Five different designs based on the art of 43-year-old painter and sculptor Mark Grotjahn are appearing on tickets through a program with the Aspen Art Museum as part of its efforts to expose the great unwashed masses to the more aesthetic and esoteric joys of the conceptual. Gotjahn’s work now sells for $500,000 to $800,000, in case you’d like to consider a career change. Gotjahn grew up skiing at Squaw and said being on the lift passes “could be one of the pinnacles of my career.” It doesn’t hurt that he gets free skiing all season in Aspen, either.

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