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Aside from adventure enthusiasts, if there’s a hobby demographic Summit County attracts, it’s artists. The scenery is an obvious draw for photographers and landscape artists, and longtime local artists say Summit’s creative community isn’t one to be pigeonholed into one discipline of art. There’s several creatives who are both jewelry makers and woodworkers, or who are both glass blowers and painters.
Summit’s art scene is nuanced, and local work is sprinkled throughout the entire county. Everything from classic oil-painted sceneries of aspen leaves turning in the fall to more niche pieces, like a “junk journal,” can be found with ease — you just need to know where to look.
High Country Artisans, a collective of artists who…