Keep your eyes peeled for these huge billboard murals driving around Denver
Facing an uncertain future, Lower Downtown’s K Contemporary has gotten creative in its drive to keep visual art at the front of metro-area residents’ minds. Starting April 27 and continuing through...
View ArticleCherry Creek Arts Festival canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak
Only a few months out from its 30th anniversary, CherryArts is canceling the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, slated for July 3-5 in Denver’s upscale Cherry Creek neighborhood. The massive art fair, market...
View ArticleCreate your own digital comics whether you can draw or not
By J.D. Biersdorfer, The New York Times Got a tale to tell but don’t want to bang it out as a traditional book? Try doing it as a digital comic — and ignore anyone who thinks visual narratives are a...
View ArticleA Longmont craft store created a volunteer army to sew 15,000 masks — and...
Susabelle Kelmer didn’t think twice about volunteering to make face masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in Colorado — she just sat down at her sewing machine and got to work. Kelmer, 58,...
View ArticleIn a world without nightclubs, Denver comedians take to … Dungeons and Dragons?
They say you don’t really know your favorite artist until you’ve seen them journey to an ancient Elven ruin to cram an elemental shard in a Balrog’s face. OK, they don’t say that. Unless “they” is...
View ArticleDenver’s Foreign Form reinvented the gallery opening for the pandemic age
Artists and dealers have resorted to extreme measures over the past two months, doing whatever they can to keep the art business thriving during the coronavirus pandemic and the economic shutdown that...
View ArticleArtists in major cities, including Denver, to share their work from their...
If artists can’t create and share their art, are they even artists? That and other “if a tree falls in the forest …” questions have lately haunted working artists, who have been robbed of the stages,...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: We asked local artists to make Colorado-themed coloring pages, and...
On April 1, two weeks into stay at home orders and the temporary closure of all “non-essential” businesses, we issued a creative challenge: We asked local artists to design Colorado-themed coloring...
View ArticleSafety concerns divide Denver art galleries: In-person, online or both?
When 2020 began, Christine Serr could see the horizon. “We had a normal opening schedule planned for the next two years,” said the owner of Abend Gallery and Gallery 1261 in Lower Downtown. “Right now,...
View ArticleChristo, artist known for massive, fleeting displays, dies
NEW YORK — Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84. His death was announced on Twitter and the artist’s web page. No cause of death was...
View ArticleColorful art installation takes over what used to be a weed-filled, dried-up...
Sarah and Joshua Palmeri’s new “Color Field” installation comes across as the sort of pandemic-friendly art project we all need right now, an uplifting and unpretentious offering to the masses that’s...
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Museums, galleries located in the center of Denver’s protests brace for more...
As Denver residents stare down another 24 hours of protests, the city’s arts and culture scene is busy cleaning up while also bracing — as best as it can — for the next round of uncertainty. That’s...
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Denver black artists contemplate their role during nationwide George Floyd...
Ietef Vita awoke with a mission on Memorial Day. The eco-conscious rapper and vegan chef, who has appeared on the “Rachael Ray Show” and was a guest of Michelle Obama at the White House in 2015 for...
View ArticleMuseum of Outdoor Arts reopens with a rare exhibition of prints by a...
It’s impossible to write about any art event right now without acknowledging the strange times we are living through at the moment. Major Colorado museums, by and large, remain closed off to the public...
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The art of confinement: Six inspired projects by Colorado artists under...
Anthony Garcia’s garage The work of Anthony Garcia Sr. is familiar to just about everyone in Denver. The one-time graffiti writer is now a mural-making maven with public projects in neighborhoods...
View ArticleDenver Art Museum sets reopening date, new safety protocols
Following an unprecedented, months-long closure, the Denver Art Museum will reopen its doors to the public on June 26. The move follows a number of other major arts and culture nonprofits opening this...
View ArticleFather’s Day 2020: Lessons from the modern fatherhood podcast, “Paternal”
As a parent trying to survive in June 2020, my days feel untethered, like balloons released during a windstorm. My kids, 3 and 7, don’t let my wife and me sleep much. Everything in our house seems...
View ArticleCrush Walls street-art festival coming back to RiNo with new coronavirus...
The River North Art District, known for its collection of murals and street art as much as its rapid gentrification, will get a fresh coat of paint this fall as the Crush Walls festival returns to...
View ArticleBMoCA’s “Night Reels” of Stacey Steers immerses viewers in the artist’s...
Having opened in late January, “Night Reels: The Work of Stacey Steers” at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art went dark when the novel coronavirus shuttered most everything. This week, BMoCA...
View ArticleWATCH: Time-lapse capture of “Interwoven,” a mural painted on Bannock Street
Time-lapse video capturing the creation of a 28,680 square foot mural on Bannock Street titled “Interwoven” by artists Pat Milbery and Andre Rodriguez. The mural is the city’s largest street mural and...
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