Eric Matelski

A Wide Canvas

MasterMind Awards honor our eighth class of artistic entrepreneurs

On Saturday night, Westword introduced the eighth class of MasterMinds -- artistic entrepreneurs who are changing the cultural landscape. Since we started the program, we have given more than $130,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations. The latest winners (click on the link for profiles): M ... More >>

Westword's MasterMind Awards for 2012

On Saturday night, Westword introduced the eighth class of MasterMinds -- artistic entrepreneurs who are changing the cultural landscape. Since we started the program, we have given more than $130,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations. The latest winners (click on the link for profiles): M ... More >>

Bogeyman Art Show spooks around this October at Eric Matelski's MacSpa gallery

Last year, Denver artepreneur Eric Matelski put together a themed Halloween gallery show riffing off Ouija boards. This year, his ode to the witching hour mines a global collection of bogeyman stories, including a few new ones that sprouted from the twisted imaginations of an artist or two. The Boge ... More >>

The 16th Street Mall pianos return with fresh paint jobs and fresh inspiration

​During the summer, one of the coolest features of the 16th Street Mall downtown is the painted pianos, those randomly placed sets of 88 keys that anyone can just sit down and play for a while -- they're not the fanciest and they're not the best-sounding (temperature fluctuation and the elemen ... More >>

The Fine Art of Dining

​During the summer, one of the coolest features of the 16th Street Mall downtown is the painted pianos, those randomly placed sets of 88 keys that anyone can just sit down and play for a while -- they're not the fanciest and they're not the best-sounding (temperature fluctuation and the elemen ... More >>

Westword welcomes its seventh class of MasterMinds

​During the summer, one of the coolest features of the 16th Street Mall downtown is the painted pianos, those randomly placed sets of 88 keys that anyone can just sit down and play for a while -- they're not the fanciest and they're not the best-sounding (temperature fluctuation and the elemen ... More >>

Tonight: DADA and Dana Cain launch an Art Collectors Summit series

Mark Penner Howell, "ONE," acrylic, ink, and spray paint on three canvas panels.​ Dana Cain makes no secret of her blossoming identity as a collector of works by local artists, and is always looking for ways to share her fervor: Her latest, the Art Collectors Summit series, debuts this evening ... More >>

Denver Art Talk: April Hoy on costuming, Burning Man and the fine art of corset-making

​The newly rehatched Denver Art Talks, hosted by Eric Matelski, will hit the new year running by featuring designer/seamstress extraordinaire April Hoy as its first guest of 2011. Hoy has stitched her way through many behind-the-scenes professional layers: She's a stage costumer, a corset-mak ... More >>

Light up at the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show

​Eric Matelski is all about making art accessible to others, especially work by local and emerging artists, and the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Art Salon, isn't the first time he's taken this approach: reproduced art printed on the l ... More >>

Smooth Talking

​Eric Matelski is all about making art accessible to others, especially work by local and emerging artists, and the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Art Salon, isn't the first time he's taken this approach: reproduced art printed on the l ... More >>

Music in the Moment

​Eric Matelski is all about making art accessible to others, especially work by local and emerging artists, and the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Art Salon, isn't the first time he's taken this approach: reproduced art printed on the l ... More >>

Celebrate Artopia and Westword's newest MasterMinds

​Eric Matelski is all about making art accessible to others, especially work by local and emerging artists, and the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Art Salon, isn't the first time he's taken this approach: reproduced art printed on the l ... More >>

Today's featured event: Local artists swing the bats tonight at the All Star Baseball Art Show

Local artist Kyle Banister is all about baseball. Yep, he lives it, breathes it, reveres it and draws it. "There isn't an emotion that you will feel in life that you won't feel on a baseball field if you spend enough time there," Banister writes online -- and that's why, in the midst of the All-St ... More >>

Artists at Bat

Local artist Kyle Banister is all about baseball. Yep, he lives it, breathes it, reveres it and draws it. "There isn't an emotion that you will feel in life that you won't feel on a baseball field if you spend enough time there," Banister writes online -- and that's why, in the midst of the All-St ... More >>

Today's featured event: The First Monday Art Talk celebrates a birthday with veteran Denver artist Steve Altman

Local artist and supporter of the arts Eric Matelski started his First Monday Art Talk program three years ago, and since then, it's grown comfortably into itself: The monthly artist talk-cum-social gathering, which showcases a different local artist (or, like Matelski himself, a mover within the ... More >>

Totally Tubular

Local artist and supporter of the arts Eric Matelski started his First Monday Art Talk program three years ago, and since then, it's grown comfortably into itself: The monthly artist talk-cum-social gathering, which showcases a different local artist (or, like Matelski himself, a mover within the ... More >>

Today's Night & Day featured event: Joshua Hassel sheds a Ray of light at Dazzle

A true veteran of the Denver arts scene, Joshua Hassel's done time as a professional gallerist, curator, art historian and video producer/director. But every hat he's worn has hung on his reputation as an indefatigable local arts booster. When he isn't touting someone's works in a galler ... More >>

Say A Little Prayer

Prayer candles contain works of art at KAZE Gallery.

Art In Bloom

Eric Matelski brings the gallery outside.

Hip to Be Square

Eric Matelski brings the gallery outside.

Bolder Boulder

The Nitro Club is a gas.

Growing Concern

Old Matelski had a farm ...

The Last First

Old Matelski had a farm ...

Block Heads

Old Matelski had a farm ...

The Center Will Not Hold

Denver's on an artistic collision course this weekend.

Viva La Diversidad

The Denver School of the Arts is all about community