From teacher to photographer, Battlement Mesa’s Ava Lanes has done it all

From teacher to photographer, Battlement Mesa’s Ava Lanes has done it all

Before Ava Lanes was an artist, she was a teacher in North Dakota, obtaining two masters degrees in teaching and speech pathology and audiology, while also owning an art gallery with her brother for 13 years.  “I would go work there on the weekends and when I came home from work, just help out,” Lanes said. “My brother and I had a great relationship and we bought that gallery in North Dakota.” The space used to be a meat market until the two sib…