#54: Frankie ToanA relative newcomer to Denver, artist Frankie Toan is already well-embedded in the city’s under-the-radar art communities. A former PlatteForum resident and a current second-year resident at RedLine, Toan creates work that’s rooted in craft and heavy on message, confronting viewers with alternative social realities, urging them to throw…
After eight weeks of fierce competition, thousands of sequins and rhinestones, pounds of makeup and one giant cloud of hairspray, the winner of Tracks’s Ultimate Queen All-Stars competition was crowned last Thursday night. The finale kicked off with the Final Four queens — Arial StaxXx, Gia StaxXx, Kyile Vanderpump and…
For some creatives, fashion and music work together to create a real work of art. Khalil Arcady is Sur Ellz, a 23-year-old songwriter, producer and performer from Aurora who sports a multi-genre appeal in both his music and fashion sense. We spotted him at Westword’s DISH last month, where he was wearing…
#55: Andrew Huffman Incoming RedLine resident artist Andrew Huffman hails from Kansas, bringing with him an up-to-the-minute artist’s eye view and an arsenal of mediums, from wall projections to photographs altered through painting and drawing. Get to know Huffman as he speeds through the visual universe, via his answers to…
Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, always the perfect backdrop for an old-fashioned burlesque show, played host to a spooky seasonal edition of Vivienne VaVoom’s monthly Sunday Peepshow on October 9, with a focus on the gorgeous costuming worn by Denver’s leading ladies of burlesque. And in this case, one boylesquer! All photos…
Although October is a time for spooky costumes, there are plenty of other fashion events this month to fill your social calendar — and fill your closet. The list includes everything from store openings to a fashion-sketching class. Here are the ten best fashion events in October, in chronological order. …
#56: Ana Maria Hernando Artist Ana Maria Hernando comes to Boulder by way of Buenos Aires, Argentina, bringing with her a deep respect for the handiwork of Latin American women, which she often incorporates into feminine fiber installations evoking cultural traditions of collaboration and celebration. Painting, drawing and printmaking all…
‘Tis the season – albeit a touch too early for some – to start thinking of snow, mistletoe, eggnog and presents wrapped under the tree and doing all of it in high heels and caked in makeup. Tickets are now on sale for Murray & Peter Present A Drag Queen…
#57: Kendra Fleischman Over her thirty-year career as an artist, Colorado native Kendra Fleischman has crossed a bridge or two, connecting a traditional sculpture practice in stone and bronze with the digital world of new media. On the large-scale side, you can find her monumental public sculptures installed throughout the…
M Uptown is getting in the holiday spirit with a twisted spin on its Friday night Dreamgirls, Denver’s longest-running regular drag revue. Starting this Friday, the show is taking a cue from a popular board game and putting its girls into a murder mystery. The new show, Get a Clue!,…
I pull into the parking lot at Haunted Field of Screams at 7:30 p.m. sharp. By 8:15 I’m one of them, one of the hundred-or-so actors who come here Thursdays through Sundays in October to scare the hell out of anyone foolish enough to walk through a ghoul-infested corn maze…
#58: Laura Krudener Artist Laura Krudener modernizes color-field painting, blending it with the theater of action painting as she pours, drips and layers acrylic paint across large canvases. But Krudener is no one-trick pony. With her Among the Colors platform, she goes with a different kind of flow, sharing an entrepreneurial…
#59: Ashley Frazier Ashley Frazier is all RedLine, all the time, continuing in her role as the art venue’s events manager while, as an artist, embarking on a two-residency there this fall. In her own work, she evokes the ephemeral passage of time, using such unusual mediums as human hair…
While another a beloved Coloradan institution seems to disappear every week, the demise of the Flossy McGrews costume shop hit harder than most losses. From the storefront, embellished with Lovecraftian decorations, to the lovingly crafted costumes, the place boasted an overwhelming variety of spooky and strange shopping delights that made it a must-stop not…
#60: Dustin Young Dustin Young is a master draftsman of the dreamy side of real life, depicting the imprint of found imagery in a shower of mist and perceived memory. A native Minnesotan off an academic trail that led him from New York to Boston to Lincoln, Nebraska, Young now…
Madam CJ Walker was ahead of her time. Born in Louisiana in 1867, the child of former slaves went on to create her own beauty line in 1905, a business that eventually made her one of the first female (not to mention African-American) self-made millionaires in America. While living in…
#61: Megan Gafford Incoming RedLine resident Megan Gafford conducts experiments with artful outcomes, mining science for haunting imagery and space to closely consider things we fear or don’t understand. A recent MFA graduate at the University of Colorado Boulder, Gafford asks big questions and does the groundwork to find the…
It startled the shit out of me. During rush hour last week, when I saw a reasonable gap between moving cars, I came from Jewell Avenue, crossed southbound traffic and turned into the northbound lane of Logan Street. The gentleman in the Ford Explorer behind me decided that I wasn’t allowed to make…
For families and Halloween thrill-seekers alike, a hike through the Chatfield Corn Maze heralds the changing of the seasons and fall fun for everyone. By day, kids can partake in hay rides, candy apples and other signals that winter is coming (or pluck a pumpkin from the field during the…
#62: Stephanie Kantor Ceramics are the foundation of incoming RedLine resident artist Stephanie Kantor’s magical carpet ride through a history of the decorative arts, which she references in culture-crossing installations. A Pennsylvania native who landed at the University of Colorado Boulder as an MFA candidate, Kantor is a Black Cube…
You don’t have to wait for the next big library sale to stock your shelves. Tomorrow morning the Denver Public Library will open the Red Chair Bookshop on the west side of the Central Denver Library. The store will sell library souvenirs along with used books, CDs and DVDs — some…
Week four of the Ultimate Queen All-Stars competition at Tracks was a real zoo: The six queens remaining were tasked with bringing animals to life on stage, and that inspired some of the strongest makeup and performances so far. But then came a wild twist… On September 15 at Tracks,…
