The beauty of digital animation as an artform is its portability: It’s a case of have screen, will travel, as Ivar Zeile’s Denver Digerati has shown over several seasons of Friday Flash summer programs featuring motion-based video media on the Denver Theatre District’s giant LED screen at 14th and Champa…
This week on Denver stages, you can experience the lives of a couple in love and trapped in an asylum, a chatty family at a birthday dinner, or four men in the muddled-up, comic world of a group home. Here’s where to snatch up tickets. Germinal Stage, Echoes 73rd Avenue…
This week on Denver stages, you can find everything from tongue-in-cheek local color to a play about origami in which love and life fold up into the plot. Or don your best chapeau to help ensure that women playwrights continue to be heard in the Mile High City. Here’s the…
#81: Louise Martorano When original RedLine director P.J. D’Amico stepped down, veteran deputy Louise Martorano was there to take the reins, assuring that the art center’s mission of supporting artists while engaging all sectors of the community would continue to evolve and grow. Mission accomplished: All systems are go as…
This weekend, world-class modern sculpture lands at the Denver Botanic Gardens, while local co-op artists team up for engaging shows in the neighborhoods. Keep reading for the details. Stories in Sculpture: Selections from the Walker Art Center Collection Denver Botanic Gardens April 29 through October 2 The Denver Botanic Gardens…
To call Colorado Springs artist Sean O’Meallie’s work playful is an understatement — his brightly colored wooden sculptures are toys wittily transformed into fine art and dimensional cartoons. O’Meallie’s affinity for toys led to an early career as a toy inventor in New York; now he’s a full-time artist, channeling…
Ladies first: Three local productions opening this week in Denver feature great women’s words and roles, showcasing a prize-winning contemporary playwright, the noir drama of Norma Desmond’s fall from the spotlight and the influence of literary light Jane Austen. Here’s where to here them roar: And Toto too Theatre Company,…
Since stepping in to take over the citywide Doors Open Denver in 2014, the Denver Architectural Foundation has taken great strides toward growing the event and making it more accessible to a diverse audience. This year, the programming will include architecture-inspired urban arts and cultural events bankrolled by the Bonfils-Stanton…
Everyone loves a train ride, especially when it’s free, but this weekend’s debut of Denver’s new University of Colorado A Line to Denver International Airport offers more than an all-aboard moment. Opening-weekend free rides on the Train to the Plane begin today, April 22, from noon to midnight and continue…
#83: Roseanna Frechette Roseanna Frechette dons more hats than she has fingers to count them on: Writer, poet, publisher, dancer, creative youth programs director and yoga instructor are just a few of the titles she wears with aplomb. Then there are her efforts on behalf of bohemian Denver — as…
In its sixth year, the Denver County Fair is still full of surprises — and this week’s 2016 poster reveal offers another one. The latest masterpiece from fair poster artist and Denver painter Mark Penner Howell is all about politics, with an emphasis on the fair’s newest addition: the Political…
#84: Curtis Tucker Trained in graphic design, Curtis Tucker is one of those staunch DIY guys. He’s worked as a middleman in the underground zine industry as a traveling vendor; through his online venture Far Out Zines, he’s distributed micro-press and handmade publications, including his own. As a ground-floor gallery…
National Poetry Month brings big poetic voices — Paul Muldoon and Douglas Kearney — to Denver this week, and on the geek front, Felicia Day hits the Tattered Cover with her nerd-tastic memoir. Take your pick: An Evening With Poet Paul Muldoon Tivoli Brewing Company 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21…
#85: Corrina Espinosa “I came up from a hard-knock North Denver life, but I’ve never had a shortage on dreams or haikus!” That’s the long and the short of how artist Corrina Espinosa, an expansive lover of life, introduces herself. Now working toward fulfilling those dreams as an MFA candidate…
#86: Jaime Carrejo Fine artist, mentor to students at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and former RedLine resident Jaime Carrejo grew up in the borderlands of El Paso, a region — and state of mind — that he still explores explores conceptually in interdisciplinary work that’s been exhibited…
This week on the Denver literary scene, you can get up close and personal with a world-class journalist and champion of the West, a writer whose work is infused with Zen philosophy, or a sci-fi author who appeals to video-gaming lifers. Grab your joystick— or your intellect — and check…
Rising stars and established mentors in the regional arts world will be on display this weekend at local galleries, and if you’re into tattoos — and who isn’t? — there’s a show for that, too. Theresa Anderson and Dayana Ruiz: Plus Two Dateline Gallery and Phillip J. Steele Gallery April…
The performing arts get eclectic this weekend around Denver with a b-girl jam, a one-man tour de force that’s also a birthday celebration, and a smorgasbord of Asian-American arts. All are don’t-miss events; here are the details: Queenz of Hip-Hop Seventh Annual Jam Performance by Cypher Adikts The B-Boy Factory,…
#87: Tya Anthony A photographer first, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design grad Tya Anthony widens the boundaries of her craft through adventures in mixed-media collage, installation and performance with cultural roots, while also focusing on faces and social movements through portraiture and documentation. What’s on Tya Anthony’s horizon?…
New art is blooming all over town, so don’t be an April fool — get out and celebrate the season and support your local artists. ImPressed The Art Gym Now through April 21 Art Gym shows some Mo’Print mojo in April with ImPressed, a national printmaking show juried by the…
Contemporary collaborations, bittersweet comedies and big musicals all turn up this week on local stages. Here’s where to find them. 3rd Law Dance/Theater, The Elision Project Dairy Arts Center 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2 4 p.m. Sunday, April 3 Tickets: $20 to $25 303-444-7328 Computers, voice,…
#88: Rebecca Hart Rebecca Hart joined the Denver Art Museum last August as the new Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, after ten years in a similar position at the Detroit Institute of the Arts. Her first official show at the DAM, Audacious, opened earlier this…
