Visual Arts

Tara Rynders leads a double life as a registered nurse and a dancer, but the opposing disciplines are more alike than you’d think, at least in Rynders’s creative universe.

Travel can be rough for vegans hellbent on sticking to their plant-based diet. But Dave Paco is here to help.

The female perspectives represented by each of these Denver artists are not delicate nor flimsy but supremely badass; their expression is powerful, non-gendered, non-liner and not-of-this-world.

Comedian Charlie Murphy, who performed frequently in Denver, passed away on April 12 in New York City.

The new Kirkland Museum, honoring Denver’s premier artist of the mid-twentieth century, won’t open for visitors until mid-2018, but a tour of the project shows it’s a true landmark in the making.

Divisions, Wonderbound’s latest performance, runs three consecutive weekends and is the launch of Denver’s Flobots tour supporting the hip-hop act’s third album, No Enemies.

Jeffrey Keith doesn’t want to bullshit people. And in the case of Storm Warning: Artists on Climate Change, a show Keith curated for the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery, that mission felt all the more compelling because of the urgency of its subject matter. “So much art in this…

Artist and Westword MasterMind Ravi Zupa doesn’t want the public to forget that police continue to kill unarmed black people – even as the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration have jerked attention away from criminal-justice reform and the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Removing tattoos for free is not an ordinary service offered by tattoo shops, but All Sacred is no ordinary tattoo shop. The hybrid tattoo shop meets nonprofit is currently in the market for a tattoo removal laser with the goal to offer the service of free tattoo removal for former gang members, criminal or otherwise, giving priority to those who tattoos have affected their quality of life.

There’s always good reason to catch a Phil Bender solo at Pirate: Contemporary Art, but this current effort, straightforwardly titled Phil Bender, has the added attraction of being thoroughly poignant. Though not Pirate’s last show, it will be Bender’s last at the co-op’s longtime home in northwest Denver, which the group will soon leave.

A host of national comics creators will descend on DINK, Denver’s premier independent comics convention, at the McNichols Building on April 8 and 9. But DINK also prides itself on nurturing the local scene. Listed in alphabetical order, below are just a handful of the notable Denver-based artists and writers…

My first psychic was about six feet tall, with a plume of yellow hair that recalled both Phyllis Diller and Big Bird, a chain smoker who read my future — rather accurately — by flipping through a deck of playing cards. She punctuated important moments in the reading with jabs…

For almost ten years, Jaime Kopke has been devising ways for museums and other cultural organizations in the Denver metro area to engage their audiences, beyond serving as reliquaries presenting art and information behind a symbolic wall of glass.

Stop by the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Denver for a creative pick-me-up at “Sense of Place: Creating Urban Adventure.”

Last year, Charlie and Jeff LaGreca stood in the center of the Sherman Street Event Center with grins on their faces. The two brothers had brought the unlikely to life: The inaugural installment of DINK, the largest independent comics convention in Denver history, was in full swing around them. Artists,…

Mark Sink, organizer of Denver’s Month of Photography, has also curated Between the Medium: Seeing Photographically at RedLine.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts announced its 39th season, Monday, April 3 for both the DCPA Theatre Company and Off-Center.

The director of operations at Hope Communities, Crossroads’ landlord, recently told Westword that Crossroads is struggling; the theater company in Five Points is behind on rent, leaving Hope, an affordable-housing provider, to cover the mortgage payments. But Crossroads isn’t dying.

The National Endowment for the Arts, which is a pet target of Republicans eager to slash big government, announced this week it is establishing a Creative Forces: Military Healing Arts Network clinical site at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs.

Daniel Salazar and the whole team at Su Teatro work all year long to pull together a selection of films with Latino themes that also speak to strength in community for the group’s annual XicanIndie Film Fest. Evoking the sociopolitical mud that holds people together has always been a bottom-line…

“Why does Denver need one more theater company right now?” asked Rachel Bouchard, while talking about Benchmark Theatre Company’s inaugural full-scale production, the sci-fi crime-drama, The Nether, which launches Friday, March 31.

Who likes a wedgie? Apparently the brains behind Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park’s new ride, the, get this, Mega Wedgie.