Joan Dickinson blurs genres to create works that span the mediums of drawing, literature, film and performance. The current artist in residence at PlatteForum, she will display genre-bending work inspired by the astrological and paranormal there at a show that opens today; she’s been working with students from the West…
Oakland-based artist Desirée Holman is admittedly a bit of a geek when it comes to otherworldly things, from auras to aliens, and that’s the subject matter she taps visually in her ongoing project, Sophont. Begun in 2012, Sophont is a multimedia mixture of light, video, sound and physical paintings that…
Colorado Springs is hardly the cultural center of our state — it’s more accurately described as the provincial capital of Teabagistan — but for a good deal of the twentieth century, it was at the heart of Colorado’s art world. A major part of the story was the existence of…
“I’m so happy to be here tonight,” said W. Bruce Cameron as he took the podium at the Tattered Cover in LoDo last night to address roughly fifty fans, many of whom sipped on plastic cups of complementary wine or nibbled at various cheeses and fruits through his talk. Tattered…
Under the name The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman has made a career out of making absurd, hilarious comics. Whether the subject matter is mundane (grammar, cats) or bizarre (the sex lives of angler fish, utilikilts), his particular genius lies in tapping into the Internet zeitgeist and delivering the kind of belly…
Brian Corrigan and the Denver Theatre District have big plans to turn Champa Street between 14th Street and the 16th Street Mall into a life-sized video game arcade next summer, combining a number of media platforms to bring people together through gaming in the streets. Called OhHeckYeah, it’s a big…
Science fiction can refer to space travel, time travel, futuristic technology, mutations and any other scenarios loosely based on science. 40 West Arts District will be exploring these different interpretations of sci-fi at its second annual Fall Arts Harvest exhibition, which opens tomorrow, October 15. “We have scientists who are…
The circus from town is coming to town! The Squirm Burpee Circus: A Vaudevillian Melodrama features Denver’s own Handsome Little Devils Productions. Starting October 16, this troupe will be offering its memorizing cirque/vaudevillian act at the Lone Tree Arts Center. “We call it a vaudevillian melodrama,” says Mike Huling, actor…
When Adam Sikorski designed the first Coloradical T-shirt four years ago, he intended it to be just one more thing in his repertoire of designs. He didn’t suspect that it would become his best-selling design, let alone that it would become a brand of its own. “It’s been a really…
This Friday, October 11, Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien of the These Things Matter podcast will defend Waiting for Godot as actor Brian Colonna and comedian Andrew Orvedahl bring it for Waiting for Guffman in “Debating for Guffman,” the first off-kilter entertainment pairing of the 2013 Black Sheep Fridays season…
The Corvo Brothers, Marco and R. Gonzago, come from a filmmaking background, but their preferred art form is still photography. The Denver transplants manipulate multiple photographs to create dreamscapes that almost come alive as “one frame films,” explains Marco. This Saturday, October 12, at Groundswell Gallery, the brothers will present…
Mestizo, a new play written and directed by Anthony Garcia, kicks off Su Teatro’s new season on Thursday, October 11. The premiere stars Daniel Valdez, who in 1973 composed the album Mestizo — the first and only Chicano protest album to be released by a major record label. And the…
MegaFauna launched its new location this weekend with a grand opening party to remember. Featuring tunes by DJ Viking Sound Machine and members of the Infatué dance crew tearing up the floors, the event was poppin’ from start to finish. To top it all off, Deep Eddy Vodka was pouring…
Julie Golden is a novelist, political activist, stained glass artist and hula hoop hobbyist who lives in Boulder. She is also who has also triumphed over unimaginable hardships with tremendous grace and a renewed vigor for life, whose compassion is evident in everything she does. Her novel, Vagilantes, is a twist-filled narrative that focuses on a group of women abuse survivors and the pedophiles who keep getting mysteriously murdered. Golden met up with Westword this week to discuss vigilante justice against pedophiles, writing like David Foster Wallace, and a brain injury that nearly took away her ability to read.
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide, we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next few weeks in pairs that combine both veterans and…
With all of the fires and floods in the past six months, living in Colorado has had, if not a biblical quality, than at least the character of a National Geographic Channel special. Fire, as evoked by wood, is the anchor for an inspired pairing titled Truth and Consequences, now…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide, we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next few weeks in pairs that combine both veterans and…
In a much-welcomed break from all those damn Disney princess debates, Kelly Oliver, the W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, ponders recent fan favorites like Hanna, Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games, Hollywood flicks featuring teenage girls hunting — even killing — animals. Why are these teen…
Picture.Me.Here is a digital storytelling exhibit for refugees from the Mercy Housing/ Grace Apartments in Aurora. A year ago, Brigid McAuliffe, Erin Preston and Lauren Dorn, digital storytelling professionals, sat in a Bhutanese woman’s apartment, drinking amazing tea and teaching that woman and other refuges how to handle hand-me-down cameras…
MegaFauna, the award-winning retail store, boutique, cafe and artists’ emporium, closed its doors at 2101 Larimer Street on September 28. But the news is all good, because MegaFauna needed to close in order to move to its new home at 3102 Blake Street. And it will launch that space tomorrow,…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next…
Having already made its name globally by putting on a film festival as part of last year’s Venice Biennale, Denver’s Design OnScreen is at it again. The first annual Milano Design Film Festival kicked off today, and the local non-profit is showcasing a wide variety of design-oriented films over the…
