Denver Art Museum Blogs

Community Spotlight: Denver Public Schools Citywide Art Event

The Denver Public Schools Citywide Art Event Show displays 235 artworks by student artists from 35 schools across the district.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) at the DAM 

The Denver Art Museum will host the 11th Annual Teaching for Artistic Behavior Conference on January 15-16, 2022.

Preguntas y respuestas con la diseñadora gráfica Jena Siedler

Q&A with Graphic Designer Jena Siedler

Denver’s Very Own Los Fridistas 

Denver Public Schools students and teachers created Surrealist self-portraits and poems inspired by Frida Kahlo.

2021 Colorado Scholastic Arts Awards

Congratulations to these creative students in grades 7–12 and to their teachers and families!

Calling All Middle-School Teachers and Families

The Denver Art Museum needs your help!

Sharing our sincere appreciation for teachers across Colorado  and beyond

The closure of schools this spring has created an  unprecedented  challenge for teachers  to overcome.  Teachers were faced with daunting questions:  How do we teach from afar? How do we connect with our students when we cannot connect? How do we ensure students know we care?  We have seen teachers not only  rise to the challenge, but truly innovate during this time of need.

Monumental Poles Among First Art Placed in the Martin Building (Video)

The Denver Art Museum team has completed the installation of its monumental Haida poles, marking the beginning of art installations for a redesigned and reinstalled Northwest Coast and Alaska Native gallery. The reimagined space will be among the first art galleries to reopen to the public in the initial phase of the renovated Martin Building on June 6, 2020. The DAM’s beloved Haida poles, frequently misattributed as “totem” poles, were the first items installed in the new space.

Martin Building Reopening Begins June 6, 2020

We’re happy to announce that on June 6, 2020, we will open three floors of art galleries, learning and gathering spaces, and a restaurant and cafe in the renovated Lanny and Sharon Martin Building and new Anna and John J.

Martin Building to Open in Phases–Starting with New Welcome Center in June 2020

In June 2020, the Denver Art Museum will kick off a phased reopening of the united museum campus, welcoming visitors to the first three levels of the refurbished and renamed Martin Building (previously the North Building) and the new, curved glass-walled Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center. Championing lifelong learning and creative pursuits for visitors of all ages has always been at the heart of the DAM’s mission.

Apply for Art Lives Here/El arte vive aquí

Is your school actively engaged in promoting the arts? Do you work for a community center focused on exposing youth and families to new creative experiences and opportunities? Apply here to collaborate with the Denver Art Museum to bring the Art Lives Here/El arte vive aquí program to your site. Art Lives Here/El arte vive aquí is a FREE program created with the Denver Art Museum and your school or organization’s community. A collection of unique museum objects would live at your site for about a month.