The 23rd annual Arts on the Animas Arts & Crafts Festival will take place from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 12, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 13 at the Santa Rita River Walk at the Durango Visitors Center.

The festival will include fine art, crafts, wood and rock art paintings, jewelry, Native American crafts, candles, handbags, Juice Plus, laser art, Powerfx, mountain art, cards, wildflower art, wearable art and more.

For more information, call 247-2117.

Daybreak Rotary Club to meet Wednesday

Daybreak Rotary of Durango will hear Becca Awe share stories of her experiences as an exchange student in Poland during the 2013 school year at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Durango Community Recreation Center, 2700 Main Ave.

For more information, call Mary Oswald at 749-6332.

Lecture series to continue at FLC

Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will continue its summer lecture series on Wednesday.

The lecture topics were designed to be wide ranging. The lectures will be offered roughly every other week at 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays in the Center of Southwest Studies Lyceum Room.

On Wednesday, local art critic Judith Reynolds will speak on “Mabel Dodge Luhan: Utopian Dreams and Taos Realities.” For five decades wealthy society hostess, patron, and writer Mabel Dodge Luhan attracted leading intellectual and literary figures into her circle. This presentation examines the contrast between Luhan’s utopian dreams and the reality of her life in Taos, New Mexico. Reynolds is a journalist, art historian and political cartoonist.

For more information, call 247-7456 or visit http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu.

Herald Staff