“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
November 14, 2024
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
November 12, 2024
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture.
October 08, 2024
The collection of work featured in ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM asks what a bright future might look like for Muslim communities and engages visitors in new ways.
October 04, 2024
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.
September 06, 2024
InterviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Pamela Zoline speaks with Noah Travis Phillips about the Colorado Plateau, recent work, and the science that excites her.
September 06, 2024
WritingsColoradoRadical Futures
Noah Travis Phillips’s more optimistic, queer, and contemporary “cover” of Pamela Zoline’s feminist collage sci-fi classic “The Heat Death of the Universe.”
September 06, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.
September 06, 2024
ReviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Anchored by imagery from Bears Ears National Monument, Fazal Sheikh's exhibition at the Denver Art Museum explores the dichotomy of beauty and destruction in the Southwest.
September 06, 2024
As Anna Tsouhlarakis presents an elaborate Northeastern rendition of The Native Guide Project, she looks back on the Southwestern roots of her artistic practice.
August 29, 2024
I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art explores the process of applying to and proposing a public art project, while grappling with the ubiquity of rejection.
July 23, 2024
"Biophilic design," which emulates the natural environment, is undoubtedly having a moment. So how does the Denver Art Museum’s latest design exhibition expand on this discourse?
July 05, 2024
At the tail end of a legislative session—and after years of stagnant arts funding—Colorado legislators approve $16 million tax credit and more.
June 05, 2024
The Town of Vail and artist Danielle SeeWalker saw very different messages in her painting G is for Genocide, sparking the cancellation of her long-planned residency.
May 17, 2024
In Performing Self at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, seven multidisciplinary artists expand the concept of performance art with works that are extremely personal, even courageous.
April 15, 2024
Denver Art Museum workers have voted to unionize, citing pay and management transparency as leading reasons for organizing.
March 20, 2024
Jenna Maurice, currently a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, discusses how relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas.
March 18, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.
March 01, 2024
FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity.
March 01, 2024
The remarkable Clarence Shivers—a multifaceted artist, Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot, and Colorado Springs philanthropist—is remembered in a retrospective exhibition at Colorado College.
February 28, 2024
Laura Shill, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist, commits to creative community-building through the playful and profound lens of conceptual buffoonery, which she elevates to a high art form.
February 21, 2024
Through the subversive and (sac)religious performance Black Mass Blood Ritual, Denver-based artists Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller create an occult celebration of pain, kink, queerness, and (dis)ability.
January 22, 2024
Del Harrow, a Colorado-based ceramicist, combines ancient practices and contemporary technologies to create historically informed objects that tell stories toward a more sustainable future.
December 18, 2023
Crestone Ziggurat, once a private sanctuary for meditation, is a peculiar monument nestled along the edge of the San Luis Valley and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southeast Colorado.
December 06, 2023
Celebrated Boulder-based performer Andrea Gibson, known for their spoken word poetry on topics ranging from gun reform to mental health, succeeds Bobby LeFebre as the tenth poet laureate of Colorado.
November 28, 2023
Todd Dobbs’s captivating journey of AI-generated imagery and its complex relationship with human perception—packaged in a witty exploration of art and technology—challenges assumptions about the “typical American.”
October 17, 2023
Mi Gente: Manifestations of Community in the Southwest considers the complexities of a community shaped by colonization and migration. On view September 1, 2023–February 3, 2023, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.
October 10, 2023
For arts communities in southern Colorado, a diminished presence of alternative newspapers like the Colorado Springs Indy means less coverage and support.
October 05, 2023
Denver artist Trey Duvall combines digital, mechanical, manual, and natural tools in order to explore a multitude of concepts in his durational installation RETURN/SWEEP.
September 14, 2023
Complementing and circumventing traditional gallery relationships, artists in Colorado find financial and material support through corporate and private clients via third-party advisors.
September 08, 2023
