The Best Holiday Markets in Denver in December

If you’re having a hard time girding for holiday shopping this year, you’re not alone. The weather’s been weird and so are the politics, and it’s hard to turn your thoughts to trimming the tree and filling the space beneath it when nothing feels quite right. Here’s a secret…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Ron Doyle

#44: Ron Doyle For a guy who’s built a freelance business at home, Ron Doyle still spreads himself around town, whether he’s co-hosting and producing the Denver wing of The Narrators, a live show and podcast for which local creatives weave personal stories around a monthly theme, or pulling strings…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Josie Quick

#45: Josie Quick Violinist Josie Quick is the penultimate laid-back career musician, though she’s always busy, whether she’s teaching, serenading a romantic wedding proposal, jamming with herself via looping or laying down tracks in the studio with Perpetual Motion, a jazz duo with her guitarist husband, Tom Carleno, and Coyote…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Clark Richert

#46 Clark Richert Artist Clark Richert’s fascinating history began with a stint at the Drop City commune near Trinidad in the late 1960s, where his interest in the theories of Buckminster Fuller played out in the formation of geodesic domes and, eventually, in the direction of his painting style, an…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Anthony Buchanan

#47: Anthony Buchanan An experimental filmmaker and film scholar in his own right, Anthony Buchanan also hosts the ongoing Cinema Contra microcinema, a celebration of little-seen work by local and national media artists that pops up at different venues around town. Westword caught up with Buchanan to discuss the future of…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Victoria Lundy

#48: Victoria Lundy Longtime Denver experimental musician Victoria Lundy conjures sounds out of the theremin, that weird, hands-off electronic device best known for spookifying mid-century sci-fi soundtracks and lending its spacey energy to 1966 Beach Boys tour de force “Good Vibrations.” A nerd-rocker, ambient composer and founding member of the…

George Rivera on the Artnauts and Finding Common Ground Through Art

Cold-calling exhibition venues isn’t usually part of a curator’s job when creating an art show, but that’s exactly what University of Colorado Boulder art professor George Rivera did when he jumped departments in the ’90s after twenty years of teaching sociology. It started with his idea of shaking things up…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Bonnie Ferrill Roman

#49: Bonnie Ferrill Roman Colorado papermaker and mixed-media sculptor Bonnie Ferrill Roman creates airy, medium-melding installations that connect the dots from the realm of well-crafted fiber art to the frontier of art about ideas and personal issues. A longtime educator dedicated to sharing techniques and foundational know-how with young art…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Theresa Mercado

#50: Theresa Mercado Professional film buff, horror aficionado and admitted “murderphile” Theresa Mercado is so immersed in her work programming the Sie FilmCenter’s scare-tastic Scream Screen film series that she’s apt to introduce her picks to the audience while in full character costume — something you don’t see every day…

Denver Arts Week: Mile High Culture and Where to Find It

The best thing about Denver Arts Week? It amplifies what we have here all year along, and especially in mid-fall, when local culture is completely up and running for a bright new season. From November 4 through 12, it’s the best chance you’ll have this year to explore what’s happening…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Phaedra High 11/3

#51: Phaedra High Phaedra High — Denver entrepreneur, event-thrower, maker and advocate for natural hair and beauty care — calls herself a “nerd with her head in the clouds,” but that doesn’t mean she’s not getting things done. A primary hand in producing the Denver Natural Hair Care Expo for…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Sarah Fukami

#52: Sarah Fukami Colorado born and bred, printmaker and current RedLine resident Sarah Fukami creates work that’s deeply rooted in her Japanese family’s internment during WWII and issues around her cultural heritage. Fukami layers her mixed-media historical references on Plexiglas panels, relating stories of figures both notable and anonymous, bringing…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Daniel Crosier

#53: Daniel Crosier Since graduating from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2000, under the tutelage of sculptor Chuck Parsons, Daniel Crosier has put his hands in plenty of new projects: He’s been a neo-kabuki performance artist with his group OFM: OdAm fEI mUd, transformed wood-burned illustrations…

Pay Homage to the Dead With Danette Montoya at the Denver Art Museum

When you step out of the elevator on Level Four of the Denver Art Museum’s North Building over the next few weeks, you’ll see a colorful Quetzalcoatl flying above the lobby, letting loose two trails of Monarch butterflies into the pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial galleries. They’re part of Las Almas…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Frankie Toan

#54: Frankie ToanA relative newcomer to Denver, artist Frankie Toan is already well-embedded in the city’s under-the-radar art communities. A former PlatteForum resident and a current second-year resident at RedLine, Toan creates work that’s rooted in craft and heavy on message, confronting viewers with alternative social realities, urging them to throw…