In March, Tahoe Quarterly opened our Facebook page to our loyal readers for our fifth annual photo contest. We asked for photos in seven categories—Landscape, Kids, Sports, Instagram, Black & White, Wildlife and Pets—and hundreds of entries poured in to be included in our Best...
A look at the creators of Lake Tahoe’s ubiquitous carved bears Lake Tahoe’s black bears, which roam the Sierra Nevada forests (and occasionally wander through its towns), often find themselves the subject of local artwork. Artists capture these majestic animals through the broad strokes of a...
American realism artist Charles Muench is a man of the West. A resident of Gardnerville, Nevada, he hunts, fishes and has backpacked the Sierra Nevada since childhood. Like his life, Muench’s work captures the essence of the rugged West—Nevada cowboys riding in from the...
Fabric artist Karen Colbert creates intricate designs using two-inch squares Off Incline Village’s Tahoe Boulevard, tucked into a small building near Wildflower Café, is Handmade At The Lake. Tables brim with art prints, jewelry and pottery, but the eye is drawn to the colorful quilts lining...
Old skis find a new life as functional art It’s hard to get rid of possessions, even harder to part with those that belonged to a loved one. When Daniel Trauber died of leukemia in 2008, his wife, South Lake Tahoe–based Marianne Rosenfeld, found it an emotional...
Jude Bischoff’s wildlife paintings are far from the average bear Abstract blocks and squiggles forming a buffalo, speeding horses made of spirals and pyramids, a boulder-dotted stream flowing within the shape of a bear—this is the art of painter Jude Bischoff, whose works are bright, bold...
Barn quilts brighten the Sierra Nevada countryside...
An artist on snow, skin and now canvas...
Incline Village artist creates outdoor-inspired fine art pieces on canvas...
Marrying wine and painting for a fun night on the town...