Month of Photography

TARRA x Goldyn

UnEarthing
Opening Reception April 20, 5-8PM

Jane Jordan Gravely, Quilter Kerry Larkin, Knomia Barron Rodriguez, Kyra Weinkle

TARRA, a community for women in the creative industries, and Goldyn,
one of Denver’s most sought after women’s boutiques for progressive
fashion, are partnering together to host a collaborative installation
of local photographers and “Women Who Create” as part of Denver's
Month of Photography.

Join us April 20, 5-8 PM for the opening reception of UnEarthing—a meeting of the minds between:

Architect and Designer Jane Jordan Gravely
Quilter Kerry Larkin of Comma Workshop
and our two amazing photographers Knomia Barron Rodriguez of Knomia Monika, and Kyra Weinkle

UnEarthing will be an exploration of photography, texture, and space,
inviting viewers to step inside ... to experience a departure framed
by the stories of "Women Who Create".

About TARRA:
www.tarramade.com/events/
TARRA is a community of “Women Who Create”—architects, graphic
designers, furniture makers, woodworkers, blacksmiths, artists,
weavers, printmakers, artisans and crafts(wo)men who are innovating
and elevating their craft. We’re placing women at the center of the
conversation by highlighting creatives around the world who are
breaking barriers, creating new paradigms and pushing the boundaries
of what’s possible in design. Born from an acute awareness of the
gender gap in the design industry, our goal is dislodge the ongoing
imbalance by harnessing the collective strength of the women we
represent.

About Goldyn:
www.shopgoldyn.com
Goldyn opened its first brick and mortar store in May 2011 in the old
Olinger mortuary building located in the up-and-coming LoHi
neighborhood of Denver.  The well-edited shop, which also stocks
jewelry, shoes, books, art prints and other curiosities, is strongly
enmeshed in the local Denver fashion scene.  In addition to mentoring
and supporting local designers, the store also plays host to community
events each month ranging from designer trunk shows to fashion shows,
charity benefits, concerts, and art exhibits. Goldyn has been featured
in a wide array of media outlets, including Lucky Magazine, Marie
Claire, Refinery29, Vogue Japan, People StyleWatch, Travel + Leisure,
Foam, 5280 Magazine, Westword, Mint, CoutureColorado, Design Sponge
and many more.

Goldyn
2040 W 30th Ave
Denver, CO 80211
www.shopgoldyn.com
www.tarramade.com

Photo Book Works Satellite exhibit 
Pop-Up exhibition
April 1 – April 29, 2017
Held at Tallyn's Reach Library

Included are works by the following artists:
Alice Austin, Alicia Bailey, Amandine Nabarra Piomelli, Anita Rankin, Frans Baake, Gail Watson, Ian Warren, Jess Buckley, Karen Zimmerman, Kathy T. Hettinga, Mary V. Marsh, Michael Peven, Nikki Thompson, Rachel Basye, Sammy Lee, Scott McKinney, Shu Ju Wang, Stephanie Slate, Susan Lowdermilk and Tom Finke.

Curated by Abecedarian Artists’ Books director Alicia Bailey, this exhibit includes contemporary book works featuring photography as primary element. 

An online catalog of the Photo Book Works exhibit is available for viewing HERE 

Abecedarian Artists’ Books
910 Santa Fe, #15
Denver, CO  80204
abecedarianbooks.com

Pop-Up hosted at
Tallyn's Reach Library
23911 E. Arapahoe Road, Aurora, CO  80016
303.627.3050
Library hours: Monday 11am – 7pm, Tuesday – Saturday 10am - 6pm

Alien Linguistic Lab
Sarah Schönfeld
Through March 10th 2017

Gildar Gallery presents Alien Linguistic Lab, the US solo debut of Berlin-based artist Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld. Schönfeld’s broad practice encompassing sculpture, performance, installation, and photography is informed as much by indigenous perspectivism as the spiritual dimension of science and technology. In this exhibition, Schönfeld offers a series of treatments for our current state of anxiety and alienation in a globalized society, specifically focussing on the techno-sociological conclusion that UFO's are manifestations of nuclear angst, a thesis which gained prominence in the 1950s. Schönfeld suggests that this manifestation of stress could be understood as imbalance in the spirit world and mental health issues alike. She examines several methods to escape, eliminate, include and defend these spirits or disease by comparing strategies like pharmacology, shamanism, psychotherapy, magic rituals, space travel, mythology and their different dimensions and potentialities.

Within the exhibition a variously related bodies of work come together to form the laboratory. Flying Sorcerer is an open workshop, an actualization of several medieval European and older South American traditions of intentionally destroying pottery, used in wedding and funeral rituals to scare bad spirits. Schönfeld re-appropriates and customizes this technique inviting the audience to throw saucers against the gallery wall in the exhibition. Using gravity as a controlled way of flying and crashing, the shivers (shiver meaning both “to tremble” and a piece of pottery) that have been shattered will be reassembled on site in an act of instant archaeology. These reformed objects will be listened to using a record player and a Morse App. The act of throwing objects as a domestic "reenactment" of the UFO phantasm, is supposed to enable us to get over the shiver and decode to the message of alienation. The complete product, now fractured, opens room for the metaphysical interpretation throughout its gaps.

This workshop is embedded in a presentation of imaginary tools and oracles, works developed by Schönfeld in recent years. In her series Shamanistic Space Travel Equipment, organic textures and cosmic imagery fuse into a single complex surface. Imagery from popular science-fiction films along with actual scientific images from NASA printed onto cowhide combine frontier mythologies in a process of physical alchemy. This altered traditional ritual-wear becomes a surface of both cosmic-scientific gnosis and blockbuster entertainment — helping spirits merge with technology. In the results from Schönfeld’s Pharmaceutical Cosmology Lab, the artist chemically transmogrifies a variety of anti-anxiety drugs to create visually hypnotising portraits. Forging the photo chemical surface of the negative with these psychoactive medications, the resulting photographic reactions appear as glowing planets of induced calm. Both of these series refer to the translation of cosmological metaphors of inner and outer space, as François Bucher puts it:

“These new radio telescopes can only show us what they heard and saw by way of their own theater of artificial color-coded images, catered pedagogically for our human perceptual apparatus. So in a sense those images are yet another story, another mythology fabricated in order to hint at something that is essentially incomprehensible.”

Schönfeld’s choice of materials reflects the eclecticism of late-stage capitalism, where boundaries must be crossed to face complexity and the question of culture and nature has to be examined once more. In each of her works unexpected materials are playfully melded into specific perceptual treatments. With formal subtlety, the viewer’s senses are jostled until disciplinary boundaries selectively dissolve into conceptual portals, where loose threads cross, unsnarl, blend into new insights.

More About the Artist

Schönfeld studied under Lothar Baumgarten at The University of The Arts in Berlin. She has exhibited widely, including recent solo exhibitions at Zabriskie Point in Geneva, Galleria Mario Iannelli in Rome, Dapiran Project Space in Amsterdam. She has participated in many institutional shows, including at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Kunstverein in Wolfsburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Museo Paco des Artes in Buenos Aires, the Muzeum Ludwig in Budapest, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. Schönfeld’s work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, the Huffington Post, Der Spiegel, and Terremoto.She recieved the Stiftung Kunstfonds Germany and the Villa Aurora Residency Los Angeles amongst other grants.About the GalleryGildar Gallery is contemporary art gallery in Denver. With a spirit of collaboration, the gallery actively works to cultivate the careers of emerging local and national artists and to expand the legacies of important historical and established figures from within Colorado and well beyond. The gallery has received a number of accolades for its unique vision including receiving 5280 Magazine’s distinction as Top Gallery in 2012, as well as multiple positive reviews for exhibitions in the Denver Post and The Westword including its 2014 Best Emerging Artists Show and the readers’ choice award for Best Solo Exhibition.

Gildar Gallery
82 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209
(303) 993-4474
Wed - Sat / 12pm - 6pm
www.gildargallery.com

HOME

Stacie Ann Smith

March 2- 27, 2017

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16th 7-9pm
Artist talk 8pm in the forum room
Free and open to the public
This photographic series depicts the comfort, care and struggles that are part of home. Seen are the freedoms and joys of youth, the growth in adolescence, and the traditions created at... HOME

www.stacieannsmith.com
720.346.8619 cell/txt

Koelbel Library
5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121
303.542.7279
https://arapahoelibraries.org

Group Show
March 25th - April 2017
Opening March 25th, 6-11pm

Ron Pollard - We Kill Everything (Denver) 
Phil Donahue - what we're made of (Los Angeles)
Lewis Neeff - Between Worlds (Denver)
Miqo Cash - Untitled (Slovokia) 
Adam Gordon - Untitled Historic Photography (Denver)

Current Residents At The Temple:
Taylor Balkissoon, Viviane Le Courtois, Christopher R. Perez, Jonathan Saiz, Maomi Scheck, Molly Bounds, Detour, Xavien Lahey, George P. Perez, Ron Pollard, Chinn Wang, Carol Browning, Jason Lee Gimbel, Lewis Mitchell Neeff, Leo Rivera, Kinsey Zaire, Katie Caron, Caleb Hahne, Suchitra Mattai, Lori Owicz, Sony DSC, Regan Rosburg, Mario Zoots, Margaret Newman.

The Temple is a multi media fine art center. Galleries, studios and analog photography darkrooms and work areas and bakery. 
Entrance is by appointment only. To visit the exhibits or studios and for general information about the Temple, please call Adam Gordon at 720 236 6662 or visit: www.templeartsdenver.org 

Home of Processus
Institute for Art and Life
Processus is a shared place for artists to think and make.
A multi-use shop, darkroom, clean space and cafe/pop up space

2400 Curtis St
Denver, Colorado 80205
303.653.4091 or 303.526.8064
www.thetempledenver.org
www.processusartlife.com

State of Colorado's Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Colorado Creative Industries

UNDERCURRENTS
Susan Goldstein

February 2017 – May 2017

The photographs displayed in the lobby of the Office of Economic Development were taken by Colorado-based photographer Susan Goldstein.  These images are part of a larger collection of Goldstein’s work, titled, UNDERCURRENTS.  Her photography features images iconic to the American West.  Goldstein’s images are lonely, but not void of human evidence. Instead, they give us insight of a place, and a deeper understanding of the communities she passes through.  Goldstein highlights meaning in unlikely, seemingly overlooked communities.  Susan Goldstein attended the Woodland School of Photography and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she earned her BA. She has been a freelance visual artist as well as photographer for Westword newspaper and various books. Her work has been included in several publications. Goldstein’s work has appeared in a number of institutions, including the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, the Colorado State Capitol, and the EDGE Gallery in Denver numerous times. www.susangoldsteinstudio.com

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) works with statewide partners to create a positive business climate that encourages dynamic economic development and sustainable job growth. Under the leadership of Governor John Hickenlooper, OEDIT strives to advance the state’s economy through financial and technical assistance in support of local and regional economic development activities throughout Colorado. Colorado Creative Industries, a division of OEDIT, works to bring works by Colorado artists to public spaces.  Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado art through rotating exhibitions at the State Capitol and the lobby of the Office of Economic Development.  This program hopes to connect the potential of Colorado’s creative industry with a growing economy.

For more information, please visit coloradocreativeindustries.org
@ColoradoCreative
www.facebook.com/ColoradoCreatives

State of Colorado's Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Colorado Creative Industries
1625 Broadway, Suite 2700, Denver, CO 80202
Office 303.892.3840

www.coloradocreativeindustries.org

Pictorial Vexillography, Concerns in Different Regularities
George P. Perez and ArtLab
Opens Saturday, March 18 12-2 PM
March 18 - April 1st

This exhibition, in tandem with the Month of Photography, features the Work of PlatteForum Lead Artist George P Perez and PlatteForum’s ArtLab Students

DENVER – PlatteForum is pleased to announce the exhibition “Pictorial Vexillography, Concerns in Different Regularities” which will open 12-2PM, Saturday, March 18, 2017 with a free, public reception at PlatteForum, 2400 Curtis Street in Denver. The exhibitions runs through April 1st. Gallery hours are Tuesdays - Saturdays, noon-6pm.

Developed by PlatteForum Lead Artist George P Perez, with PlatteForum’s own acclaimed ArtLab program, “Pictorial Vexillography” is a new exhibition that explores the teen’s view on identity and emblem. Vexillography is the practice of designing flags, and in so doing, one may create official statements to the outside world. Platteforum’s 16 high school youth interns will create flags and banners, based on their own photography, which are representative of their experiences, identities and world views.

About the Artist
George P. Perez is an artist that creates photographic works through impractical techniques such as long exposure, digital screen shot appropriation, and/or scanography. Perez’s work is based on banal, mundane or quotidian environments he interacts with on a day-to-day basis and/or his interpretation of present day society, either in real life or the digital realm, exploring the history of portraiture along side. Images are documented and manipulated to alter the meaning into another perception of a particular common narrative.

About ArtLab
ArtLab youth are involved in the creation and presentation of major works, mentored by professional artists, participate in workshops directed by visiting artists, mentor younger at-risk children during Learning Labs, and participate in service-learning projects. All projects address social issues affecting their generation which creates opportunities for youth to give voice to those issues. Each endeavor has clear goals and connections to the real world. This propels youth to become active members and catalysts for change in their communities. ArtLab integrates organic and structured activities with respectful interactions among all. Through individual and group struggles, challenges, and obstacles, ArtLab interns learn to work together as a team, communicate, accept differences, and focus on completing a project/goal together. In the end, ArtLab youth create high-quality works of art and experience a sense of accomplishment, pride, and shared purpose.

About PlatteForum
Founded in 2002, PlatteForum is an innovative arts education and youth development organization serving 2,500 inner-city, underserved youth, their families, and the general public. PlatteForum provides in-depth, curriculum-based arts education experiences that meet state educational standards and allow for longer-term mentoring relationships between youth and master artists who work in residency at PlatteForum. These artist residencies offer time, space, and resources for professional artists to create new work and shape an experience where young people can learn through practice, expanding their sense of what is possible. 

This award-winning nonprofit organization provides a nurturing space where creativity and artistic excellence are highly valued and where artists and youth work together to model the creative process, emphasizing the connections between their artistic passion, significant life experiences, and public issues. The overall experience transforms the lives of the youth, the artists and the community. For more information visit www.platteforum.org. 

PlatteForum, 
2400 Curtis Street,
Denver CO
303.893.0791
www.platteforum.org

Ghost Lenz

Opens: Saturday, December 10th 5:30 pm - All Night
December 10th - March 31st
Closes:  Friday, March 24th at 6pm

Street Photography (2 shots from Denver, 6 from France) by Billy Riesin
Artist Statement: "A street photography collection of limited edition black and white archival pigment prints, with intent to connect with magnified quick-bits of freedom, loneliness, confidence, exhaustion and frenzy."  

Jefferson Park Pub
2445 Elliot St.
Denver CO. 80211

720-328-2982
www.ghostlenz.com
www.jeffersonparkpub.com

Andrew Novick & Miu Vermillion
Opening March 9
March 9 - April 6, 2017

The Sally Centigrade Art Gallery was created as a place to host contemporary art, with an emphasis on work from the lowbrow and pop surreal movement.  The gallery has been fortunate enough to work with some of the scene's most popular artists, and was named Denver's Best Lowbrow Art Gallery by Westword Magazine.  Our art shows have been featured in a number of the art worlds most popular outlets, including Arrested Motion, Supersonic Art and Beautifull.Bizarre.  The gallery is a venue to showcase Denver's most interesting artists, and bring work from popular artists from around the country and the world to the Mile High City.  The artist residency program has been created to  give artists a chance to come to Denver and create, immerse themselves in our art scene and use our gallery as a venue to show their new body of work.  

Our artist residency offers free lodging for the duration of the program.  The artist will be given a commission free show (either a pop up or full run depending on the length of the residency).  It is a fantastic opportunity for artists to have a potentially high profile show, spend time in Denver with designated time and space to create and join the Denver art scene.

Sally Centigrade Art Gallery
1423 Larimer St., Denver CO 80202
303-942-7494
www.sallycentigrade.com

Feral Factory Ltd

February 24 – June 27, 2017

Company launch and opening party!

Opening Friday, Feb 24th, 7-10pm

With theatrical and dance performances, DJ Sosan, and nibbles.

Feral Factory Ltd. is a new interdisciplinary arts organization forging alliances between the visual arts, performing arts, and business in RiNo, Denver, and beyond. All our exhibitions, openings, and events are curated as a synergistic melange of the finest arts.

As an organization, Feral Factory is launching with a four-month exhibition of art and happenings called:

“Urban Collage and the Collage City.”

The exhibition / residency is a partnership with the River North ArtDistrict (RiNo), RedLine Contemporary Art Center, NINE dot ARTS, and Denver Month of Photography.

From April to June, the exhibition will rotate in a juried, multi media show exploring different angles of the residency theme, with one featured artist from RiNo during each month and dozens of other artists from the region and around the world. Inter-arts events, performances, wine tastings, salons, openings, workshops, talks, and feral happenings will abound.

The Crash
2555 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205
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EXPLORING THE COLLAGE CITY

February 24th - Mar 30th, 2017
Opens Friday, Feb 24th, 7-10pm

Featured Artists

Armando Martinez
Shana Cordon

Salon
Tuesday, March 7th, 7-9pm

Exploring the Collage City

An Exhibition of Photography

Feral Factory’s four-month Residency at the Crash begins with an exhibition for the Month of Photography. Artists Armando Martinez and Shana Cordon present a collection of images which illuminate the themes of urban collage and the collage city.

Martinez’s photography exposes the sublime in the everyday lives of his subjects, a cross-section of urban dwellers who represent the heterogeneity of cities. Cordon’s work abstracts the image of the city, both reducing it to impressions and revealing the accidental collisions of texture and intention which exist in cities at every scale. Martinez exposes us to urban life; Cordon, to the marks this life leaves behind.

This exhibition draws its questions from the urban theories of Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Kevin Lynch, Jane Jacobs, and others. While Martinez and Cordon set the stage, the exhibition will continue with three more shows through the end of June, 2017.

The Crash
2555 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205
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Urban Collage: Radical Heterogeneity

Opens Saturday, April 1, 7-10pm
with over 25 original pieces from artists around the nation.

Our featured artist this month, Thomas “Detour” Evans, will reveal new work created specifically for this show. 

This group show is comprised of photography, painting, and multi-media works by local and national artists. The theme is “Radical Heterogeneity,” a theory espoused by architectural theorist Colin Rowe that strong cities and communities exist when every stakeholder/identity is represented. 

This show was juried by Louise Martarano of RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Tracy Weil of RiNo Art District, Martha Weidmann of NINE dot ARTS, and Feral Factory founders John Barbour and Shana Cordon.

Feral Factory's openings are part art exhibition, part performance, entertainment, and party—an evening of aesthetic inspiration and community. The opening will include original performances based on the art and themes of the show including spoken word, improv, and monologues by some of Denver's finest performers.

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Artist Salon
Tuesday, 11 April, 7-9pm
Reserve your seat here: feralfactory.com/salon

Our salons connect the themes of our exhibition to our community, with talks from our featured artist. This month continues last month’s themes of cities and urban life. “Radical heterogeneity” is the idea that healthy societies afford participation and representation to diverse groups, that these groups receive equal time in the discussion, an equal voice among their peers. While this ideal remains in our future, art explores these ideas now. This month’s Salon will talk about the idea, and the art, of heterogeneity. 

Panelists include:
Featured artist Thomas “Detour” Evans.

Gabriela Perez, Creative Strategies for Change. 

Facilitated by John Barbour, Co-Founder of Feral Factory and design-educator, author, and futurist.

With additional members of the community to be announced.

First Friday, RiNo Art Walk
Friday, April 7, 6-9 pm
Make Feral Factory part of your Art Walk in RiNo! The neighborhood is large, so check the guide and plan your path.

Free and Open to the Public

The Crash
2555 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205
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ART OF RESISTANCE, ART OF RESILIENCE

Group Show

Featured Artist
Nicholas Emery

April, 29th - May 24th, 2017
Opening Saturday, May 27th, 7-10pm

Salon
Tuesday, June 13th, 7-9pm

The Call for Entries for this exhibition is now OPEN.

Artists, please apply here: http://bit.ly/2iCGojv

The Crash
2555 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205
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THEATER OF MEMORY, THEATER OF PROPHECY

Group Show

Featured Artist
Stephanie Hartshorn

May 27th - June 28th, 2017
Opening Saturday, Apr 29th 7-10pm

Salon
Tuesday, May 9th, 7-9pm

The Crash
2555 Walnut St.
Denver, CO 80205
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Please check our website for ongoing updates on additional artists, events, and collaborators: www.feralfactory.com.

For questions contact howl@feralfactory.com.

Feral Factory Ltd.
757 E 20th Ave
STE 370 #438
Denver, CO 80205
www.feralfactory.com
@FeralFactory

Firehouse Art Center

Andy Mann

National Geographic Nature & Adventure Photographer 

MAR 8 - APR 9, 2017
Opening Friday, March 10th, 6-9 PM

For more than a decade, National geographic photographer and Niwot resident, Andy Mann, has been a forerunner in the world of adventure and nature photography. His imagery is helping tell the story of our rapidly changing world, often through serious and authentic adventure-based objectives.

www.andymann.com

Firehouse Art Center
667 4th Avenue
Longmont, Co. 80501
303.651.2787
http://firehouseart.org

A contemporary art gallery with education, film and dance located in the heart of historic downtown Longmont, Colorado

Wed - Thu: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fri: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat - Sun: 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Scanography/The Art of Scanning
Juried Exhibit
March 17 -April 15, 2017
Opening March 17th from 5-8pm

“The Art of Scanning”.  Artists were asked to embrace an alternative digital process by creating images using a flatbed scanner as their canvas, lens and light source. The work included in this exhibit contain a variety of imaginative compositions, styles and techniques.

Juror and gallery owner Niza Knoll has been making photographs and other art for many years. She has enjoyed using the scanner to experiment with creating images since 2009. 

Niza Knoll Gallery, celebrating its seventh year, specializes in intriguing conceptual exhibits. The gallery hosts first and third Friday events, monthly salons, private concerts and guest speakers. Past exhibits have included unusual artist pairings, outsider art, collaborative work, thought provoking thematic exhibits of artists using non- traditional media. 

The Mix Co-op in the back of the gallery is also open for visitors during regular hours.

Niza Knoll Gallery
Hours: Wed - Fri. 1-5 / Sat. 1-4
Except 1st and 3rd Fridays 4 - 8

915 Santa Fe Drive / Denver, CO. 80204
303-953-1789 / nizak@mac.com
www.nizaknollgallery.com

Lost in Motion

February 22 – March 19, 2017

Photographer Edward Westin said “The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?” There are many ways to visualize motion in a still photograph. Manipulating shutter speed with long exposures, especially at night, create new forms unseen in reality, or, it can completely freeze action otherwise too fast to follow. The act of panning the camera along with a moving object, or merely planting ourselves in the perfect location can all give us a tremendous feeling of movement. Since the invention of the medium, photographers have been capturing the speed of things in engaging ways. For this special Month of Photography event, show us you're Lost in Motion.

Valkarie Gallery
445 S Saulsbury St
Lakewood, CO 80226

Hours: Wed 4 - 7, Thur 4 - 9:30, Fri 4 - 8:30, Sat 12 - 6, Sun 12 - 5
720-220-7587

hello@valkariefineart.com
www.valkariefineart.com
www.facebook.com/valkariegallery
twitter.com/ValkarieGallery

“Oil & Dirt”
Call-for-Entry Show

Feb. 25 - Mar. 25, 2017Gallery Grand Re-Opening Saturday, Feb. 25 from 5:30-8:30pm

Enrique Parrilla
Matthew Jones
Sasha Juliard
Travis Heacock
Jun Song
Matt Gardipee
Doug Werner
Adam Swift
and more

Juror: Enrique Parrilla

Boxcar Gallery is pleased to announce our return after a two year hiatus. To celebrate in conjunction with MoP we present Oil & Dirt, a photography exhibition featuring the current work of former member Enrique Parrilla and guest artists Matthew Jones, Sasha Juliard, Travis Heacock and Jun Song. The Grand Gallery Re-Opening will be Saturday, Feb, 25 from 5:30 – 8:30pm.

Enrique Parrilla has spent his career working in commercial photography projects but his latest solo work is a detour into our individual connectedness. His photos focus on the freedom one feels when they ride a motorcycle, the sounds, the seamless and the wind in your face.

Denver photographer, Travis Heacock has a unique perspective on life. His camera has intimately connected him with the Earth and those whom inhabit it. His passion is collaborating with local creative communities to enrich not only his lives but the lives of those around him through his work.

For Salt Lake City photographer Jun Song, the motorcycle is not just a machine that takes us from place to place, but an all-encompassing experience that allows us to appreciate the beauty that we may miss in our daily lives. Song’s work enables us to immortalize experiences by capturing moments of passion into memorable images. As a result the work is an open journal for people to see and feel what he has and to evoke the relatable and the unfamiliar passion in someone else.

Matthew Jones is influenced by the cinematic world; he finds beauty in light, landscape and the natural special effects that are produced between man and machine.

First Friday, Mar. 3, from 6-10pm
3rd Friday Mar. 17 from 5-8pm

554 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
www.boxcar-gallery.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Boxcar-Gallery/108267295801

Madelife Gallery

Show: Contemporary Portraiture - The Post-Selfie Gaze
Artists: Jon Huck, George P. Perez, Samantha Skinner

March 4th, 2017 – April 28th, 2017
Opening Reception: March 4th, 2017
7pm - 9pm (with performance by musical guests Xenon Superstar)

Contemporary Portraiture explores the landscape of the present-day portrait. Over the past 500 years, our culture has changed the way we look at ourselves. Historically, portraits were used to depict an idealistic version of an individual and put on public display in a home. Today, the most omnipresent portraits lie within the palm of your hand: the selfie is the raw version of a portrait. This collection of work is a reflection of the ‘normcore’ and the commonality of a casual portrait.

The stripped-down portrait is a shared theme in the works of contemporary portrait artists Samantha Skinner, Jon Huck, and George P. Perez. The utilization of negative space allows the viewers’ eye to focus on the intricate lines of Skinner’s carefully detailed graphite drawings, while the hazy features of Huck’s watercolor characters tease the viewer to construct the personality of each depicted character. The classic style of portrait photographs that Perez has collected from across time and place are reconstructed to mirror the commodification of contemporary photography. 
The simple complexity of these works echo the intricate details of a selfie - deceivingly, we’re all the same, and are frequently passed by with a single swipe. Look closer, and find there are more detailed parts of the whole to explore.

Madelife gallery
2000 21st
Boulder, CO 80302
303.927.0802
http://madelife.com
http://instagram.com/madelifecreative
www.facebook.com/madelifecreative

Boulder Creative Collective,
Month of Photography Exhibit
Friday, March 10, 6-9 pm

Chloé Besson, Paula Gillen and Julia Vandenoever. 

Please join the BCC for the second annual Month of Photography opening reception featuring an eclectic trio of female artists who's work focuses on the home.

Paula Gillen’s work is an exploration of digital montage, paper collage and photography focusing on psychology, social commentary and humorous disruptions using original and found imagery. Influenced by Surrealism, Feminism, and The Pictures Generation; her work is satirical, irreverent, and playful.

Magazine Pages is an ongoing series that explores how our brains are wired to read faces and sort them into gender, race, and class.

Julia Vandenoever

After my mom died of cancer, I cleaned out her home in Vermont. In the pockets of her coats, pants, and sweaters, I found twenty-three old, used tissues.  As I extracted the first one from a deep pocket, a flood of warm memories washed over me and I felt peace.  The same tissues that had disgusted me as a child turned into an unexpected gift. Representing moments of her daily life, each tissue connected me back to her. 

Free admission, $5 Drink Donation.

The BCC: Warehouse
2500 47th Street Unit 10, 
Boulder, CO 80301
Monday-Friday 10am-3pm
720.663.8583
bouldercreativecollective@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/bouldercreativecollective

CU Boulder Norlin Library, Special Collections

A Photographic Object

March 10th - April 31st

Picture/Book: A Photographic Object is a selection of photographic works from the library’s special collections, along with local artists, that blur the line between image and object. Ranging from handmade artist books to DIY xerox-copy zines, this exhibition explores the many ways artists use photographs as both subject matter and source material to create artworks imbued with the immediacy and vitality of a tangible object.            

CU Boulder Norlin Library, Special Collections
1720 Pleasant St. Room N345,
Boulder, CO 80309
303.492.8705
www.colorado.edu/libraries/libraries/norlin-library/special-collections-archives

CU Art Museum
Home:  American photography at the CU Art Museum

March 2 - July 15, 2017
Opening: March 2nd, 5-7pm

Is home “where the heart is”? Is it a building, a landscape or a state of mind? Drawn from the photography collection of the CU Art Museum, Home investigates how American photographers working from the late 1800s to today have engaged with these questions. Through a presentation of landscapes, family photos and candid portraits visitors are invited to consider central themes of the exhibition, including environment, nostalgia and family.

What does home mean to you?
We invite our guests to respond to the images and ideas presented in the exhibition by visiting a special programming space in our FlexSpace gallery, open from February 2, 2017–March 25, 2017.

What does home mean to you? We invite you to respond to that question while celebrating this exhibition of 20th century photography from our collection. The night’s activities include creatively responding to images and prompts in our FlexSpace gallery, taking “family” photos, and the culmination of our social media call for your photos of “home.” Experience Home and enjoy refreshments and an inspired playlist spun live by Radio 1190 KVCU.

CU Art Museum

CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder
1085 18th St., Boulder, CO 80309

CU ART MUSEUM HOURS
Monday – Friday: 10am – 5pm
Tuesday: 10am – 7pm
Saturday: 12pm – 4pm

There is no fee for admission to the museum. The suggested donation is $5.

For more information, please call the CU Art Museum at 303.492.8300 or visit us at
www.colorado.edu/cuartmuseum

Map
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=VAC

SEIDEL CITY

Todd Edward Herman

When I Stop Looking: 
short films and small prints 

Opening reception:
Saturday, March 25th, 2017
7 - 10pm 

March 25 to April 30, 2017
By appointment

www.ToddEdwardHerman.com

Seidel City
3205 Longhorn Rd
Boulder, CO 80302
303-591-1553
www.seidelcity.com

Todd Edward Herman's haunting imagery suggests mysteriously entwined narratives, drawing no clear lines between fiction and fact. For his first solo show in Boulder, Colorado, Herman utilizes photography, videography and painting as departure points for thirty exquisitely printed limited edition prints. Dealing with themes of the body and transience, representational taboos, spectatorship and complicity, his work looks to a rare beauty, making no claims to journalistic inquiry. 

Among the selected films screening at Seidel City will be Herman's award winning short film Cabinet, a visceral and poetic documentary on death, mourning and life beginning anew. Also screening will be Herman's When I Stop Looking, a film that looks beyond the imprint of appearances, invoking the intensely private worlds of those portrayed, each of whom lives with significant facial and cranial conditions; a vivid affirmation of existence comes forward, before anything else. 

Todd Edward Herman has been the recipient of many awards for his work including the San Francisco International Film Festival's New Vision Award, the Art Council of Northern Ireland's Artist in Residence Award, Grants from the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation, a Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Taipei Artist Village Residency, and the San Francisco Art Commission's Emerging Curator Award. He has presented his work at such venues as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, Southbank Centre, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco Cinematheque, and Pacific Film Archives.

"At their best artists can question habits of understanding, looking, and story telling, thereby investigating the ways personal and historical forms are constructed rather than fixed. For me, this means generating work that examines how images compose, enforce, or undermine -- rather than simply reflect -- history, dominant values, identity, and authorship."
--T.E.H.

Seidel City is new studio workspace, gallery, theater and performance venue in North Boulder ( NoBo ). Owned and operated by Terry Seidel and Ann Helke.

Impossible Humans: The International Collection
March 3-April 9, 2017
Opens March 10, 2017 5-7 pm 

Transmission: Works by Michelle Robinson
On view March 3-April 9, 2017
Opening and Artist Talk March 10, 2017 5-7 pm

Big Bad Bettie Press Pop-Up
Bookshelf Sale March 10th, 3-7 pm

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Impossible Humans: The International Collection

March 3-April 9, 2017
Opens Friday, March 10, 2017 5:00-7:00pm 

«Labels are for cans, not people» - Andy Warhol

Impossible Humans is a new kind of photographic event.

The main goal of the Impossible Humans project is to focus on the single person in order to enhance uniqueness and singularity, harmoniously placing the subject in her/his own environment, following the key component of the mindset that carried the European culture from the Middle Ages to Renaissance blossoming. In short, the idea is to portray individuals detached from mass standards, cataloguing and divisions created by social, cultural and religious identities. To place the single person in a perfectly multi-ethnic and multi-cultural environment.

Thus, Impossible Humans revolves around the portraiture of people; their uniqueness and personalities, enhancing our awareness of being each and all humans in every respect, each with our own with flaws, passions, emotions and dreams.

Impossible Humans: The International Collection will be shown on a video monitor on the entrance wall to McMahon Gallery in the Dairy Arts Center.

©Impossible Humans is a project and photographic action by the New Era Museum ideated and curated by Andrea Bigiarini"

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Transmission
Works by Michelle Robinson

Opens Friday, March 10, 2017 5:00-7:00pm
Featuring artist talks
On view March 3-April 9, 2017
Held at MacMillan Family Lobby and Hand-Rudy Galleries. 

Michelle Robinson (Los Angeles, CA) is interested in bringing intimacy and animation to forms that are ubiquitous but often invisible or ignored. Much of her work has been focused on the heavily altered Los Angeles River and the structures that surround it. The river takes many forms as it passes through the city, from concrete wastelands to partially natural wilderness. Power lines and telephone poles have replaced trees as the dominant vertical element in the landscape; freeways and bridges cross its 42-mile length. There is a terrible beauty in that tension between the natural and the man-made, and it is that relationship that Michelle explores in her imagery.

Michelle has been involved in methodical, process oriented art forms for some time as she likes seeing the evidence of the hand in the final work and enjoys taking advantage of 'happy accidents' along the way. She is deeply interested in texture, age, wear, and evidence of the passing of time, and tries to create images that, while inspired by real places, also exist outside of that context and occupy something closer to a dream, or a memory. Her works incorporate film photography and mixed media.

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Big Bad Bettie Press Pop-Up at Dairy Arts Center
March 10th, 3-7 pm

On the shelf: Robert Adams, Chuck Forsman, Brian Fouhy, Paula Gillen, Carol Golemboski, Todd Herman, Kevin Hoth, Conor King, Emma Powell, Leah Swenson. With Rabbit Rabbit & letterpress goods from Black Dog Press!

On the bookshelf will be a great variety of photo books and limited edition prints from local artists, along with Rabbit Rabbit, the exciting first journal from Big Bad Bettie Press.  Plus, cards from BBBP and photography inspired letterpress goods from Black Dog Press.  With a price range of $2.50 - $150, there is something for everyone!

bigbadbettiepress.com

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Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut Street, 
Boulder CO 80302
303.440.7826
www.thedairy.org

www.facebook.com/thedairy
@thedairy

Lucky’s Café

Stephen Collector

Photography of The New Mexico Landscape

March 3 – April 28, 2017

His mystical images of New Mexico landscapes, portraits and architecture were produced during a 2012 Art Residency at the Frank Waters Foundation in Arroyo Seco, NM. 

Lucky’s Café

3980 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304

303.444-5007

www.stephencollector.com

Mechanical Reproductions    

March - April 2017
Opens March 5th, 5-8pm

Mechanical Reproductions is a show of recent photographic image work by current TAM Students curated by Instructor Kevin Hoth.

The University of Colorado
ATLAS Building, 320 UCB. 
Boulder, CO 80309-0320
http://tam.colorado.edu                       

Boulder ACE Self-Storage
Group Photography Exhibit featuring works by NoBo Art District Members Michael Hamers, Judy Duffield, Steve O’Bryan & Others

March 3 – April 28, 2017
First Friday receptions 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
March 3rd & April 7th

Open M-F 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sat 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

4635 Broadway
Boulder,CO 80304
303.444.7870

Digital Frontiers: Photographic Art in the Age of Pixels

Works by Preston Newell, Gail Dohrmann, Russ Dohrmann,  , Bruce Henderson, Murth Murthy, Cary Wolfson, Virginia “Ginger" Lee Zukowski, BDA Gallery Curator Thomas Walsh.

On View January 15 - April 30, 2017
Opens Friday, March 10th, 5:30 - 8:00 PM

Boulder Digital Arts is proud to be a 2017 venue for the biennial celebration “Denver Month of Photography. 

While some photorealistic paintings are exceptionally fine art, far from all great paintings are photorealisms. Likewise, far from every great photograph is a pure depiction of what stood before the camera. Digital imagery provides a host of opportunities that were not previously available to photographers. With software post-processing, tools are now available for transforming straightforward depictions into as large a range of expressions as those historically available to painters. Boulder Digital Arts’ Denver Month of Photography exhibit, “Digital Frontiers: Photographic Art in the Age of Pixels,” presents the work of 8 artists, each with their own vision and techniques for taking photography into this exceptional realm.

Thomas Walsh, Ph.D., curator at Boulder Digital Arts, began publishing his photographs in nationally and internationally circulated magazines more than 20 years ago, after he decided to add travel writing and photography to his work as a technical and business writer. Three years ago, he decided to take his photography full time and now specializes in portraiture and high end real estate imagery as well as fine art photography.

Gail Dohrmann has been a member of Flatirons Photo Club for a number of years and currently leads the club’s growing iPhoneography group. She specializes in infrared photography and in utilizing a number of apps to morph straightforward photographs into painterly representations that profoundly express their subjects’ beauty.

Russ Dohrmann, now passed, was a member of Flatirons Photo Club for several decades and significantly contributed to the growth of Boulder County’s exceptional photographic community. In addition to representational compositions, Russ delved deeply into the use of software to create inspirational, painterly styled works.

Bruce Henderson is an award-winning photographer who has worked as a photographer, reporter, designer and editor for numerous newspapers. He was an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado and also served as director of communications for a technology, arts and media institute at CU. He has a master’s degree in journalism photography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Murth Murthy has taught Photoshop classes at Front Range Community College and general photography at the Longmont Senior Center. He currently teaches Photoshop classes at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. While Murth commands a range of photographic styles and techniques, his work on display at Boulder Digital Arts’ Denver Month of Photography exemplifies the art he creates by applying paint to prints of his photographs.

Preston Newell began to use Canon and Minolta SLR cameras in college, and began to use DSLR Nikon cameras soon after they became available. Since his retirement from the IT worlds of Fiat, Texaco and Boeing, he has pursued his photography hobby, and won 1st & 2nd place awards at the Colorado State Fair.

Cary Wolfson has been an officer of the Flatirons Photo Club since 2009. His work has won dozens of awards in club and juried competitions and has appeared in various juried shows, along with several solo shows, and online at http://caryeb79.myportfolio.com/projects. His most recent focus has been iPhoneography, employing non-traditional effects to photos captured and processed with smart phones and tablets.

Virginia “Ginger" Lee Zukowski entered the world of art through training in modern dance (University of Illinois, Champaign). That experience provided a vital framework for her more recent venture into the visual arts. Ginger strives to use the key elements of space, light, color, patterns and movement to highlight the unexpected within the ordinary.

BDA empowers creatives and entrepreneurs with classes & workshops that are focused on practical skills and taught by industry professionals. For over 12 years, BDA has been a community-powered resource organization for people who create things. Whether you work in film, photography, design, technology or business, we seek to empower your creative process with membership, resources, education, events, community and collaboration

1600 Range Street, Boulder, CO 80301
303.800.4647
www.boulderdigitalarts.com

NoBo Art District Exhibit for Month of Photography 2017

Rocky Ridge Music Academy

Open M-F 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Exhibit Dates: March 3 – April 28, 2017

Performance Photography by Michael Knisely

First Friday receptions & performances 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
March 3rd & April 7th
3970 Broadway #201e
Boulder, CO 80304
303.449.1106
www.rockyridge.org

SHUTTER RELIEF: Creating Social Awareness Through The Lens

March 3 - April 29, 2017
MoP Opening, March 17, 2017, 6pm

Silhouette: Stories of Immigration
Unless you’re Native American, you came from someplace else. ~Barack Obama, January 29, 2013

Silhouette: Stories of Immigration is a visual story project created by photographer/personal historian Dona Laurita with local immigrants and refugees. Silhouette is an ongoing project and seeks individuals willing to share their immigration experience through a spoken and photographic interview, resulting in a visual silhouette colored by the imagery of the story. Anonymity assured.

The Sonder Collection
noun. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.  The Sonder Collection, produced by local creative studio One Thousand Design, is a multimedia project leveraging individual stories to start a conversation about stigma, stereotype, and disparity in communities around the globe. www.sondercollect.com

Project: Faces of Global Refugee Center
The Faces of Global Refugee Center, a project photographer, Emily T. Nelson, donated her time to in hopes that her work will help communities see the faces among us and gain a greater awareness of the rich diversity that exists in Northern Colorado. The Global Refugee Center in Greeley, represents over 40 countries and is one of two refugee relocation sites serving the refugees in areas of English language acquisition, health education, employment readiness and financial counseling, legal referrals, cultural integration and preservation. www.grccolorado.org

Water For Zambia
Photographer Andrea Enger traveled to Zambia to volunteer for Water For Zambia an organization that seeks to provide safe drinking water. The lack of safe water is a social justice issue and the continuation
of her work focuses on the serious problems associated with access to safe water and other related problems such as poverty, education, nutrition, child/women abuse and high death rates.
waterforzambia.org

American Mosaic
Photographer Melissa Lynn’s American Mosaic is a series that explores heritage and multicultural identity in America. Inspired by hand colored tintypes of Americans from the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, the images are digitally processed and printed on aluminum to create a modern version of the classic tintype process. www.melissalynnphoto.com

SHUTTER RELIEF runs from March 3 - April 29, 2017
Scheduled events:

First Friday Art Walk, March
March 3, 2017, 6-9pm

MoP Opening
Friday March 17, 2017, 6pm

First Friday Art Walk, April
April 7, 2017, 6-9pm

MoP Closing
Friday April 21, 2017, 6pm
Many more exciting events TBA. Check our website and Facebook page for frequent updates.

Gallery Hours:
1-6 Friday and Saturday and by appointment

Dona Laurita Gallery is a member of the Louisville Arts District
We are a gallery and art space specializing in photography, fine art, music, artist talks, readings, workshops, and whatever it takes to deepen the creative, thoughtful and beautiful things that
life has to offer.
For more information about Shutter Relief:  www.shutterrelief.com

Dona Laurita Gallery
820 Main Street
Louisville, CO 80027
www.donalauritagallery.com
www.facebook.com/donaphoto

MCA Denver
Failure Lab Photography Exhibition
February 24 - April 2017.

Opening reception February 24, 2017
Open Shelf Library from 6-8p

Participating Intern Artists:
Erik Shane Benning II
Kaitlyn Boehm
Kira Breland
Allison Dennis
Trinity Hansen
Molly McGrath
Honor MIles
Nia Musiba
Hidai Olivas
Joseph Quinto
Lincoln Thomas
Katya Zabelski

Failure Lab, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's Teen Program, is an internship program for twelve high school students. Because we believe that risking failure is an integral element of creativity, we designed this program to provide teens with a unique opportunity to try out wild ideas. Always encouraged to take chances, teens engage with museum professionals, interact with artists, and work with other teens to organize exhibitions, programs, and events for their peers.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's Teen Program: Failure Lab will present a photography exhibition in conjunction with an artist workshop led by George Perez that presents aspects of the collection, persona in objects, and the unedited transparency in the lives of teens.
 
About Lead Artist: George P. Perez, b. October 7, 1987, received a BFA (Cum Laude) in 2014 from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and currently resides in Denver, CO. Perez is an artist whose work explores mundane situations and scenarios that he interacts with on a day-to-day basis. Perez’s work can often be seen as a humorous but harsh narrative that reflects and critiques current values in today’s modern society, presenting another perception of banal circumstances. His practice primarily utilizes photography as a means of visual foundation, which at times presents interdisciplinary work that dives into a social practice.

Perez has shown up and down the Front Range of Colorado and outside of the state, including: (Un)Clothed, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2013; Archetype Drift: New Methods of Photography Making, Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL, 2013; Cultural Citizen: The Immigrant and the Stranger, The Bridge Gallery, Littleton, CO, 2014; BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, GOCA121, Colorado Springs, CO, 2015; Monumental: RedLine’s Annual Resident Artist Exhibition, Redline Gallery, Denver, CO, 2016; and Visitation, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX, 2016. 

Scholastic Art Awards
The Scholastic Art Awards of Colorado provide talented teenagers with an opportunity to be recognized in the visual arts at the state and national level. The Scholastic Art Awards program provides inspiration and validation for the next generation of American artists as it welcomes talented young people into the world of creativity, criticism, and patronage long before the world takes notice.
This collection of work features original photographs submitted by students across Colorado. All work has been juried and assigned an award in the following categories: Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. Artwork submitted to The Scholastic Art Awards of Colorado is collectively showcased here, as well as at History Colorado Center, Denver Art Museum, and the Sie Film Center.

MCA Denver
1485 Delgany Denver, CO 80202
303.298.7554
www.mcadenver.org
http://mcadenver.org/failurelab

Colfax Avenue ‘Art of the Streets’

Submission Deadline: 
Saturday, January 21, 2017
View Call For Submission Here

Opens First Friday, March 3, 2017 from 5-8pm
On View March 3 - March 25th 2017.
 

40 West Arts Gallery presents its 5th annual Colfax Avenue exhibit, Art of the Streets. Join us to celebrate all things Colfax, Colorado’s most iconic Avenue. Work will feature elements of Colfax that inspire, intrigue, and even shock. This show is also in conjunction with a district-wide Art Walk, which means that all of our multiple galleries, creative businesses, and other locations are open to the public. As always we’ll offer free beer & wine, light bites, and lots of outstanding artwork for purchase

40 West Arts Gallery
1560 Teller Street, Lakewood, CO 80214
info@40westarts.org
303.275.3430  
www.40WestArts.org
www.facebook.com/40WestArtsDistrict

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays from 12-4p

The Photo Club at Mile Hi Church 

“Engaging in the Mystery” Group Show

April 3, 2017 through July 31, 2017. 
Opening  Sunday, April 9, 2017  8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

Twenty of the winning photos are selected for the 2017 Mile Hi Journal Competition. The journal will be available for sale for $10 each at the opening reception and at the Mile Hi bookstore while supplies last.  

Photo Club at Mile Hi
In the Community Center at the Mile Hi Church
9077 West Alameda
Lakewood, Colorado 80226

The show will be open for viewing from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sundays and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays.  

www.photoclubatmilehi.com

The Photo Club at Mile Hi meets every third Tuesday at Mile Hi Church in Lakewood, Colorado beginning at 6:30pm. Meetings are free to attend and are open to all skill levels. Please bring up to six photos on a thumb drive to share with the club.
Please join us!

The Painted Pixel

Alternative Printmakers
Joshua Hicks (aka Colorado Josh), David Jepsen, and Christopher Kates.

March 3rd - April 2017
Opens March 3 from 7-10

An exciting exhibit focusing on modern photo transfer techniques of landscape, cityscape, and abstract images. Something that needs to be seen in person - all three featured photographers used their own hands to create transfers onto wood or metal starting with an inkjet print. Each finished piece has it’s own unique look due to variations in the substrate it is being transferred to.

In addition to the art on the walls join us on March 3 from 7-10 to get your portrait taken to be transferred onto metal for a one-of-a-kind “modern tintype”. All the prints in the show, both transfers and traditional, are made at The Painted Pixel.

The Painted Pixel
5227 West 25th Avenue
Edgewater, CO 80214
720.445.6851
www.thepaintedpixel.com

Highlights From the 365 Project-A Year of iPhoneography

Works by Kate Zari Roberts

On View March 10 - April 15
Opens March 10, 7-10 PM
Artist Talk 7:30 PM

Kate Zari Roberts has been a photographer and artist for over thirty-five years. Her interest in mobile photography began three years ago and since then she has enthusiastically embraced this new medium. In 2016, Kate created one or more images each day as part of a 365 Project. This exhibition includes highlights from that year of iphoneography and shows the creativity possible with the iPhone.

Kate’s iphoneography has been featured in iPhoneography Central, Mobiography, 
the App Whisperer, the New Era Museum, Streetwise, rFoto Forum and P1xels.
Her work has also been exhibited in Florence and Rome

600 Long's Peak Ave, Unit H. 
Longmont, CO 80501
Sun-Tue 3-9pm, Wed-Sat 3-10pm
303.485.7191
www.thedarkroomlongmont.com

www.katezarirobertsphotography.com

CHAC Gallery and Cultural Center

Peace Through The Lens … An American Story

March 3-31, 2017
Opens March 3rd, 6-10p
Awards Best of Show, Judges Award, and Most Unique, announced opening night.

CHAC Gallery and Cultural Center
772 Santa Fe Drive
Denver,CO 80204
303.571-0440
www.chacweb.org
www.facebook.com/chac.denver

The Chicano Humanities & Arts Council (CHAC) was founded in 1978 by a group of visual and performing artists. The organization was established as a place where Chicano/Latino artists were provided with a venue to explore visual and performance art and promote and preserve the Chicano/Latino culture through the expression of the arts.

"Positive Manipulation"

Opening Reception Wed, March 15, 5:30-7:30pm
On view March 14 - May 1, 2017

"Positive Manipulation" is an exhibition of photographic art organized by Open Studios in celebration of the Month of Photography and seeks submissions from Boulder County artists of imagery that is fresh, unique and has been recognizably manipulated either digitally or by other means. 
 

Open Studios Gallery
1301 Spruce St, Boulder CO. 80302
303.444.1862
@ Rembrandt Yard
www.openstudios.org

Denver International Airport
Tree and Leaf
Works by Thomas Carr
On View November 2016 to March 2017

Archaeologist and photographer Thomas Carr produced Tree and Leaf as a magnificent and subtle exploration of trees that connect more intimately with the simple places in nature that might otherwise be overlooked. Carr’s large-scale color and black and white photographs depict each of Colorado’s colorful seasons. Each image within Tree and Leaf is an attempt to honor the many natural places throughout the state while capturing the beauty and personality of an array of tree varieties.  Carr enjoys creating metaphors regarding the cycles of life in nature through his photographs.

Thomas Carr is an archaeologist and photographer living in Denver, Colorado. He works with digital and film cameras. His artistic influences include Eugene Atget, Fay Godwin, Edward Weston, and Paul Caponigro. His work has been shown in numerous juried, group, and solo exhibitions over the last 30 years, including a large retrospective at the Denver Public Library in 2015. He also has lectured extensively on the history of photography, archaeology, visual ethnography, and historic preservation.
Learn More Here

Y-Juncture Gallery

Gary Sweeney
Jeppesen Terminal
Level 5
"America, Why I Love Her" was inspired by family road trips from the artist's childhood. While traveling around the United States, Gary Sweeney was struck by the beauty and grandeur of the land, as well as the truly bizarre monuments and roadside attractions that dot the American landscape. "America, Why I Love Her" is an attempt to pay homage to family vacations in general, and to tourist spots in particular.

Denver International Airport, 
8500 Peña Blvd, Denver, CO 80249

Leah Diament
Conventionally Unique Photography
Opens: January 7th, 2017, 6pm- 10pm

The show is on conventional objects in our day to day lives displayed in a unique way to bring out texture, color, and the imagination. 

St. Mark’s Coffee House
2019 East 17th Avenue
Denver, CO 80206
303.322-8384
www.stmarkscoffeehouse.com 

www.avagabondsvisual.com

Richard Peterson
rpphoto555@gmail.com

Leah Diament
ldiament0611@gmail.com

The Depot

Steamboat Springs Arts Council
“Beyond Photography” 

March 3 - April 3, 2017
Opens: March 3, 5-8pm
Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot

“Beyond Photography” aims to showcase and explore the many ways in which photography is used in contemporary art.  We are seeking works which use photography in unconventional ways. The work may include alternative photographic processes, digital composites, or encaustic, as well as mixed media. Photography should be the basis or primary inspiration for the submitted piece.

March exhibition at the Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO

1001 13th St.
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
970.879.9008
steamboatarts.org

Small Wonders Celebrates Small Photographs
On view October 7 - March 12, 2017 

Works by Susan R Goldstein, David Janesko, Jenna Kuiper, Jan Pietrzak, Liz Stekeete, and Laurie Tümer.

The New Mexico Museum of Art is making a big deal about little pictures! Opening with a free public reception on Friday evening, October 7, Small Wonders is a surprising selection of small contemporary photographic work that invites visitors to revel in the pleasures of the miniscule.

"The scale of these works of art draws viewers closer, quietly commanding more attention and closer looking than large photographs," said exhibition curator Katherine Ware. "In some of the pictures, the small size alludes to the precious and somewhat secretive quality of a special snapshot or keepsake. And while the smallness of some pieces makes them approachable, it sometimes concentrates their intensity into a concise form, like a thorn."

Offering context for the contemporary work are several examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs that illustrate the small scale of early photography and its use as source material for some of the artists in the exhibition.

Susan Goldstein, based in Denver, uses found photographs as the basis for her collages, some of which are humorous and others unsettling. Liz Stekeete of San Francisco also relies on photographs made by others, then cuts, rephotographs, and sews them into startling compositions. Española artist Laurie Tümer began her career by cutting photographic prints into spirals and arrows, joining them with paint to invent small scenes, each about 2 x 2 inches in size. Jan Pietrzak, based in Santa Fe, uses a camera to create his images, working in the darkroom to develop his exquisite platinum prints that measure a diminutive 2 1⁄4 x 2 1⁄4 inches each.

Other small pictures in the show are made of forms generated solely by the artists. Santa Fe artist Jenna Kuiper has invented a distinctive visual vocabulary for her charming yet cryptic photograms (photographs made without a camera), presented here in an installation by the artist. Taking cameraless photography even further, Houston-based David Janesko creates his images using a laser to draw on light-sensitive paper, arranging the works into a constellation on the wall.

Inspired by the work on view, visitors are invited to create their own photomontages (a mixture of elements made into a single composition by photographing them) in the gallery using a variety of scrap images and their imaginations.

New Mexico Museum Of Art
107 West Palace Avenue, 
Santa Fe, New Mexico
505.476.5041
www.nmartmuseum.org

“Face to Face, a photographic look at people and place as portraiture.”
Michael Reiger, Donovan Reiger, Jan Eitel, John Vigran

March and April

Michael Reger:
Creating art is an ongoing process of discovering connections and relationships. Every piece tells a story.
 
My work as a photographer has led me to a wide variety of stories. As a historical photographer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) I have documented the aftermath of dozens of disasters, including 9-11 World Trade Centers, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and many wildfires, floods, and tornados. I have also worked internationally, using the lens to capture moments of community building and artistic expression throughout the world, including Southeast Asia, Egypt, and Europe. I love street photography, and have a camera with me at all times.
 
As an artist, I pursue these images and stories through different mediums. My projects often start with a picture. I might transform the image into an etching, accentuating a certain tone or mood. Or I might use a photograph as a starting point for an oil pastel, making the image larger, brighter and bolder. Or it might lend itself to a mosaic or a carved tile, where the image becomes three-dimensional.  
  
Michael Rieger
Lapis Gallery
3971 Tennyson Street
Denver, CO 80212

www.LapisStudioDenver.com
720.331.6402

"Professional Photographers of Colorado Loan Collection Exhibit”

Doug Bennet, Jeff Johnson, Larry Adkins, Laura Bennett, Jesse McLaughlin, Yakel Multnomah, Scott Yakel

March 1st, 2017 through April 15th, 2017
Artist Reception & PPC Print Competition - March 17th, 2017, 6pm - 9pm

These images were made by members of Professional Photographers of Colorado and received the highest honor at Professional Photographers of America's International Print Competition held in August 2016. They were selected for the Loan Collection and are now part of PPA's permanent traveling collection.  The Professional Photographers of America is an international association that is more than 150 years old. Every year it offers a photography competition to its 28,000 plus membership worldwide. Of the thousands of images submitted only a small percentage are chosen for the prestigious Loan Collection.

Gallery at Studio j is proud to present these award winning images from local Colorado photographers.  Come meet the photographers and learn more about PPC, PPA and how you can elevate your photography.

The “PPC Loan Collection Exhibit” will run March 1st, 2017 through April 15th, 2017.  Wednesday through Friday Noon to 6pm, and Saturday Noon-5pm. 
 
Special Events: 
First Friday Art Walk - March 3rd, 2017 6pm - 9pm
Artist Reception & PPC Print Competition - March 17th, 2017, 6pm - 9pm
First Friday Art Walk - April 7th, 2017 6pm - 9pm

Gallery at Studio j
742 Santa Fe Dr
Denver, CO 80204
www.galleryatstudioj.com
303.669.8991

What We Love, The Winery Tasting Room
Boulder

“Italy Revisited”
Works by Pinque Clark

Opening Friday, March 3, 2017
6-8pm 

Runs through April
A group of select photographs from Tuscany. Including Arezzo, Florence, Lucca, Portovenere, Montefioralle, San Galgano and Levorno. 

Decadent Saint, Colorado’s Craft Winery

Decadent Saint is pioneering the American craft wine market. Faithfully small batch produced, these 20.5% alcohol wine concentrates can be diluted to make up to five bottles of pure decadence. Wine transformed with real fruit, fresh spice, unfiltered and full of flavor, not flavorings

What We Love, The Winery Tasting Room
1501 Lee Hill Road #14
Boulder, Co 80304
Thursday-Sunday 1-6PM
www.whatwelove.com

Selections from the “Barbie Series”
Jana Cruder

On View March 3 - April 5, 2017

Opens March 3, 2017  5pm - 8pm
Free and open to the public 

W Gallery will be featuring the work of Jana Cruder, an LA based fine artist exploring themes of sexuality, gender roles & human relationships within the environment and technology.  

W Gallery
115 9th Street
Steamboat Springs, CO
970.846.1783
Gallery@westelev.com
www.facebook.com/W-Gallery-1655057964825060/

Doug + Mike Starn
Must be love, it’s a bitch

17 March – 16 April, 2017
Opening reception for the artists, Friday, 17 March, 6–8 pm

The Baldwin Gallery shows Contemporary Art with an emphasis on American artists.

Baldwin Gallery  
209 South Galena Street, 
Aspen CO 81611
970.920.9797
www.baldwingallery.com

“When We Played”
Emily T. Nelson

March 3 - March 31, 2017
Opening reception Saturday, March 4th, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Emily Nelson uses pinhole photography and other alternative processes to explore childhood memories and the magic of the playgrounds where we played. Nelson, a Greeley native, graduated from the School of Art and Design at the University of Northern Colorado. Her challenge was to find the locations that still had remnants from the old playgrounds. The small towns with the old slides and the tire swings are hard to find but there are a few out there. Nelson says, “For me, the images immediately bring up memories of a simpler time. Remember the days when our world was that playground down the street and so much magic that could take place in one single day? A world that was ours before social media and electronics took over. Remember that world? A world in which we were inspired to create, imagine, and solve mysteries. With everything that is happening right now in this crazy world, I want to remember the simplicity and innocence of life during those younger years.”

The Blue Mug Coffee & Roastery
2030 35th Ave. D
Greeley, CO  80634
www.thebluemugroastery.com
www.facebook.com/pg/TheBlueMug/events/?ref=page_internal

Obscura Gallery

Obscura Gallery, LLC is pleased to announce our new gallery based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Obscura Gallery, named after the original Camera Obscura, is founded on our passion for photography which is deeply rooted in the history of the medium. Obscura Gallery encourages the ways in which contemporary artists are using photography to create unique additions to the history of photography which began nearly 200 years ago.

The gallery was conceived by Owner and Director Jennifer Schlesinger. A photography dealer and artist herself, Jennifer brings to Obscura Gallery the experience of being the Director of VERVE Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico for eleven years. Jennifer's career experience has led to her development of long term relationships with artists, clients, and collectors as well as the local, national and international photographic community.

The artists represented at Obscura Gallery are each representing photography in a new, unique way, sometimes taking from or adding to many of the 19th and 20th century photographic processes that the medium was founded on. Each artist represented at Obscura Gallery offer a hand-crafted, thoughtful approach to their work.

In addition to offering for sale the artwork by Obscura Gallery's stable of artists and gallery inventory, we also offer collection building, consulting and advising, and can assist in many facets of photographic collection, de-accession, and research.

Obscura Gallery proudly represents the following contemporary photographic artists:

Susan Burnstine - Los Angeles, CA
Brigitte Carnochan - Portola Valley, CA
Cy DeCosse - Minneapolis, MN
Coco Fronsac - Paris, France
Louviere + Vanessa - New Orleans, LA
Kurt Markus - Santa Fe, NM
Norman Mauskopf - Santa Fe, NM
Beth Moon - New York, NY
Caitlyn Soldan - Santa Fe, NM
Aline Smithson - Los Angeles, CA
Keith Taylor - Minneapolis, MN
Curtis Werhfritz - Toronto, Canada

In addition to the list of represented artists above, Obscura Gallery will carry select Gallery inventory by 19th - 21st century photographers from around the world including Manuel Carrillo (1906 - 1989, Mexico City, Mexico), Krzysztof Wladyka, (contemporary, Poland), and many more will be added.

BETH MOON FEATURE: 
To inaugurate our website and first feature offer, we are excited to premiere two newly released platinum palladium prints by BETH MOON. In addition, we are featuring a print in the newly published Diamond Nights Series. Each of these prints are being offered at a special 10% discount, and include complimentary shipping and a complimentary signed book or exhibition catalog!

Open by appointment. 

Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87505
www.obscuragallery.net
info@obscuragallery.net
505-577-6708
AIPAD member 

University of Colorado at Boulder
Visual Arts Complex

Visual Arts Center Building
Photography in the Post-Truth Era

Group Show Curated by Lucy Gale
March 16th - April 2017
Opening reception March 16, 4-6pm

The University of Colorado, Visual Arts Complex, 1B60 (lower level).

1085 18th St., Boulder, CO 80309

Map
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=VAC

Colorado Photographic Arts Center + The Center for Fine Art Photography
Strange Fire Collective at Syntax Physic Opera

March 31, 2017 
Reception and Slide Show 5-6 pm
6pm Live Jazz

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

Selected artists will be included in a permanent online exhibition on the Strange Fire Collective
website and will be featured in the Opening Reception Slide Show on March 31st at Syntax Physic Opera during the Month of Photography Denver.

Because this exhibition is hosted in collaboration with the Center for Fine Art Photography and the Month of Photography Denver, we are looking for photo-based work. All capture types and photographic processes are eligible for inclusion.

View the Call for Entry Here

Syntax Physic Opera
554 South Broadway
Denver, 80209
Physicopera.com

c4fap.org
Cpacphoto.org
Strangefirecollective.com

Observations of a Kind:  Photographs by Galen Juracek
February 25th - April 8th, 2017
Opening: Saturday, February 25, 2017, 5pm-10pm
Bear Creek Distillery
1879 S Acoma St, Denver, Colorado 80223  
http://bearcreekdistillery.com

"Image: Exploring the Influence of Photography in Contemporary Art"

March 10-31, 2017
Opening Saturday, March 11, 6:00-9:00

Artists:
Liz DeVree
Bernard Dick
Norman Dillon
Jeremy Gregory
Ryan Guild
Stephanie Guild
Keziah Kelsey
Mindy Laczynski
Angellos Malefakis
Rebecca Musgrave
Peter Stevenson
Deana Swetlik

Juried by: 
Susan Dillon

Join us as we celebrate the Month of Photography with works that are inspired, influenced, or containing photographic elements and/or processes. 

Globeville Riverfront Art Center
888 E 50th Ave, Denver, CO 80216
720.476.6710
studiosatgrace@gmail.com
www.studiosatgrace.com
 

“100 Days of Summer”
Photos from Finland, Denmark and all across the USA
March - May, 2017

Participants:
Linda Schmale, Colorado
Cheryl Chapman, Colorado
Jill Mustoffa, Colorado
Esa Mela, Finland
Kirtsi Nieemelainen, Finland
Catheerine Singer, California
Sirpa Ikonen, California
Mikko Luoto, Finland
Sheryl Odza, Florida
Steve Veilleux, Connecticut
Jamie Garner, Colorado
Tamara Andersen, Colorado
Leena Hanonnen, California
Inge Tuncer, Denmark
Heidi Karjalainen, Finland
Aini Tolonen, Finland
Paula Wanken, Texas, Poet
Barbara Gal, Colorado

From June until September of 2014,  a group of photographers from many countries  shared their creative work within the intense framework of providing one artistic submission per day for 100 days. The group officially had over 100 members,  and although not all posted every day, many of us did. The project was so popular that we decided to organize a traveling show to share our work with others. The show at NEXT Gallery in January, 2016, was the first exhibit  in this traveling project,  showing the work of 17 photographers  from the original group, and poems from a member who wrote one a day for a selection of the 100 photographs.The participants   live in Finland Denmark, and all over the United States, with 6 living in the Denver area.  Now this show will be at Art Galleryat  DPAC from March through May, 2017.  This will be a cash and carry opportunity, so come pick out the ones you want. After May, the show is available to travel  to other locations around the world to be enjoyed by an international audience.
Barbara Gal, Curator and NEXT Member

Backstage Coffee Shop and Art Gallery at the DPAC
1000 14th St, Denver, CO 80202
303.623.1300
www.backstagecoffee.com
www.artgalleryatthedpac.com
bhirokawa@aol.com
 

“Aquatique“
Gina Burg & Elle Powell
March 3rd - March 31st, 2017
Opening First Friday March 3rd 6-10pm

Aquatique is the collaborative endeavor between photographer and mixed media artist Gina Burg and illustrator and painter Elle Powell. Their individual works in Aquatique are their love letters to the many stunning aquatic ecosystems around the world.

Gina's work highlights the movement and light within landscapes and the beauty of the human form. By blending the mediums of film, graphic art and painting, she merges the real and the surreal to illustrate the moods of nature. Through her passion for composition, Gina's creative intention is to capture the feeling of motion through a dream-like quality of light. She aims to inspire the viewer to feel her passion for the elemental beauty of water. Gina's art has been showcased in several galleries throughout Denver. Over the years, she has worked with many other artists, musicians and photographers from every facet of the creative community. In her day job, she was a featured photographer in 5280 Magazine, as well as within TheKnot.com and WeddingWire.com and was proud to be featured as a Wedding.com Best of Photographer.

Elle Powell is a world traveling Denver native who has been drawing and painting for the past fifteen years. She studied philosophy and fine art at Occidental College in Los Angeles and is currently an MFA candidate at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She believes in spreading joy and beauty through her artwork, and contributes a percentage of her profits to charity.

Gina and Elle are delighted and grateful for the opportunity to exhibit their art in the heart of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe at Bitfactory Gallery

Gina: www.5280ShutterBug.com
Elle: www.EllePowellArt.com

Bitfactory Gallery
851 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204
www.bitfactory.net
303.862.9367

Identity/Perspectives: Contemporary Art From The Addison Collection

Jan 17 - May 6, 2017
The Griffin Foundation Gallery

This exhibition showcases works by contemporary artists exploring differing concepts of identity. The Gregory Allicar Museum of Art’s contemporary collection was formed in great part through the generous gifts of Polly and Mark Addison who collected contemporary work from around the world. Global in scope, this exhibition includes artists from the Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, reflecting a range of viewpoints and artistic directions.

Colorado State University
The Griffin Foundation Gallery
1400 Remington St, 
Fort Collins, CO 80524
artmuseum.colostate.edu
970.491.1989

INDYINK GALLERY & ABSTRACT

Opening Friday March 3rd  7-11pm
Run through April
84 s. Broadway Denver
Works by: Alden Bonecutter, Circe Baugartner, Scott Colby, Coburn Huff and others.
Free Open to the public 

INDYINK
84 S Broadway
303-indyink (303-463-9465)
charles@indyink.com

http://indyink.com
@indyinkdenver
www.instagram.com/indyinkgallery

Ocean Legacy: 
Inspiring Marine Conservation in the Ross Sea, Antarctica and Beyond
John Weller

Lecture Wednesday, March 08, 2017 7-9pm
Green Center Petroleum Hall, free and open to the public

Join us for a journey above and below the ice as internationally acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and author John Weller tells the inspiring story of the Ross Sea. Working out of his garage in Boulder, Weller started what would become a global coalition of organizations, scientists, diplomats and more than a million people, and eventually entrained the attention of world leaders from the White House to the Kremlin.

Weller will share his world-renowned images from 4 trips to the Ross Sea, including 3 months diving under the ice with the National Science Foundation. And most importantly, John will share how it was at the end – inside the international meeting in a stone fortress in the center of Hobart, Tasmania, when all these countries reached agreement in one of the most profound international collaborations of our times.

John Weller was named a SeaWeb Fellow in 2005, a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation in 2009, and has served as a Safina Center Fellow since 2014. In addition to his foundational work in the Ross Sea, Weller has collaborated with Emmy Award-winning cinematographer Shawn Heinrichs and an array of environmental organizations to conceive, create and deliver national-level media campaigns in support of marine conservation initiatives in many other crucially important regions of the world’s ocean. These campaigns have resulted in new shark and manta ray sanctuaries in the Bahamas and Micronesia, new marine protected areas in Indonesia, and new international law protecting manta rays. He continues to work in defense of the ocean alongside a team of close collaborators and his wife Cassandra Brooks.

Colorado School of Mines
Green Center Petroleum Hall
924 16th Street, Golden, CO 80401
www.mines.edu

Departure
Images by MSU Denver Students and Alumni

March 3- April 3, 2017
Opens March 3, 8pm.

Organized and curated by Megan Carnrite
msudenvermop@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/msudenvermop

#MSUDENVERMOP

Generously hosted by :

Matchbox
2625 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80205
720.437.9100
www.matchboxdenver.com

We believe in kid-powered learning!

We work to open doors for our future leaders, innovators, and adventurers to explore, create and learn on their own terms.

Target ages are newborn through eight years old, but everyone can have a good time at the Museum! Exhibits are hands-on, interactive and totally one-of-a-kind. 

Artist in residence Kia Neill

Studio hours:
Feb Sun 26, 2-4pm
Mar Sun 5, 2-4pm
Mar Tues 7, 1-3pm
Mar Sat 18, 2-4pm
Mar Sat 25, 12-4pm
Mar Wed 29, 1-5pm
Apr Wed 5, 1-5pm
Apr Sun 9, 2-4 pm

Family workshop: Mixed Media Magic. Mar Wed 15, 5-7:30pm
Closing Reception Apr Wed 12, 6-7pm

2121 Children's Museum Dr.
Denver, CO 80211
303.433.7444
www.mychildsmuseum.org

www.facebook.com/childrensmuseumofdenver

Hablaste- a retrospective of time well spent in Cuba
Curt Bean

Opens March 12th 6 - 9 pm  

Havana mixed media photo exhibition

Cuba is a very unique time capsule that is on the brink of war—an unconventional war, a war fought to preserve Cuba’s rich culture and unique environment. As more cruise ships port, and modern companies take root, the culture of Cuba breathes, adapts and works within the new environment.  

Being stranded in Havana for a handful of unplanned days, armed with only my backpack, camera and a solid pair of sneakers gave me a unique opportunity to
explore Havana to the fullest. I spent 8 to 10 hours a day walking, exploring, and seeking anything that would break up the monotony.   

I opened myself up to Havana and it took me in and spit me out. My views of Cuba before, during, and after were vastly different.  After spending 11 days in Havana, walking the streets, meeting the people and throwing myself into the culture, I got a real sense for the reality that is Havana. 

The reality from the surface is a beautiful island, full of amazing artist, musicians, and fantastic people. But once you peel back a layer, you see the immense poverty, the backwards government, the brainwashing. If you peel back another layer, you see that citizens cannot butcher their own cows, for the fear of incarceration, cannot own a boat, for the fear of them escaping, cannot live truly free.   

While walking every inch of Havana, I realized that I was walking in the calm before the storm. I took photos that capture the true feel of Havana for me, and I used mixed media to manipulate the photographs to portray how I feel Cubans see Havana. Being able to display the photography in a modern Cuban restaurant is a real treat for me. Please join me for the opening March 12th from 6 to 9pm.  

About the Artist:
Curt Bean Curt Bean was born and raised in a small town outside of St. Louis, Missouri. Bean’s work explores ideas of social justices and how to start those uncomfortable conversations through visual expression. The artist began his studies at Florida State University of Jacksonville and finished his thesis at the University of Colorado Denver in 2016. He has exhibited in Denver, Florida, and Montana.

Bean is a veteran who trained and led soldiers in Iraq with the U.S. Army, now leads the charge for veteran services through the Art of War Project, which he founded to provide creative resources to veterans. Bean has been recognized for these efforts through a Creative Leadership award in 2015 from the Governor of Colorado and most recently through the Masterminds award from Westword in 2017. Bean now lives and explores his art in Denver.

Cuba Cuba
1173 Delaware St, 
Denver, CO 80204
www.cubacubacafe.com

Curt Beancbean317@hotmail.com
www.curtbeanart.com

Leah Diament
"Conventionally Unique"

March 1st ongoing
Opens March 24th 7-10pm

My artwork is an attempt to shift the perspective of the audience from the quick paced lives that many of us lead to a “smell the roses” type of life that we actually need.  People, places, and things often become grey in our daily visual, we no longer see the beauty around us as we stick to the grind of life. As I am always trying to break out of that thought pattern myself I create images to help me and hopefully others see life in a brighter light.

In order to create these images I use the environment I’m in. I use available lighting, backgrounds, and people for all of my photography.  I love to explore concepts, people, and techniques through my photography and have a tendency to be sporadic in actual methodology because of this. 

Metropolis Highlands
1661 Central St, Denver, CO 80211
www.metropolisdenver.com

Leah Diament

March 4th- May 1st
Opening March 4th 7-10pm

My artwork is an attempt to shift the perspective of the audience from the quick paced lives that many of us lead to a “smell the roses” type of life that we actually need.  People, places, and things often become grey in our daily visual, we no longer see the beauty around us as we stick to the grind of life. As I am always trying to break out of that thought pattern myself I create images to help me and hopefully others see life in a brighter light.

In order to create these images I use the environment I’m in. I use available lighting, backgrounds, and people for all of my photography.  I love to explore concepts, people, and techniques through my photography and have a tendency to be sporadic in actual methodology because of this. 

Hooked on Colfax
3213 E. Colfax Avenue
www.hookedoncolfax.com