Jimmy Sellars

Francis Roces on KimonoDragons, the thrill of the runway and needle-and-thread inspirations

Editor's note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver's Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart Charlie Boots will be reporting from the real world v ... More >>

100 Colorado Creatives: Charlie Boots

#68: Charlie Boots Who is Charlie Boots? Yesterday you might not have known his name, but today Boots (aka Aaron Mulligan) is ready for his closeup. The young artist will make his public debut this weekend as the first-ever visual-arts fellow of the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Program at P ... More >>

Facebook portraits of artists: A local gallery

One reason we return to Facebook again and again is to look at the pictures --and to share them, too. But when artists join in that endlessly unfolding online scrapbook, things really start to get interesting. Following are some of our favorite FB portraits of Colorado artists. See also: - Denver T ... More >>

Powerhaus Studio announces its PAIR artist-in-residence program for artists and designers

What do Westword MasterMinds do once they've been so designated? Sometimes, maybe even often, they find ways to spread it around and pay it forward, by offering opportunities to young artists and designers just coming up. And that's exactly what the three dedicated MasterMinds who comprise Powerhaü ... More >>

Get ready for the 2013 MasterMinds

Denver is full of aesthetic adventurers and artists who are changing the cultural landscape. They're among Denver's greatest assets, the reason this city attracted more of the desirable 25-to-34-year-old demo than any other area in recent years. They're Colorado's creative capital.

100 Colorado Creatives: Couture staple and Westword Whiteout designer Mona Lucero

#95 Mona Lucero For two decades, Mona Lucero has been making her mark on the Denver fashion scene with innovative design and a constant stream of new work. A former independent shop owner -- her store closed in late 2012 after a ten-year run -- the Westword MasterMind puts just as much effort into u ... More >>

Powerhaüs Studios is ready for its closeup, and its first First-Friday open house

It's more than a little eponymous when three Westword MasterMinds decide to share a studio, but that's just what's happened: Fine artists Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and Jimmy Sellars and fashion designer Mona Lucero, all in a state of career flux, have thrown their fortunes together at Powerhaüs Studios, ... More >>

MasterMinds: Calling all creative geniuses!

Nine years ago, Westword introduced the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries -- artists and organizations alike, in the very broad areas of multimedi ... More >>

Now Showing: A Westword guide to the arts in Denver

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

New perspectives from old favorites: Another Way to Go: 6 Artists, 12 Directions

To become well-known, artists usually have to find a niche. Once they become popular for their body of work within that forte, other projects are often over-shadowed. Guest curator for Vertigo Art Space, Mike McClung, is interested in defining popular Denver artists outside of their most-known work. ... More >>

Meet the MasterMinds -- and help us pick the next creative class

Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, eight years ago Westword created a program to honor the visionaries -- artists and organizations alike -- who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And we decided to not just honor th ... More >>

Reader: If the arts come together, we can move a Fourteener!

​Yesterday, Show and Tell asked readers to weigh in on the nine questions on the table for three creative artists/entrepreneurs -- Lonnie Hanzon, Jimmy Sellars, and Marie Gibbons -- on the panel for last night's EatART panel at Fresh City Life. I was the moderator, and the conversation turned ... More >>

EatArt tonight: Chew over what it will take to make the arts thrive, not just survive

​Where are the arts going? Where should they go? And in this economic climate, are they going anywhere at all? Tonight, three of Colorado's most creative types -- Lonnie Hanzon (of the Museum of Outdoor Arts), sculptor Marie EvB Gibbons, and Westword MasterMind Jimmy Sellars -- will chew over ... More >>

Let’s Talk About Art

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Catch three sharp shows at Spark Gallery

Hop to It

Studio Life

Westword welcomes its seventh class of MasterMinds

MasterMinds are changing the artistic landscape of Denver -- including new winners for 2011

Fallene Weels.​Denver is full of aesthetic entrepreneurs, artists and organizations that are changing the landscape of this city. Some of their efforts are so underground, though, that they'd have miles to go just to reach the grassroots.

Faces in the Crowd

THINGS OF BEAUTY

Kids Helping Kids

Three important Biennial art exhibits bring the Western world to Denver

Child’s Play

Holiday Shift

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Capsule reviews of current exhibits

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Capsule reviews of current exhibits

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Capsule reviews of current exhibits

Three photo shows remind us what art is

Meet the MasterMind Class of 2009

Meet the MasterMinds: Year 3

Mark MangerJimmy Sellars, master of the G.I. Joe doll, won the 2007 MasterMind for visual arts. By the time we chose our third class of MasterMinds, we were beginning to feel like Ed McMahon. People were catching on to our sneaky fact-checking phone calls in February, wondering if they were about t ... More >>

The F-Stop’s Here

International photographers focus on Denver all month.

Piece Project

Fringe Festival

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Residual Memory

Jimmy Sellars and Marie E.v.B. Gibbons make a perfect, if unlikely, pairing at the Arvada Center.

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

(New) Disasters of War

Simon Zalkind presents a timely group show based on Goya’s work.

2007 MasterMind Awards

Reproductive Freedom

Kick your cabin fever with this quartet of photo shows.

New Work by Jimmy Sellars

Weilworks

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.