For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
If this fall-like weather has you pining for snowy slopes, here’s an antidote: The folks at Winter Park are sharing these photos of the resort’s first noticeable dusting of snow, with a note: The first full day of fall brought plenty of snow to Winter Park Resort, which has already…
Dede LaRue, loved around town for her funny and sometimes political animal sculptures, has “got art bubbling over in her, and she just isn’t done,” says her friend Renna Shesso. So it only makes sense that when LaRue’s fighting for her life, it’s art that will help her get through…
#44: Katie Hoffman A member of both CORE New Art Space and Zip 37 Gallery (for the time being), Denver painter Katie Hoffman is a familiar face on the co-op scene in two arts districts, beloved for her works exploring the subjective and the otherworldly in swatches of pastel and…
#45: Alicia Bailey Alicia Bailey is an exacting artist who works in — but isn’t limited to — the book arts, which are the original focus of her Abecedarian Gallery in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe. Creator and curator, Bailey displays a rare attention to detail, difficult processes and…
Walk into the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design’s Philip J. Steele Gallery tonight and you might have a strange sense of déjà vu: English artist Daniel Eatock’s new show, An Empty Room: The Sequel — which is in part a reaction to elements left over from a previous…
During the course of its seven years, the Create Denver Expo has grown to encompass more and more of its original goal of kickstarting local creatives and independent business owners with better access to resources. But this year there will be some changes, not the least of which is the…
As the Aurora Cultural Arts District continues to take strides in its bid to shape a vital city center, ACAD director Tracy Weil and staff find new ways to draw attention to downtown Aurora’s eclectic cultural community. The latest event, tonight’s Poetry@Play, will celebrate wordsmiths and artists alike with two…
A bunch of friends were hanging together on East Colfax Avenue, “watching ‘Colfax Science Theater 3000’ walk by,” says mean-street habitue Sam Kohlenberg, when, in the midst of the parade of drunks, hipsters, homeless people and working girls, the conversation hit a “what if” moment, and the Miss Colfax Pageant…
Denver artist Dede LaRue can’t help but be noticed for her colorful artwork. The self-taught superstar burst onto the scene years ago as a graffitist who randomly spray-painted pink flamingos on dumpsters. She then took up sculpting, creating increasingly sophisticated papier-mâché creatures. “Some of them are wry, funny and political,…
#46: Dave Ortolano Dave Ortolano is both a theater Renaissance man and a friend of theater. Naropa-trained and a collaborating member of Boulder’s Band of Toughs company, his first love and major creative focus is his role as executive director of the Boulder International Fringe Festival, which kicks off another…
For a newbie, the myriad characters portrayed by cosplayers at the anime convention Nan Desu Kan are far more esoteric than those you’ll see at a regular comic convention: Anime and manga — Japanese cartoons and serial comics — form a subset all their own, and their fans seem just…
Mexican Independence Day might take a lower profile than Cinco de Mayo here in Denver, but that doesn’t mean our Latino community — and the rest of the town — doesn’t kick up its heels for El Grito de la Independencia: Mexico’s real independence day (as opposed to Cinco), which…
Denver has a Second Saturday, and though it often seems to take a back seat to First Friday, the alternative art-night has its advantages. You won’t have to elbow your way through crowds of sidewalk revelers, hawkers and buskers to get to the art, and you’ve also had a day’s…
Every other year, Colorado State University’s art department curates and hosts the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, a huge survey of some of the best graphic-art work in the world, often with a variety of satellite exhibits. This year’s CIIPE officially kicks off with an opening on Friday, September 13…
In past years, Snowboard on the Rocks kicked off the carving season with snow-sports film premieres and music at Red Rocks. This year’s Snowboard on the Block will re-package the concept and bring it down to the party-ready EXDO Event Center in RiNo. And though the surroundings won’t be as…
Textile arts comprise some of the most grassroots forms of expression. Born of necessity and woven through with elements of creative design since the dawn of mankind, in modern times they’ve morphed into a whole genre of multimedia work that slides right off the functional grid and directly into the…
Most of Spun, the Denver Art Museum’s summer mélange of textile-related exhibits, is already open, but many will consider Nick Cave: Sojourn its centerpiece. Focusing on Cave’s signature mixed-media assemblages and Soundsuits (fabulous wearable costumes stitched together with found objects and unusual fibers and designed to make sounds when worn),…
Museo de las Américas director Maruca Salazar wisely chose the work of five young Latin American artists to represent the museum during this summer’s Biennial of the Americas 2013. All of them, she says, are part of a new generation deeply concerned with environmental issues in a world overrun by…
Pablo Kjolseth of CU-Boulder’s International Film Series held out on going digital for as long as he could, but circumstances — and the passage of the Digital Cinema Initiative — made that increasingly difficult in a world where new celluloid film is a thing of the past. After a fast…
Alamo Drafthouse Littleton’s September programming is all about back-to-school themes — and Mean Girls is the perfect choice for a quote-along, notes Alamo spokesman Keith Garcia. “When you think about movies that bring back all the feelings, good and bad, about being in school, Mean Girls is right at the…
#47: Charlie Miller and Emily Tarquin Charlie Miller and Emily Tarquin are multi-taskers at the Denver Center Theatre Company: Miller is a techno whiz for DCTC shows, while Tarquin coordinates new productions. But on the side — the off-center, you might say — they curate the DCTC’s underground series Off-Center@The…
