It’s no joke: On Friday, April 1, the Denver Tool Library is turning one — and hosting a birthday party to celebrate. In recognition of a year’s worth of achievements — including selling more than 400 memberships — the tool-sharing organization is inviting everyone in the community to have a…
MCA Denver likes to mash up things that don’t necessarily belong together, and so last week’s Black Sheep Friday social feted both Mad Max and Purim with Max-inspired costumes, live klezmer music and those all-important cheap drinks on the rooftop. Photographer Ken Hamblin documented the artsy party. Now see the…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” Art, of course, is in the eye of the beholder…
The beautiful underworld of modern comics — from wee zines to big graphic novels — was open to the public over the weekend at the inaugural DINK, an art-centric comics convention where fans and artists from Colorado and across the nation could shoot the breeze and share their obsessions. All…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. For new collectors, gallery pieces can be cost-prohibitive. Colorado artists Blair Hamill,…
We were flooded with entries for our fourth annual Westword Comics Contest. The ten winners were published in the March 24 issue (you can see them here, too), but we thought you’d be interested in seeing some of the other entries. This is a funny business!…
On this holiday weekend, you couldn’t find a more appropriate way to spend Saturday afternoon than at Building Bridges with the Muslim Community, an event dedicated to fighting the ignorance and fear of Islamophobia and learning about Islam and the Muslim Community. The event, sponsored by Mile High Japanese American Citizens…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
This week in Denver galleries, you’ll find pets, parties and plenty of printmaking as Mo’Print 2016 continues. Have a look…. Dane “Colfax” Stephenson: The Ark Valkarie Gallery March 23 through April 17 Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 25 Photographer and artist Dane “Colfax” Stephenson takes over Valkarie…
There’s a lot more to comics than men in tights, but you’d never know it at most comic cons. If you want to dig deeper into what comics can be, regardless of what kind of story they’re telling, then DINK: The Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo is your kind…
In its first iteration, in 2014, Mo’Print, a biennial convergence of printmaking events organized by the Invisible Museum, had a gravitational center at the McNichols Building, where a riveting survey of Denver’s own Open Press was presented. This year, with McNichols closed for remodeling, there isn’t a flagship venue —…
For the fourth year running, we asked cartoonists — and would-be cartoonists — to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. We received dozens of responses; not surprisingly, many focused on cannabis (pot put the high in the smile high city, after all) — but there were also an unusual…
When the Denver County Fair returns to the National Western Complex on July 29 for its annual extravaganza, it will have a purrfect new face representing the event: Venus the Two Face Cat. Last year the fair dumped the Pot Pavilion in favor of the Kitten Pavilion, and the kitties…
I had never been to a “Home Show” before. Although I was a homeowner for many years (in what seems like a lifetime ago), I never saw myself as someone who would stroll down aisles of vinyl-clad windows or gutter systems, even if I do enjoy perusing gardening stuff. But…
The writing’s on the wall. While many political pundits have counted Bernie Sanders out, there are plenty of people in this state (the same people who helped Sanders win the Colorado caucuses) who still want him to be the Democratic nominee, as evidenced by the hashtag #StillBernie trending on Twitter…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
Mike Giant is a veteran artist of almost three decades, an OG in the graffiti game — but also a practicing Buddhist with an awe-inspiring presence. A transplant to Colorado who arrived almost two years ago, Giant works in a big garage studio behind his property in Boulder, continuing a…
It’s a busy weekend for Denver’s art districts and galleries, with the daylong, citywide Mo’Print studio tours on Saturday, photography from the frontier, an out-of-this-world group show, and a flurry of one-person displays by Denver favorites working in every medium under the sun. What are you waiting for? Here are the…
This could be the most creative college scholarship idea ever, one that awards students for creativity, innovation — and the willingness to risk failure. Offered by the Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, the Failure Fair Scholarship is an annual scholarship award open to all graduating, college-bound, Colorado high-school seniors. Explains…
To celebrate the inaugural Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo, we’ll publish our fourth annual Comics issue on March 24 — and you can be a part of it. We’re accepting submissions from any Colorado artist who wants to create a cartoon about life in the centennial State — whether…
Although the Colorado Rockies don’t take Coors Field for several weeks — the home opener is April 8 — hits are already flying nearby. Three spectacular solos now on view at Robischon Gallery are real home runs, and they make the place look more like a museum than usual. As…
Mayor Federico Peña inspired me as a young Denverite with his call to “Imagine a Great City.” Though I often dreamed of moving to New York, my mother’s three bouts with cancer and other familial obligations kept me here, so I decided long ago that if I couldn’t be in…
