Arts & Culture
A million pictures worth countless words
As of Dec. 24, Boulder photographer Peggy Dyer had captured the images of 4,340 people, leaving 995,660 to go in her mission to photograph a million faces. For the last two years, Dyer has been steadily amassing what she hopes will be the “single most extensive ...
Making sense of Boulder fashion
Boulder tends to attract superlatives. It’s been named the foodiest town in America by Bon Appetit. It’s routinely among the fittest, the smartest, most likely to succeed, best smile, greatest ever. But nobody’s ever complimented the City of Brown Woolen Sweaters on ...
Faces of nature
During a snowy day, if you look outside the window, all you may see is a smattering of white flakes coating the landscape. But...
Arts | Week of June 26, 2014
The Art of Data. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through July 6...
Arts | Week of Dec. 3, 2015
Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 20...
A collective cacophony
The story of Meow Wolf starts in a coffee shop with a boy crushing on a girl... sort of.
Really, the story of the...
Truth be Told Grand Story Slam
Everyone has that one friend who always has something really funny or amazing happen to them, and is really good at telling the story. Truth Be Told is Boulder’s bimonthly story slam where all those people can come out and speak their truth. Participants come up ...
Takin’ it to the streets
Street Wise Boulder is back, Sept. 7-13, for its second year, bringing muralists (and 3D artists) from around Colorado and as far away as...
The Young Festivarians
By day four it had become our nightly routine. About 6 p.m. we'd have some dinner. Then we'd settle in to catch one of the last three acts of an indescribable day of music, sunshine, rain, hail, new friends and just about anything unpredictable enough to be part of ...
Blurred Lines
Tower of Babel,” an oil painting by Denverbased artist CT Nelson, looks like a nightmare brought to life. A tower of dizzying height reaches into a dark sky and appears to whirl at a frenzied pace from a machine, an image Nelson says was inspired by a World War I era...
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 ...
Building bridges
Melanie Yazzie is an artist. She’s a painter, printmaker, sculptor, jewelry designer and an art teacher. As the head of printmaking at the University...

















