For Andy Nasisse, opening a new art gallery in Ridgway earlier this month is about adding “another ingredient to the art scene” in town — one he considers “an ongoing, developing, progressive art scene.”

The artist and retired art professor opened Trace Gallery at 379 N. Cora St. and will feature it second art show next month.

Nasisse taught art at the University of Georgia in Athens for 28 years before eventually finding his way back to Colorado, the state of his birth, after discoverin...