It’s the little things that help a community thrive, and that’s where ArtPlant artist residencies fit into Denver’s scene, spreading the wealth by creating an atmosphere of good will and collaboration. Last fall the program’s first resident, Kansas City installation artist Rashawn Griffin, took full advantage of the ArtPlant offer,…
Last summer, Ivar Zeile and Ryan Pattie of Denver Digerati brought a quiet revolution to the Denver Theatre District’s giant LED screens: Between the ads and promos most often seen flashing on the screens, Zeile and Pattie’s curated series of short Friday Flash programs traded commerce for cutting-edge digital art…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Rita Conway had been coming to Colorado to camp every summer since…
Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe was in full bloom on the First Friday in May, with pleasant weather and lots of action indoors and outdoors all along the drive. With Space Gallery debuting its high-tech new space and food vendors and crowds filling the street, there were ample opportunities…
First Friday comes but once a month, with an embarrassment of gallery riches: fresh exhibitions, pop-up parties, people-watching, performances and great art. Organized navigation isn’t always necessary to have a good time on First Friday; still, it doesn’t hurt to have some direction — especially since there are some don’t-miss…
Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia artist and collector Linda Lee Alter realized that the collection she had assembled was dominated by the works of men. So she decided to sell them off and begin building a collection exclusively dedicated to women. From the start, Alter intended that the collection would…
As a Denver neighborhood with a rich architectural history, University Park is home to houses of all shapes, sizes and legacies. This Sunday, May 4, five homes in the historic area will open their doors to the public for the University Park Home Tour, an afternoon event that benefits University…
Nobody knows how deep the talent goes in our local youth slam-poetry community better than Denver poet and youth mentor Ken Arkind. He’s been on the side of young poets — and at their side as they represent Denver at the national Brave New Voices youth slam competition on the…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Welcome to Naomi Haverland’s delightfully quirky world, where the art and the…
After being diagnosed with congestive heart failure, Dee Williams decided she needed a big change. And she accomplished it by going small. Williams built her own 84-square-foot house, where she resides in Olympia, Washington. She’ll be at the Tattered Cover LoDo tonight to read from and discuss her new book…
The Berkeley neighborhood went back to the ’80s this weekend when Totally Tennyson took over the Tennyson Street strip from 35th to 46th avenues for a street crawl and party that ended with live music and a high-stakes costume contest at the Oriental Theater. Photographer Marissa Shevins brought back these…
London-based artist Teresa Albor is not-so-subtly interested in turning over the stuffy model of art as a commodity, and her work shows it in projects like “Rufus Stone,” which hands over art-making materials and, in turn, the cachet of art-making to non-artists. Then there’s “100 Paintings in 24 Hours,” which…
If you’re scoring a modern silent film about ancient eldritch horrors, you’re going to need to do something a little different. An organ isn’t going to get it done; a piano is right out. Even a full orchestra, for all its dynamic range and variety of timbre, isn’t going to…
The first annual Art Makers Denver will present three days of interactive artist workshops at the McNichols Building September 14 through 16 — and registration is already under way. “It’s designed for anyone who has a desire to create,” explains Helen Rice, who owns Willow – An Artisan’s Market in…
Although it gets plenty of attention for blockbusters like Modern Masters, the Denver Art Museum always has a raft of smaller shows on display as well. Right now there are nearly twenty, including Re Branded: Polish Posters for American Westerns; All That Glistens: A Century of Japanese Lacquer; and Fracture:…
Since January, Lighthouse Writers Workshop has been celebrating literature, keying off The Big Read , a National Endowment for the Arts program designed to encourage people to read for pleasure — not because they have to — and this year highlighting Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping. Denver has joined 77 other…
Michael Paglia visits the Denver Art Museum and Robischon Gallery in this week’s review, taking in two solo shows focusing on Chuck Forsman, as well as three other stand-alone exhibits at Robischon that focus on the role of the landscape in contemporary art. Continue reading for photos from all of…
If you loved Monkey Town 4 the first time, you’re sure to have an equally exemplary time eating artisan dishes inside a video cube during a return visit on Wednesdays or Sundays in May, the last month of the event’s Denver run. While the original program plays on during the…
Through conversations with friend and filmmaker Frederick Schroeder, comic artist and comic historian Dave Kellet realized that he needed to make a documentary on the life and art of the comic strip. Two successful Kickstarter campaigns later, Stripped was born. It’s a deep and thoughtful look at the world of…
Regardless of where you stand on the high-stakes art-auction issue, the opportunity to see what kind of work exacts big bucks on the auction block is still an interesting prospect. And here’s your chance: The one-and-only Christie’s international auction house brings a three-day, pre-sale mini-museum of Impressionist and Modernist works,…
The Cannabis Cup took over Denver Mart this past weekend, with every marijuana-related product imaginable — including some very impressive glassware. Our photographer, Brandon Marshall, was there to capture the art of glass-blowing, and the awe-inspiring results. See also: Kitty Migaki finds inspiration in downtown Denver’s architecture…
Before it became the bustling hub of higher education in central Denver, the Auraria campus was a neighborhood of modest houses and small businesses. It all abruptly vanished in the early 1970s, after a bitter political and legal battle that uprooted hundred of residents — and left behind a trail…
