Denver Life

She’s fighting to keep Denver beautifully weird, accessible and open to all.

When we first fêted Ivar Zeile in the Colorado Creatives series in 2014, he was still directing Plus Gallery and its impressive stable of artists, while just beginning to take an interest in using downtown Denver’s giant LED screens for digital-animation screenings for his side-gig, Denver Digerati. Now he’s running the Supernova Digital Animation Festival.

Liana Hill opened Dona Forta, a new boutique catering to strong women in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood.

Boulder resident Colin Cantwell is one of the progenitors of the legendary visuals of the Star Wars universe.

Through her And Art Space consultancy, Leah Brenner Clack has become the go-to in Boulder for matching walls with muralists, but her enthusiasm for decorative street art goes beyond the boundaries of consulting.

As artistic director, dancer/choreographer Kat Gurley guides her modern dance troupe Wild Heart wielding a process that flies on pure emotion and movement, viscerally free from being boxed up by ideology and rules.

Young in years as a theatrical savant, Ayla Sullivan first found rhythm as a spoken-word performer in the youth poetry slam arena.

Frank Kwiatkowski defines himself through the lens of his type-1 diabetes, a condition that rules his life, his DIY outlook and his politics.

The rotating retail shop is currently showing fashions from Iceland.

Women in film, a coffee festival, the Paper Fashion Show and more!

The artist hosts shows in his living room.

Control Group Productions opens Aggregate Immateriality in an old slaughterhouse on April 3.

“We want to empower families and women to make conscious choices that are right for them.”

This photographer isn’t shy about her subject matter.

Cherry Creek North’s new brick-and-mortar store is still a product of the Internet: smooth and shiny, potentially useful, and instantly forgettable.

The designer keeps Denver looking good.

The Colorado-based country wants to help feed the hungry.

Being creative has been Charles Parson’s major occupation for close to fifty years, and the scope of what that entails is impressive: Large-scale sculptures, murals and drawings rendered with skill and an architectural eye all define his prolific art practice.

Sherry Wiggins is a traveler in life and in art, resulting in a multi-disciplinary practice with an international scope. Add a feminist outlook, and you’ve got a powerful artist who makes work that covers the gamut from drawing to performance, sometimes paying tribute to the oeuvres of other women artists…

It’s 303 day! Time to celebrate the city.

Shominic Ngyen survived bullies and came out on top, with a streetwear fashion all her own.

Leonardo da Vinci: 500 Years of Genius is being billed as “the most comprehensive exhibition about Leonardo ever presented.”