Anderson Ranch Arts Center

The campus is five acres in size with working studio space in historic buildings for ceramics, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography and new media, sculpture, furniture making and woodworking as well as a digital fabrication lab, library, café, gallery and a lecture hall.

[6] Located in the Rocky Mountains, just 8 miles west of Aspen, Colorado, the art center was formerly a working sheep ranch settled by Swedish immigrants in the late 19th century.

[9][2][10][11] Other early artists involved were Dennis Hopper, Sally Mann, Daniel Rhodes, Jim Romberg, Toshiko Takaezu, James Surls, and Charmaine Locke.

[14] Takashi Nakazato, a 13th-generation master potter from Karatsu, Japan, where he is recognized as a living national treasure, has been creating ceramics at Anderson Ranch in a designated Visiting Artist studio since 1994.

[20] The outdoor sculpture gardens on campus have displayed works by Isamu Noguchi, Sanford Biggers, Letha Wilson and Hank Willis Thomas.

James Surls face line sculpture against dark sky and evergreen trees on campus of Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.
James Surls sculpture on campus.
Concrete wall of ceramics studio outside a kiln yard.
Studio wall with ceramics outside the kiln yard.
This photograph is of the artist Laurie Anderson with her arms up speaking inside a print shop with artwork hanging on the wall behind her.
Laurie Anderson working in the print shop in 1982.