Collage artist Peter Yumi hasn’t exactly been in hiding the last five years, though he’s rarely shown any work in galleries during that time. But he has been busy in the studio and sharing work with other artists on the Internet, and in 2015, he’ll be back on gallery walls,…
Continuance: Charles and Collin Parson Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs Charles “Chuck” Parson is one of Colorado’s preeminent abstract and conceptual sculptors, with an illustrious career that stretches back to the 1970s. His son, Collin Parson, is best known as a curator in his…
I have a confession to make. I’m a hoarder. Not in the “as seen on TV” sense, thankfully — though I suppose I’ve come close at times. I don’t hang onto things out of sentimentality, but because everything is useful in my eyes. Everything. See also: Everything You Ever Wanted…
This weekend, you can see a tribute to photographers who share their technical knowledge as teachers, a sweeping stock-show-ready survey of Western art and new work from an installation artist on the rise. Read on for the details. See also: At Home/On Stage: Photographic Works by Glenn Ross…
Yeehaw! The National Western Stock Show is in town, which means that Denver hotels are full of boots and cowboy hats. The Four Seasons is offering an artful twist: Today Western artist Duke Beardsley will take up residence in the front of the Edge bar/lounge, where he’ll be painting throughout…
When Ice Cube Gallery’s Icebreaker show opens today, you’ll be seeing only the tip of an iceberg of entries that arrived for the juried national showcase that’s now in its sixth year. It took an exceptionally able eye to whittle more than 1,000 entries down to 60 works by 43…
The Denver Broncos spent $30 million last spring to sign defensive end DeMarcus Ware, one of the best defensive players in the NFL, as a way to send a message to the rest of the league and to help the team get back to the Super Bowl in 2015. Denver…
Desert Light William Havu Gallery 1040 Cherokee Street New Mexico’s modern art history is intertwined with Colorado’s, if only because so many artists from each state show their work in the other — and it’s been this way for decades. A case in point is Sam Scott: Desert Light, a…
With the bad weather and the holidays, progress on the tiny house has ground to a halt. The cold has me thinking about this past summer, when the garage door to the studio was open to the neighborhood and we were working on the tiny house constantly. Passersby would stop…
We’ve written before about photographer Suzanne Heintz and her too-perfect mannequin family, husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret, who for a decade-and-a-half have been the subjects of an ongoing project called Life Once Removed. Somehow, Heintz’s ideal family has a way of always falling to pieces, as it did last…
This week’s cover story details the fantastic rise of Craftsy, Denver’s hottest (and most unexpected) start-up, which is making millions delivering online quilting and knitting courses to hobbyists all over the planet. Craftsy is also digitizing the burgeoning maker movement — turning quilting teachers into online celebrities, cake-decorating aficionados into…
Get ready, 2015, here we come: Start your new year of First Fridays with a look back at the career of a local cultural hero, a look forward at work by student artists, and an artistic view of the human brain. And more! See also: Gallery Sketches: Four Shows to…
When I first revealed my plan to build a tiny house and take off across the country, at an artist’s talk at Mai Wyn Fine Art for my show Nest/Shedin March, I was terrified. I hadn’t planned to talk about the project in public, but it was a spontaneous response…
With scores of galleries, art centers, museums, artist-cooperatives and even ad hoc spaces around town, you’d have to make exhibit viewing a full time job in order to see everything — and even then, it might be impossible. But there were some shows from 2014 that no one should have…
The Great Recession has lifted in Denver as developers appear to be building something on every square inch of the city. And what with legalized pot, the town’s hipness quotient is off the charts, attracting seemingly half the twenty- and thirty-somethings in the country who are dutifully moving into all…
Next stop, New Year’s Eve. That means it’s time to reflect back, think about the future, and then decide how to best comport yourself in the coming year. Many galleries around town are riffing on that theme for their first shows of the year — so why not start your…
All I want for Christmas is…what, exactly? The tiny house done, that’s the big thing. Which, given my need to earn a living and function in the world, is happening much more slowly — and expensively — than my initial unrealistic expectations had predicted. Isn’t that always the way? When…
As 2014 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what knocked our socks off this year in the Colorado arts world. Got some favorites of your own? Tell us about it in the comments below. See also: Fifteen arts flashbacks from 2013…
It’s never too late to find everything from original art to lovingly handmade confections and cheeses, so don’t lose hope if you haven’t finished your shopping. Read on for a list of the best places to do it in style. See also: The Night Fair Before Christmas…
To know the story of Colfax is to truly understand the personality of the Denver metro area. The gravel-and-tar artery that once ushered visitors in from the open road now hosts a variety of people and cultures along America’s longest main street. Westword is taking a look at Route 40’s…
Brilliant Denver Art Museum 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway The Denver Art Museum has come up with the perfect winter show: Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century, which is crammed to the rafters with “ice” in the form of more diamonds than I could possibly count. Up front, I’m going…
“If you’ve been around northwest Denver, you know: The people who come in here are so much nicer than the average person.” Cal Eichinger, owner of Elitch Lanes, is already lamenting the loss of his customers. On May 17, after more than sixty years in the Berkeley neighborhood, Elitch Lanes…
