Arts & Culture
lecture | Week of March 27, 2014
Sunday, March 30: A Night with Shannon Galpin. 6 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder 303-440- 7826...
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do…
Sourdough Baking — with Sarah Owens and Andy Clark. 5 p.m. Thursday, June 18.
With the popularity of sourdough on the rise, many are turning...
Reality is the New Fiction
Art is not just a painting on the wall anymore (though some may argue it never was). Today, what we consider art is as diverse as a subway station at rush hour. Due to the technological globalization of our world, a hybrid reality has been born—a place where 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...
Arts | Week of May 8, 2014
43rd Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Art Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 11...
Step lively for dance
Scanning the room, your eyes become locked with a potential partner in a visual embrace that seems to extinguish the outside world. Once intertwined, forceful and deliberate movements make up an exotic language that has no words...
Repurposing meanings
Imagine what flesh would look like if it were made from thin layers of wood, or how a wave in a choppy sea would appear if it were frozen into overarching planks. Picture an animate sense of movement emerging from this wooden mass and visualize shifting colors ...
Post-apocalyptic life is a blast in Fallout: New Vegas
Back in 2008, the folks at Bethesda Games released a classic game in Fallout 3. Stranded in the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America, the player is on a journey to find his father while trying to survive among vigilantes and radiation-infected creatures trying to ...
The STEAM of dreams
“We believe art is a powerful gateway drug into science,” George Sparks,
CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), says of its...
For my mother
It’s been almost two years since my mother got divorced.
Unlike some middle-age separations, hers was a complete and sudden shock — no falling...
Boulder Tattoo Project: Ink for all
Not surprisingly for someone who co-owns and manages a tattoo parlor, Chelsea Pohl of Claw and Talon Tattoo in Boulder has some pretty significant ink running from her left shoulder down to her elbow. But it’s the two tattoos on the back of her ankles, the words “...