Events

: Art aRound Town 2015; An annual rotating sculpture exhibit throughout downtown Carbondale featuring sculptors from Colorado and across the country.

: Art on the Corner; A standing exhibition started in 1984 by local artist Dave Davis in partnership with the Downtown Development Authority. The exhibition consists of both permanent pieces and a rotating collection of pieces by guest artists. It began with pieces displayed on Grand Junction’s Main Street and has since expanded to other areas downtown. Art on the Corner gained positive regional and national attention for Grand Junction, and has been an inspiration to similar art displays around the country. It displays both local and out-of-town artists. Several pieces from the Art on the Corner display can be seen online at mcpld.org.

: Barack Obama 2008 campaign speech at Cross Orchards Living History Farm; A Change We Need campaign speech made on September 15, 2008. According to oral history interviewee David Combs, the excitement in the audience was palpable. *Image is the official presidential photograph of Barack Obama.

: Barack Obama 2012 campaign speech at Grand Junction High School; A speech made during Barack Obama’s campaign for a second term in office. *Photograph is the official presidential photo of Barack Obama.

: Big Creek Reservoir Flood of 1905; A flood in the Plateau Valley area of Mesa County, Colorado.

: Black Sunday Oil Shale Bust, May 2, 1982; On May 2, 1982, Exxon announced that it was pulling out of its 60% share in the Colony Shale Oil Project near Parachute, Colorado due to the rapidly declining price of oil and the high expenses of producing synthetic oil from shale. The effects on the local economy were immediate and devastating, causing businesses to fold, real estate values to plummet, and leading to layoffs of 2,200 Exxon workers. In the years between 1983 and 1985, nearly 24,000 people left Garfield and Mesa County in exodus as $85 million in annual payroll disappeared from the Western Slope. Several oil companies, including Chevron, Occidental, and Shell remained on the Western Slope and continued research and development on oil shale, though they never reached commercial viability on any of their projects.

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