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cover of In the Time of the Butterflies and a gallery image of the textile wall hanging called Butterfly
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Explore 2019 NEA Big Read at Drop-In Writing

Explore Julia Alvarez's novel In the Time of the Butterflies in front of Marie Watt's artwork Butterfly (in The Light Show) at the Denver Art Museum's Drop-In Writing program on October 22. Lighthouse Writers Workshop is hosting Denver's 2019 NEA Big Read at events throughout town through November 6. This year, the book is by Julia Alvarez. At our Drop-In Writing program this month, Suzi Q. Smith, poet and community engagement coordinator at Lighthouse, will be using writing prompts related to the book.
the sand mandala and the mandala coloring area in The Light Show
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Relax with Tibetan Sand Mandala Inspired Coloring Page

Editor's Note: You can enjoy the coloring activity and see the Hayagriva Mandala in The Light Show through March 7, 2021. At the Denver Art Museum, we have in our collection one of very few Tibetan sand mandalas to be permanently installed in a museum. They are traditionally dismantled after construction as a symbolic reference to the impermanence of life and the transitory nature of life in Buddhist thought.
sunset photo taken with an iPhone
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Announcing the Winners of the #NewTerritoryCo Instagram Contest

Thank you to everyone who entered this contest. We saw so many great photos! Photography curator Eric Paddock said, "This was a really fun and interesting experience. There was so much energy among the participating artists, and so many great pictures, that it was awfully hard to settle on a final group.
Tent Camera Image on Ground: View of Mount Moran and the Snake River from Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming by Abelardo Morell
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Curator's Choice: #NewTerritoryCo Instagram Contest

Note: This contest is now closed. Contemporary landscape photography from around the world is surveyed in the Denver Art Museum’s summer exhibition New Territory: Landscape Photography Today. The exhibition reflects on the environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values of our time through “observed” and “constructed” landscape imagery. We challenge you to capture the essence of New Territory through a single photograph. The museum’s photography department will review submissions to select the top 10 photographs.
one eyed dog looking into the camera wearing a BB8 costume
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How to Take a Great Pet Photo

See Your Pet on the Gallery Wall For the exhibition Stampede: Animals in Art the Denver Art Museum invites visitors to share photos of your pets on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #DAMpets. These photos will appear in the exhibition’s “Beloved” section in a livestream on a framed iPad hung side-by-side with artworks from DAM’s collections. You will find this section on level 3 of the DAM’s Hamilton Building. Upload your pet photo and use the hashtag and maybe you'll see Fluffy or Spot on the gallery wall! (There's up to a 10-minute delay.)