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Blue Sage hosts Smithsonian exhibit highlighting rural America

The Blue Sage Center for the Arts in Paonia has been home for the Smithsonian exhibit Crossroads: Change in Rural America for nearly a month. The exhibit opened on June 21 and will close on July 20th.

KVNF's Lisa Young spoke with Ali Lightfoot, Blue Sage Executive Director, about the exhibit which also features Story Share, a program celebrating historic families in the North Fork Valley.

For more information: Blue Sage Center for the Arts

Lisa was born in Texas but grew up on a small farm in Olathe, Colorado and considers herself a “Colorado native after six years of age.” Lisa has nine years experience in news reporting. She began her career as a News Director for a small radio station on Colorado's Eastern Plains. Following her initial radio career, Lisa worked as a staff reporter for The Journal Advocate and South Platte Sentinel in Sterling, Colorado and then returned to the Western Slope as staff reporter for the Delta County Independent.