She initially visited Telluride, Colorado, in 1980 for the Telluride Film Festival. In 1991, she and then-husband Keith Carradine founded the Sheridan Arts Foundation in Telluride to save and restore its historic Sheridan Opera House. Around the same time, she and her husband purchased a home in Telluride in 1992 from the estate of music promoter Bill Graham, who had died in a helicopter crash in 1991.
