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Inside Garage Galleries and Other DIY Arts Spaces in Denver

January 29, 2019 6:55AM

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Jake Cox
The first show at Peralta Projects was in July 2018.
In recent years, Denver artists have been feeling the crunch from rising rents and closing DIY spaces. To survive, they've been coming up with creative strategies for exhibiting work, including turning garages into art galleries and using other offbeat spaces. We recently took a look inside a couple of DIY venues as well as two garage galleries, Georgia Art Space and Peralta Projects.

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