11 Artsy Activities to Do Over the Holidays in Denver
The holiday season provides the perfect excuse to enjoy the local arts and culture scene in Denver, whether you already take part in it or not. Aside from the traditional holiday gift markets, there’s...
View ArticleA New Urban Art Gallery From Mexico to Open Inside The Source Hotel
When The Source Hotel first opened, an art gallery that focused on urban art and street art from Montreal steered the vibe of its lobby turned marketplace. Named Station 16, this art gallery also...
View ArticleAn Eco-Retreat and Playground Inspired by Burning Man is Coming to Colorado
Almost an hour drive outside of Denver sits a property that stretches 145 acres and abutts National Forest property. It used to be a retreat center owned by the Korean Christian Church South and used...
View ArticleOur Favorite Colorado Murals from 2019
Every year in Colorado, we have the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while seeing some amazing art as the state-wide street art scene flourishes and grows. This year, Colorado hosted more than five...
View ArticleColor Blind Visitors Are Given the Full Spectrum at MCA Denver With...
Technology keeps offering ways for the art world to become more accessible. Sometimes, like with the sensationalization of sharing art on Instagram, this accessibility can be fatalistic to what makes...
View ArticleRiNo Brings Recycle and Landfill Program to Neighborhood with...
At the beginning of 2019, the regularly scheduled RiNo neighborhood meeting had one major topic up for discussion — waste receptacles throughout the district. The main criticism was that there weren’t...
View ArticleWorld-Renowned Artist Simon Beck Is Bringing His Massive Snow Patterns to...
Simon Beck is an artist, but probably not an artist most people are familiar with by name. His medium is snow, but he doesn’t build up the cold substance to create sculptures. No, instead he does the...
View ArticleDenver Artists to Watch in 2020
Last year was huge for the Denver art scene. This year, although it may not have had the triumphant moments of 2018, still proved that the Mile High City is on its way toward becoming a cultural icon...
View Article102 Things to Do in Colorado in 2020
Sweet home, Colorado — the place where you can find ski bums and tech bros at a craft brewery, enjoy street art and fine art in the same block, explore the outdoors using a variety of gear and...
View ArticleCheck Out These 11 New Public Art Projects Coming to Denver in 2020
As the start of a new year (and a new decade) draws near, it’s time to look ahead at what the next revolution around the sun will bring us. In Denver, the beginning of each year is punctuated with the...
View ArticleDenver Wheatpaste Artist Koko Bayer Offers Souvenirs to Fans at New Solo Show
Koko Bayer is not like other street artists in Denver. For starters, most of her work is completed on uncontrolled walls and dumpsters, rather than vying for the highest-paid spots or the ones with the...
View ArticleHow and Why Immersive Experiences Are Taking Over the Denver Art Scene
Although it’s unfair to call the immersive art trend new (just look at the work of Kurt Schwitters or Marina Abramovic) in Denver the term exploded in popularity over the last year or two. From pop-up...
View ArticleDon’t Miss These Denver Art Events in 2020
If you want to fill this upcoming year with art and culture activities, look no further than these 13 events, exhibitions, installations and shows. Strategically chosen to represent each month of the...
View ArticleThe New Colorado Mural Festival Babe Walls Highlights Badass Women and...
It should come as no surprise to most that street art has been a male-dominated industry for a long time. In Denver, that inequality has been felt even harder than in coastal cities, where the girls of...
View ArticleA Global Art Battle is Popping Up in Denver
Art isn’t usually a competitive activity. Not at least, in the sense of other competitions like sports and video games. But since 2001, one New York City-based organization has fostered a creative...
View ArticleThe Untitled Series at the Denver Art Museum Is Changing Direction in 2020
Every year the Denver Art Museum (DAM) usually chooses 12 artists to creatively take over the museum once a month with art installations in a series called Untitled. This year, the program will be...
View ArticleArtists Explore The Mystery of Language in Group Show at Walker Fine Art
We are constantly inundated with the patterns of language — advertisements, billboards, license plates, newspapers and magazines, movies, speeches, emergency exit instructions. Our everyday lives have...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek at the Artists Projecting Animated Murals Onto Walls in RiNo
An ode to real love and sunsets, a crystal cave in Colorado, a representation of the architecture of RiNo — these themes and more will be explored at the third annual Side Stories in RiNo in late...
View Article“Always Forever Yours” Celebrates the Art of the Love Letter at Dairy Block
Handwritten letters are intimate. It’s in this realm, of peering into someone’s soul through pen strokes, that Denver-based conceptual artist Scott Young organized his latest artistic endeavor — an...
View ArticleWant To Paint A Mural in 2020? Denver’s Urban Arts Fund Applications Are Now...
For over a decade now, Denver’s Urban Arts Fund (UAF) has paired street artists with walls all over the city and county, paying them to paint murals that live on as some of the most treasured places in...
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