Making Up for Lost Time: Baryn Futa on Art Preservation and Appreciation

It is simply true that Baryn Futa didn't always have such a deep appreciation for the arts. In fact, it wasn't until he retired and began working with the Denver Art Museum that he began to appreciate the importance of the arts. No one was more surprised than he was when Baryn discovered that he felt such a deep appreciation for the beauty provided by the art world.

Baryn Futa used his time at the DAM to cultivate his love of the arts and art history by attending art fairs and museum exhibitions and anything else he could find. He also attended numerous arts classes and started his own art collection, which has grown to be very extensive and impressive. Even though appreciation is a key element of every human society and deserves a high level of support, it is all too common for art to be taken for granted and not appreciated as a priority.  

That is the situation that drives Baryn Futa's work in support of the fine arts, as both a benefactor and someone who simply appreciates the finer things in life. He feels that brilliant artists are not appreciated enough to thrive, so he has spent his life doing as much as he can to help that situation. Baryn Futa is trying to pick up as much of that slack as possible, which is why he seems to take on as much of the responsibility that he can. The art of the past puts us in touch with our ancestors in a way that nothing else can, and we owe it to our descendants to preserve as much of that as possible for the future. That makes art and art museums extremely important.