At Colorado’s Museum of Friends, art is priceless – literally
by Sarah Matusek
Dec 12, 2022
3 minutes
In Walsenburg, a former coal mining town in southern Colorado, tumbleweeds tangle with leaves on the sidewalk. Winds of change have also swept through a century-old brick building on Main Street that for decades housed a JCPenney. Today, a pair of East and West Coasters has transformed it into a contemporary art museum, its walls a crisp gallery white.
Artists Brendt Berger and Maria Cocchiarelli-Berger traipse through their Museum of Friends (MoF), where artworks hang cozily close, floor to ceiling, salon-style. In this memory palace of their making, each
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