It may be September but the Denver Art Museum is still celebrating the summer of Dance! with the 27th Annual Friendship Powwow and American Indian Cultural Celebration. On September 10, 2016, dances, drumming, and more take place on Acoma Plaza (between the museum’s North Building and the main branch of the Denver Public Library). There also are great programs happening inside the museum—and general admission is free! (Youth 18 and younger always receive free general admission to the DAM.)
See Handmade Powwow Regalia
Have you ever been surprised by seeing a landscape for the first time or excited by discovering something new in a place you have visited before?
Follow in the footsteps of photographers Timothy H. O'Sullivan and William H. Bell, whose work is currently on view here in On Desert Time: Landscape Photographs by O’Sullivan & Bell, 1871-1874, and capture an image that reflects both the bones of the Colorado landscape and your own discoveries in the area and submit it in our Let’s Go Colorado! photography contest*.
The Denver Art Museum partners with Denver Public Library’s Plaza program to bring creativity and artmaking to five of the local library branches—Hadley, Hampden, Gonzalez, Montbello, and Ross-Barnum. Once a month, students and families in the DPL Plaza program create amazing works of art that are now on display at the Denver Art Museum.
Each art project focuses on a theme that is communicated through the artwork. Art is a powerful way of communicating, especially in the Plaza program, which is a meeting place for immigrant and refugee families at the Denver Public Library.
Mar Williams worked with local “hackers” on an interactive installation which explored the connection between technology, art, and individual identity.
Viviane Le Courtois built a Global Thinking Pod at the Denver Art Museum where visitors could slow down, make something, and connect with new people.
Denver Art Museum creative-in-residence Viviane Le Courtois’ Global Thinking Pod is now installed in the exhibit Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out. This is not the first thinking pod the artist has designed and built for an art setting. It is, however, the first thinking pod to rely heavily on the contributions and help of visitors.
Mar Williams' installation at the Denver Art Museum is playful and interactive, yet the creative-in-residence wants visitors to ask questions about the role of technology in their lives. In this video, Williams shares the big ideas that inspired the "Feed the Animal" installation, among these is the question: How can we create an emotional response to our personal data or "online" identity? The technology involved in the installation is being developed over the course of this residency.
Join us March 19–April 3 for hands-on artmaking, performances, and more fun for families. The Paint Studio, Create-n-Takes, Family Activity Cart, and Just for Fun Center–Japan (it's new!) will be open every day.
A performance of ART EMERGENCY! CODE RED... by Real Live Theater Company kicks off Spring Break on March 19. There are two performances: members-only at 9:30 am; and everyone at 10:30 am. Adult tickets included with general admission; free for members.
Art Emergency also will be performed on April 16 and May 21.
Viviane Le Courtois, a Denver-based artist, will be a creative-in-residence at the Denver Art Museum from April 5–15, 2016. During her residency, she will be building a “thinking pod” inside the exhibition Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out on Level 3 of the Hamilton Building. The most important aspect of Le Courtois’ residency is the participation of visitors whom she hopes will not only donate materials to weave into the pod’s structure, but also will join in the weaving process and in discussion.
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When the time came to choose someone to be the next creative-in-residence, well, we knew right away who it should be. That person is Mar Williams. The beauty of working with Williams is that we are simultaneously working with a hacker, an artist, a tinkerer and an extraordinarily creative mind. We are excited about the activities that Williams is creating because they blend technology and art in a way that is new to the DAM and will provide a unique experience for visitors.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver connect children to opportunities for community involvement and personal growth, including access to museums. The Denver Art Museum’s core educational values for creative thinking, expression, and transformative experiences help provide a platform for the emerging artists of the Boys & Girls Clubs.
Evan Weissman and Chris Getzan brings, Warm Cookies of the Revolution (WCoR), into the DAM to examine voting and civic health from different perspectives.