On the internet, where space is vast and seemingly never-ending, there’s beauty in the brevity of Sommer Browning’s work. The local poet, author, comic artist and librarian has just released two new works, Want Me to Tell You About This Dream I Had?, a collection of her dreams transcribed, and…
Geometric abstraction, an international current, has played an outsized role in the modern art of the American West for the past fifty years, maybe longer. Consider the career of Colorado’s Clark Richert, Agnes Martin’s work in New Mexico…you get the idea. This type of work has not only held on to its relevance, but it’s currently making a comeback. A strong case for that return is The Connected Edge, at the William Havu Gallery, where a trio of artists — two from New Mexico and one from Wyoming — are showing compositions with strong linear elements.
Theo Wilson, a true Renaissance Man, is an activist and artist who won a national slam-poetry contest. Now he’s created a true salon with Shop Talk Live, his community-building sessions held in local barbershops and beauty shops.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts just announced its 2017-’18 Broadway season, and it includes Hamilton, which will be open at the Buell Theatre on February 27, 2018 — which means less than a year to wait. Tickets to the full Broadway subscription season are now on sale; single-show tickets will be available at a later date.
Fort Collins photographer Tim Van Schmidt started going to concerts in Los Angeles in the 1970s. He wrote about rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and about the early years of punk. By 1980, he’d moved to Fort Collins, where he started writing a fanzine and a weekly…
Video Station held its an annual Oscar contest on Sunday, February 26…and the next day, the 35-year-old Boulder store announced that it would be shuttering its doors for good early in March. The news was sad but not surprising; what’s remarkable is that the brick-and-mortar video store stayed open year after…
The Mixed Taste got its start at the Lab at Belmar; when director Adam Lerner moved over to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, he brought Mixed Taste with him. And now it’s about to move on again: to Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
One moment that encompassed the entire feel of Artopia: immediately after the fashion show, the bottom floor was taken down and the runway transformed into a live-painting session space equip with walls for a handful of the most talented artists in Denver.
With a bowling alley, arcade, and a gastropub-style dining venue, The Wild Game Entertainment Experience is making a play to be Longmont’s one-stop shop for fun.
Anne Fanganello isn’t afraid to shake up the status quo with her fashion. Her two lines – the couture AnnaFesta and athletic FestaSports – aim to make women of all shapes and sizes, especially plus sizes, feel confident and comfortable in their own skin. You can see her work in action at the Whiteout fashion show at Westword’s Artopia, set for February 25 at City Hall.
March marks Denver’s biennial Month of Photography, a tremendously successful, multi-venue event founded by photographer and photography advocate Mark Sink in 2004. Each iteration of MoP sees many of the area’s exhibition spaces mounting shows at least tangentially related to photography. The Arvada Center has already opened two of them: Double Exposure: An Exhibition of Photography and Video, a large group show, and Stop/Look/See: Photography by James Milmoe, a major solo.
Feral Factory is working with RedLine, the RiNo Art District and other groups to open up new spaces for art shows in Denver and hold conversations about creative work and how it intersects with social issues. The initial exhibit opens February 24.
Boulder’s award-winning experimental dance organization Hoarded Stuff Performance presents the world premiere of practicing, choreographed and performed by Laura Ann Samuelson.
War is hell: Curtis Bean recognized that during his two tours in Iraq. But he didn’t know that coming home would be hell, too. The native of Troy, Missouri, had joined the Army when he was seventeen, “to be part of something larger than my home town,” he says. Bean…
Never not hard at work, the last email Nick Thorne sent to his cohorts in the Black Actors Guild was a series of notes and edits on the group’s latest episode of its web series, Behind the Smile. The writer, director, actor and producer passed away on February 8 of this year. Thorne was 25.
Denver galleries and museums are full of shows that are worth seeing. Here are eight to catch right now.
The Colorado Ballet has donated tickets to a Thursday, February 16, matinee performance of Ballet MasterWorks to roughly fifty recently arrived refugees from countries including Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and the Republic of Congo. The refugees will attend the performance alongside more than 1,000 students and teachers. The ballet connected with…
Meridith Grundei, who came to Colorado ten years ago after excelling in the Chicago improv community, stays busy in many roles, both as an actor and as a theater professional.
Michael Warren Contemporary, one of the city’s top galleries, often presents two exhibits back to back, as is the case right now. The star attraction, Throw My Ashes Into the Sea: New Works by Daisy Patton, takes over the sprawling multi-part front space, while the gallery’s companion solo, Creative Destruction: New Works by Margaret Lawless, is installed in the more intimate gallery at the back.
The eye-dazzling yet somehow relaxing Lumonics Then & Now: A Retrospective of Light-Based Sculpture by Dorothy & Mel Tanner transforms the interior galleries of the Museum of Outdoor Arts into a world of their own.
Photographer Ted Tahquechi lost most of his vision in a car accident in 1999. Up until the car wreck, he had shot photos since attending college in the 1980s. After the crash, “I didn’t pick up the camera. I didn’t do anything at all,” he says. “I was feeling sorry for myself and feeling disappointed with where I was in my life.”
Take a quick scroll through the #WIA2 hashtag on Instagram, and you’re awash in a thousand perspectives of what Winter in America looks like. The hashtag was started by friends and photographers Armando Geneyro and Blake Jackson, co-creators of the loose-knit TheyShootn collective, which invites photographers from across the world…
