Meow Wolf could roar in Denver one day. A crew from the Santa Fe arts sensation was in the Mile High City this week, scouting locations and exploring the local arts scene, a mission that included sitting in on the Amplify Arts Denver town hall on January 10. .
Jay and Jerry Jaramillo, father-and-son artists, will represent Santa Fe Drive at Artopia 2017.
Organizing faculty shows can be challenging, since the pieces involved are often tied together by nothing more than the fact that they were created by artists who live and work right in town. Collective Nouns, the current show at the Center for Visual Art, was a particular challenge: Metropolitan State…
Artists thrive within limitations — at least, that’s one theory. A Wheat Ridge High School club’s request for proposals from local artists on how to celebrate the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — by decorating local traffic signal boxes wrapped in graffiti-resistant vinyl — is riddled with limitations. Among them: the artists won’t be paid.
Bronx-born nonagenarian Dorothy Tanner and her late husband Mel Tanner began building Plexiglas light sculptures in the hip ’60s.
If you haven’t already polished your cowboy boots for the National Western Stock Show, dust ’em off for an exhibit honoring Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Or check out one of the many art shows, plays, benefits and food events delights happening between Tuesday, January 10, and Monday, January 16…
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center moves in 2017 from RiNo to a larger space at 1070 Bannock Street in the Golden Triangle.
The group will host a meeting on Tuesday to address the needs of the DIY community.
Visitors landing at Denver International Airport didn’t get much of a Western welcome this past weekend. Although a new train announcement — recorded by a fast-talking auctioneer — touted the National Western Stock Show and a related exhibit on the bridge leading to concourse A, after the sign at the entrance to the bridge, the exhibit cases were empty.
Tony Diego’s group art exhibit Regresarás (You Will Return) aims to spark a dialogue about international child abduction.
On January 5, Kent Thompson, artistic director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, announced his resignation after twelve years at the helm of the company. He will remain in the position until early March.
Get ready for the arty party of the year: Artopia 2017, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will return on Saturday, February 25. And this round, we’re bringing style off the streets and into City Hall, where we’ll commemorate four of Denver’s most iconic strips — Larimer, Santa…
Discover Denver, a project attempting to tell the city’s history through the stories of significant buildings, launched a new website today replete with an interactive map that gives users the chance to upload stories, photos and documents about the city’s varied structures.
The start of a new year is always a time of reassessment, looking back at the past year while also looking forward to the next. For many of us, these are somber assessments: In 2016 we lost heroes and fought over politics constantly. Much of the time, art was replaced…
Painter Stanley Bell’s kaleidoscopic paintings are on display at Michael Warren Contemporary through January 21.
The legendary Tattered Cover book store is about to start a new chapter with new owners, including Len Vlahos, who has quite a story himself, including early punk bands in New York City and a new young adult book, Life in a Bowbowl.
Leon Gallery has been a team effort since it opened on East 17th Avenue in 2011, but Westword MasterMind Eric Dallimore has served as its curatorial guiding light from the beginning. Working with others to create a gentle and public gallery space that not only takes artistic chances but gives…
William E. (Bill) Potts, a trailblazing Denver sculptor who used salvaged wood, house paint and sometimes crude tools to create vivid figures and tableaux prized by celebrities and schoolkids alike, died last week at the age of eighty.
Get ready for the arty party of the year: Artopia 2017, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will return on Saturday, February 25. And this round, we’re bringing style in off the streets and into City Hall, where we’ll commemorate four of Denver’s most iconic strips — Larimer, Santa…
When news broke Tuesday that Carrie Fisher, known best as the actress who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, had died after suffering a major heart attack, staff at the Denver Art Museum laid out two notebooks where patrons visiting “Star Wars and the Power of Costume” exhibit could jot down their tributes to the actress.
Denver Arts and Venues has announced four opportunities to make public art in Denver.
Denver is a do-it-yourself town. The people who headed west after the gold discoveries in 1858 and 1859 were definitely DIY, determined to make new lives for themselves in the great unknown. When their claims didn’t pan out, some shifted course and became merchants, stocking supplies and offering services for…
