Daniel Salazar and the whole team at Su Teatro work all year long to pull together a selection of films with Latino themes that also speak to strength in community for the group’s annual XicanIndie Film Fest. Evoking the sociopolitical mud that holds people together has always been a bottom-line…
Photographer, animal lover, collector, Denver Punk Scene archivist, caregiver and person of the world, Jill Mustoffa favors shots of neon signs and runaway grocery carts from behind the lens and is handy with tools as a home-restoration whiz.
As new businesses continue to roll out at the Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, the little town of curated retail, restaurants and services under one roof, looks more than promising.
Lonnie Allen found his comic-art stride as a high-schooler dabbling in zines and mini-comics, eventually coming up through the ranks in the local comix scene, where he’s long been a regular among Denver’s close-knit cartooning community.
Partners in life and in their business Extra Vitamins, artists Julia Belamarich and Kyle Warfield met while working at analog-design master Rick Griffith’s Matter Studio, learning the ropes and taking some cues from Griffith’s graphics-cool marketing model.
Assetou Xango’s poetic voice is queer, black and female, and almost by requirement, a clarion for activism.
Ancient Rome left us mounds of olive-oil pots, says artist Dmitri Obergfell, and now we manufacture hundreds of thousands of aluminum cans that are buried in dumps, waiting to be discovered again as artifacts in some future millennium. Obergfell riffs off this and other ideas, through visual markers from antiquity and the use of symbolically loaded modern materials for Man is a Bubble and Time is a Place, a solo show opening March 23 at Gildar Gallery.
#26: Jim Milmoe Just weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday, Golden photographer Jim Milmoe is deservedly basking in the 2017 Month of Photography limelight with two shows of his work running concurrently at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and Pattern Shop Studio. It’s a fitting topper to a…
#27: Confidence Omenai Arriving in Denver from Tulsa just a few years ago, Confidence Omenai brought years of hands-on experience to the local performance-poetry scene as a slam poet, author, teacher and activist. She quickly rose among the ranks of Slam Nuba, serving both as a member of the national…
We’ve already given you some MoP 2017 viewing pointers in our must-see list of photography shows popping up all over the metro area, but a quick check-in at the MoP website reveals a much wider scope of what seems like an endless stream of exhibitions. Never fear: Now, we’ve broken…
The average age of the model-train enthusiast is typically over fifty. He’s part of a legion, mainly male, of WWII-era kids and early boomers whose childhood dream it was to unwrap a Lionel train set on Christmas morning. Some of them never abandoned that dream, and even after realizing it,…
The 2017 edition of Denver’s biennial Month of Photography is a lot to swallow in a month — a good reason why MoP show openings are usually spread out over several weeks. But don’t be daunted. There’s so much worth seeing in this community-wide effort, which this year loosely circles…
#28: Ken Hamel A tech worker by day, Ken Hamel is best known around Denver as one of our art community’s biggest fans and documentarians. Online, his singlehanded arts resource, denverarts.org, keeps readers apprised weekly of gallery openings, calls for entry and other art-related events, while out in the field,…
#29: Jacqueline Webster Jacqueline Webster is a photographer’s photographer, putting in time in her own studio, but also teaching out-of-the-ordinary techniques to new generations at the Art Students League of Denver and working to bolster the art of the camera as a cheerleader and veteran volunteer. You might not see…
#30: Corky Scholl A visual storyteller as a television-news photojournalist, Corky Scholl further spreads his enthusiasm for the authentic, human side of life as the keeper of Save the Signs, a Facebook page and a movement dedicated to documenting disappearing urban neon signage in Denver and across the nation. Scholl’s fascination…
#31: Sally Stockhold Photographer Sally Stockhold doesn’t just shoot pictures: She’s a set designer, costumer, historian, actress and, sometimes, her own subject, caught in the act of living her own wildest dreams and impersonating famous artists and pop figures. A New Yorker who had a successful career as a commercial…
Meridith Grundei, who came to Colorado ten years ago after excelling in the Chicago improv community, stays busy in many roles, both as an actor and as a theater professional.
Herbalist Lynn Flanagan-Till is a natural caregiver, whether it’s her pets, plants or children that thrive under her watchful eye. The mother of three, with a fourth on the way, and keeper of a home menagerie of house pets also has a natural affinity for plants and their healing properties…
Billy Riesing, aka “Ghost Lenz” when he’s wearing his photographer’s hat, tells hard-edged stories from a camera’s eye view.
Stephanie Shearer, owner of new boutique Trunk Nouveau at Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, says Stanley is like no other retail space in the region.
Even Roger Gastman agrees: He’s the foremost authority on graffiti in America. But unlike your usual scholar, who stitches together history through books and research, Gastman knows because he’s lived it, beginning in the street and, later, as an urban anthropologist documenting it in print, through photography and on film…
A relative newcomer to the Denver photography community, Kia Neill hasn’t wasted any time making her mark on the region, as an artist, a teacher on several platforms, a curator, a museum resident and even an expert snowboarder.
