100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Craig Marshall Smith

Painter Craig Marshall Smith was born in Flint, Michigan during the Truman administration. He attended UCLA, and then taught drawing at three universities in three states for over thirty years. His opinion columns appear in a number of metro-Denver weekly newspapers.

Denver Creatives Fight Gentrification, Dream Up Artist-Run Spaces

Denver artists caught in the crosshairs of gentrification and rampant redevelopment do have alternatives to that predicament, thinks Cortney Stell of the Black Cube Nomadic Museum. Stell is all for seeing artists who feel marginalized in the here and now stop complaining and start changing, by devising new models to replace the old-school ones that aren’t working anymore.

Some Idiot Vandalized the Denver Art Museum’s Ponti Building

It must have been just a handful of hours before the groundbreaking at the Denver Art Museum’s iconic Gio Ponti building on Wednesday morning that some idiot got inside the protective construction fence surrounding the landmark, and vandalized with idiotic graffiti the west side of the building.

100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Carlos Frésquez

Denver native and artist Carlos Frésquez’s people came from the centuries-old Mexican borderland culture of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, but he experienced his roots from a city boy’s cross-cultural perspective.