Photo: Tebowing wheat paste on South Platte trail

If you’re on a bike ride on the South Platte trail and you see the below wheat paste, what do you do? Naturally, you post that on reddit. Found by reddit user missjenviolin, it can be seen on the “South Platte trail near Mile High and Elitch’s. There is a…

Over the weekend: Flashing on the Sixties with Lisa Law

The Kool-Aid was Kool-Aid, the brownies were brownies and people were packed into the room like sardines. But the vibe still flew free Friday night at the Byers-Evans House Gallery, for the opening of Lisa Law: Flashing on the Sixties, a meaty show of images both iconic and fascinating from…

Paint with yarn the Huichol way at the Museo de las Americas

As Museo de las Americas director Maruca Salazar told us when opening the show Wixaritari: Huichol Art of Mexico, color is more than a simple sensation for the Huichol people, who imbue it with spiritual characteristics and see themselves as vessels of its natural life force. There’s something lovely and…

Who’s who in the Santa Fe Art District? Place your votes now

As First Friday regulars can attest, when the Art District on Santa Fe throws a shindig, it goes all out. That’s especially true in the case of the annual Santa Fe Art District Best Of exhibition, which awards artists who show in the district two ways: first, with awards given…

Shirt happens…and Viviane Le Courtois wants yours

Vivianne Le Courtois, a Westword MasterMind, uses unusual items to make art: artichokes, gym shoes, junk mail, junk food, potato peels…and now, with any luck, your old T-shirts. For an installation that will debut at Le Courtois’s solo show at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art on February 23, the…

Fairview High School arts programs win Glee Give A Note grant

Even the menacing Sue Sylvester can’t stop the rising art department of Fairview High School in Boulder. The 900 students in the department — including all students in choirs, drama classes, bands and orchestras — collaborated on an entree for Glee Give a Note, a contest sponsored by Fox, Ryan…

One-Man Star Wars Trilogy review: The Force can only do so much.

The road to Alderon was paved with good intentions, as was One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, but unfortunately the Force can’t fix everything. Charlie Ross’s solo adaptation of the first (not the second, thank Emperor Palpatine!) Star Wars trilogy was presented to a packed house at the Lone Tree Arts Center,…