Editor’s note: As our first 100 Colorado Creatives series came to a close on the eve of Westword’s Artopia last month, it became painfully obvious that our work was far from finished. We feel lucky to live and work in a place where the number of creative people is ever-growing,…
Collin Parson’s Reflections explores light in a completely new way for him: by removing it. The artist’s past work has used everything from LEDs to phosphorescent paint to explore the power of the glow, but Parson is relying solely on external lighting and mirrored acrylic in his new series. Reflections…
Bronies and Pegasisters (male and female fans of My Little Pony, to the unenlightened) showed up in force at the Sie FilmCenter this past weekend for a showing of Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony — and some even sported My Little Pony costumes. Photographer Danielle…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. McMean Elementary School art teacher Melinda Laz is breaking back into the…
When Alison Klayman began filming artist and activist Ai Weiwei for a short introduction to be included with one of his exhibitions, the filmmaker had no idea it would become the beginning of a feature documentary about the controversial Chinese figure. But after shooting the initial footage, she kept filming…
Rather than seethe with jealousy at Facebook friends who are paying big money to head to Austin for South By Southwest, you can stay in Denver and enjoy movies and panel discussions this week — for free! From a screening of the 1968 Romeo and Juliet to Uranium Drive-In to…
The past ten years have made it apparent that there is no more room in hell, because everywhere you look, the dead are walking the earth. Zombies are a genuine pop-cultural phenomenon, starring in cable TV’s most popular show, sitting at the center of tentpole film franchises and appearing in…
As American National Poetry Slam Champion and executive director of the award-winning Minor Disturbance Youth Slam Team, Ken Arkind gets to share his words with the world. A lot of those words are about his native turf of Denver, Aurora and the Colfax Avenue connection, and his second book, Coyotes,…
After taking a closer look at the art housed on the fifth floor of the Denver Art Museum, the Asian Art Association and museum planners started thinking. These galleries, home to the DAM’s Asian and Indian folk art collections, contained many figures in yoga poses — feet placed just so,…
Yellow is a hard color to pull off, but we managed to find someone doing it well on a brisk March day in Denver. Meet Jomar White, a state of Colorado project manager we spotted in Uptown. Read on to find out what inspires his fashionable menswear, his favorite accessory,…
On last week’s episode of Under the Gunn, Blake survived the judging to sew another week; Shan won the steam punk avant-garde challenge with his deconstructed power suit, finally bringing a win to Anya’s team; and Nicholas was sent home. For last night’s episode, Georgina Chapman, co-founder of Marchesa, returned…
The modern quilt world’s obsession with straight lines and symmetry rubs quilter Mike “Mac” McNamara the wrong way; he never cared for prescribed patterns. His emotionally evocative quilts reflect on life’s biggest issues: desire, grief, politics and childlike wonder. Often as humorous as they are critical, his quilts are gifts…
From an art-toy meet-up to an experimental film symposium, this weekend is full of great events — and we’ve found ten that are absolutely free. So save your change for bus fare and get out and enjoy this city. Did we miss a bargain? Share news of more economical events…
The most notorious haunted hotel in the world, the Stanley Hotel, inspiration for The Shining, will host the second annual Stanley Film Festival, April 24-27. Organized by the Denver Film Society, the festival fits right into the historic hotel, with a theme — presented by NBC Universal’s Chiller TV –…
Matt Scobey is always busy working on something interesting. For his brand-new installation at Fancy Tiger, the artist drew inspiration from the 1920s art movement Proun to create a concrete-and-wood modular installation with pieces that viewers can purchase to take home in order to create their own personal installations. In…
For GrowHaus, an urban greenhouse and marketplace, the objective isn’t just to provide high-quality food for the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood it calls home — it is to empower the community to grow its own, too. This Saturday, March 8, the garden and education center will host its fourth annual Seed Swap,…
Last year galleries across town gave over all of March to the Month of Photography, a biennial showcase of camera-work from not just around the region but around the globe. This year it’s Month of Printmaking’s turn, loosely tied together by Marina Graves’s arts organization without walls, the Invisible Museum…
Like any subculture, geek culture has its own terminology. A lot of it is self-explanatory, but some of it requires some foreknowledge or insight to really understand. Naturally, most geeks reading this will have that terminology on lockdown, but for the merely geek-curious, it can all be a bit confusing…
Bored Japanese businessmen started the air-sex trend, says Bryan Poyser, director of the raunchy, heartbreaking romantic comedy, Love and Air Sex, which opens at the SIE FilmCenter on Friday, March 7, for a weeklong run. Air sex is the erotic equivalent of air guitar. Pornographic mimes boasting filthy stage names…
More than thirty years ago, 36-year-old dark-horse candidate Federico Pena rode to victory as Denver’s mayor waving the slogan “Imagine a Great City.” Under Pena, the city released its first arts plan in 1989 — and now, 25 years later, Denver has released Imagine 2020, Denver’s first cultural plan in…
Man, woman, gay, straight, bi: There’s something for everyone in 300: Rise of an Empire, the XXL sequel to the also-larger-than-life Greeks-in-shinguards extravaganza 300. In that picture, directed by Zack Snyder and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel about the three-day Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Spartans and…
For more than two decades, Alain Guiraudie has been unrivaled in depicting desires that upend convention, whether homo or hetero. In the comedy The King of Escape (2009), for instance, a middle-age gay man falls in love with a sixteen-year-old girl; the film ends with an all-male gerontophilic ménage a…
