hanger, and also in a section of the parking lot. I attended the event yesterday afternoon, and was very impressed with the artwork. This festival is sponsored by the same organization that puts on the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, one of the most prestigious in the country, and so it is not a surprise that the quality of the art is so high.
When I attended the festival yesterday - in addition to the art - there were a number of musical groups and other events, such as the one seen in the photograph on the right put on by the Colorado Asian Cultural Heritage Center. This festival features 90 national juried artists, smaller than the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, but the perfect size for taking a second look at everything. Happily, there is lot of photography on display, and very good photography at that.
I think one of the highlights of the festival for me was the work of National Geographic Creative Photographer Greg Davis, seen talking with potential customers in the photograph on the left. His photographs, mostly portraits, are from all over the world. The photographs from India are especially stunning. The Stanley Arts Festival runs through today, so be sure to check out his booth in the hanger at Stanley if you can attend, or otherwise check out his web site at https://gregdavisphotography.com/.
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