Walking into the Midland Arts Company is downright surprising. There on Third Street, amid Rifle’s decidedly western downtown core, is what you might call a fine arts and crafts gallery, chock full of high quality paintings, jewelry, pottery and so much more.
It’s unexpected because once you take a breath and look around, you realize what a flourishing artist community Rifle has. And it’s more surprising when you learn that the six artists who own the gallery — and the roughly 30 consigners who exhibit their wares here — are all local.
Maybe it does make sense that Rifle is home to a fine arts and crafts gallery. After all, Rifle became big news in the art world when it was selected for the Valley Curtain installation in the 1970s — a famed (and maybe infamous) gigantic orange “curtain” strung across Rifle Gap by internationally recognized environmental artist Christo.
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