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Amplify Arts Denver Aims to Give Voice to Denver's DIY Scene

By Kyle Harris

Jan 9, 2017

The group will host a meeting on Tuesday to address the needs of the DIY community.

Jason Bosch Hosts Final ArgustFest Screening on Thursday

By Patricia Calhoun

May 31, 2016

It's the end of an era. On Thursday, June 2, filmmaker and 2008 Westword MasterMind Jason Bosch will present the final screening by ArgusFest, the labor of love (for good, important films that educate audiences, albeit often very small audiences) that he started fifteen years ago. "I've decided to finally let...

Viviane Le Courtois Wants to Make You Think — But She Needs Your Hair First

By Luke Leavitt

Mar 25, 2016

Viviane Le Courtois wants strands of your hair — as long as they're six inches or longer. The artist and Westword MasterMind plans to braid those donations and weave them into a small structure she calls a Global Thinking Pod, which she will make as part of her creative residency at the...

Meet Mar Williams, 2016 Westword MasterMind

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 20, 2016

In 2005 Westword introduced the MasterMind awards, honoring the artists and arts organizations that were changing the cultural landscape of Denver. Since then, we've awarded more than $150,000 to 55 MasterMinds — and we'll be celebrating our twelfth creative class at Artopia 2016 tonight. Meet Mar Williams, 2016 MasterMind. From...

Meet Our First 2016 MasterMind: Jeromie Lawrence Dorrance

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 19, 2016

In 2005 Westword introduced the MasterMind awards, honoring the artists and arts organizations that were changing the cultural landscape of Denver. Since then, we've awarded more than $150,000 to 55 MasterMinds — and now we're rolling out our twelfth creative class. Meet Jeromie Lawrence Dorrance, our first 2016 MasterMind. Dorrance,...

Westword MasterMinds Have Made Their Mark on Denver

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 18, 2016

A giant, inflatable orange rhino dominated the stage at the first-ever annual breakfast meeting of the River North Art District, which sounds like a somewhat bourgeois affair (although there were mimosas, and the gathering didn't start until 9:30 a.m.) for a concept that seemed so wild a dozen years ago...

Counterpath's Tim Roberts on Gentrification and a New Space on East Colfax

By Luke Leavitt

Jan 13, 2016

“You don’t have to see the shed, I normally wouldn’t get excited by a shed,” says Tim Roberts, co-owner of Counterpath Press, a Westword MasterMind, as he jiggles the key in the lock anyway. Inside are boxes of books: experimental poetry, performance manuscripts, transcripts. Roberts opens a box and digs...

After Fourteen Years of Showing Films, Jason Bosch Is Off to Make His Own

By Patricia Calhoun

Oct 6, 2015

Jason Bosch's ArgusFest has been "raising awareness since 2001," bringing films, speakers and discussions of critical issues to Denver. But above all, films: For the past fourteen years, he's screened films that might not otherwise be seen here, showing them in venues small and large. But now Bosch, who we named...

Counterpath Press Makes Itself at Home at City Park Jazz

By Luke Leavitt

Jul 8, 2015

Counterpath Press was ousted from its longtime home near the Mercury Cafe over the winter, and since then the MasterMind winner has been seeking out new ways to reach the public while also searching for a new home. One temporary solution: Counterpath landed a booth at City Park Jazz, and...

MasterMind Anthony Garcia Continues to Make a Mark on Denver

By Lindsey Bartlett

Jun 19, 2015

Anthony Garcia Sr. is the founder of Birdseed Collective, a Globeville native, acclaimed studio and street artist, father, philanthropist and the mastermind behind the new compass created on an intersection at Jefferson Park. "It’s one of the pieces I'll be doing this summer that is part of an urban renewal...

Meet Our Latest MasterMinds, Kalyn Heffernan and Birdseed Collective

By Patricia Calhoun, Kiernan Maletsky and Susan Froyd

Jun 18, 2015

When Westword decides to put on a show, we really put on a show! Our 21st annual Westword Music Showcase — which will fill venues across the Golden Triangle on Saturday, June 20 — will include a real class act: Two of this year’s MasterMind awards, including one going to...

Last Words From Jessica Hernandez, Killed by Cops

By Westword Staff

Feb 4, 2015

Before seventeen-year-old Jessica Hernandez became a household name after she was shot to death by Denver officers while in a stolen car, she was part of Art From Ashes, a local program -- and MasterMind Award winner -- that works with at-risk youth through creative-empowerment workshops. Here are two of...

Video: Meet Westword MasterMind Eric Dallimore

By Adam Roy

Apr 11, 2014

From sculpture to photography to printmaking, Leon Gallery co-owner Eric Dallimore doesn't limit himself to one medium. "That may be a good thing or a bad thing, but it's just the way I create art," he told Westword in an interview earlier this year. That wide-ranging skill certainly impressed us,...

Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Danette Montoya

By Susan Froyd

Apr 10, 2014

Danette Montoya, assemblage clock.#91: Danette Montoya Danette Montoya creates jewelry and found-object treasures for her business Tinkerbirds, making a living by way of her own imagination. That keeps her busy enough, but somewhere along the way she and fellow starving artist Rebecca Peebles decided to open a gallery. GroundSwell was...

Meet the 2014 MasterMinds: Lisa Ramfjord Elstun, fashion/design

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 22, 2014

Westword has always covered the local arts scene. But ten years ago, we recognized that if the arts were really going to grow in those town, they could use some some fertilizer in the form of cold, hard cash. And so we created the MasterMind Awards, which every year gives...

Meet the 2014 MasterMinds: Adam Stone, performance arts

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 22, 2014

Westword has always covered the local arts scene. But ten years ago, we recognized that if the arts were really going to grow in those town, they could use some some fertilizer in the form of cold, hard cash. And so we created the MasterMind Awards, which every year gives...

Meet the 2014 MasterMinds: Eric Dallimore of Leon Gallery, visual arts

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 22, 2014

Westword has always covered the local arts scene. But ten years ago, we recognized that if the arts were really going to grow in those town, they could use some some fertilizer in the form of cold, hard cash. And so we created the MasterMind Awards, which every year gives...

Meet the 2014 MasterMinds: Karen Lausa of Words Beyond Bars, literary arts

By Patricia Calhoun

Feb 22, 2014

Westword has always covered the local arts scene. But ten years ago, we recognized that if the arts were really going to grow in those town, they could use some some fertilizer in the form of cold, hard cash. And so we created the MasterMind Awards, which every year gives...

Meet the 2014 MasterMinds: Kim Shively, multimedia

By Westword Staff

Feb 22, 2014

Westword has always covered the local arts scene. But ten years ago, we recognized that if the arts were really going to grow in those town, they could use some some fertilizer in the form of cold, hard cash. And so we created the MasterMind Awards, which every year gives...

Denver Open Media's Independent Voices celebration looks like a hot time tonight

By Patricia Calhoun

Dec 6, 2013

Tonight the Open Media Foundation will celebrate seven years of independent voices on Denver Open Media -- which not only runs Denver's public-access channels on Comcast, but also provides training and services for non-profits and kids. From the hundreds of nonprofits and thousands of people it works with every year,...

MasterMinds

Westword Announces Two New MasterMinds

Union Station Will Become a Human Sculpture Court

MasterMinds

Westword Announces Two New MasterMinds

Union Station Will Become a Human Sculpture Court

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