Shaped by the Land: A duo exhibition featuring Dara Weyna & Jai Cochran

Dates and Times

• Friday, May 15, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, May 22, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, May 29, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, Jun 5, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, Jun 12, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, Jun 19, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, Jun 26, 2026  5pm - 9pm
• Friday, Jul 3, 2026  5pm - 9pm

Location

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Details

"Shaped by the Land" is a duo exhibition presented by Dara Weyna & Jai Cochran at Cornerstone Gallery from May 8th - July 7th, 2026.

The artists invite you to mindfully traverse the concept of landscape painting, where its echoes and edges feel simultaneously epic and intimate. Both artists create work that honors the natural world, nurturing our senses through their playful expressions of color and form.

Artist bio: Dara Weyna

Dara Weyna is an artist who maintains a home studio in northern Colorado. She works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, crochet and collage. Born in Chicago, Dara received her BA in Studio Art with minors in Art History and French in 2005 from Northeastern Illinois University. Post-graduation, Dara worked for prominent art collectors, galleries and museums in Chicago as a picture framer, as well as managing exhibitions for emerging and mid-career artists in Evanston, IL. She developed a thriving studio practice in the historic Cornelia Arts Building before moving to Napa, CA in 2007 where she spent the next 13 years juggling motherhood, art markets, classes and many other collaborations before relocating to Colorado in 2020.

You can learn more about Dara and her work online at daraweyna.com. You can also follow her on Instagram (@daraweyna).

Artist bio: Jai Cochran

Jai Cochran is a painter, photographer and writer living in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been a landscape architect and small town newspaper publisher, and lived in Georgia, Texas and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He has degrees from Texas A&M and Mercer University.

As a landscape architect in San Antonio, Texas he designed the grounds of the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. While living in Mexico he photographed and produced the travelogue "A Video Postcard from San Miguel de Allende," as well as giving public photography lectures. Jai's novel Speak the Truth and Fear No Man is available on Amazon's Kindle.

A sometime painter, in 2001 he discovered the advantages of painting from his own digital photographs and took up painting in oils full time. He has since expanded to watercolor, acrylics and woodcuts.

You can learn more about Jai and his work online at jaicochranart.com. You can also follow him on Instagram (@jaicochranart).

Free and open to the public

Cornerstone Gallery
Fridays | 5-9 PM
Saturdays | 12-4 PM

Reach out with questions to gallery@focomasonic.com.

This event is produced by an outside organization and is unaffiliated with the Downtown Development Authority. The DDA website serves as a marketing outlet for events and promotions occurring inside the Downtown boundary. For questions regarding the event, please contact the event producer.