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January 14, 2021
JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 37 | ISSUE 27
Artist tells story of a lifetime at Lakewood Gallery Exploring a journey through countries and time in a search for self-discovery BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Cindy Loya is an artist finding herself in new territory — and not for the first time. Loya’s first solo gallery show is on display at Next Gallery in Lakewood through Jan. 24. Born in California, then relocating with her parents to their native Mexico at age 4, Loya experienced being an immigrant before she was old enough to know what the term meant. Senderos, a Spanish word meaning trails, is the title of her show. In a written statement, Next Gallery’s Adrienne DeLoe said Loya’s art is inspired by the dualities of the two countries she’s called home. “She is known for her rich mixed media art and does not discriminate tools or materials,” DeLoe said. “Her work can be mild and dreamlike with a rough penetrating quality to it, and is known to carry cultural themes and feminist views.” Loya now lives in Aurora and studied Studio Art and Chicano Studies at Metropolitan State, but said she’s been making art for as long as she can remember. Her most recent work combines fabric, water colors, acrylic and thread. She said she appreciates the metaphor of paths, not created by nature, but by people walking along their own direction. The path she’s followed has been long, taking her not only from the U.S. to Mexico as a child, but bringing her back again, when her parents moved from small town Casa Grandes in Chihuahua, to
Perlmutter recounts Capitol insurrection District 7 Congressman says experience a shock, but might have been anticipated BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Artist Cindy Loya.
Colorado when she was a teen. “When I moved here from Mexico I felt like I didn’t belong,” she said. “My first day of school here, I was just sitting in geography class wondering what I was doing there.” She said a teacher asked her something she didn’t understand because of the language barrier, and when she didn’t answer, he just looked at her and told her that if she didn’t speak English, she should get out of his class. “After that, I was put in ESL (English as a Second Language) classes. I was around other kids in the same situation I was in.
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Artwork from Cindy Loya’s exhibit, Senderos.
On Jan. 6, U.S. legislators debated the merits of completing a perfunctory certification of the electoral college results in the 2020 presidential election. Shortly after the House and Senate were adjourned to their respective chambers to deliberate, pro-Trump protesters breached the Capitol. Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-Arvada) of Colorado’s 7th district, having been sworn in Perlmutter three days earlier after his latest reelection, was in the Capitol at the time. “My experience has been one of shock,” Perlmutter said. “I knew that there would be protests. I didn’t expect it to become riots and to have people breach the Capitol.” He said he didn’t expect to see an event like this happen, although looking back on all of the rhetoric coming from the president and others, whipping everybody up, it might SEE PERLMUTTER, P3
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