Visual Arts

Our rundown of the top five YouTubers in Colorado.

Every weekend from now until the snow falls (and beyond), Colorado’s cultural calendar will be full of festivals, celebrating everything from light to sound to Shakespeare. Here are three favorites that were honored in the Best of Denver 2017, and will return this summer; they deserve a spot on your personal calendar.

This week, local creatives have grand entertainment in store for Denverites hunting for something to do…and in many cases, they won’t have to pay a dime.

On May 2, the Commission on Cultural Affairs rejected Denver International Airport’s request to deaccession Michael Singer’s “Interior Garden” at DIA. But that didn’t put an end to the proposal; the deaccession request now moves to Kent Rice, director of Denver Arts & Venues, who’ll make the ultimate decision. But in the meantime, the public can send comments to Arts & Venues through Tuesday, May 16.

It’s been nearly eight years since Amy and Doug Yetman debuted their Horseshoe Market in the parking lot of a mortuary in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood. The craft and vintage market was small and highly curated then, and despite Denver’s growth, the market still has its original neighborly vibe.

Contempoary dance company Wonderbound is used to performing at intimate venues, often with a smaller band like the activist hip-hop act the Flobots. This Friday, May 12, with the company’s production of Mayhem, the troupe is sizing up in both sound and movement.

Denver’s gentrification and racial divides weigh heavily on dancer Kate Speer, the current artist-in-residence at the youth arts nonprofit, Platte Forum.

From the early 1920s to around 1960, Colorado Springs was the unrivaled center for art in this state. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is highlighting this illustrious history by presenting solos dedicated to the artists who were important to its development as an institution; FAC Legacy Series: Mary Chenoweth is the latest in this tradition.

What a glorious week it will prove to be, Denver. From Val Kilmer to Boston terriers, fancy flea markets and loads of beer events, there’s enough variety in this week’s 21 best events list to satisfy even the most discerning social butterfly. Keep reading for more of the best events…

Michael Singer created “Interior Garden” 22 years ago. Now Denver International Airport wants to get rid of it, a request he discusses in this Q&A.

Michael Singer’s “Interior Garden,” which Denver International Airport wants to deaccession so it an save money and gain space, got a reprieve from the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs.

Exercise can be tough, and sometimes it takes a bit of extra effort to get off the couch and get moving. As it turns out, the best form of motivation often comes in the form of a beer at the end of an especially hard workout.

Tyler Clementi was eighteen years old when he jumped off the George Washington Bridge. His roommate had videotaped him having sexual relations with another man and broadcast the video on the internet.  Clementi became a symbol of the perils of online bullying – and an inspiration behind Tyler’s Suite, a nine-piece choral movement that will be performed by Harmony: A Colorado Chorale.

In Dmitri Obergfell’s solo at Gildar Gallery, Man Is a Bubble/Time Is a Place, the artist offers ” meditations on long arcs of time, informed by different sources,” the artist says.

Before a composer can successfully shape sound, he must learn to listen. In the case of Nathan Hall’s compositions, the audience must listen successfully in order to find the music’s shape.

Patrick Mueller’s dance company Control Group Productions has never been known for being easy, and its audiences can never take anything for granted when they sit down for a Control Group performance.

While Denver is a world-class city with a thriving arts and culture scene, it’s more importantly a place where sometimes you can see an alpaca, perhaps even several alpacas if you’re lucky.

On Thursday, April 27, Westword reported on why the Museum of Nature and Science opted not to have a presence at the Denver March for Science, part of a national challenge to the Republican administration’s attempts to undo environmental protections.

Roseanna Frechette, a poet and spoken-word artist, has lived in Denver since 1976, most of that time considering the city a choice, affordable place to work. In recent years, the city’s art scene has exploded, a phenomenon she says she welcomes. Alongside the creative communities’ recent boom development has also exploded, cranes litter the skyline and Denver is growing. Now, says Frechette, artists – who have long depended on the city’s affordability – and their homes and studios are endangered.

Since the Denver Architectural Foundation took over the task of fine-tuning Doors Open Denver from the city in 2014, the massive event celebrating Denver’s great architecture has blossomed.

Monet. Degas. Renoir. Manet. Toulouse-Lautrec. They’re some of the best known impressionists. They’re also all men. Women artists in nineteenth century Paris faced an uphill battle in pursuing their craft.

Denver letterpress printer Tom Parson has been practicing his hands-on and decidedly analog trade as Now It’s Up To You Publications since the early ’80s, after becoming interested in printing, as a poet and booster of small-press publications in Seattle.