This summer, the Denver Art Museum welcomed Melanie Yazzie, the native arts department's first artist-in-residence. The artist-in-residence program brings renowned American artists to the Denver Art Museum and utilizes a new studio space in the American Indian art galleries on level three of the North Building. The revitalized studio and Yazzie’s residency are made possible by a grant from the Americana Foundation.
Untitled #49 (Ideate) is all about design you can do. The Denver Art Museum is celebrating design this summer and opening its doors to community designers of all ages and skill levels with its first ever visitor-sourced exhibition, Open For Design. So grab your sketchbook and pencil; your design training starts at Untitled #49!
After months (sometimes years) of planning, deliberating, and visualizing, the fun part of installing an exhibition is when all the pieces start to come together physically in the gallery space. In the Now Boarding exhibition, that included two-dimensional (2-D) objects such as photos and sketches of the airports, three-dimensional (3-D) objects like architectural models and various airline travel-related artifacts, multiple videos, and a spectrum of graphics.
Your Mission: Take a photo of a design dilemma in your ‘hood.
Specs: Take a hi-res pic (up to 2 MB) of this design issue and upload it on Denver Art Museum's Collective website.
The exhibition Now Boarding: Fentress Airports + The Architecture of Flight takes visitors on a journey through six airports designed by Curtis Fentress. The designs featured meld art and practicality, embodying the regions they were designed for.
This year the Asian Art Department marks a milestone for one of its dearest and most significant contributors, Bj Averitt. Bj (pronounced bee'-jay) became a museum member and volunteer in 1963. She served as the volunteer executive board president from 1966 to 1968 and worked as a staff aide in the Asian Art Department beginning in 1976. After over 40 years of cultivating the museum’s Islamic art collection, she retired in 2007 at the age of 85.
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The Denver Art Museum actively is collecting "variable media" artworks.
Untitled is one of those programs at the Denver Art Museum where you really have to be there to experience the magic.
I had one of those "I work in a really cool place" moments a few weeks ago.
Lisa Steffen, our educator in charge of access programs, sent me an e-mail that her team had created a tactile tour of Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective for visitors who are visually impaired or blind. My interest was immediately piqued. How could she translate a fashion exhibition into something that could be experienced through other senses? I had to investigate and decided to invite some media to take in the experience as well. We all arrived at the museum, not sure what to expect.
This month’s late night program, Untitled #48 (Anonymous), is taking it to the streets with crowd-sourced activities, anonymous art, and connections between strangers.
MakeARTtalk, the series where we ask local creatives to make a new work inspired by the DAM and its collections, will feature Matt Scobey and David Coccagna. The pair will be activating anonymous corners of the museum with their work and hosting mini-tours throughout the evening.
During Untitled #47 (LOL), the Denver Art Museum was lucky enough to partner with the hilarious duo behind the Humor Code, Peter McGraw and Joel Warner. This self-proclaimed scholar and skeptic travel the globe researching what makes things funny. During Untitled, the pair hosted an interactive Q&A about the science of funny with comedian Ben Roy, and also cooked up a study (with Untitled visitors as the subjects) that was simultaneously serious and silly.
I’ve finally been able to more closely examine the Canaletto to gain a better understanding of its present overall condition and treatment history. Generally, the picture is in better shape than I anticipated. To come to that conclusion I used a variety of evaluative and analytical techniques to assess the painting’s structural and aesthetic state. These non-destructive techniques range from looking closely at the picture in bright and varied lighting to bathing the picture in ultraviolet or x-radiation.