Judy Anderson

100 Colorado Creatives: Judy Anderson

#85: Judy Anderson When Judy Anderson founded PlatteForum a decade ago, it was a good idea. Over the years, with the help of an enthusiastic team, it's morphed into a great idea -- a well-oiled machine that molds a rare product: Kids pumped up on creativity. The basic idea behind the nonprofit -- ... More >>

Sitting pretty? PlatteForum seeks funky chairs

Another year, another residency -- it's business as usual at PlatteForum, the award-winning nonprofit that pairs struggling kids with resident artist/mentors to create something communal and beautiful. The latest resident, installation artist Jessica Kruetter, has been working with ArtLab students f ... More >>

Eyes on the prize: Michelle Obama honors PlatteForum

​ Ain't it beautiful? That's Judy Anderson and Salvador Flores-Martinez of Denver's PlatteForum accepting the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from Michelle Obama yesterday at the White House. Their voyage to Washington also marked Sal's first-ever jet flight and an ensuin ... More >>

PlatteForum's got a secret. Here's how to learn more.

​PlatteForum has some big news to share with you. Problem is, the folks behind the Central Platte Valley nonprofit that pairs artist mentors with at-risk youth in collaboration with partnering youth programs can't talk about it. Not yet. Let's just say it involves a major honor, some money and ... More >>

Secret no more: PlatteForum receives award from Michelle Obama in Washington, D.C.

​ Salvador Flores-Martinez​The cat's now out of the bag: Earlier today, PlatteForum founder and artistic director Judy Anderson, education director Meagan Terry and nineteen-year-old student representative Salvador Flores-Martinez were honored at the White House by First Lady Michelle O ... More >>

Poetry in Motion

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, March 25-27, 2011

​We're not entirely sure what happened to Denver's usual March storm, but since it seems to have forgotten us this year, we're going to celebrate the only way we know how: on the cheap. Since we spent most of our money stockpiling canned goods for the annual snow-in, we're out of cash, but tha ... More >>

Book of Life

Superhero Dreams

PlatteForum gets a sizable grant to study graffiti

​It's a common complaint about art: "I don't get it." The French theorist Nicolas Bourriaud explored that idea back in 1996 -- how art can often be so removed from the everyday human experience, cordoned off in museums and behind velvet ropes, that it becomes something obscure, something elite ... More >>

Kids These Days

PROCESS MAKES PERFECT

Teen Scenes

Sale Away

Riverfront neighbors pitch in for PlatteForum.

Art in Motion

Homare Ikeda shows kids the way at PlatteForum.

Feats of Clay

Denver ArtsWeek: Art finds you at the Platte Forum

A sculpture by Li Hardison. For months, I'd been hearing about a community museum on Little Raven Street by the Millennium Bridge that my friend, Jamie Kopke, was helping to start. The idea was a temporary museum that would host art created by the community. Last weekend, as part of Denver Arts ... More >>

Stitches in Time

Silver Scenes

Tar Power

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Sketches

Brief reviews of current shows

Susan Goldstein: Coming Home and Judy Anderson: Going Home

The Singer Gallery scores again with this set of solos.

Dream Boost

ArtLab helps lift kids into orbit.

Role Reversals

CHAC's New World My Eye offers a new Chicano perspective

Building Bridges

PlatteForum finds a way to reach inner-city kids through art.