Checking Out More of Denver’s Little Free Libraries

Little free libraries — tiny houses where you can leave a book or take a book — are popping up all over town. Some efforts are modest, like the library my father installed in front of my house; others are more elaborate — history-making, even. The Design and Production team…

Gallery Sketches: Three New Shows in Denver for October 9-11

From a magnificent solo by Joel Swanson at the Museum of Outdoor Arts to a deadly beautiful tribute to plants that go bump in the night in Aurora to a celebration in a rare survivor of that dying breed, the RiNo art-studio warehouse, this weekend is shaping up as a…

Love Is Love Blends Art and Activism at Emmanuel Gallery, Opening Today

An art exhibit about love doesn’t always have to be heart-shaped Valentine’s Day fodder — though hearts might still be part of the equation. Tasked with developing a group show that celebrates the entire spectrum of love, Emmanuel Gallery curator Jacquelyn Connolly crafted Love is Love, working with an eye-opening,…

Off-Center@The Jones Is Coming to Take You Away on Halloween Night

We’ve come to trust the Denver Center’s Off-Center@The Jones when it comes to offbeat theatrical entertainment. Any show put on by Off-Cente – whether it’s improv or performance art – pretty much promises to make folks in the audience laugh and/or cry, sometimes at the same time, all while getting…

Weekend Break-In at the Source Strikes a Blow to Svper Ordinary

Yesterday morning, Tran Wills of Svper Ordinary in the Source put out a plaintive plea on Facebook after the gallery and boutique co-owned by Wills, her husband Josh Wills, Pedro Barrios and Bryan Cavanaugh, was burglarized over the weekend — along with, Wills believes, other businesses in the Source: “Today…

The Mayday Experiment: Old Habits, New Plans

From the outside, things have been quiet with the tiny house, and it would appear nothing is happening. But appearances are misleading: There has been a flurry of plans drawn and redrawn, as Victoria Salvador and I figure out stairs from a Sketch-Up drawing on Imgur; more research done; budgets…

Painter Ken Elliott Knows That Rewards Come With Risk

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. “Wishes come true,” says artist Ken Elliott of his slow migration from…

Five Cool Things in Ruby Hill, Athmar Park and Overland

There’s a new game in town starting Saturday: That’s when Denver’s civic health club, Warm Cookies of the Revolution, takes to the streets for the Stompin’ Ground Games, a yearlong series designed to celebrate cultural richness in the city’s thriving and sometimes lesser-known neighborhoods. First up is a love song…

Will Day’s Paintings Sound Every Bit as Good as They Look

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. Boulder Open Studios is celebrating its twentieth year of connecting artists with the…

Dalai Lama Cancels October Appearances in Boulder

They were some of the hottest tickets in town. But for medical reasons, the Dalai Lama will not be coming to Boulder for a series of scheduled programs on October 20 and October 21, or attending any of his planned events in the United States next month. Today the Tibetan Association…

Six Art Shows — And the Last Few Weeks to See the Horse Show at the DBG

2015 Faculty Triennial. Dan Jacobs, director of the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery and curator of the institution’s art collection, brings both vocations together for the 2015 Faculty Triennial. On one level, it’s a knockout exhibit, perfectly in line with past efforts at the Myhren; on another, its subject…

Art Review: Matt Scobey Presents Concrete Ideas at Leon Gallery

Matt Scobey has been part of the Denver scene for ten years, but he has never had a higher profile than he does right now. That’s partly because his “Talavera Bolsa,” a crumbling partial floor made of concrete tiles, was the only unalloyed success in last summer’s otherwise disappointing Vis-à-Vis…

Meet the Artists Behind the Street-Art Murals of Colorado Crush 2015

What a beautiful, aerosol-filled weekend! Colorado Crush was massive this year, taking over the RiNo arts district and adding fresh murals by acclaimed local and international artists. Jonathan Lamb of Like Minded Productions had helped locate the walls and sanction space for the artist lineup, which included Colorado Crush founder Robin…

The Mayday Experiment: The Struggle Is Real

There are times – a lot of them – when I just don’t know how I’m going to go on. Things feel daunting. What I need to do to try to survive in New Denver and my new reality – adjuncting, juggling multiple jobs, scrambling with the ordinary day-to-day –…

Photographer Evan Semón Captures Colorado’s Cycle Culture

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. The wheels are turning for photographer Evan Semón. Cycle Culture Colorado: We BikeDenver,…