The delivery date for submissions in the Denver Art Museum’s Open for Design community challenge is closing in. Have you been dragging your feet because you just don’t know how to come up with a solution that fits the problem within the framework of the challenge? The DAM isn’t about…
Tattoo-Haiku wants to make its mark on Denver. Joseph Carman, founder of the 555 Collective, which promotes the arts and also raises money for trauma victims, is advertising a haiku contest on fliers posted around town. To enter, you must pay a $5 submission fee — which Carman plans to…
Sitting beside me at the Henrys last night was the woman who makes it all happen: Gloria Shanstrom, general manager of the Colorado Theatre Guild. It is Shanstrom who makes this glittering event — this huge coming together of elegantly dressed, excitedly-gesticulating actors, directors, tech people and their audiences –…
There’s a really unusual show at Pirate right now that combines neo-traditional paintings of the figure with animated projections based on them. The Future Is Coming is a collaborative effort by painter Terry Campbell and photographer Matt Slaby. The front space contains half a dozen monumental paintings by Campbell. In…
The Dark Knight Rises is the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, starring Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and more. The movie premieres at 12:01 a.m. Friday, and on Thursday night fans will have several ways to go to bat for Batman…
After hearing Bon Jovi exclaim in “Dead or Alive” that he had “seen a million faces, and rocked them all,” photographer Peggy Dyer was inspired. And ever since, she’s been working on her own project: to photograph one million faces. She’s now nearing the 8,000 mark, and the latest volume…
The city’s announcement that Michael Chavez — who’s made his name with strong, contemporary work as a curator and exhibition designer at the Foothills Art Center and the Arvada Center — has been named the new public art administrator for Denver Arts & Venues seems like sweet salvation after he…
In celebration of “Fan Friday”, two street artists are recreating the first Rockies cartoon ever created by former Rocky Mountain News cartoonist Drew Litton on the sidewalk outside Coors Field…
Walt Pourier is the visionary behind the “ONE Gathering — Skate for Life” event, which will ramp up Saturday at the Denver Skatepark. Drawing hundreds of young Native Americans from across Colorado and beyond, the Gathering will expose them to positive, community-building activities that celebrate heritage while building hope for…
Mixed-media artist Rob Mack lives in the mountains, where nature seems just a little bit closer, and visits by foxes and deer and wild animals of all kinds aren’t that unusual. For Mack, the wildlife with which he shares physical space represents a mystical bond, a theme that repeats throughout…
“Hunter [Thompson] was always asking me and other people to read his work aloud,” remembers Matt Moseley, friend and fellow freedom fighter with Thompson in the controversial Lisl Auman case. “He wrote his work to be read aloud. When he was working on a new piece he’d say, ‘Read a…
The great thing about liking artists who aren’t dead is the opportunity to meet them in person and ask, “What does it all mean?” Ice Cube Gallery is giving you that chance starting today, for the closing weekend of Absence, by Jane McMahan, and Wading In, by Regina V. Benson…
“Ice Cube Gallery sounds like an attractive escape from 100-plus-degree temperatures,” writes Michael Paglia in his review of Regina V. Benson: Wading In and Jane McMahan: Absence (through July 14), two shows that feature natural imagery as key components, in this week’s Westword. Meanwhile, the Golden Triangle’s Walker Fine Art,…
Editor’s note: Cruiser bikes have become a fixture in Denver, especially on Wednesday nights when weekly Cruiser Rides take over the streets. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time when there wasn’t one on every corner. But the culture that comes with cruisers can be polarizing, and Westword contributors…
The Donald Sutherland collection archived at the Auraria Library Special Collections Department reflects a particular area of interest for the late University of Colorado Boulder professor: avant-garde art and experimental artists, many of whom he corresponded with. (He also wrote to authors; we recently wrote of the signed Thomas Hornsby…
Free public movies seem to be a dime a dozen this summer — although most of the feature films are those favorite family reruns. But the four-week Film Fiesta series, sponsored by Arts & Venues at Su Teatro in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, takes a more serious turn…
From July 13 through July 15, the Colorado Black Arts Festival will fill City Park with vendors, performers and artists all celebrating African culture. “Our theme this year is ‘Art Reflects Nature,'” says spokeswoman Jessica Springs. “We want the community to see how art and nature go together and how…
I don’t need to tell you that Colorado’s weather has been a scorcher and that, less metaphorically, parts of the state itself have been scorched, including my sister’s neighborhood, Mountain Shadows. Her house was spared, luckily, but this once-handsome area of Colorado Springs will never be the same. The Waldo…
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival, a signature summer event celebrating visual, culinary and performance arts, took place July 6 – 8 in Denver’s Cherry Creek North Shopping District. The free festival, which featured exhibits of 230 artists, gave patrons an opportunity to meet and talk with international visual artists, sample…
The Colorado Tomato Battle at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Saturday was a mash-up of childhood frivolity and big-kid fun. Though the structure was more formal than the old Tomato Wars between Coloradans and Texans at Twin Lakes, the result was the same: utter chaos and tomato soup. See Also: -Slideshow:…
“An artist is an artist, no matter what form the canvas takes,” a pretentious man once said. It’s one of those statements that may sound pompous (and is), but is no less true. Over the past fifty years there are endless examples of musicians establishing successful careers on the stage,…
Some of us hate Bridesmaids, if only for the fact that it likely was one of the reasons Kristen Wiig decided to leave SNL. Oscar nominations will do that to an actor/writer. However! We found a pair of tickets to see the movie at Film on the Rocks on Tuesday…
