From Film to Phone:
A Conversation with Landscape Photographers

From lugging camera equipment over mountains on the backs of pack mules to tourists taking pictures of Yosemite with an iPhone, the fine art of landscape photography has come a long way in the 200 years since its invention. Join us for a conversation with contemporary photographers and Mike McClung, Director of the Michael Warren Contemporary galleryas they explore the evolution of photography from its early days to the present. Presented in conjunction with the Museum’s “Picturing the West” exhibition.

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 About the Artists

A Fulbright Fellow in Jerusalem at the turn of the millennium, Andrew Beckham found his voice through the lens of cosmology, aspiring to provide a poetic response to ontological concerns. Beckham’s work is represented in museum collections nationally, including the MacArthur Foundation, Denver Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Taylor Art Museum at Colorado College, Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, Joslyn Art Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum’s InFocus Foundation, among others. In the summer of 2018, three of Mr. Beckham’s photographs were featured in New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, an international survey of contemporary works at the Denver Art Museum. In the Spring of 2021, Mr. Beckham’s large-scale charcoal drawings from the Harbinger project were exhibited for the first time at Regis University. His most recent solo exhibition, A Cloud of Unknowing, was exhibited at Michael Warren Contemporary and garnered wide critical acclaim during Denver’s Month of Photography in the Spring of 2023. Mr. Beckham is the Visual Arts Department Chair at St. Mary’s Academy in Englewood, Colorado. He holds an MA in Aesthetic Theory from Prescott College and a BFA in printmaking and photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Kevin Hoth is an artist, father, and educator based in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught university courses in photography, digital media and graphic design at numerous universities for over twenty years and has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2011. Hoth’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Houston Center for Photography, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in Barcelona, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Photographic Center Northwest, The Center for Creative Photography, and The Rhode Island Center for Photography. Recent awards include Top 200 Critical Mass 2019, Center For Fine Art Photography Portfolio Showcase 12 and top ten finalist for the 2018 Clarence John Laughlin Award. Hoth received his Masters of Fine Art in Photography at the University of Washington, Seattle with a focus in Digital Video Installation. He lives on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado and regularly gets woken up by coyote howls, owl hoots and horse whinnies. Kevin is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado.

Mike McClung, together with his partner Warren Campbell, owns Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver Colorado. Having worked in both business and in creative industries for the last 35 years, the gallery has been the perfect blend of his professional experience. Over the years, Mike has seen some 4,000 gallery exhibits and 2,000 museum exhibits around the world. That, coupled with looking at books, magazines, websites, television, restaurants, offices, and homes…well, it adds up to a LOT of artwork. Michael Warren Contemporary opened in the heart of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe in 2014 and in 10 years has mounted over 140 exhibits and welcomed 120,000 visitors to the gallery.

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Thursday Night Museum Events & Performances

The Longmont Museum is open until 9 pm on Thursday evenings January 25 – May 2. Come early to visit our new exhibit “Picturing the West.” Every Thursday evening we offer an adult Art & Sip class or a film, a performance, or talk in our Stewart Auditorium. View upcoming Thursday Nights at the Museum.