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Posted on April 27, 2024April 27, 2024 by Manitou Creative

I am excited to share that I am collaborating again with the Manitou Springs Heritage Center. They have selected my acrylic painting/mixed media image titled “Pikes Peak Paradise” to be used for their next jigsaw puzzle fundraiser. The Heritage Center is currently undergoing renovation and will reopen in June 2024. I am grateful to the […]

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Posted on November 5, 2023December 5, 2023 by Manitou Creative

Since early this year I have been on the board of directors for the non-profit newspaper organization The Pikes Peak Bulletin. I help the organization with website hosting, email account management, posting the weekly digital edition newspapers and keeping the online community calendar up to date. I was asked by our fearless leader Lyn Ettinger-Harwell […]

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Posted on July 8, 2023December 8, 2023 by Manitou Creative

I was sitting in with one of my favorite local bands playing my saxophone with Family Elephant at the Armadillo Ranch in Manitou Springs, Colorado on the evening of Manitou’s amazing mardi gras parade called Carnivale. I had been roller skating in the parade earlier, it had been an amazing and long day. The band kicked […]

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Posted on March 27, 2023April 27, 2024 by Manitou Creative

I am pleased to share that I received the Movers and Shakers award in the 2023 Manni Awards ceremony. In 2019, I started volunteering my artistic, graphic design, photography, and website building skills to the local community of Manitou Springs. This decision came after I became a stay-at-home father and a full-time homemaker. I have […]

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Posted on September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by Manitou Creative

Not my best pics ever taken but hey, they’re free! In order to download a picture, click on the picture to expand it from the gallery view. Then click on the “i” information icon in the lower right, then click “view full size”. From there you can right click and save the image. Great job […]

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Posted on July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 by Manitou Creative

The Manitou Springs Heritage Center is delighted to offer their second Manitou Springs Jigsaw Puzzle. Painted by local artist Jared Thompson, the painting gives an artistic rendering of Manitou Springs with some of the key historic features emphasized. A combination of maps and imagination were used to set the layout of the town in a […]

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Posted on August 21, 2020July 28, 2021 by Manitou Creative

The Manitou Springs Library is moving to the Manitou Arts Center temporarily while the situation with the old Carnegie building is resolved. Recently a task force was created by Manitou residents to work together to save the library and to raise funds to update the building to become ADA compliant. The task force is submitting […]

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Posted on October 4, 2019August 21, 2020 by Manitou Creative

On September 28th, 2019 the Manitou Springs Heritage Center put on the 5th annual Heritage Brew Fest in Memorial Park, in Manitou Springs, CO. The brew fest is a do-not-miss event each year. With breweries from all over Colorado, great music, and tons of fun loving people you are only bound to have a good […]

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