Aspen Skiing Company CEO, Mike Kaplan, and Aspen Art Museum Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Heidi Zuckerman, will speak about their organizations’ meaningful partnership, Art In Unexpected Places. Together, they collaborate to bring contemporary art to the ski experience through annual artist-commissioned lift ticket designs, as well as on-site art installations in Snowmass’s Elk Camp Ski Lodge or on the slopes of the four Aspen Skiing Company resorts: Aspen Mountain, Highlands, Buttermilk, or Snowmass. In its eleventh year, and with the project’s second publication documenting and celebrating this partnership on the horizon, Art In Unexpected Places is a unique and valuable model for integrating the cultural and athletic sides of a mountain town.

Past artists to participate in these public art projects include: Mamma Andersson, Mark Bradford, Anne Collier, Peter Doig, Teresita Fernández, Mark Grotjahn, Cai Guo-Qiang, Jim Hodges, Karen Kilimnik, Carla Klein, Dave Muller, Walter Niedermayr, Susan Philipsz, Lars Ø. Ramberg, Tom Sachs, David Shrigley, Yutaka Sone, Mark Wallinger, and Jennifer West.

Presented by The Sun Valley Center for the Arts in partnership with the Ketchum Arts Commission and The Community Library