Visual Arts

Basalt’s nonprofit cultural center Art Base has created a project in which youth from the town’s Latino immigrant community create their own dream homes through art.

With Las (H)adas at the Museo de las Americas, Maruca Salazar has given Latina artists the attention they’ve always deserved.

If you’re new to Denver, you don’t want to miss these traditional fall/winter events. If you’ve been around a while, take a second (or third, or fourth) look; some things just get better with age.

Svper Ordinary partners Bryan Cavanaugh, Tran Wills and Josh Wills officially closed the book on Svper Ordinary on November 6, but not without a real sense of accomplishment. “We really did take it to another level as an art/design retail concept,” Tran notes. “We did a lot in those four years, promoting different makers and artists. For a lot of them, those were their first shows.”

These five free events should light up the workweek beginning November 6, until the next weekend brightens things up.

Just in time to commence Denver Arts Week, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting the world’s largest traveling hip-hop festival, Breakin’ Convention, the last stop on the renowned production’s United States tour.

The colder months bring ample opportunities in to enjoy the best of our art galleries, museums and exhibitions. The 2017 to 2018 season is no exception.

November is here, giving us plenty of reasons to get dressed up and get out of the house, everything from fashion shows to From fashion shows to trunk shows, here are the top eight fashion events to do in Denver this November. Massif Fashion Week Through Sunday, November 5 Massif…

Denver Arts Week opened with an awkward press conference where Mayor Michael Hancock tried to learn hip-hop dance moves from French dancer Salah.

It’s not just any First Friday — it’s Denver Arts Week’s Know Your Arts First Friday. Make the rounds and see work by artists working both underground and aboveground all over the Denver metro.

Chaesdegango was a fixture on the Denver art scene in the ’80s. Now the artist, whose real name is Ron Chidester, has a show opening November 5 at West Side Books.

The Denver Art Museum’s North Building — more commonly known as the Ponti building, in honor of its chief designer, Gio Ponti — will shut down on November 19 and remain closed for the next three years. The exhibit Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon takes a look at the Ponti’s past and future.

Día de los Muertos is one of the loveliest holidays, when Mexicans around the world build altars to honor the dead and leave them ofrendas (offerings) of food and candy to sustain them on their post-mortem journey.

As Denver officials prepare to turn a portion of City Park Golf Course into a stormwater drainage reservoir, a project that will involve cutting down roughly 260 trees, arts activists are staging a last-minute intervention, hoping to save 80 percent of the trees that are slated to be removed to make…

The podcast Denver Orbit showcases musicians, comedians, storytellers, and other artsy types from Denver’s thriving arts community.

This weekend’s art events get down to the nitty-gritty of the gallery world, with fundraisers, Halloween themes, new ideas and solid exhibits, not to mention an opportunity to poke your toe into the water and be an artist yourself. Here are eight ways to kneel at the altar of art.

Survey is a great name for a display of landscape paintings, and the William Havu Gallery has paired that three-artist show with a sculpture solo, Nancy Lovendahl: The Reclamation Suite.

As we head into Halloween, the entertainment calendar is so packed, it’s scary. Here are five free events for the workweek of October 23 through October 27.

Halloween is on in Denver, and these ten photos prove it.

Looking for free and cheap things to do in Denver from October 19 to 22? Here’s your guide.

If you happen to be walking past the Colorado Convention Center this week, there’s a good chance you’ve seen art being made — humongous art following a continuous lines through a pattern of words, shapes and faces across a black-and-white urban canvas, rendered by a lone women in knee pads, brandishing a spray can.

Experience old favorites, new horizons and an opportunity to get your hands dirty this weekend at Denver galleries. Here are five hot spots.