In these days of digital photography, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time the Polaroid existed. Instant photos had a completely different meaning when you could hold them in your hand, and Denver artist Tiffany Mulherin played with those instant prints until she came up with her own…

Evergreen Lake was lit up by flood lights last Saturday night in preparation for Skate the Lake, part of the Evergreen IceFest. While workers cleared the lake to create a skating rink, Michael Campe and his crew from Colorado Ice Sculptures were hard at work carving a putt-putt golf course…

Leo Franco is a veteran of the Denver art scene, showing his work at Spark Gallery and Zip 37 on a regular basis. But he still has to work a second job. In fact, he laughed when asked if he was a full-time artist. Hard. “I have two kids in…

Sandi Calistro got her first tattoo in Maine when she was sixteen, and later decided to become a tattoo artist. Accompanied by her dad, she came to Colorado and sold her flash sheets (the sheets of art on the wall of a tattoo parlor) door-to-door at tattoo shops. A local…

Since 1998, Bryce Widom has been creating the chalkboard art at Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery, as well as its sister restaurants, Southern Sun and Vine Street Pub. Given the directive to “do something with the seasons,” Widom created an artistic vision — a world of nature, magic, myth and…

When people picture an artist’s life, they usually envision something romantic: Gene Kelly in An American in Paris, opening the window to his rooftop Parisian studio, letting in the morning light while singing “I Got Rhythm,” and dancing out the door to make a living selling art on the streets…

To look at the faces carved into the old tree trunk at Sloan’s Lake Park playground, you wouldn’t think any pain was associated with the project — the faces smile widely, laughing as children use them to climb to the top of the stump. Yet, sculptor Corrina Espinosa created the…

Candles lit the back room of EDGE Gallery during Aidan Grey’s most recent show there, and a scrolled message on the door read, “Hoodoo is not Voodoo.” Ingredients for potions were sprawled, loose and in bottles, on a table at the side of the small space: wasps, black pepper, lavender,…

Tonight, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, one lucky person win a date with Buntport Theater as a part of MCA’s Black Sheep Friday Dating Game event. In honor of the 60s show that inspired this local happening, we’ve compiled a collection of the top five celebrity appearances on The…

Valerie Savarie’s art lends itself well to the assertion that the message is the medium. The books she chooses to cut into, the string she sews to the cover and the characters standing at the door she’s cut open represent the message of her pieces. The meaning in the content…

James Lorca Garcia Velazquez makes his own brushes, varnishes and pigments. He cuts all the glass for his pieces and hand-cuts the wood for his frames — frames he makes himself using a technique from the 18th century. Because he spends so much time on his process, and invests so…

Boulder native Tina Anderson didn’t jump on the beer-can art bandwagon on purpose — she didn’t even know it existed. “I had no idea beer-can art was a thing,” Anderson explains. “The only thing I was really thinking was that I kinda wanted to be a green artist. But I…

Interpellation: a word I learned in my college critical theory class, which I admittedly skipped almost every day of. The Althusser day, however, I dragged my semi-stoned, semi-drunk ass out of bed and learned some useless philosophy. Interpellation, as it was explained to me, is the act of mirroring. Ads…