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.
For more than two decades, J. Landis (Lanny) and Sharon have been instrumental in guiding the vision of the Denver Art Museum and have provided a longstanding commitment to major programs, special exhibitions, and important acquisitions to the permanent collection.
With their transformational $25 million gift, the largest financial gift in the museum’s history, to revitalize the North Building, they have elevated this institution to new heights.
The Denver Art Museum today announced bold plans to make significant improvements to the iconic North Building.
In 1971, the North Building opened, allowing the museum to display its collections under one roof for the first time. Superstar Italian architect Gio Ponti designed the exterior while Denver-based James Sudler Associates designed the gallery spaces and interior. It was a radical decision to build a seven-story, 210,000-square-foot tower—one of the first high-rise museums built in the country—in Denver.
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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
Editor's Note: Gregg Deal is the Native Arts Artist-in-Residence. He hosts public hours 11 am–2 pm January 13-17 and will perform at Untitled Final Friday on January 29. Below is a blog he wrote about his recent performance piece at the DAM, Ethnographic Zoo.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz will be in the Flower Studio at the Denver Art Museum demonstrating her creative process October 10 and 11.
Dawn is the owner of DSH Perfumes in Boulder, Colorado and is regarded as a prolific artist and consummate niche perfumer. She uses her education in the arts as a painting student to design her exceptional aromas using the principals of fine arts such as shape, color, light, expression, and texture. As an artist, Hurwitz often draws inspiration from her surroundings and other works of art.
When Tom Haukaas was young, he spent hours watching the traditional dancers of his Rosebud Sioux Tribe with awe. He was impressed not only by their dancing, but also with the beauty of their elaborate costumes. He couldn’t afford to buy the garments so he decided to learn how to make them. Surrounded by family and friends who were skilled at both quilt and beadwork, Haukaas learned from the best, eventually developing his own original aesthetic.