Visual Arts

September marks the beginning of the new art season, with the long-running shows of summer finally closing and the first of the fall shows opening at Goodwin Fine Art and Walker Fine Art.

Since the election of Donald Trump—and in some cases long before that—several Denver theater directors have been increasingly concerned with political issues and are expressing those concerns in their casting and choice of material.

When white supremacists and anti-racists clashed on the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Lydia Moyer, who teaches at the school, was out of town.

It’s easy to think that Denver actually condones graffiti because of the praise it poured on last weekend’s street-art-is-good-for-development CRUSH festival, in the once-graffitied, industrial neighborhood that’s now the RiNo Art District. But the city still has it in for spray-paint toting vandals.

The weekend is nigh, which can feel like either a blessing or a curse depending on the state of your pocketbook. So take heart, destitute Denverites, for Westword has scoured the local entertainment calendar for the best events in town that won’t break the bank.

Breckenridge Brewery will unveil its new packaging designs at a special exhibition September 21 at the Farm House Restaurant at Breckenridge Brewery, 2920 Brewery Lane in Littleton. The labels were created by German graphic designer Florian Schommer, and commissioned through a partnership with Chicago-based VSA Partners.

Discover new art spaces and firmly established faces this weekend at gallery openings on every level of the spectrum. Here are three new shows to tide you over for a week.

Digital animator Faiyaz Jafri has been on top of his game for as long as the medium has even been around, beginning thirty years ago on an Apple computer with the most basic of programming tools available. It was a painstakingly different onscreen world back then, but Jafri, now an internationally known animation pioneer who produces his own cutting-edge, award-winning work while also co-directing Hong Kong’s Third Culture Film Festival, still represents the gold standard in his trade.

The fall opener at Michael Warren Contemporary offers two back-to-back solos, both with work inspired by nature and the natural environment, featuring artists Allison Stewart and Heidi Jung.

Throughout September, the Denver Film Society has been throwing “A Month of Movies Influenced by Music.” Tim Kasher’s No Resolution shows on September 20.

B-movie actor Bruce Campbell discuss his new book “Hail to the Chin” and his latest TV series, “Ash vs. Evil Dead.”

The RAW Project, a group bringing art to schools near bustling art centers, is changing its acronym, and it’s starting with Denver.

CRUSH 2017 ends September 17, but the RiNo Art District’s work with and for artists is a year-round commitment in this rapidly changing neighborhood. Here are ten ways the district is advocating for artists.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a play adapted by Christopher Hampton from an eighteenth century French novel, is an ambitious undertaking for Miners Alley.

Expect a lively, original production of Macbeth – and a haunting one – in the newly renovated Space Theatre at the Denver Center.

Axis Mundi: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia, a complicated three-part group exhibition facilitated and mounted by artist Regan Rosburg and PlatteForum, follows the convoluted paths of modern ecopsychology through layers of art, science and our delicate symbiosis with nature.

Big events collide in a beautiful way this weekend in Denver, importing an international presence for the Biennial of the Americas, along with a hardworking community of street artists descending on Rino to paint murals for Crush 2017. In keeping, local galleries and businesses are getting in step with satellite exhibits and events — and then there’s a nice chunk of the regular stuff.

Norbeto “Beto” Mojardin is ready for Denver’s art community to know his name. While he has always been an artist, it was only in the last decade that Mojardin earned enough income from his hair salon to practice his art through fashion. And what makes Mojardin’s art unusual is that his wearable fashion is made of corn.

When New York yoga teacher Jeannene Orofino moved to Denver and made Stapleton her home six years ago, the mother of two was attracted to the neighborhood’s health and wellness-oriented culture. As she began settling in, however, she started wondering why Founder’s Green Park, the sprawling public space near her home where farmers markets and other events took place, didn’t host an outdoor yoga festival.

With the world’s current natural and unnatural disasters, the environment is increasingly on the minds of many, and Water Line and Propagate demonstrate that these artists are in that group, too.

The Denver Film Festival, one of the nation’s leading festivals, has announced its dates for its fortieth edition.

Wade Gardner has been running the DocuWest Film Festival on a shoestring budget since 2008. For the past few years, the bootstrapping filmmaker, programmer and activist rented space in the Sie FilmCenter so that he could bring cutting-edge documentaries to the region. Not anymore.