Lula W. Dorsey Museum, YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO
Susan has completed museum backdrops for five displays in this very nice little museum located on the grounds of the YMCA of the Rockies convention center, outside of Estes Park, CO.
The archaeology exhibit at the Lula Dorsey Museum is a diorama encompassing an entire room. It is a re-creation of an excavation and recovered artifacts found at “Smuggler’s Cove” on the YMCA property. Rather than create the exact site, Museum curator, Jack Melton, decided to create a representative rock shelter. Museum personnel and artist Susan Dailey built a rock overhang from foam and paper mache’ dominating the ceiling and one corner, and parts of two walls in one of the upstairs galleries.
Fort Collins artist Susan Dailey spent weeks recreating an illusionary scene: in it Mount’s Chapin, Chiquita and Ypsilon rise majestically in the distance. Fluffy clouds dance across a Colorado summer sky; pine and aspen trees fill hillsides sloping down to a river valley below, and summer flowers spring forth in the foreground. On the ground underneath the platform is a recreation of a Hunter/gather campsite from about 3,000 BP (before present).
By Jack Melton, Museum Curator
Excerpts from the spring 1997 Newsletter
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