Artist Joan Hoffmann presents a slideshow and talk about the inter-dependency of people, places and sandhill cranes — a featured talk for the 2017 Yampa Valley Crane Festival!

Joan weaves images of landscape paintings and stories around the people and cranes in the Yampa Valley -- and invites the audience to join the discussion.

Joan Hoffmann paints landscapes in oil and watercolors.  She paints, teaches painting and lectures on the History of American Landscape Painting, National Parks and Public Lands. Joan currently lives in Vermont and was the Artist-in-Resident in 2016 at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, VT. This Park’s legacy is Land Stewardship.She exhibits and sells her impressionist oils through the White Hart Gallery in Steamboat Springs.

About the Yampa Valley Crane Festival
The Greater Sandhill Crane is an iconic species of the Yampa Valley. Returning in the spring, cranes nest and raise their young in wetland areas throughout the valley. In late summer and early fall, hundreds of cranes from the Rocky Mountain flock join the local birds to rest and feed before continuing their journey south. The festival includes daily crane viewings, expert speakers, films, art exhibits, workshops, family activities and more. All community activities and events are free unless otherwise indicated in the program, and the Bud Werner Memorial Library will be home base for many of these talks, films and events.

Learn more about the Yampa Valley Crane Festival at www.coloradocranes.org.