{"id":68174,"date":"2016-12-06T22:53:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T05:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-artist-desplanques-to-show-work-locally\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T05:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T05:53:30","slug":"mancos-artist-desplanques-to-show-work-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-artist-desplanques-to-show-work-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos artist DesPlanques to show work locally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3a1ec7b0-a325-46a2-aac9-c3ad6802b279&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1533\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Mancos artist Kevin DesPlanques shows some of his wood furniture art in 2011.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos artist Kevin DesPlanques shows some of his wood furniture art in 2011.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Mancos artist and woodworker Kevin DesPlanques will show his work in Montezuma County for the first time at the Cortez Elks Lodge on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Christmas Bazaar starts at 10 a.m. at the Elks Lodge, 2100 N. Dolores Road. Proceeds from $30 booth sales go to scholarships, food baskets, the Angel Tree and veterans programs.<\/p>\n<p>DesPlanques sculpts one-of-a-kind chairs, benches and stools using a woodworking process called stack lamination. He travels to art shows across the country to show his pieces, but hasn\u2019t shown his work locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of local people know what I do with my work, but most people haven\u2019t had the chance to see it,\u201d he said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Elks Lodge approached DesPlanques about participating in the bazaar, and he jumped on the opportunity, he said. He\u2019ll be showing some chairs and benches, but won\u2019t be bringing any large pieces.<\/p>\n<p>DesPlanques is finishing up a few new pieces this week that he plans to debut at Sunday\u2019s show, he said. Those include a rocking chair made from 2000-year-old wood that was recovered from a river in Mississippi. Another new piece is made from a Central American wood that is now on the endangered species list and can no longer be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>DesPlanques used to teach woodworking in Dolores, so he\u2019s hoping a few former students will come out to say hello.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing some locals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublimerockers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sublimerockers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u2019s first local show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,83,60],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-mancos","tag-montezuma-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68174","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=68174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68174"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}