Cecily Cullen consistently brings beauty to the walls of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, which she directs, and routinely asks the hard questions lurking behind all that gob-smacking gorgeousness. That’s especially true of theCVA’s latest exhibition, Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, a photo-based show that…
MCA Denver’s Adam Lerner doesn’t simply direct the museum he’s led since 2009 — rather, he animates it, drawing artists and non-artists alike into the MCA with party-like openings and offbeat programs like Mixed Taste, a series pairing lectures on unrelated topics.
#35: Brian Comber Brooklyn native Brian Comber arrived in Denver in the 80s, where his budding skill as a printmaker in art school led him to Mark Lunning’s Open Press Ltd. studio facility. There, Comber continued to perfect his printmaking technique under Lunning’s wing, while also continuing to draw and…
#36: Ramón Bonilla Hailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ramón Bonilla is in his second year as a RedLine resident and part of the stable at Michael Warren Contemporary in the Art District on Santa Fe. As an artist, Bonilla repurposes techniques from the drafting and mapping sketchbook, reenvisioning the…
#37: BUMBAKiNi Lionel Bumbakini, aka BUMBAKiNi, brings a global view to the Denver art scene. Of Congolese descent, he boldly envisions the modern American experience from a black man’s perspective, in swaths of bright folk imagery inspired by Africa but also by current events and politics. As he prepares to…
Art of Storytelling brings cross-cultural voices to the mic at Prodigy Coffeehouse in Denver.
Sean Faling’s crosses lines between fine art and experimental music by recyling outdated electronics into noise-making art installations.
Dylan Gebbia-Richards’s skill as a freestyle skier and a yearning to be on the slopes brought him to Colorado from the East Coast, landing him at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he switched gears from other interests to pursue art.
As a curator, Daisy McGowan is interested in going beneath the surface of every work she places in a group exhibition.
Donald Fodness has been seeing double in the studio, from the looks of Duets, a series of drawings and bronze sculptures comprising his inaugural solo exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo.
#40: Cayce Goldberg A digital painter and Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design graduate, Cayce Goldberg switched gears to transform an old building owned by his family into Helikon, a RiNo district gallery/artist community. Now a gallerist and the heart and soul of Helikon (its name was inspired by…
Denver is a storyteller’s town. Ongoing programs like the Narrators, Raconteur Denver, the Denver Moth StorySLAM and Boulder’s Truth Be Told thrive in a niche that falls somewhere between standup comedy and performance art. But Denver transplant Laura Condi thinks there’s room for one more event. Her venture Storycraft differs from the…
Lynn Flanagan-Till will open Rosehouse, a plant store and apothecary, in the former Ironwood space on “Weirdo South Broadway” in Denver.
Daisy Patton culls images from found photographs. She blows them up, obscures them with paint and alters them with vivid colors.
Bronx-born nonagenarian Dorothy Tanner and her late husband Mel Tanner began building Plexiglas light sculptures in the hip ’60s.
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center moves in 2017 from RiNo to a larger space at 1070 Bannock Street in the Golden Triangle.
Leon Gallery has been a team effort since it opened on East 17th Avenue in 2011, but Westword MasterMind Eric Dallimore has served as its curatorial guiding light from the beginning. Working with others to create a gentle and public gallery space that not only takes artistic chances but gives…
When Alyson Two Eagles, a waitress, and then-partner Jeff Childress, an electrician, opened Ironwood on South Broadway in 2011, they were aiming to do something bigger with their lives. They called it a “things-we-love” store — and right from the beginning, it was: a curated cabinet of curiosities, a magical…
Stocking stuffers might be the best gifts of all. Not only are they affordable, but they’re often functional or just plain fun. And not only are they good to give, but since these are the items we usually don’t bother to buy for ourselves, it’s particularly nice to get one…
Seriously: It’s time to wrap up that holiday shopping and put a bow on it. But you can still get it done conscientiously, mindfully and locally, thanks to these last-chance markets showcasing Colorado makers, artisans and artists. We’ve wrapped up twelve holiday markets in metro Denver this weekend where you can snag great gifts for everyone on your list.
The idea first popped up years ago, when Evan Weissman of Warm Cookies of the Revolution was still a member of the close-knit and creative Buntport Theater crew. “We used to talk about building a giant Rube Goldberg machine that would stretch from Boulder to Denver or maybe just from…
#43: Raymundo Muñoz El Paso-born artist Raymundo Muñoz brings a can-do attitude to the Denver arts community, not only as a self-taught draftsman and block printer, but also in a series of interrelated roles: as co-curator at Alto Gallery, board president of the arts nonprofit Birdseed Collective, and editor of…
