For fine art students at Metropolitan State University of Denver, graduating involves more than taking a couple of finals and ordering their cap and gown. A group of fourteen soon-to-be grads are preparing thesis presentations at the Center for Visual Art, putting together the show Level Up, which opens on…
The Sink on the Hill in Boulder is as iconic for its floor-to-ceiling murals and signature-filled ceilings as it is for its burgers and beer. The artist who created those murals, Llloyd Kavich, passed away last week. See also: President Obama’s Boulder visit results in new specials at two restaurants…
This holiday season, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art is celebrating by hosting 12 and a half days of artistic performances in their sleek atrium. What sets the 12 & 1/2 Days of Xmas Live! event series apart from MCA Denver’s other programs is that the performers will chosen from an open call for entry and the applicants will be competing for a $500 prize. To learn more about the performances, Westword caught up with Sarah Kate Baie, MCA Denver’s director of programming and chief of fictions, to discuss the contest rules, reaching out to the local creative community and Denver’s puppeteering scene.
When the zombies stopped crawling downtown on Saturday, it was only the beginning of a long and living-dead night: The undead could then just march into a Zombie Crawl after-party at Casselman’s or the Zombie Prom at the Meadowlark — or both — and continue to carry on into the…
The zombie craze is here to stay, and that seems doubly true in Denver, where the annual Zombie Crawl turns downtown into a freakin’ bloody mess of creeps and crawlers dropping body parts everywhere, as they did this past Saturday. As these photos by Westword’s Aaron Thackeray prove, Denver zombies…
Denver is celebrating 25 years of the city’s public art program with Beyond Blue, an exhibition running through December 22 in the lobbies of the Buell Theatre and the McNichols Civic Center Building, where it held an opening reception on October 17. Many of the 46 artists who created the…
“You say boogie, I say bogey,” says Eric Matelski, in response to questions about the pronunciation of the ‘bogeyman’ element of the Bogeyman Group Art Show now up at MacSpa. Inspired by the fact that his family treated Halloween like Christmas in his youth, and in honor of Denver’s multi-cultural…
Michael Paglia visits Z Art Department in this week’s review, taking in a solo show featuring work by the late Al Wynne. Wynne was a large part of the mid-century modern art scene in Colorado, but a majority of his life’s work was destroyed in a forest fire last summer…
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.
