Art conservation is a field that encompasses a breadth of expertise. As we roll up our sleeves in anticipation of improvements and potential discoveries, a plan that will provide optimum preservation is essential.
Entering its seventh year, the Bank of America Art Conservation Project has funded more than 100 projects in 29 countries, on six continents. In 2016, the Denver Art Museum was among 21 institutions to receive one of these prestigious grants. As a result of this generous support, the conservation and New World curatorial departments will be able to undertake the full scope of historical and technical research as well as the conservation treatment of a very important painting from the museum's Spanish Colonial collection.
Kathleen Sherman will be in the Costume Studio demonstrating experimental mask construction February 18-19 and February 25-26, 2017.
Sherman worked for 30 years as a commercial artist and graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art. Her work has been shown and sold in galleries, museums, and sculpture shows. More recently she had a studio/gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District but now has a studio in her home, and is presently a member of the Art Gym in Denver.
Holly Nordeck: What will your demo at the DAM showcase?
Get to know our current Native Arts Artist-in-Residence Wendy Red Star at February's Untitled Final Friday on February 24 and the following Open Studio hours:
February 25-26: 11 am–2 pm
March 18 and March 22-23: 11 am–2 pm
March 24: 2 pm Wendy Red Star will interview her 9-year-old daughter, Beatrice Red Star Fletcher, about Beatrice’s new photo series
Everyday Indian.
Wendy's daughter Beatrice will not be at the events in February, but she will be back in March.
Café Cultura is now participating in Cuatro[4]: A Series of Artist Interactions at the Denver Art Museum. Poets from this spoken-word collective have audio performances in an installation on level 4 of the North Building available for visitors to enjoy through February 26, 2017.
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Cuatro [4]: A Series of Artist Interactions (which began with Carlos Frésquez' project) focuses on four local artists and creatives who will bring the Denver Art Museum’s pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art collections to life. Our second artist of the series, Danette Montoya, debuts her installation of Las Almas de los Muertos on October 18, and it will evolve over four weeks.
Verla Howell will have open studio hours in the Powwow Regalia Studio from 10 am–2 pm, July 28–31.
Q&A with Alistair Bane about the work he did as a Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at the Denver Art Museum in July 2016.
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Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Denver Art Museum will be working with four local creatives and artists to present Cuatro [4]: A Series of Artist Interactions over the next year. Artists participating in this series will create projects inspired by our pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial galleries. We’re excited to welcome our first artist of the series, Carlos Frésquez, a celebrated Chicano artist and Denver native.
Mary Young Bear will have open studio hours in the Powwow Regalia Studio from 10 am–2 pm, Thursdays–Sundays, June 9–19.
Nicole Laurin: What genre of dance is your piece connected to and what’s your relationship/history to it?
Public Hours
Jan Jacobs will have public hours when she will engage with visitors in the studio on level 3 of the North Building on the following dates:
April 20–21, 23–24: 11 am–2 pm
Insider Moment
Join Jan Jacobs for an off-the-cuff chat about her ongoing work in the Native Arts Artist-in-Residence studio. We'll go wherever the conversation takes us.
May 4: 1-1:30 pm North Building, level 3, included in general admission.
Nooner Tours— A Chat with an Artist
Leonardo Drew recently gave a talk at the Denver Art Museum as part of the Logan Lecture Series. Known for creating large-scale sculptures and multi-media works on paper that explore his interest in the cyclical nature of creation, decay, and regeneration, Drew has created a unique style and technique. Drew employs a process that is physically and conceptually steeped in memory, history, and the passage of time.