“Some women spend money on shoes,” notes Denver event maestra Dana Cain. “I’ve been wearing the same Nikes for five years, and I’ve diverted all that shoe money into art. My house looks fabulous, and I’m comfortable!” Cain is just one of several art patrons whose acquisitions will be showcased…
Even if you thought Left Hand Brewing’s Hops & Handrails multi-brewery beer fest and snowboard competition couldn’t possibly top itself, the event’s going bigger than ever this year, says Left Hand event coordinator Josh Goldberg, by upping the number of regional suds vendors from 24 to 37, making its signature…
Improv meets art tonight at Epic Brewing’s Draw Off, where five teams of local comic artists — Denver Drink & Draw, Squid Works, DEAD Academy, Red Team Go! and Team Wildcard (consisting of last-minute competitors from the audience) — will compete in a live drawing competition on themes suggested by…
One month into its three-month stay in Denver, Monkey Town 4 — the fine-dining experience in a video cube brought here by returning hometown kid Montgomery Knott, who fine-tuned the concept for several years in Brooklyn — is generating a buzz as more and more people suspend reality for two…
#96: Peter Strange Yumi Collage artist, musician and videographer Peter Yumi spends a lot of time in the studio, where he creates ever-changing works from scraps and borrowed images and swatches of paint. Lately, they’ve begun to spill out of the frame into three-dimensional forms. For Yumi, it’s all about…
The Month of Printmaking, aka Mo’Print 2014, continues this weekend with a variety of events, including tonight’s opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at Niza Knoll Gallery for Printmakers 4. The exhibit features works representing the diversity of printmaking techniques — from woodcut and monoprint to intaglio and even…
#97: Evan Mann Artist Evan Mann’s sculptural work seems to grow naturally, in an all-white world of amorphous and organic shapes. Even his drawings appear to have begun in one corner and spread across a surface like snowmelt or multiplying cells, growing an idea. When he throws these shapes into…
The Denver Avant-Garde Music Society has been hosting monthly open-call solo and duet performance nights for about a year now, says event organizer Kurt Bauer of Bangsnap Records, and attendees never know exactly what they’re going to get. For some performers, the nights represent a chance to try something new…
There’s a new food fest in town, and promoter Cat Kirk says A Bite of the Rockies will fill in the holes that some of the bigger events ignore — starting with its timing. “I’m a festival junkie,” Kirk admits. “I love Taste of Colorado and Cinco de Mayo, but…
In our city of wheels — cars, bikes, scooters, ’blades and skateboards — going for a walk has almost become an oddity. But the Colorado-owned business Walk2Connect works to remedy that situation by inviting people to just slow down. Part of the program is a series of community walks and…
This year’s Big Read was turned over by the city to Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Denver’s writing school and unofficial community center, and to the organization’s credit, they’re doing a bang-up job of sharing the book selection — Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel, Housekeeping — with the book-loving public. As part of…
It’s not far off the mark to call artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy a force of nature, as many of her recent works grow out of a symbiosis with the natural world. And that’s what her new show, Nest/Shed, opening Friday at Mai Wyn Fine Art, is all about. Here’s a…
#98: Rian Kerrane Galway girl Rian Kerrane came to Colorado in 2002 to teach sculpture at the University of Colorado Denver, but her installations in mixed media and cast iron have an international reach, from the galleries of RedLine and Edge to others in her home country of Ireland. Perfectly…
#99: Eve Orenstein New Jersey-born mezzo soprano Eve Orenstein was born into alternative culture: Her mother is a composer and her father an artist and designer who’s known for creating the first inflatable furniture back in the ’60s. But her own cultural love in life turned out to be opera,…
Editor’s note: As our first 100 Colorado Creatives series came to a close on the eve of Westword’s Artopia last month, it became painfully obvious that our work was far from finished. We feel lucky to live and work in a place where the number of creative people is ever-growing,…
Last year galleries across town gave over all of March to the Month of Photography, a biennial showcase of camera-work from not just around the region but around the globe. This year it’s Month of Printmaking’s turn, loosely tied together by Marina Graves’s arts organization without walls, the Invisible Museum…
Charlie Miller and Emily Tarquin of Off-Center @ The Jones know well the value of storytelling — and of touching people’s hearts and making them cry or laugh out loud through shared experiences. But their idea of pairing naked stories with such unlikely elements as aerial dancers, puppeteers, actors, music…
Artists Theresa Anderson and Rebecca Vaughan have only collaborated on installations in the past couple of years, but the bond they’ve created as women and artists is a powerful one, though they both approach their work in different ways and eventually end up “entangling our artworks with conversations,” as Anderson…
Conrad Kehn’s Playground Ensemble, known for sharing difficult music from a modern age, is reaching back into the twentieth century canon of contemporary music to present twelve-tone composer Arnold Shoenberg’s dark yet whimsical song cycle Pierrot Lunaire for tomorrow’s Classical Night at Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge. But Playground will further…
In a showing of neighborly solidarity, the Denver Art Museum turned to Dean Sobel of the Clyfford Still Museum to bring rare, twentieth-century riches from Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery to Denver. The resulting exhibit, Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons From the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, is the kind of show that…
David Kammerzell put aside his past career as a commercial artist and award-winning media designer at Starz Encore to return to his first love as a painter of retro-laced canvases inspired by the romance and graphics of another time. He calls them an “homage to commercial artists and art and…
How a gamelan orchestra — a traditional Indonesian ensemble of metallophones, drums, gongs and flute — even ended up forming 25 years ago in Colorado is just part of the story of Gamelan Tunas Mekar, which remarkably hit its silver anniversary last fall. Ensemble member Dane Terry, who’s been there…
