Visual Arts

Digital animator Faiyaz Jafri has been on top of his game for as long as the medium has even been around, beginning thirty years ago on an Apple computer with the most basic of programming tools available. It was a painstakingly different onscreen world back then, but Jafri, now an internationally known animation pioneer who produces his own cutting-edge, award-winning work while also co-directing Hong Kong’s Third Culture Film Festival, still represents the gold standard in his trade.

The fall opener at Michael Warren Contemporary offers two back-to-back solos, both with work inspired by nature and the natural environment, featuring artists Allison Stewart and Heidi Jung.

Throughout September, the Denver Film Society has been throwing “A Month of Movies Influenced by Music.” Tim Kasher’s No Resolution shows on September 20.

B-movie actor Bruce Campbell discuss his new book “Hail to the Chin” and his latest TV series, “Ash vs. Evil Dead.”

The RAW Project, a group bringing art to schools near bustling art centers, is changing its acronym, and it’s starting with Denver.

CRUSH 2017 ends September 17, but the RiNo Art District’s work with and for artists is a year-round commitment in this rapidly changing neighborhood. Here are ten ways the district is advocating for artists.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a play adapted by Christopher Hampton from an eighteenth century French novel, is an ambitious undertaking for Miners Alley.

Expect a lively, original production of Macbeth – and a haunting one – in the newly renovated Space Theatre at the Denver Center.

Axis Mundi: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia, a complicated three-part group exhibition facilitated and mounted by artist Regan Rosburg and PlatteForum, follows the convoluted paths of modern ecopsychology through layers of art, science and our delicate symbiosis with nature.

Big events collide in a beautiful way this weekend in Denver, importing an international presence for the Biennial of the Americas, along with a hardworking community of street artists descending on Rino to paint murals for Crush 2017. In keeping, local galleries and businesses are getting in step with satellite exhibits and events — and then there’s a nice chunk of the regular stuff.

Norbeto “Beto” Mojardin is ready for Denver’s art community to know his name. While he has always been an artist, it was only in the last decade that Mojardin earned enough income from his hair salon to practice his art through fashion. And what makes Mojardin’s art unusual is that his wearable fashion is made of corn.

When New York yoga teacher Jeannene Orofino moved to Denver and made Stapleton her home six years ago, the mother of two was attracted to the neighborhood’s health and wellness-oriented culture. As she began settling in, however, she started wondering why Founder’s Green Park, the sprawling public space near her home where farmers markets and other events took place, didn’t host an outdoor yoga festival.

With the world’s current natural and unnatural disasters, the environment is increasingly on the minds of many, and Water Line and Propagate demonstrate that these artists are in that group, too.

The Denver Film Festival, one of the nation’s leading festivals, has announced its dates for its fortieth edition.

Wade Gardner has been running the DocuWest Film Festival on a shoestring budget since 2008. For the past few years, the bootstrapping filmmaker, programmer and activist rented space in the Sie FilmCenter so that he could bring cutting-edge documentaries to the region. Not anymore.

Denver has a lot going on when it comes to street art.

Between the Biennial of the Americas, CRUSH and the city’s already vibrant cultural life, Denver is beset by so many festivals, concerts, screenings, openings and shows this week that it would be impossible for even the busiest bees to experience more than a fraction of the entertainments awaiting them.

On August 29, 2017, local Denver artists John Hastings, better known as RUMTUM, and Pat Milbery teamed up to do a year-long-awaited collaboration at the Globeville bar, Fort Greene.

The Institute for New Feeling has joined forces with the Black Cube Nomadic Museum to poke fun at the exploding enhanced water industry. The end product is a bottled water called Avalanche, manufactured complete with its own vending machines, which they’ll market, taking an absurdist approach, as a recycled beverage made fresh again by human usage.

Robert Schaller of the Handmade Film Institute will conduct a pinhole motion picture camera workshop and screen some of his work this weekend at the SIE FilmCenter.

Sommer Browning is a poet, but she’s opting to take a chance by turning her own garage into a creative incubator where artists, writers, performing artists and filmmakers can all mingle freely. Browning calls it Georgia Art Space, and the pop-up venue makes its debut this weekend with an exhibit by artist Joshua Ware.

In September, the Biennial of the Americas and Crush 2017 descend over Denver for a mash-up of enlightened cross-cultural discourse and gritty urban street art. Art goes on, in the galleries and in the streets; here are some of the places both will intersect this weekend.