Another year, another residency — it’s business as usual at PlatteForum, the award-winning nonprofit that pairs struggling kids with resident artist/mentors to create something communal and beautiful. The latest resident, installation artist Jessica Kruetter, has been working with ArtLab students for a few weeks already, with an imaginary environment as…
Craigslist can be a scary, scary place, but that doesn’t make any of us visit it any less. When Spark Theater playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided to write a play about the website’s role in Internet and pop culture, he spent hours scouring its Casual Encounters and Missed Connections sections…
Though the twenty-something Collin Parson — son of prominent Colorado sculptor Chuck Parson — has the official title of Gallery Exhibition Designer at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, he’s really the de facto director of the fine-art program. He’s filled a vacuum at Arvada because the position…
Update! Thanks for chiming in! We’ve picked a winner, so check your email to see if you’ve won! On Saturday, February 18, Artopia will fill five SoCo venues with work from some of Denver’s best visual artists, local fashion, culinary creations and specialty cocktails mixed exclusively for Artopia attendees. Tickets…
“Team Canada-Quebec created a sculpture that demonstrates all virtues of carving snow: clean execution, anatomically correct figures and animals, texture, balance and more,” said Jenn Cram, judge coordinator for the 22nd annual International Snow Sculpture Championships and Arts District administrator for the Town of Breckenridge. The team won the competition…
Are you ready to “open up a can of Yee Haw!” at the Denver County Fair? While you’ll still have to wait until August 10 for the second edition to start — filled the National Western Hall of Education with a carnival, vendors and pavilions, and the return of the…
The Culture of African American Art is now on display in the lobby of Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, where the show will run through February 23. But you might want to take a look at it before the crowds descend for a reception for the artists scheduled for 5…
Giving to charity when you’re an artist may seem like a catch-22. After all, many emerging artists could use some charity of their own. But Heart Art Denver has made it possible to give back to the community by donating a piece or art to their 18th annual AIGA (American…
Wax your mustaches and practice your crazy eyes: Salvador Dali is coming to Colorado, for a month-long stay at the Center for the Arts/ Evergreen. Okay, so it’s unlikely that Dali himself will show up. And the items on display are actually poster reproductions on loan from the Dali museum…
There’s little snow along the Front Range, but there’s a blizzard of activity at the Colorado Convention Center, which is currently hosting 20,000 industry buyers from around the world at the SnowSports Industries of America Trade Show…
Just like the mass panic that’s sure to ensue when the end of the world comes this December, Plus Gallery’s new show “Apocalypse? How!” has a lot going on. To start, the show features four different artists, symbolic of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: Donald Fodness, Larry Bob Phillips,…
As a kid, playwright Sean Paul Mahoney was “totally obsessed” with the Madonna/Rosanna Arquette movie Desperately Seeking Susan. Both the voyeurism and the romance fascinated him, but in his mind, he was Arquette’s character. “I always wanted to be that person that someone saw on the subway and thought was…
Chill! The Snow Show has filled the Colorado Convention Center with a blizzard of activity, and the white stuff is spilling outside the facility into the 2012 Art of Winter, a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artists and innovators. At noon today and again next Thursday, the Denver Theatre District will…
It’s still more than seven months away, but if you’re a fan of anime and cosplay in general, you’re already looking forward to the sixteenth — “sweet sixteen,” in the words of organizer A. Jinnie McManus — edition of Nan Desu Kan…
I didn’t wake up Tuesday morning thinking I’d stop being polite and start being real, but that’s how I ended my day. MTV held an open casting call for the new season of its infamous reality show, The Real World at downtown bar Suite 200 and, against my better judgement,…
Most people stopped practicing art in grade school, and according to Heidi Hafenstine, that’s why art therapy works so well for adults. Art, according to Hafenstine, offers a form of communication that taps into the subconscious. Because unlike language, most adults have lost their mastery and ability to “manipulate” the…
What do you get when you combine a super-massive black hole, an eight-year-old Mars Rover, uncharted planets…and a couple of geniuses? 60 Minutes in Space, which debuts at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science…
Most of us here in Colorado can relate to the rush of skiing down a mountain of fresh powder. But that rush is nothing compared to the heart-stopping, breath-seizing thrill of entering a tornado’s destructive vortex of violently rotating winds. But for the past eight years, that was the mission…
One of the most important curatorial departments at the Denver Art Museum (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, www.denverartmuseum.org) is Modern and Contemporary, headed by Gwen Chanzit; a major portion of the Hamilton Building’s third and fourth levels are given over to it. Though paintings and sculptures are the stock…
Supporting the arts is just good business. That’s the basic message of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, which was founded in 1985 and has grown to over 130 members, just announced the finalists for the 25th annual CBCA Business for the Arts Awards. And not only does this…
It had been far too long since any literal juggling was done in the Westword conference room, so when the offer came down to see Cirque du Soleil Dralion juggler Vladik Miagkostupov perform in person, we welcomed it with open, uncoordinated arms…
After Los Angeles-based graffiti artist David Choe finished his murals for Denver International Airport’s Terminal Kings project, he did what any street artist would do: He went and found a blank wall in the city where he could leave his mark. That wall happened to be at 13th and Champa…
