Arts & Culture
Fleetwood Kodak
Mick Fleetwood is mostly known for co-founding and drumming in the legendary band Fleetwood Mac. But between tours, Fleetwood is putting down the sticks and picking up the camera. His new show, Reflections, will be at the gallery Fascination St. Fine Art in Denver ...
Warp and weft
It may have been 20 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, but it was 50 years ago that the Handweavers Guild of Boulder first met up to combine their handweaving powers. And back then, it was for handweavers only, leaving Boulder’s needlepoint ...
Double take
In Monique Crine’s picture “Jake,” a buff man stands alone in a pool gazing at the viewer. When standing a few feet away from the 6-foot-by-9-foot portrait, it seems as if you’re staring at a photograph. But upon closer inspection of the curve of the jaw or curl ...
Unbridled art
When the tight squeeze of Communist regime censorship applied itself to art in Poland, trained artists turned their hands to the unmonitored medium of poster production. Communist leaders believed that posters for cultural events, like film, opera, theatre and the ...
When cultures collide
Denver artist Tony Ortega’s attic studio overflows with framed prints he has made during his three-plus decades as a professional artist...
Rapping it up
Kelly Monico, Nebraska native though she may be, has always been a fan of rap — old school rap. Then the Metropolitan State University of Denver art professor encountered her first Nicki Minaj video on a student’s blog...
Photos: Frozen Dead Guy Days
The folks in Nederland, Colorado celebrated their 10th Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival from March 4-6. Check out some images from the events:
Longmont Chalk Art and Street Fair
This September, Longmont hosted their inaugural Chalk Art Street Fair & Bin Market, a free two-day street-painting festival where more than 38 artists spent...
Reconsidered
Artist Kim Jongku creates calligraphic poetry on canvas out of the same material used in military tanks and weapons. Derrick Velasquez lets gravity work on boat upholstery to create stacks of vivid, colorful patterns in his wall installations. Aníbal Catalan examines...
Setting fire to sex trafficking
Go ahead and play with matches — that was the directive Boulder area artists got last year from Sue Chambers Wallingford, core assistant professor at Naropa’s art therapy program...
