Breckenridge
Resort Art Lovers Flock to Breckenridge
By RealEstateColorado.com

One of the fascinating qualities of resort Breckenridge, Colorado real estate is its cosmopolitan mix of homeowners.  Though they hail from around the United States and the world, they share an appreciation of nature, beauty, and refinement.  As nature unfolds her splendor around Breckenridge CO real estate, so too do residents cultivate an enjoyment of many forms of fine art. 

From the Arts District of Breckenridge to galleries lining the Main Street Historic District to framing shops, ceramic and sculpture, and jewelry shops throughout Summit County real estate, elegant, fun, and pristine décor can be appreciated and taken home.

Because Breckenridge real estate owners love nice things, they lead the tourists out to four major art festivals in the area—the Annual Breckenridge Art Festival, the Breckenridge Main Street Art Festival, and the Dillon Art Festival—all in July—and the Annual gathering at the Great Divide Art Festival in Breckenridge in September.  The first festivals one of the most prestigious art festivals in Colorado, a juried event featuring a hundred exceptional artists from twenty different states.  The artists use a grand variety of mediums beginning with textiles, ceramics, bronze, sculpture, jewelry, painting, photography, wood, and others—and are the inspiration for a variety of ongoing workshops for children, teens, and adults available all year long.

A sampling of galleries begins at the established Hibberd McGrath Gallery on Main Street that displays the work of over fifty American artists using a wide variety of materials.  The Breckenridge Gallery just down the street is slightly more traditional, offering contemporary wildlife sculpture along with unique paintings executed in a contemporary realist or impressionistic mode.  The Blue River Pottery Studio in Frisco displays the stunning Sunset Canyon Pottery.

One of the largest displays, by award-winning photographer Thomas Mangelsen, captures a world of animals on film, in wall-size prints, posters, art cards, and keepsake books available in the Main Street Station for residents and visitors. 

Some of the most exquisite art cannot be taken home.  On display during the last week of January and the first week of February only, the work of an elite set of ice sculptors from around the world come for the Budweiser Select International Snow Sculpture Championships.  Their awesome sculptures of compacted snow are formed with exquisite detail.  Some tower at 12-feet high and weigh in at 20 tons.  Families come out of the woodwork to experience these glistening, once-in-a-lifetime, spectacular masterpieces.

So come the beautiful creations right to the front doorstep of area residents who have brought the appreciation of arts and culture with them to town in a perfect balance to the stupendous Rocky Mountain majesty outside the window frame.