Tag: Art
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The Kirkland at Denver Art Museum sets an artful holiday table
Festively set Thanksgiving dinner tables tend to bring out the best from cupboards and china cabinets. The finest dishes, cutlery and stemware set the table for memorable holiday meals. “When you take the time to set a table, make each place setting and choose what dishes you want to show off, it makes the event…
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Taken to (art) school by a couple of kids
Siblings, ages 9 and 10, unlock the mysteries of French Impressionist Camille Pissarro, subject of a major exhibit the Denver Art Museum When it comes to the artist Camille Pissarro, I am not smarter than a fifth grader. But I am smart enough to ask a fifth grader. I’m not going to lie: When I…
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An open-air art gallery: Hogan Park at Highlands Creek
Welcome to Hogan Park at Highlands Creek, a 100-acre space where plans call for a disc golf course, a zip line and a climbing wall. If that sounds like any number of new parks these days, take a closer look. Just off the paved trail winding through the park stands a polished steel sculpture of…
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New mural honors old Denver’s Westside
Just in time for the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, a vibrant new mural recently completed on the exterior of a Metro State University building at 800 Kalamath St. catches eyes and helps raise awareness about the history a of a Denver neighborhood long known as the Westside. Titled “A Tribute to the Westside,” the…
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Black Arts Festival brings music and culture to City Park on Saturday
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save City Park played host to the Colorado Black Arts Festival on Saturday as part of a three-day weekend celebrating African American arts and culture. In its 39th year, the festival featured over 80 local artists and businesses, as well as three different stages showcasing different…
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‘The heart of Pueblo:’ A mural grows again along the Arkansas River
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One morning this spring, as dawn broke over the mountains in southern Colorado, Valrie Eisemann loaded her truck with paint and climbing gear and drove about 65 miles to her canvas: a concrete wall angling high above the Arkansas River. She arrived at her place…
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The medium of temporality: Denver Chalk Art Festival returns for 23rd year
It was not yet 9 a.m. on Saturday, and Acoma Street was already becoming a canvas. Groups of people, many wearing salmon-red event T-shirts with the word “artist” on the back, used rollers to paint a solid liquid chalk background in 8-foot by 8-foot squares denoted by painter’s tape on the pavement. Others, down on…
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For one Colorado museum, it’s all about the little things
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAKEWOOD • One recent morning at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, friends excitedly gathered around objects no larger than their pinky fingertips. That’s about the size of the Stanley tumblers, Tupperware and air fryer. “We need to put french fries in there,”…
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South Pearl Street fairy doors fascinate neighborhood with whimsical miniatures
If you’re walking along South Pearl Street in Denver, keep your eyes peeled along the trims of doors. There, where the street meets the walls of storefronts, are entrances into tiny worlds. From shrunken storefronts with a purple door and gray brick to hobbit-style moss hideaways, you’ll find nearly two dozen “fairy doors” along the…
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National parks are fantasy worlds in the maps of a Colorado artist
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Not long ago in his parents’ Colorado Springs home, a young man came by his boyhood pen. This was the Lamy Safari Fountain pen Alex Burden had used some 20 years ago during elementary school in Germany. “The last time I used one was in…