Tag: Art
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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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Colorful Colorado has deeper meaning for Salida artist
Dorothy steps out of her black-and-white world and into the Technicolor world of Oz — just as the artist Leslie Jorgensen steps into Colorado’s great outdoors. “It’s that awe,” she says. “It’s that feeling of being alive, truly alive.” It’s a feeling she aims to paint. And it’s a feeling that comes with living in…
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Denver gets odd: Oddities and Curiosities Expo returns
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo returns to Denver for its seventh-annual year
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Colfax Canvas Mural Fest brings beauty to five Aurora businesses
11 artists created five murals throughout the Aurora Cultural Arts District
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Game of Thrones, Ted Lasso alum Hannah Waddingham in Denver to accept award
British actress Hannah Waddingham was in Denver Thursday to accept the Barbara Bridges Inspiration Award from Women+Film in a ceremony at the Denver Art Museum.