About Contact/Membership Grants Calendar of Events Photo Gallery Second Annual Durango Friends of the Arts Artists' Market on June 22 Visit with talented artists from throughout the region during the second annual Durango Friends ofthe Arts Artists' Market in Saturday, June 22, in Santa Rita Park. You'll find: •    Paintings •    Sculpture, •    Metal •    Photography •    Collage •    Jewelry •    Printmaking •    Drawings •    Glass •    Pottery •    Leather •    Fiber Volunteers needed for second annual Artists' Market in June 22 Volunteer for the second annual Artists' Market; it's a great way for new DFA members to become involved! Nine volunteers are needed for the "Help" Committee, and five for the food committee. The Artists' Market will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 22, at Santa Rita Park. Contact JoAnn Trimberger for more information. YaYa Sisterhood Event a wonderful success at the "Jack Rabbit Trading Post" See more photos here  . . . The fourth annual YaYa Sisterhood fund-raiser certainly dished out the Kicks on Route 66  on April 27. Participants were greeted on the deck of Marian and Dennis Pierce's Animas Valley Home with a selection of crowns to wear for the day, then followed the "road" to a 1950s-style camper trailer that served as a backdrop to the champagne punch bar. Inside the home, committee members lavishly decorated individual tables to represent the states through which Route 66 passed on its way from  Chicago to Los Angeles. It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s, and guests dressed the part. The event raised $5,200 for the Grants Fund! Thanks to Cindy Cortese, Carol Treat, Susie Amman, Mary Husemoller, Buff Rogers, Karren Little, Penny Youngflesh, Chris Erickson, Teresa Lashley and Kristi Nelson Cohen for organizing the event. Paleo-Party-Food: a Cooking Class with Kara Komick on June 11 Like to entertain and go to summer pot-lucks but getting sick of your routine recipes? Want to know what gluten-free means? And what's so bad about sugar and GMO? What do they mean by the Paleo diet? A what the heck is Kombucha? Kara Komick will answer all your food questions plus she will introduce us to some tasty recipes with new techniques, focusing on a variety of health promoting foods to get you through the summer and feel good about what you're eating. $75 reserves your spot! RESERVATIONS LIMITED ~~ RSVP  ASAP to: Dana Wilson at 403-3776  or danaaloha@gmail.com. Kara is a recent graduate of the Denver Nutritional Therapy  Institute and has started her new company Natural Roots Kitchen focusing on food as medicine Au Revoir Pat Lorenzen! DFA sends friend off on her new adventure to Arizona Pat Lorenzen and her husband, Tom, are leaving Durango. Pat has been an active member of Durango Friends of the Arts and will be missed. DFA threw her a going away party on May 24. See photos from the fete here ... Memberships due now! If you haven't paid your membership dues for the year, please do so now. Learn more about membership on our Membership Page, where you can download a membership form. We put the "fun" in fund-raisers, and that's why we were able to raise enough funding to support 23 local arts projects with $45,000 in grants. Find out who our beneficiaries are on our Grants Page. Welcome to our new Web site. We hope to keep you up to date on all the fun activities that we plan to raise money to support the arts. We appreciate your feedback, so please contact the Web master at friends@durangofriends.org.