Denver Art Museum Gets Down and Dirty
This week marks the beginning of The Denver Art Museum's first ever campus wide exhibition based on one material, Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Every department in the Museum is involved from Design to Photography. In Director Christoph Heinrich's words, “Don't think pots”. The entire Summer is dedicated to activities and demonstrations surrounding the main exhibition. Activities include the Museum's Mud Studio where young and old can get hands on with clay as well as weekend demonstrations throughout the Summer. This weekend artist Bob Smith was on hand to perform Raku firing, an intense process that yields beautiful glazes, on the plaza in front of the Hamilt...Read more
Blink! Brings Electronic Media to the Forefront
While browsing through the Denver Art Museums acquisitions, curator, Jill Desmond, came to the realization that works utilizing electronic media lacked categorization. During the last twenty five years the DAM had amassed video, sculpture, animation, and installations incorporating electronic media, yet these works had never before been brought together. Thus the impetus for Blink! Light, Sound, and the Moving Image, the newest exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, was born. Jill and her team were not only challenged with the technical aspects of bringing so many divergent pieces together, but also discovering a unifying theme to the works. What was found was ...Read more
Better Late Than Never: Where The Wild Things Are:
A friend of mine who directs films once told me, "no matter what you do on a shoot, feed your workers". I didn't know exactly what was so important about providing snacks to actors until I found myself filming with a five year old for this Where The Wild Things Art . We kept Max happy and pliable with a constant supply of his favorite food: pushpops. If you're wondering who the Illiterate Max. His name is Armani and the little boy that plays Max. If you're wandering who the little boy is, his name is Armani, the son of artist and illiterate's drywall expert, Stephen Alerid. He hung out with us on a late November Sunday chasing and being chased by me, Joe and Sander, as the...Read more
I Left My Heart at the Fabric Lab
It's been such a whirlwind. I first encountered the Fabric Lab when I submitted a few of my dresses to their Haute Art + Fashion Show. At the time I was a student in Boulder, stuck in the bubble, and it was really my first taste of the Denver art scene : I was impressed/inspired/hungry for more. I officially fell in love with the Super Block when they had the fashion show on the sidewalk. picture coutesy Lauire Scavo. A couple of my dresses hanging in the Fabic Lab at the Haute Art + Fashion Show Shortly after, I moved to San Francisco, but still kept a curious eye on the Denver fashion scene via the internets and FM Magazine's fashion editorials. Everything I was seeing in the i...Read more
Illiterate Grand Opening! = Where The Wild Things Art
About the space Five years ago, Illiterate began as an arts and literary student group and publication at the University of Colorado Boulder. Two years later, after it and many of the staff graduated, Illiterate grew to include an interactive online community of creative individuals submitting content for a chance to get published. As of October 2009, Illiterate now occupies a multifunctional two story facility. That's right, we have a zip code! Located in Denver, Colorado's historic Baker district at 82 S. Broadway (click for map), Illiterate's new HQ serves a number of creative uses: as an art gallery, artists' studio, and the center of operations for Illiterate's interactive web...Read more
Ryan Adams Presents: Infinity Blues
Ryan Adams has just published his first book of poetry. It’s called Infinity Blues.That’s all I wanted to say right now. I mean, this is not a review. This is an announcement. The review will come later.I just picked up a copy of it a couple days ago. I feel like I need to reread it another ten times though before I can forge some sort of defensible opinion. Right now I’ve only read it one time, really fast, all the way through. I had the same reaction to Infinity Blues that I have when listening to one of his albums for the first time (except for Love Is Hell which instantly drilled itself into the back of my brain stem, causing me to recognize it instantly as a fucking mo...Read more