FEATURED ARTISTS

Md Famous Artist

Mountainfilm 2023 poster artist

MD, aka Mike Doherty, arrived in Telluride in 1991. It was not long before he began working at the Ah Haa School for the Arts, facilitating figure drawing classes. He has since built his reputation as a painter and built the local business, Telluride Snowmobile Adventures. Doherty’s work is unmistakably MD: whimsical pop-art interpretations, with florescent streets, purple mountains and the coal-black night skies littered with stars. His bold, clean and bright signature style has made his work a quintessential part of the Telluride art scene, infusing familiar scenery with unexpected boldness and a sense of adventure.

Drew Ludwig

Mountainfilm Festival Mural

Friends of Mountainfilm and kindred spirits alike recognize the call of adventure. The feeling one gets from peaks in the distance, rapids downriver and old maps filed away for future explorations. Drew Ludwig is an artist working with this feeling, harnessing its gravity to create pieces capable of placing the beholder in a sphere of dreaming and endeavor in wild landscapes. For Mountainfilm this year, Ludwig’s mural questions the gravitas of great expanses by reflecting the viewer in the piece itself. Head over to Bruno coffee shop to take a closer look. You might see something you weren’t expecting to find.