{"id":66427,"date":"2019-09-16T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-welcomes-painter-rick-young-as-artist-in-residence\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:06:17","slug":"mesa-verde-welcomes-painter-rick-young-as-artist-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mesa-verde-welcomes-painter-rick-young-as-artist-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa Verde welcomes painter Rick Young as artist-in-residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6875ae4f-ecc2-44a6-b5fb-247e257e0fab&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2273\" alt=\"Landscape painter Rick Young will be the final artist-in-residence at Mesa Verde National Park for the season.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Landscape painter Rick Young will be the final artist-in-residence at Mesa Verde National Park for the season.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Landscape painter Rick Young will be Mesa Verde National Park\u2019s final artist-in-residence of the season, Sept. 16 to Sept. 28. He will discuss and show his work to visitors from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday on the porch overlooking Spruce Tree House.<\/p>\n<p>Young, an artist, historian and teacher, has long been familiar with the Four Corners area. As a historian, he researched the history of the Ute tribes and produced the book \u201cThe Ute Indians of Colorado in the Twentieth Century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now retired from teaching, Young finds artistic inspiration in the mesas, canyons and cultures of the Four Corners and the Southwestern U.S. He studied art at Miami University of Ohio,  where he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in fine arts. He has painted  for 20 years and is represented by Acosta Strong Fine Art in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p>Young lives with his wife and two dogs in Castle Rock.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vvUF9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/2vvUF9Y<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landscape painter Rick Young will be the final artist-in-residence at Mesa Verde National Park for the season.Courtesy Mesa Verde National Park Landscape painter Rick Young will be Mesa Verde National Park\u2019s final artist-in-residence of the season, Sept. 16 to Sept. 28. He will discuss and show his work to visitors from 1 to 4 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-66427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66427"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=66427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}