Each summer, the Sheridan Arts Foundation brings 20 to 25 nationally recognized plein air artists to Telluride for a week of painting outdoors. Watch them work around town and in the surrounding mountains.
The week includes a Quick Draw competition and the Artist Choice Preview Party. It ends with a three-day art sale outside the Sheridan Opera House and in Elks Park over the Fourth of July. Forty percent of each sale supports the Sheridan Arts Foundation.
Getting around
The sale is downtown, just off Main Street, and Telluride’s Fourth of July celebration happens the same week. Stay downtown and you can walk to all of it. The free gondola connects Mountain Village and downtown Telluride and runs 6:30 a.m. to midnight. The free Galloping Goose shuttle loops through town every 15 minutes.
