Art exhibit highlights Pinon Canyon Country

Since 2005 when the Army’s plans to militarize southeast Colorado first surfaced, artists from all over the state have worked along with the ranchers to fight the expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site through the use of their various forms of art. Beginning July 8, 2011, an exhibition of the works of some of these artists, titled “Pinon Canyon Country,” will be on display at the Rocky Ford Business and Arts Incubator and Entrepreneurship Center (BAIE Center), at 408 North Main Street in Rocky Ford. The artists are hopeful that by raising the awareness of the beauty and history of Pinon Canyon, they will be helping the landowners defend their property and their way of life against a seizure by the Pentagon. If such a seizure were to happen, it threatens to turn southeastern Colorado into the world’s largest live-fire range...more