The Rio Grande County Museum has the pleasure of hosting a show for Monte Vista, Colorado sculptor, Craig Lehman from April 6th to end of May with the opening reception on April 9th from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Lehman is a contemporary sculptor with a unique style that is recognizable with a quiet, mystical and peaceful quality.  He manages to find a balance between intuition and intellect with stoic beauty.
After high school, Lehman spent his time doing odd jobs and traveling and working across the United States and even Columbia.  He finally found the San Luis Valley and Adams State University where he earned a degree in biology and a minor in archeology.  After exploring other professions, he was drawn back to school to study sculpture.  He received an MA in sculpture and a minor in drawing.  He then worked in a foundry in Santa Fe.

In 1998 he left Santa Fe to devote his time to his own work branching out from bronze to produce one of a kind pieces in steel, bronze, stone and wood.  His work is featured in several books, magazine articles, in numerous private collections as well as the collection of the Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

​Rio Grande County Museum is located at 580 Oak Street in Del Norte, Colorado.  The hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  For more information, please contact the Museum via ph: (719)657-2847, Facebook, or our website www.museumtrail.org.

Calling all Teachers (class/homeschool) and Parents -- This is your child’s opportunity to learn how their great-grandparents lived here in the San Luis Valley with activities including making adobe bricks, a quilt patch, churn butter, use a loom, sit on a horse saddle and so much more!!

The Saguache County Museum is once again hosting Pioneer Days for area children, their parents and teachers on Tuesday or Wednesday, May 10th and 11th.  From 10am-3pm they will tour the entire museum and participate in all kinds of activities such as:

• Making adobe bricks
• Learn the parts of a horse saddle
• Selfies while sitting on a saddle 
• Use an old-fashioned wash tub and scrub board
• Sit in jail with Alferd Packer
• 1908 Jail selfies
• See what a cloth diaper is
• Add your name to a graffiti board

In order to keep their energy going, how about some homemade bread spread with butter that the children will make.

Inside the museum they will have a guided tour of all 8 rooms, that includes learning stations to make a 4-piece quilt patch, a bracelet on a loom, and if we have any time, even sing some of the old songs by the player piano.  The children can keep their quilt-patch and bracelet to take home as souvenirs.

For all this we are charging everyone (including all parents and teachers) only $1 apiece.  However, if the adult is not accompanying a child they will be charged the regular adult fee of $7.  If there is a child in your class who cannot afford the $1, we have a small slush-fund to help with this.  Just tell me when you call to make your reservations.

To make the necessary reservations call Dorraine at 256-4281.  Hope to see you on Pioneer Days at the Saguache County Museum.  Located at the corner of Hwy 285 and San Juan Ave, Saguache, Colorado