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.
Untitled Creative Fusions
It’s the last Untitled Final Friday of 2016 (Untitled is on hiatus November and December) and we’re celebrating by rolling back the clock to the gold, glamour, and Glory of Venice. Come on by, but better move fast, because Glory Days…well, they’ll pass you by.
Untitled Creative Fusions
Untitled: Stop Motion is the last of our dance-themed Untitled Final Fridays, exploring dance, photography, and artworks that express time. Join us for hands-on activities, dancing, performances, and artist talks.
Explore where stop-motion animation began. Create your own animated flip-book masterpiece, or you can twirl into action with zoetropes and thaumatropes that bring the action to life.
Untitled Creative Fusions
It’s dance season at the Denver Art Museum and it’s time to take Center Stage at Untitled Final Friday.
All the world’s a stage, but this one’s full of ballerinas, drag queens, and never-before-seen sky-high chair soldiers! What?! Stick around, kid; it’s going to be one heck of a show.
Untitled Creative Fusions
It’s time to get steppin’ for Untitled In-Sync, the first of three movin,’ groovin’ Untitled Final Fridays celebrating dance at the Denver Art Museum. For July, we’re gathering our crews for a night of synchronized moves and creative collaborations, as we look at partners, pair-ups, and performances that really, you know…move us!
Mar Williams worked with local “hackers” on an interactive installation which explored the connection between technology, art, and individual identity.
Viviane Le Courtois built a Global Thinking Pod at the Denver Art Museum where visitors could slow down, make something, and connect with new people.
Denver Art Museum creative-in-residence Viviane Le Courtois’ Global Thinking Pod is now installed in the exhibit Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out. This is not the first thinking pod the artist has designed and built for an art setting. It is, however, the first thinking pod to rely heavily on the contributions and help of visitors.
Mar Williams' installation at the Denver Art Museum is playful and interactive, yet the creative-in-residence wants visitors to ask questions about the role of technology in their lives. In this video, Williams shares the big ideas that inspired the "Feed the Animal" installation, among these is the question: How can we create an emotional response to our personal data or "online" identity? The technology involved in the installation is being developed over the course of this residency.
Viviane Le Courtois, a Denver-based artist, will be a creative-in-residence at the Denver Art Museum from April 5–15, 2016. During her residency, she will be building a “thinking pod” inside the exhibition Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out on Level 3 of the Hamilton Building. The most important aspect of Le Courtois’ residency is the participation of visitors whom she hopes will not only donate materials to weave into the pod’s structure, but also will join in the weaving process and in discussion.
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When the time came to choose someone to be the next creative-in-residence, well, we knew right away who it should be. That person is Mar Williams. The beauty of working with Williams is that we are simultaneously working with a hacker, an artist, a tinkerer and an extraordinarily creative mind. We are excited about the activities that Williams is creating because they blend technology and art in a way that is new to the DAM and will provide a unique experience for visitors.