You might think of it as a New Mexican Christmas pageant, but the tradition from which Luis Valdez’s adaptation of La Pastorela comes goes back centuries, all the way from Europe to Mexico to New Mexico to the San Luis Valley of Colorado…and now, to the stage of Su Teatro…
While all of Boulder ramps up for the January National Cyclo-Cross Championships, the Dairy Center for the Arts is right in step: Its huge Bike Art exhibit opened earlier this month, and there’s plenty of bike-centric programming to go with it at the multidisciplinary venue, from art to films to…
Krampus, as you might or might not know, is the anti-Santa, a hairy horned beast of Germanic and Eastern European origins who takes care of all the naughty children by carrying them away in his sack. And because some people just have to be different, Mar Williams of the Concoctory…
Early in 2013, the artists of Powerhaüs Studio announced their idea for the Powerhaüs Artist-in-Residence Program, a juried three-month residency at the studio facility for one fine artist and one fashion designer. Along with that call for applicants, they named David Dadone of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and…
#26: Beau Carey Modern landscape artist Beau Carey goes about his business — painting — quietly, but at the same time, he’s earned the quiet respect of his contemporaries. Carey’s been a RedLine resident and boardmember, a drawing and painting teacher, and a gallery artist at Goodwin Fine Art; he…
Every picture does tell a story, and that’s why the bold graphics of poster design are powerful beyond words. There’s solid visual proof in the 35 works that comprise Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives, which opens Sunday, December 15 at the Denver Art Museum. Here’s a…
#27: Lisa Gedgaudas Lisa Gedgaudas works behind the scenes as program director for Create Denver: While we enjoy the evidence of her efforts in art exhibits at the McNichols Building and public forums like the recent Denver Music Summit, she’s running the numbers on who’s out there in the local…
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance’s multicultural, multigenerational Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum has been upending The Nutcracker and getting whole families in the audience to dance in their seats for more than twenty years now, and there’s a reason for that. “It’s different from a traditional holiday dance concert because…
Denver’s modern public-art program has been growing since 1988, when it was established under Federico Peña’s watch; over the passing years, the swelling collection has come to include more than 350 works by artists of stature both local and national. And their evidence is everywhere, from civic installations in parks,…
With Screw Tooth, Adam Stone doesn’t do theater like anyone else. It’s almost as if he were a step ahead of your expectations, off and running to the next thing before anyone gets a chance to catch up. And even when he takes a baby step — as he will…
You stop at the bar for a drink and two people begin to dance around you, spinning stellar choreography with light feet and a beautiful twist, under the sky-high rafters of a re-purposed foundry that’s an urban experiment in itself. That’s what will happen tonight at Choreography and Cocktails, a…
The story of how evangelical Americans sparked a venomous wave of fundamentalist religious thought and anti-gay sentiment and legislation in Uganda is one of this country’s sorrier chapters. And it was especially poignant for film director Roger Ross Williams, who is not only gay, but was raised in the black…
The current 100 Colorado Creatives series launched a year ago in anticipation of this year’s Artopia and the announcement of Westword’s 2014 class of MasterMinds. As we move into the lower half of the 100, here’s a smidgen of our slide show celebrating the first fifty interviewees. See also: Meet…
It’s getting down to the nitty-gritty, shopping-wise, if you’re still scrambling to find the right gift for every person in your life. But as the holiday draws near, you can still feel assured that you’ll find just that, and it’ll all be handmade and locally sourced, to boot: Read on…
The anonymously subsidized YES MA’AM PROJECT announced its first recipient today: Up-and-coming local multimedia installationist and visual documentarian Adam Milner, whose experiments in subjective experience and social media exemplify what it means to be an artist in the 21st century. See also: 100 Colorado Creatives: Adam Milner…
The Denver Art Museum learned an important lesson when it brought 2012’s Yves Saint Laurent blockbuster to town: The art of fashion is compelling, and not just to art aficionados, but to a wide cross-section of bling-lovers everywhere. Banking on a similar reaction, the DAM announced today that it will…
#28: Derrick Velasquez Denver artist Derrick Velasquez seems to be everywhere in the arts world, and not just as an observer. Behind the scenes, he’s helping wheels turn — as a co-founder and manager of TANK Studios, as well as a booster of fellow artists who looks for ways to…
Denver’s sneaker-freaks converged on the EXDO Event Center over the weekend for a frenzy of wheeling and dealing for collectible kicks, with music, live art and other hip-hop-savvy vendors. Westword photographer Kenneth Hamblin III was there with a camera: Here’s the tease. See also: Sneaker of the week? Mission accomplished…
In the wake of the September floods that devastated many Boulder County towns, the City of Boulder and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art worked quickly to create the Flood Project: Rising Above & Rebuilding Boulder Through Art, a community-building public art project that would both commemorate the floods and…
Nominees and friends packed into Galvanize on December 5 for the 2013 Westword Web Awards, Westword’s annual celebration of the most interesting Denverites on the Internet. With MC Jordan Doll at the helm, we handed out 21 awards across four categories, from the Best Music Video to the Best Politician…
Luis Valdez, whose Christmas play La Pastorela just opened at Denver’s Su Teatro, first met Cesar Chavez when he was six, growing up among the migrant workers of Delano, California, where the United Farm Workers movement took root in the nonviolent strikes and grape boycotts of the ’60s and ’70s…
Boulderites — especially those in the city’s close-knit pro-cycling community — take bikes seriously. So it goes without saying that the annual Bike Art exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts is a big draw. The national show of more than 100 works in a variety of mediums is…
