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Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: The Send-Off
Posted: September 01, 2010

LLM: The Send-Off

The Event Center, 1490 Delganey (Denver)

Saturday September 4, 2010 from 8pm-12am

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(from event host Dana Cain)

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has been called Denver's "one-woman art scene." She was dubbed our first "Mastermind." She has worked tirelessly to promote Denver's artists for decades, creating events, gallery spaces, studios, exhibitions and more - all geared toward showcasing Denver's artists and building our art scene.

It's hard to imagine a Denver without Lauri in it.

But she's moving on Sunday - to Columbus, Ohio ... where she'll enter graduate school and work under one of her idols, Ann Hamilton. She'll get to study abroad for a year, too .. .and she will be able to focus solely on her art.

Saturday night is the Farewell Party ... the Big Bon Voyage .... the Send-off.

Please join us at the site of Lauri's recent "Objectophilia" phenomenon ... 1490 Delganey - the Event Center across the street from the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art).

BYO. Please bring food or drink to share if you can.


 
Art Farm: Harvest 2010
Posted: August 25, 2010

Harvest: an outdoor community art show and garden gala

Denver Urban Garden's West Wash Park Community Garden (Grant and 2nd st)

Saturday August 28, 2010 from 3-7pm

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Artwork by Art Farm artist Ben Henry

(from the press release)

Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) and Art Farm are hosting “HARVEST,” an outdoor community art show and garden gala. The event will be held at DUG’s West Washington Park Community Garden at 201 Grant Street in Denver, on August 28, 2010, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m..

The Harvest gala will feature garden tours, the works of local artists, live music by Erick Rudolph, beer provided by Breckenridge Brewery,and a tastings of fresh garden produce, along with additional hors d’oeuvres provided by Whole Foods. Eco-Products will provide all party wares and Trash Bags making this an all green event.

This event is free and open to the public. Donations to Denver Urban Gardens will be accepted and appreciated.

DUG: Denver Urban Gardens, a Denver-based nonprofit organization, was founded in 1985 to operate and assist with the creation and management of metro-area community gardens. Primarily serving low- to moderate-income populations in urban neighborhoods, DUG provides opportunities for participants to improve their access to fresh, healthy food, learn new skills, initiate a sense of pride in their surroundings and improve their community. Over the past 26 years, DUG has helped to create 100 metro-area community gardens and small parks.. For more information, please go to www.DUG.org.

ART FARM: For the last four years Art Farm has brought together a series of outdoor community art shows featuring the works of local artists at different Denver Urban Gardens locations. Each Art Farm show corresponds to a particular stage of the garden and the size of the artwork is focused on the artistic presentation of these themes: seedlings, full bloom, and harvest. The Harvest show will feature a variety of art that complements the garden at its peak. All art is for sale and proceeds will benefit DUG.

ARTISTS: Tadd Moskal, Marcella Nordbeck, Laurie Maves, Dunn(the Street Sign Artist), Amy Barone, Eric Matelski, Ben Henry, Eric Buckner Winfield, Lynda Knowles, Kyle Banister, Kamla Presswalla, Audrey McNamara, Lea Wells, Tim DeMasters, and George M. Stephens

Art Farm is a Art Pimp Production http://artpimponline.com/

 
 
Snap Shooters: Kids Photo Classes at WWA
Posted: June 08, 2010

Snap Shooters: Kids Photo Classes

Working with Artists

Second Saturday of each month from June through October

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Working with Artists at Belmar

(from the press release)

Working with Artists, Denver’s premier non-profit, fine art photography school and gallery, is pleased to present a series of kids’ classes entitled “Snap Shooters“, which will feature classes for both elementary and middle school aged children. There is a $5 suggested donation for each class. Occurring on the second Saturday of each month, these youth workshops will teach kids to operate a camera, compose photographs, use light and shadow, look at shots from different angles, and consider color in their shots, to name just a few of the elements to be addressed. These two and half hour classes are meant to be enjoyed by all while learning the basics of camera operation.

Morning classes, from 9:00 am to 11:30 am will be geared specifically toward elementary school aged children; while afternoon classes, from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm will be designed for the middle school aged kids. The series will culminate each year in a special Exhibit in the Working with Artists Studio during Kids Photo Week in October. Family and friends will be invited to this exhibit to share in their child’s/friend’s creative endeavors, and prints will be sold to benefit the WWA Kids’ Photography Program.
  • SATURDAY JUNE 12, 2010: 9-11:30a (ages 6-10) OR 1-3:30p (ages 11 & up)

“HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR BEST FRIEND”
How well do you know your best friend? In this class we will take pictures of people we know and like. Do you want to be close-up to her or far away? Does he like his feet? Does your friend make the best hats? Faces? Paper airplanes? You can show this in your photograph! Use the "frame" to make deeper friendships while you learn to really know your best friend.

  • SATURDAY JULY 10, 2010: 9-11:30a (ages 6-10) OR 1-3:30p (ages 11 & up)

“COLORS!!”
Focus on color! How do colors make you feel? Does green make you giggle? Does purple give you pride? The world around us is in color, so how do you want to capture it? We’ll venture out into Belmar to explore all the colors we can find with our cameras.

  • SATURDAY AUGUST 14, 2010: 9-11:30a (ages 6-10) OR 1-3:30p (ages 11 & up)

“EXPLORING FLOWERS”
Making close-up photographs of flowers is delightfully fun! Use your "perspective" to make the best floral photos you can! Get close, get down, get over, get them all! From hanging baskets to planters, Belmar will provide plenty of material for the photographs. You bring the imagination.

  • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2010: 9-11:30a (ages 6-10) OR 1-3:30p (ages 11 & up)

"UPSIDE DOWN / INSIDE OUT"
This class will teach you about abstract photography – photographing what’s not exactly real, or whole, or what doesn’t exactly make sense.  For example, you could take a picture of a part of a flower, or half of your big toe or the inside of a hat.  You might just want to take a picture of a color, or a shape or a texture.

  • SATURDAY OCTOBER 9, 2010: 9-11:30a (ages 6-10) OR 1-3:30p (ages 11 & up)

“THE BIG PICTURE” Show
This will be an “EXHIBIT” of the work we have made so far in celebration of Kids Photography Week. Family and friends will be invited to share in the joy of creation which is sure to be experienced by each class participant. This will concur with the Working with Artists second annual “Calendar Show”. Refreshments will be provided.

Working with Artists/FLASH Gallery
445 South Saulsbury
Lakewood, CO 80226
303.837.1341
Tue-Fri: Noon-8:00pm
Sat/Sun: Noon-6:00pm
http://www.workingwithartists.org

 
 
Mixed Taste Summer 2010 at the MCA
Posted: May 12, 2010

Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Summer 2010: Friday Nights June 18 - August 20

  • MIXED DRINKS: 5-6:30PM – MCA
  • MIXED KIDS (AGES 6-12): 6-8PM – MCA
  • MIXED TASTE: 6:30-8PM – FLOWER GARAGE (across the street from the MCA)
  • AFTER TASTE: 8-10PM – MCA Cafe
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(from the press release)

ENJOY & LEARN FROM EXPERTS
LECTURES $17 / $12 MEMBERS
Events sell out early
Buy your tickets in advance (member tickets on sale May 7) from: http://tiny.cc/2axqc
Season passes & discount packages available

Mixed Taste: Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics is a lecture series that runs every summer. The rules are simple: The first speaker speaks for a half-hour, then the next speaker speaks on a completely unrelated topic for another half-hour, and then there is question and answer on both topics at the same time. During the first part of the program, speakers are not allowed to make connections between topics, during the question and answer, anything can happen.

2010 SCHEDULE
  • June 18 – Irrational Engineering & the Birth of the Cocktail
  • June 25 – The Alpaca & Nuclear Missiles
  • July 2 – African Dance & A Motorama
  • July 9 – Bigfoot & Carl Jung
  • July 16 – Bananas & the Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • July 23 – German Expressionism & India Pale Ale
  • July 30 – Black Holes & T.W. Adorno
  • August 6 – Dung Beetles & Leni Riefenstahl
  • August 13 – Alchemy & Compressed Air
  • August 20 – Time Travel & the French Situationists
With: 6/18 Jake Adam York & Ciro Najle, 6/25 Jane Levene & Colonel (Retired) Charles Simpson, 7/2 Paul Anderson & Adjei Abankwah, 7/9 the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization & Nancy Wadsworth, 7/16 Dan Koeppel & Simon Zalkind, 7/23 Nora Burnett Abrams & Chris Katechis, 7/30 Dr. John Bally & Henry Pickford, 8/6 Frank Krell & Lisa Kennedy, 8/13 M.E. Warlick & Alexis Madrigal, 8/20 Bradley Monton & Patrick Graeney

Mixed Taste is presented by Kaplan, Kirsch & Rockwell, LLP and sponsored in part by the Fox Family, the citizens of the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado, the Colorado Council of the Arts, and St. Mary Land & Exploration Lecture Endowment, in honor of Tom Congdon.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
1485 Delgany
Denver, CO 80202
303.298.7554
Mon: Closed
Tue–Thu: 10:00–6:00 pm
Fri: 10:00–10:00 pm
Sat-Sun: 10:00–6:00 pm
http://mcadenver.org

 
 
Curator Lecture Series on Henry Moore at the DBG
Posted: April 28, 2010

Curator Lecture Series on Henry Moore

Denver Botanic Gardens

Various dates throughout the exhibit (May - October, 2010)

  • Part of the Moore in the Gardens sculpture exhibit
  • Each lecture is proceeded by a one hour "Curator Walk" (subject to weather)
  • Lecture fee: $12 member/$15 non-member; series fee $50 member, $65 non-member
  • Curator Walk fee: $15 member/$18 non-member; series fee $70 member/$80 non-member
  • Register at http://botanicgardens.org or call 720.865.3580
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Henry Moore - Large Reclining Figure, 1984

(from the press release)

World-class experts will join us for a deeper understanding of Henry Moore

“More on Moore”  with Dr. Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting & Sculpture, Denver Art Museum
Wednesday, May 12, 7-8 p.m. in Mitchell Hall (Curator Walk from 5:30 - 6:30pm)

Standring will discuss Henri Moore’s frozen morphological shapes. Moore thought that sculpture should return to its pre-cultural and pre-rational origins, which is one reason his sculptures reference non-western forms. His extreme turn towards abstraction in the mid-1940s led him to experiment with the formal considerations of sculpture itself.

“Henry Moore: Reputation/Reception/Recuperation” with Michael Parke-Taylor, Acting Curator of European Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
Thursday, June 10, 7-8 p.m. in Mitchell Hall (Curator Walk from 5:30 - 6:30pm)

Park-Taylor will explore the themes of the Moore exhibition organized by Tate Britain and the Art Gallery of Ontario. What defined Moore’s modernism, making him the world’s most famous sculptor by the end of the forties? Once achieving international fame, how was he received in the U.K.? How do we recuperate his true achievement?

“Behind the Scenes: Installing More than 50 Tons of Bronze” with Kim Manajek, Manager of Exhibitions and Art Collections, Denver Botanic Gardens
Tuesday, June 29, 7-8 p.m. in Mitchell Hall (Curator Walk from 5:30 - 6:30pm)

Discover how The Henry Moore Foundation transports and installs monumental sculptures. How do you move a 10,000-pound sculpture? Who makes decisions about placement? Accompanied by photographs from the installation, Kim Manajek will share some behind-the-scenes details of installing “Moore in the Gardens”.

“The Legacy of Henry Moore: Contemporary British Sculpture” with Nora Burnett Abrams, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Thursday, July 15, 7-8 p.m. in Mitchell Hall (Curator Walk from 5:30 - 6:30pm)

The newly-appointed Associate Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver will discuss the influence that Moore has had on contemporary art. Moore‘s sculpture dominates 20th-century British art, but how have contemporary artists responded to this towering figure? Explore the work of Rachel Whiteread, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor.

“The Nature of Sculpture” with Dr. Anita Feldman, Head of Collections and Exhibitions, The Henry Moore Foundation
Wednesday, October 27, 6-7 p.m. in Mitchell Hall (Curator Walk from 5:30 - 6:30pm)

Dr. Feldman will look at Moore's inspiration from nature, his working methods, and his treatment of natural forms in different media, such as prints, drawings and even textile design. She will look at how the sculptures engage their environment in different ways depending on their location.

Denver Botanic Gardens
1005 York St
Denver, CO 80206
720.865.3500
http://botanicgardens.org

 
 
Talking Photography Lecture Series with Greg Cradick
Posted: April 11, 2010

Talking Photography Lecture Series with Greg Cradick

Working With Artists

First Saturdays in May, June and August from 1-4pm

  • Saturday, May 1, 2010 @ Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver - Conversation Topic: Contemporary Photography: Where We Are & Where We Came From
  • Saturday, June 5, 2010 @ Foothills Art Center - Conversation Topic: Tech & Theory- A Walk Through the Exhibit w/ Curator Michael Chavez & Greg Cradick; Current exhibition: Stark (includes photography and painting)
  • Saturday, August 7, 2010 @ Denver Art Museum Conversation Topic: Icons of Photographic History w/ Curator Eric Paddock & Greg Cradick; Current exhibition: Exposure: Photos from the Vault (inaugural photography exhibition at the DAM)
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Greg Cradick, Executive Director WWA

(from the press release)

While knowledge of the internal workings of your camera will certainly enhance your photographic abilities, at some point artists and art consumers need to push into the unexplored territory of what makes a great image . . well . . . great.

Talking Photography is a FREE monthly series of lectures and conversations designed to cultivate the photographic connoisseur in you. Each month’s topic will be addressed in depth and we will especially focus on the idea behind the image we are discussing. The lectures will take place in venues suitable to the topic at hand – thus, we plan to visit different arts institutions in Colorado and view the actual photographs, not digital projections or copies, as we discuss what makes that particular image a work of art.

Issues to be addressed include:
  • We have a rich history of photographic arts. What are some of the more important pieces (and a few lesser known images) and why are they so noteworthy?
  • What is the state of contemporary photography now and where is it headed in the near future?
  • What is meant by having a “good eye”?
  • What is the difference between a snapshot and a fine art photograph?
  • Why is the context (time and place) of a photograph so important?
This class is designed to be a conversation, a place where you can listen, learn, speak, engage in, and be a part of the conversation. These conversations will take place on the first Saturday of every month from 1 – 4pm at various locations.

More information at http://www.workingwithartists.org/classes_by_date.php click on "Talking Photography" or call Working with Artists at 303.837.1341

Working with Artists/FLASH Gallery
445 South Saulsbury
Lakewood, CO 80226
303.837.1341
Tue-Fri: Noon-8:00pm
Sat/Sun: Noon-6:00pm
http://www.workingwithartists.org

 
 
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