Sally Centigrade, a New Gallery, Opens on Larimer Tomorrow

If you like your art weird and a little off the beaten path, Sally Centigrade is here to help. The newest addition to Denver’s thriving gallery scene is dedicated both to showcasing local artists and to the kind of outsider art that doesn’t always get a lot of attention, here…

The Mayday Experiment: Tiny House, Big Community

I recently had a conversation with a painter who has had, from my estimation, a great career. He’s been gifted with museum shows, his work is in big collections, and his exhibitions have always met with critical acclaim. I don’t feel that I’ve had a shabby career myself — far…

Christian Hawkins Brings Shades of Grey to Colorado Scenes

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. “I’m a seventh generation Coloradan, which is part of the reason why…

Photos: Homegrown Comix and Cartoonists at the Cowtown Comics Fest

The local comics community set up tables last Sunday at Morey Middle School for the Cowtown Comics Festival, an all-Colorado artist expo that featured everything from hand-stapled zines to hardback graphic novels. Photographer Nicki Lamson was there, and brought back these images and more from the low-key fest. See also:…

The Mayday Experiment: A Tiny House Becomes a Home

A door carries symbolic weight. It is the way we close out others, it is the signifier of home, it creates a suggestion of privacy and a feeling of safety. A door defines our place in the world. Yesterday was the day that, with the installation of the door, the…

Why African-American Art Could Be Another Victim of Bill Cosby

By now everyone has heard that Bill Cosby — the beloved Dr. Huxtable from the 1980s hit sitcom “The Cosby Show,” and before that, tennis coach Alexander Scott on “I Spy,” from the ’60s — has been publicly accused by at least ten women, including Lou Ferrigno’s wife, of sexually…

After Starting an eBay Art Revolution, Lisa Luree Moves Into the Gallery World

It all began with Artist Trading Cards. Back in 2004, local painter Lisa Luree had already started selling her full-size paintings online when customers began asking if she made Artist Trading Cards, those two-and-a-half by three-and-a-half-inch pieces that artists generally traded. Luree asked her online art community if other artists…

The Mayday Experiment: The Truck Stops Here

The tiny house was supposed to be showcased this past weekend at ArtDenver, and even though getting it to the second floor of the Colorado Convention Center sounded challenging, I was thankful to receive the invitation. So at the beginning of the week I scrambled to get the door in…

Artopia 2015 Presale Starts This Morning!

Mark your calendar for Saturday, February 21, when Artopia 2015 will fill City Hall with art, culture and fashion. Our presale for the event starts this morning, and you’ll find some new twists added to Westword’s annual arts extravaganza…. See also: Artopia 2014 — the Artistic Lights Were Bright on…

Photos: Art and Fashion at ArtDenver

The Cherry Creek Arts Festival decided to bring the summer event’s tried-and-true formula indoors this past weekend for the inaugural ArtDenver at the Colorado Convention Center. For extra glitz, fashion took center-stage at the first night of ArtDenver, which mixed runway shows and designer vendors with artist booths. Photographer Brandon…

See the Winners of the 2014 Mayor’s Design Awards Tonight

Tonight Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department will honor fifteen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making during the 2014 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony at The Studio Loft of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “This year’s winning projects are phenomenal examples of what makes Denver…

Preview: Chaircuterie’s Furniture-Inspired Art

On Thursday, November 13, the American Institute of Graphic Arts Colorado and the Denver Art Museum Design Council will host Chaircuterie, a celebration of design and a fundraiser for AIGA’s mentorship and scholarship programs and the Denver Art Museum’s Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics. More than a hundred chair-inspired…

The Mayday Experiment: Maiden Voyage

The tiny house has made its maiden voyage. Invited to collaborate on a project at the Wittemyer Ranch overlooking Boulder by curators Petra Sertic and Alvin Gregorio , Philip Spangler and I decided that, though it was not necessarily an artistic collaboration in the truest sense, using the tiny house…