Last month we hosted our first round of Tactile Tables in the Cover Story textile gallery. It was such a delight to finally watch visitors touch and interact with these objects, after months of planning. The development tactile programming is unique; here is a peek into the process.
Our Pop-up Dye Garden (part of Spun: Adventures in Textiles) has weathered the Colorado summer and is still growing and blooming on the Martin Plaza! The colorful plaza oasis will be up until September 27, so there is still time to take a peek at what has sprouted over the past few months. You may be surprised to see that many of the dye plants in the DAM’s dye garden are already growing in your backyard. If you’re feeling adventurous, now may be the time to harvest some leaves, stems, and flowers and get creative with natural color.
As you may have heard, the Denver Art Museum is gearing up to present Passport to Paris, a group of three exhibitions focusing on French art opening this fall. Several landscape paintings currently on view (including Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge) will be incorporated in this special exhibition. Although the DAM’s most treasured impressionist works will be temporarily relocated, do not fear. You can still see fantastic examples of impressionist art in our permanent collection galleries on Level 6 of the North Building.
Spun: Adventures in Textiles features an examination of textiles from pre-Columbian weavings to Navajo blankets. In honor of this campus-wide exhibition, the Museum Shop has launched a new line of textile-related merchandise at the North Building shop. Whether you want to take a piece of the exhibition home or try to create your own textile art, the Museum Shop has the perfect selection of merchandise for you.
The DAM is hosting an exhibition of industrial designer Terence Conran’s dinnerware from the 1950s in Terence Conran for Midwinter.
During the 1950s, W.R. Midwinter Ltd. became the first British manufacturer to mass-produce ceramic tableware in fashionable shapes and lively patterns that reflected the youthful informality of postwar life.
The Denver Art Museum was a hive of activity on June 28 during the final Friday Untitled event. We had just finished an incredible performance lab featuring artist Nick Cave, three local dance companies, 15 community performers, an improv music group, and a DJ. For me, the most memorable moment of the night happened as things were drawing to a close.
Recently, I came across the work of a local fashion designer and blogger Tess Vigil. As it turns out, her father, Angel Vigil, has been a partner-artist with Denver Art Museum’s CelebrARTE program. Since our upcoming CelebrARTE theme is Traje, outfits have been on my mind. I asked her to style an outfit inspired by the campus-wide summer exhibition Spun: Adventures in Textiles.
Madalena Salazar: Hi, Tess. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do.