Portland and Austin may claim to be the weirdest cities in the country, but Denver has its own brand of weird. Giving the “Keep Portland Weird” slogan a twist, Aaron Petitjohn captures the Denver attitude with his “Keep Denver Beard” T-shirts and other Colorado-centric designs. See also: Adam Sikorski’s Coloradical…
Though Aurora is a relatively new city in the West, it still has a rich history to share. This Thursday, February 6, at the Aurora Fox Arts Center, architectural historian Adam Thomas will take a look at the city’s story through a mid-century modern lens. The lecture is part of…
When A.J. Machete and Lianna K. were thinking of moving their custom tailor and dressmaking ventures out of New York City, Denver called. In 2009, Denver Dressmakers and Denver Bespoke — Lianna and AJ’s own handmade brands of intricately sewn women’s apparel and custom-tailored suits — took up residence in…
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. After spending much of his early career doing commercial art, Tony Achilles…
Although the first Alamo Drafthouse opened less than a year ago, the Texas-based chain already has a second movie theater on West Colfax. The success of the location in Littleton prompted the company to extend its brand in metro Denver. The new Alamo will be part of the Sloans development…
We might live in a town where dining out with an eye-feast of visual media means heading to the latest sing-along screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, but in a few weeks, that will all change — at least for a while. Former Denverite Montgomery Knott just announced the arrival here…
We live in a world of letters — letters in books and on billboards and TV screens, and appearing clickety-clackety as our fingertips conjure them out of keyboards. But author Kitty Migaki found characters lurking in more unusual places — among the angles and curves and cornices of buildings –…
Wondering how to accessorize your Denver Broncos jersey for that big Super Bowl party on Sunday? Look no further than Rhode Island-based jewelers Alex and Ani, who have crafted a bracelet featuring the Denver Broncos logo — and with the NFL’s permission, which means no cranky cease-and-desist letters that the…
As she usually does, Tina Goodwin has brought together two solos at Goodwin Fine Art, with one in the larger front space and another in the smaller dog-leg corridor in the back. Also typical for Goodwin is the fact that the two shows are simultaneously distinct from one another and…
The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council invites you to to show some Valentine’s love for its cultural outreach programs at the fifteenth annual Milagros del Corazón benefit on Friday, January 31. This is CHAC’s biggest fundraiser of the year; artists and friends of the group decorate hundreds of blank wooden…
Gamma Acosta has stayed busy blurring the lines behind street art and fine art along the Front Range. And now he’s showing his love for the Broncos and Peyton Manning with two new murals. See also: Kitty Marini’s watercolors pay homage to nature in all its colorful glory…
The idea behind the University of Colorado Denver’s seasonal Mini-School series is simple: invite a wide array of experts who are interested in talking about their chosen fields, and then invite the public to come learn from them — for free. The school has had a successful medical series for…
Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore: Dana Cain and Tracy Weil of the Denver County Fair just announced that the nation’s first Pot Pavilion will be part of the annual event’s three-day run in August at the National Western Complex. The new 21-and-over pavilion, to be located on a newly…
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. Michigan-born Kitty Marini is one cat with more than nine lives: She’s…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art announced today that it will move to a new complex to be erected on the northwest corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street — and that it’s taking that part of the current building that once housed Vance Kirkland’s studio along…
The 4th annual Art of Winter, which kicks off Friday, January 24, and runs through Saturday, February 8, will coincide with the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show. Although there is no official correlation between the urban showcase of Colorado Artists and Innovators and the snow sports industry’s biggest trade…
What goes in the collection stays in the collection, and that means a plethora of fine artworks often stay behind the scenes, unseen by the general public. The Arvada Center’s new exhibit series, COLLECT, brings some of them back out in public, by pulling together work from a variety of…
Though contemporary art went fully international more than a generation ago, certain qualifiers related to country, culture, history, sexuality, gender and ethnicity, among a raft of other factors, persist, and there is no indication that they will give way to some kind of worldwide sameness. This idea came to mind…
Michael Paglia visited the William Havu Gallery and the MSU Center for Visual Art for this week’s review, taking in two shows focusing on contemporary art. The show at Havu, titled Modern Vistas, features work from Colorado artists Sushe Felix and her husband, Tracy Felix. It also features sculptures from…
Just as American graffiti art comprises a variety of styles, techniques and intent, so does its Middle-Eastern counterpart — but that’s just scraping the surface of these art forms. Their differences begin with what’s most basic to the medium: alphabets and hand-strokes as unlike as East and West. And while…
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. When you buy glasswork from artist Sally Van Der Kamp, who works…
Joel Swanson: Left to Right, Top to Bottom and Critical Focus: Ian Fisher opened at MCA Denver Friday night, as part of curator Nora Burnett Abrams’s ongoing focus on local artists. While Fisher’s paintings of billowing clouds and skyscapes take over MCA’s Whole Room, Swanson has filled the David &…
