Visual Arts

The Colorado Ballet has donated tickets to a Thursday, February 16, matinee performance of Ballet MasterWorks to roughly fifty recently arrived refugees from countries including Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and the Republic of Congo. The refugees will attend the performance alongside more than 1,000 students and teachers. The ballet connected with…

Meridith Grundei, who came to Colorado ten years ago after excelling in the Chicago improv community, stays busy in many roles, both as an actor and as a theater professional.

Michael Warren Contemporary, one of the city’s top galleries, often presents two exhibits back to back, as is the case right now. The star attraction, Throw My Ashes Into the Sea: New Works by Daisy Patton, takes over the sprawling multi-part front space, while the gallery’s companion solo, Creative Destruction: New Works by Margaret Lawless, is installed in the more intimate gallery at the back.

The eye-dazzling yet somehow relaxing Lumonics Then & Now: A Retrospective of Light-Based Sculpture by Dorothy & Mel Tanner transforms the interior galleries of the Museum of Outdoor Arts into a world of their own.

Photographer Ted Tahquechi lost most of his vision in a car accident in 1999. Up until the car wreck, he had shot photos since attending college in the 1980s. After the crash, “I didn’t pick up the camera. I didn’t do anything at all,” he says. “I was feeling sorry for myself and feeling disappointed with where I was in my life.”

Take a quick scroll through the #WIA2 hashtag on Instagram, and you’re awash in a thousand perspectives of what Winter in America looks like. The hashtag was started by friends and photographers Armando Geneyro and Blake Jackson, co-creators of the loose-knit TheyShootn collective, which invites photographers from across the world…

Herbalist Lynn Flanagan-Till is a natural caregiver, whether it’s her pets, plants or children that thrive under her watchful eye. The mother of three, with a fourth on the way, and keeper of a home menagerie of house pets also has a natural affinity for plants and their healing properties…

Artist Jaime Carrejo returned from grad school to El Paso, Texas, to visit his family shortly after the wide-open Chihuahuan Desert had been divided by a looming fence at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2008. The vast landscape had been interrupted, a sense of difference between the people of each country inscribed through architecture.

The Riverfront Park neighborhood, sandwiched between Downtown Denver and LoHi, is opening up Commons Park and the plaza underneath Millennium Bridge for events.

Ed Bryant, an award-winning science-fiction and horror writer who’d lived in Denver since 1972, died in his sleep February 10 after a long illness. He was 71. Although fans knew him for his stories, he was a beloved mentor and legendary teacher, too. He was also my neighbor, one of…

Longtime Denver Center for the Performing Arts trustee Jim Steinberg, of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, resigned from the organization, in protest of CEO Janice Sinden ousting Artistic Director, Kent Thompson.

The National Western Stock Show has corralled the Denver County Fair.

Stephanie Shearer, owner of new boutique Trunk Nouveau at Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, says Stanley is like no other retail space in the region.

Colorado artist Michael J. Dowling, the subject of a striking solo, You Already Know How This Will End at Leon Gallery, has built a solid reputation based on drawings, paintings and now sculptures that have an old-master classicism that he intentionally undermines through additions and subtractions, what he calls “redactions.”

Even Roger Gastman agrees: He’s the foremost authority on graffiti in America. But unlike your usual scholar, who stitches together history through books and research, Gastman knows because he’s lived it, beginning in the street and, later, as an urban anthropologist documenting it in print, through photography and on film…

Nearly ten years ago, philanthropist Laura Merage created RedLine with the goal of providing studios for artists and exhibition spaces for art. Considering the crunch on artist spaces in Denver right now — the Rhinoceropolis eviction being just the tip of the iceberg — Merage was prescient. At the time…

Most funders do the dirty work of deciding which earnest nonprofits secure funding and which don’t, behind closed doors. Not the Denver Foundation’s Arts Affinity Group, which hosted Art Tank — based on the cut-throat reality TV show Shark Tank — in which six community-minded art groups attempted to wow a panel of formidable arts administrators, Tuesday, February 7.

Cecily Cullen consistently brings beauty to the walls of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, which she directs, and routinely asks the hard questions lurking behind all that gob-smacking gorgeousness. That’s especially true of theCVA’s latest exhibition, Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, a photo-based show that…

MCA Denver’s Adam Lerner doesn’t simply direct the museum he’s led since 2009 — rather, he animates it, drawing artists and non-artists alike into the MCA with party-like openings and offbeat programs like Mixed Taste, a series pairing lectures on unrelated topics.

Our readers went wild when they heard Rob Reiner’s cult classic, The Princess Bride is coming to the Paramount Theatre on April 21, accompanied by the film’s star, Cary Elwes. The actor will be presenting the movie, which has defined his career. Tickets go on sale today, at 10 a.m. through…