As part of the 9th annual Freedom Conference & Festival, a conservative confab taking place in Steamboat Springs next month, the paintings of 43rd President George W. Bush will be on display for attendees at the Steamboat Grand Hotel. The one-day exhibition on Friday, Aug. 25, organized by the Steamboat Institute, marks the Colorado debut of Bush’s work from “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy” exhibition, which features paintings of world leaders Bush met during his tenure in the White House including Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Hamid Karzai, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tony Blair. The Steamboat Springs version will offer 10 paintings from that collection, which originally bowed at the George W.