Denver Life

As a contemporary-art curator in Denver, Brooke Tomiello is interested in non-traditional gallery models, underground spaces where she prefers to mount shows.

Jessica Kooiman Parker brought new life to Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center in her time there as director and curator, mounting fresh and vital exhibitions that neatly bypassed the pictures-on-a-wall gallery model, while incorporating her second passion, film, into the center’s programming.

FashioNation has been selling Dr. Martens boots for more than three decades, and the demand keeps growing.

Artist Lindsay Smith Gustave’s work celebrates the world’s small moments, often with great detail in drawings rendered with a light touch, or in delicately beaded natural forms placed like floral specimens inside amorphous glass vessels.

Daniel Mazur is touchy-feely kind of guy on a mission to unwrap authentic experiences through introspective storytelling. As the co-founder of Soul Stories, Mazur has been proactively supporting that mission since 2013, by gathering people from the community to share a piece of their inner lives.

Emily K. Harrison has been the heart and soul of Boulder’s square product theatre since 2006, when she first took the stage under that moniker in a self-written solo performance, Skeet Shootin’ Prodigy, at the Boulder International Fringe Festival.

Catching up with the design entrepreneur and cultural kickstarter.

In movies and on TV in the ’50s, there were only white cowboys. But the reality was much more colorful

DMNS will redevelop a nearby playground in City Park into a sort of new-age play space that will cater to children by combining nature and science.

“I truly feel it’s a time of great self-expression, and that always inspires me to play with new styles and new things.”

Looking for a spot to get on the wall?

Brice Maiurro isn’t only a poet; he’s a habitué, a scenester and Beat throwback working to carve more opportunities for his people in a tight underground world of word artists.

The salon in Five Points is as much about cause and community as commerce.

Jaime Kopke works at the Boulder Public Library, dreaming up ways to include ordinary citizens to take part in community-inspired exhibitions, and coming up with some new personal projects on the side.

Meet the new artist-in-residence at RedLine.

Roy Smith has suffered bigotry and violence, but now settled in the San Luis Valley with friends who look out for him, he collects things and turns them into folk-art assemblages.

The Boulder-based company has expanded to Greenwood Village.

Moe Gram is more than an artist with a hip-hop vibe. She’s a woman of color with a strong arts resume and a stake in community-building, who sits on the board of the Birdseed Collective and collaborates with Odessa Denver on the Creatives at Roundish Tables discussion series, all while teaching at STRIVE Prep Green Valley Ranch and running her own Moe Gram Art & Lifestyle brand, a one-woman community enrichment machine.

The third annual gathering will rally in Civic Center Park on January 19, 2019.

Arna Miller came late to her chosen discipline as an artist and printmaker, but arrived at it ready to be completely immersed.

Catherine O’Neill Thorn founded Art From Ashes fifteen years ago out of a love for poetry and the power of personal epiphany to drag the hurt out of young people.

With one holiday down, now is the perfect time to get off the couch.