100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Andrew Huffman

#55: Andrew Huffman Incoming RedLine resident artist Andrew Huffman hails from Kansas, bringing with him an up-to-the-minute artist’s eye view and an arsenal of mediums, from wall projections to photographs altered through painting and drawing. Get to know Huffman as he speeds through the visual universe, via his answers to…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Ana Maria Hernando

#56: Ana Maria Hernando Artist Ana Maria Hernando comes to Boulder by way of Buenos Aires, Argentina, bringing with her a deep respect for the handiwork of Latin American women, which she often incorporates into feminine fiber installations evoking cultural traditions of collaboration and celebration. Painting, drawing and printmaking all…

Galleries: MCA Fall Shows, Jared David Paul Anderson and Travis Hetman

This weekend the reopened Museum of Contemporary Art Denver segues into fall with three big shows, while the galleries at Leon and Super Ordinary shine on with a couple of sweet solos. Kim Dickey: Words Are Leaves Nathan Carter: Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet the Dramastics Bodacioussss MCA Denver October 8…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Kendra Fleischman

#57: Kendra Fleischman Over her thirty-year career as an artist, Colorado native Kendra Fleischman has crossed a bridge or two, connecting a traditional sculpture practice in stone and bronze with the digital world of new media. On the large-scale side, you can find her monumental public sculptures installed throughout the…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Laura Krudener

#58: Laura Krudener Artist Laura Krudener modernizes color-field painting, blending it with the theater of action painting as she pours, drips and layers acrylic paint across large canvases. But Krudener is no one-trick pony. With her Among the Colors platform, she goes with a different kind of flow, sharing an entrepreneurial…

Five Literary Events in Denver October 3-9

Meet a lauded graphic novelist or a Colorado-style sci-fi genius, hobnob with Nicholas Sparks, take part in a big-city writing project or chill with Latino poets. It’s all in a week’s work on the local word scene. Gene Luen Yang, Secret Coders Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue 6 p.m. Monday, October…

Arts: HOVAB at BMoCA, a Lakewood Art Walk and Street Art Under the Viaduct

This weekend you can go outside, both literally and figuratively, at a grand landscape-based exhibit by Boulder artists, on an art walk through an historic Lakewood neighborhood or on a different walk through the grittiest of locales — under the I-70 viaduct.  Evolving Visions of Land and Landscape Boulder Museum…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Ashley Frazier

#59: Ashley Frazier Ashley Frazier is all RedLine, all the time, continuing in her role as the art venue’s events manager while, as an artist, embarking on a two-residency there this fall. In her own work, she evokes the ephemeral passage of time, using such unusual mediums as human hair…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Dustin Young

#60: Dustin Young Dustin Young is a master draftsman of the dreamy side of real life, depicting the imprint of found imagery in a shower of mist and perceived memory. A native Minnesotan off an academic trail that led him from New York to Boston to Lincoln, Nebraska, Young now…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Megan Gafford

#61: Megan Gafford Incoming RedLine resident Megan Gafford conducts experiments with artful outcomes, mining science for haunting imagery and space to closely consider things we fear or don’t understand. A recent MFA graduate at the University of Colorado Boulder, Gafford asks big questions and does the groundwork to find the…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Stephanie Kantor

#62: Stephanie Kantor Ceramics are the foundation of incoming RedLine resident artist Stephanie Kantor’s magical carpet ride through a history of the decorative arts, which she references in culture-crossing installations. A Pennsylvania native who landed at the University of Colorado Boulder as an MFA candidate, Kantor is a Black Cube…

Lit Calendar: Marisa Silver, Women Behaving Badly and Plenty of Poetry

Fairy tales and poetry transform the literary landscape in Denver this week. Here’s where to get a piece of the magic. Marisa Silver, Little Nothing Tattered Cover Aspen Grove 7 p.m. Thursday, September 22 Free If you favor twisted fairy tales and stories of magical transformation, some of them not…

Galleries: Five New Shows in Denver September 16-18

This Third Friday brings new exhibits all over metro Denver, at co-ops and commercial galleries alike. Here are five of the most promising: No Go Home Gildar Gallery September 16 through October 15 Opening reception: 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, September 16 Adam Gildar’s respected Broadway gallery returns from a…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Peter Mortimer

#63: Peter Mortimer Boulder filmmaker, entrepreneur and adventurer Peter Mortimer brings the mountains to the screen with Sender Films, the production company he founded that specializes in breathtaking mountaineering docs. In the Colorado spirit, Mortimer then diversified to co-found the REEL ROCK Film Tour with Big Up Productions, now in its…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Lea Marlene

#64: Lea Marlene After college, native Coloradan Lea Marlene left for Hollywood, where she excelled at standup comedy, studied Meisner Technique acting, and earned certification as a yoga instructor — all while developing her chops as a director, producer and writer. Marlene returned to Denver with that rare set of…

Galleries: Fall Shows and Events at Havu, RedLine, Pattern Shop and Leon

Kick-start your Labor Day weekend and roll into September with visits to Denver galleries on First Friday and throughout the month. Here’s a peep at what’s new this weekend. Emilio Lobato and Virgil Ortiz: Evolution William Havu Gallery Through October 8Emilio Lobato and Virgil Ortiz show side-by-side — and in…