Visual Arts

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.

A conversation with the Director of the Colorado Film School, Brian Steward, now entering his second year in the position.

Visionary Denver architect Charles Deaton erected a handful of remarkably original structures in the middle of the twentieth century. His most famous work, the “Sculptured House” in Genesee, is unofficially known as the Sleeper house; his bank in Englewood will be celebrated on September 7.

When artist Emily Camp lived in Buffalo, New York as a child, her mom would tell her to pack her bags; they were going to the city
 for the weekend. That intrepid spirit rubbed off on Camp, now 21. Instead of renewing her lease on her Glendale apartment in January, she’ll load her car (currently a Jeep Patriot, although she’s on the lookout for a larger sprinter van) with art supplies and embark on a painting tour of the fifty states, paid for by sales of her art via a GoFundMe campaign.

While the Labor Day holiday has strayed from its collectivist roots, it’s still possible to enjoy some of the finest entertainment that Denver has to offer on proletarian wages. Here are ten events that cost less than ten bucks, and six are free.

Kick back and kick off your Labor Day weekend with art. Here are six First Friday openings all set smack in the middle of metro-area arts and cultural districts.

Jamil Jude, an up-and-coming young director whose relationship with Curious Theatre Company artistic director Chip Walton goes back over six years, is currently in Denver rehearsing the cast for Appropriate, which opens September 2. Jude is very enthusiastic about Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play.