Pipedream’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit Pulls Free Speech Out of a Hat

It’s hard to write about a play that’s so secret that even the actors haven’t seen the script until the lights go up onstage, but we thought we’d give a try, because Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit seems to be worth the trouble. Censored and unable to leave his native country, Soleimanpour managed to send the script of his one-actor play out into the free world beyond Iran’s borders, where it’s graced numerous international stages since 2011, including a nine-month run last year in New York at the Westside Theatre,

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Hillary Leftwich

A working single mother, published writer on the move and candidate in Regis University’s low-residency Mile High Creative Writing MFA program, Hillary Leftwich gives back to her immediate literary community equally as much as she is a part of it: A frequent participant in local reading events,

Somebody Stole Artist Kristin Stransky’s Artworks. She Wants to Know Who

Denver new media-artist Kristin Stransky’s FabLink 3-D-printed dress required ten pounds of nylon fiber, more than 800 hours of 3-D printing time, and 150 to 200 hours of assembly and fabrication time to make. The dress was assembled from hundreds of tiny links, each link hooked to the others by twelve even tinier rings. Stransky says it takes twenty to thirty hours to print every fifty links and an hour to print fifty rings.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Sigri Strand

A photographer and former member at Pirate: Contemporary Art, community-builder Sigri Strand is now throwing her energy in to launching Arthyve, a new crowd-sourced arts archive, in collaboration with archivist Jessie de la Cruz.

Sean O’Meallie on Carving Guns, Toys and Assholes

Longtime Colorado Springs sculptor and installationist Sean O’Meallie spent ten years in the ’80s and ’90s pitching gizmos and pull toys as a toy inventor, commuting to toy fairs in Manhattan with storyboards in hand. He and his New York-based business partner “never scored it big,” he says, but he did take something valuable away from the experience.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Jessie de la Cruz

Jessie de la Cruz is a schooled archivist, and she plies that rarest of trades professionally at the Clyfford Still Museum, where she keeps the institution’s vast archives, library and digital collection shipshape.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Natascha Seideneck

German-born and raised in England, Natascha Seideneck now lives and works in Denver, leading concurrent lives as a fine-art photographer at Tank Studios, a teacher at Metropolitan State College of Denver and, in the local fashion world, as a sought-after hair stylist at El Salon.

Five Arty Things to Do This Weekend in Denver

Enjoy the summer evenings and celebrate art at district-wide Final Friday artwalks and parties in Denver — or just go out and discover a rising young star or two. These five art openings are where it’s at this weekend.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Lewis Neeff

Photographer, sculptor and writer Lewis Neeff isn’t just interested in people as subjects sitting across the void that often gapes between the camera and its objective. Rather, he reaches out to them, inviting them to participate in the process of telling a complete story, all in living color.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn landed in Denver after ten years in the Navy, where, between drills, he was bitten by the lit bug and decided to become a writer. That led him to study creative writing at the University of Denver, and he’s now the author of an acclaimed small-press novel, Potted Meat, with more on the way.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Sharon Meriash

Longtime Denver botanical photographer, curator and Girl Friday at William Havu Gallery Sharon Meriash’s current work starts with her floral photo imagery, which she then etches and cuts into Plexiglas shapes using a laser and spins into layers for a translucent 3-D effect

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Jonathan Saiz

Artist Jonathan Saiz’s mystical aesthetic has already been put to use successfully in a tarot deck called The Fountain Tarot and seen in Juxtapoz, Vogue and Elle Decor; in the present it’s morphing almost daily as Saiz works his way through So Wrong It’s So Right, a gallery experiment for which he’s creating new works daily in the confines of Leon Gallery.