How to Earn Your Big Girl Panties - Reception
Oct
24
4:30 PM16:30

How to Earn Your Big Girl Panties - Reception

  • University of Norther Colorado - Mariani Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

How To Earn Your Big Girl Panties is a nuanced tale of introspection that attempts to describe the challenges of learning to access self-love.  Collage, projection and site-specific installation works illustrate the ever-wavering experience of growing up.  Themes of play, frustration, empathy, and self-compassion compete against each other in fields of color and found objects. Ultimately we learn the journey never ends, it just evolves.

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How to Earn Your Big Girl Panties - Solo Exhibition
Oct
16
to Nov 22

How to Earn Your Big Girl Panties - Solo Exhibition

  • University of Norther Colorado - Mariani Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

How To Earn Your Big Girl Panties is a nuanced tale of introspection that attempts to describe the challenges of learning to access self-love.  Collage, projection and site-specific installation works illustrate the ever-wavering experience of growing up.  Themes of play, frustration, empathy, and self-compassion compete against each other in fields of color and found objects. Ultimately we learn the journey never ends, it just evolves.

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Moe Moe's Mixer: A Night for the Girls
Oct
10
6:00 PM18:00

Moe Moe's Mixer: A Night for the Girls

On October 10, 2024, from 6-9 pm, Moe Gram will host “Moe Moe’s Mixer: A Night for the Girls” at the Art Park in RINO District, offering a sneak preview of this ambitious project. This event will introduce the performance and seek vital support to bring it to life. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to engage with Moe’s vision, understand the impact of their investment, and support the realization of a project that pushes artistic boundaries.

Performances by Michelle Rocqet, Kalyn Heffernan, Bruce Trujillo, and DJ Bugs Honey.

Guest speaker Kandice Porter.

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Painting off the Edge
Oct
4
1:30 PM13:30

Painting off the Edge

In this 6-week class, students will learn acrylic paint techniques and the use of found image collage. Emphasis will be placed on combining traditional painting approaches with contemporary collage to create meaning in students’ work. The museum’s art collection will be used as a point of inspiration for students to create their own artwork.

What to Expect: This class meets weekly on Wednesdays. Students should expect to be experimental in this class and to try new techniques that may challenge their initial ideas about what a painting is or isn't. Students should have a foundational understanding of the color wheel, primary and secondary colors. The class will culminate in a series of small studies/experimental paintings that can serve as inspiration for future and larger works.

Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule.

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Painting off the Edge
Oct
2
1:30 PM13:30

Painting off the Edge

In this 6-week class, students will learn acrylic paint techniques and the use of found image collage. Emphasis will be placed on combining traditional painting approaches with contemporary collage to create meaning in students’ work. The museum’s art collection will be used as a point of inspiration for students to create their own artwork.

What to Expect: This class meets weekly on Wednesdays. Students should expect to be experimental in this class and to try new techniques that may challenge their initial ideas about what a painting is or isn't. Students should have a foundational understanding of the color wheel, primary and secondary colors. The class will culminate in a series of small studies/experimental paintings that can serve as inspiration for future and larger works.

Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule.

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Painting off the Edge
Sep
25
1:30 PM13:30

Painting off the Edge

In this 6-week class, students will learn acrylic paint techniques and the use of found image collage. Emphasis will be placed on combining traditional painting approaches with contemporary collage to create meaning in students’ work. The museum’s art collection will be used as a point of inspiration for students to create their own artwork.

What to Expect: This class meets weekly on Wednesdays. Students should expect to be experimental in this class and to try new techniques that may challenge their initial ideas about what a painting is or isn't. Students should have a foundational understanding of the color wheel, primary and secondary colors. The class will culminate in a series of small studies/experimental paintings that can serve as inspiration for future and larger works.

Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule.

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Painting off the Edge
Sep
11
1:30 PM13:30

Painting off the Edge

In this 6-week class, students will learn acrylic paint techniques and the use of found image collage. Emphasis will be placed on combining traditional painting approaches with contemporary collage to create meaning in students’ work. The museum’s art collection will be used as a point of inspiration for students to create their own artwork.

What to Expect: This class meets weekly on Wednesdays. Students should expect to be experimental in this class and to try new techniques that may challenge their initial ideas about what a painting is or isn't. Students should have a foundational understanding of the color wheel, primary and secondary colors. The class will culminate in a series of small studies/experimental paintings that can serve as inspiration for future and larger works.

Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule.

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Painting off the Edge
Sep
4
1:30 PM13:30

Painting off the Edge

In this 6-week class, students will learn acrylic paint techniques and the use of found image collage. Emphasis will be placed on combining traditional painting approaches with contemporary collage to create meaning in students’ work. The museum’s art collection will be used as a point of inspiration for students to create their own artwork.

What to Expect: This class meets weekly on Wednesdays. Students should expect to be experimental in this class and to try new techniques that may challenge their initial ideas about what a painting is or isn't. Students should have a foundational understanding of the color wheel, primary and secondary colors. The class will culminate in a series of small studies/experimental paintings that can serve as inspiration for future and larger works.

Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule.

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Painting off the Edge
Aug
28
1:30 PM13:30

Painting off the Edge

In this 6-week class, students will learn acrylic paint techniques and the use of found image collage. Emphasis will be placed on combining traditional painting approaches with contemporary collage to create meaning in students’ work. The museum’s art collection will be used as a point of inspiration for students to create their own artwork.

What to Expect: This class meets weekly on Wednesdays. Students should expect to be experimental in this class and to try new techniques that may challenge their initial ideas about what a painting is or isn't. Students should have a foundational understanding of the color wheel, primary and secondary colors. The class will culminate in a series of small studies/experimental paintings that can serve as inspiration for future and larger works.

Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2024 class schedule.

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Denver Art Museum Hosts the 11th Annual Teaching for Artistic Behavior Conference
Jan
15
to Jan 16

Denver Art Museum Hosts the 11th Annual Teaching for Artistic Behavior Conference

The Denver Art Museum will host the 11th Annual Teaching for Artistic Behavior Conference January 15-16, 2022, in the brand new Jana & Fred Bartlit Learning and Engagement Center.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior, or TAB, is an art teaching philosophy based on the artist’s practice. The TAB philosophy states that the child is the artist and the classroom is the artist’s studio. During these two jam-packed days of learning, teachers from across Colorado and beyond will discuss how to inspire and guide young artists in developing their craft and working with ambiguity.

Keynote speaker Jillian Hogan, co-author of Studio Thinking from the Start: the K-8 Educator’s Handbook, will kick off the weekend with a virtual talk that investigates why this choice-based model works. On Sunday, educators will hear from Moe Gram and Frankie Toan, local artists and creators. Gram and Toan are the artists responsible for the first activities hosted in the museum's dyanmic new Creative Hub space.

Learn more about what artists do now by visiting the Colorado TAB website and register for the conference today!

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Every Human Intergenerational Resilience Workshop
Sep
18
10:00 AM10:00

Every Human Intergenerational Resilience Workshop

An art-focused workshop on how to approach intergenerational resilience.

WORKSHOP SESSIONS ARE SEPTEMBER 18TH & 19TH 10A - 2P

As part of the Every Human Empathy Campaign, Moe Gram, Denver-based artists Karma Leigh and Danielle SeeWalker, Birdseed Collective, and the Colorado Art Therapy Association are hosting a two-day art-based workshop that is focused on providing tools for intergenerational resilience in BIPOC communities. Art therapists and local artists have agreed to be partners in facilitating a meaningful and thoughtful workshop that provides skills, resources, and helpful practices for participants to sustain community resilience for future generations.

The TWO DAY workshop will include art-making, group discussions about family history, visions of resilience in future generations, and how to empower our communities to break unhealthy cycles. At the end of the workshop, participants will have completed 1 piece of artwork on canvas board with the option to share their work with their community.

GOALS

Participants in the workshop will have an opportunity to:

- Learn tools to uplift future generations

- Find greater compassion for self and family

- Empower individuals to break unhealthy family cycles

- Embracing personal voice and experiences

ART FOCUSED

Participants will be creating collage/mixed media artworks that are inspired by family narratives. Completed artworks will tell stories of how far their families have come and dream of how far their families will go.

The central questions for the work: What does intergenerational resilience look like in your family or your community? What do we start doing? Stop doing? Keep doing?

It is important for us to cultivate a safe space for participants. For that reason, COATA and psychotherapist Nicole Xenos have agreed to participate as containment providers for the duration of the workshop.

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Streetwise Boulder Mural Festival
Sep
6
to Sep 12

Streetwise Boulder Mural Festival

Street Wise Boulder takes place on traditional unceded territories of the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho people as well as 48 additional Nations that called Colorado home. We ask that you join us in acknowledging the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho and all of the 48 nations, their communities, their elders, present day as well as future generations. We can do this in many ways both personal and political. We must commit to giving reparations financially and in the form of land back if we have the means. We must organize and commit to allyship. We must listen to and learn from Indigenous people, who lived sustainably with the land for thousands of years before colonization.

Street Wise Boulder is an annual “ARTivism” mural festival in Boulder, CO established in 2019 by Street Wise Arts. Street Wise Boulder aims to amplify arts and culture, represent cultural diversity and encourage dialogue around social advocacy and resilience through the installation of public art murals and related programming in the City of Boulder. We prioritize equality and representation among featured artists, across sectors of gender, identity, race, sexual preference and socioeconomic status. 


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Phamaly Theatre Company Presents Alice in Wonderland
Aug
14
to Sep 5

Phamaly Theatre Company Presents Alice in Wonderland

  • Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

When Alice falls down a rabbit hole, she stumbles upon Wonderland, a bizarre world filled with philosophical caterpillars, chaotic croquet games, and disorienting cats. Once she loses her memory, Alice must go on a journey to get it back. A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s book enhanced by an original soundtrack of eclectic music styles, Alice in Wonderland explores the power that comes with letting go and embracing the madness.

Moe Gram was honored to be a part of the production as the Mural Designer.

Let go, embrace the madness, and enjoy the show!


IN-PERSON at Su Teatro: August 14 – September 5, 2021*
*Performance times will vary.

Access Day (ASL Intrepretation*, Audio Description*, Tactile Tour) – August 29th, 2pm
Industry Night – August 23rd, 7:30pm
Sensory Friendly Performance* – August 25th, 7:30pm

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U OK? Exhibition
Jun
4
to Aug 6

U OK? Exhibition

The year 2020, fueled by the tension of rising social unrest in the United States and the global COVID-19 pandemic, produced numerous challenges that we faced individually and collectively.

U OK? is an exhibition featuring works from artists across the Front Range of Colorado whose pieces speak to individual coping and communal perseverance in the wake of physical, spiritual, and mental burnout. The exhibition, which presents a wide range of mediums, captures the emotional residue that seeped out from our past year together through works that are emotive, absurd, humorous, heartbreaking and hopeful.

Artists: Katy Batsel (Denver), Koko Bayer (Denver), Jonah Brock (Colorado Springs), Kailani Dobson (Colorado Springs), Trey Duvall (Denver), Moe Gram (Denver), Margaret Kasahara (Colorado Springs).

The exhibition is guest curated by Christine Flores and Stephanie Von Fange.

Gallery Hours | FRIDAY - SUN, 12 - 6 pm

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Black Love Mural Festival 2021
Jun
1
to Aug 1

Black Love Mural Festival 2021

Black Love Mural Festival, which last year helped promote the message of the BLM movement and provided paid opportunities to Black muralists, kicks off May 30 with a celebration of life for George Floyd and will run through August 2. The group will also host a live music event on June 20 to celebrate the completed murals. Born out of last summer’s social justice movement, BLMF took over Civic Center Park for a weekend last year, leaving behind a series of colorful monuments to Black identity in the form of temporary murals. Curated by Rob The Art Museum and IRL Art, the event displayed the murals on wood structures at the very park that was the center of last summer’s protests. This year, the team behind BLMF will partner with Denver Parks and Rec and the digital arts nonprofit Unique.One. Artists will begin painting their murals on May 28 and display them through August 1, 2021.

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Museum for Black Girls
Apr
1
to Aug 31

Museum for Black Girls

  • Museum for Black Girls (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The Museum For Black Girls is an immersive pop-up sensory museum where guests not only see the art but feel and interact with it. Being a black girl is an experience!

“Black Girl Magic" is more than a buzz-word or trend. It's the essence of Black women. The Museum for Black Girls is a space to celebrate this essence, as well as educate about the journey to our present state and liberation. Finally and most importantly, our museum serves as a love letter to Black women and our experience.

In December 2019, we transformed a beautiful boutique into an immersive, interactive pop-up gallery featuring multiple, vibrant exhibits. The interest and feedback has been so amazing reaching over 100,000 people on social media.

The museum is ultimately a celebration of self love.

The aesthetic of the exhibits is vibrant and shows our evolution from the beginning until now...through the lens of black women.

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No Place to Go
Oct
1
7:00 PM19:00

No Place to Go

No Place to Go is an artist-made haunted house where unrealized fears manifest in an immersive world driven by choice-making and the horror of the binary. The work merges the absurdist storytelling of dance-theatre with tactile, interactive visual art installations to create environments where the audience can examine and embrace the interaction between fear and desire.

The work will be a timely commentary on the limitations and fears inherent in our political “choices.” In the shadow of the impending election, we are confronted with our fraught participation in the nation state and will necessitate radical, queer modes for re-imagining the relationship of our bodies to our haunted (national) home.

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Color Con
Aug
28
8:30 AM08:30

Color Con

  • 1112 Broadway Denver, CO, 80203 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

COLORCON: a musical and artistic event that could move throughout the community re-imagining alleyways as iconic destinations, while pulling together the community and making art accessible to all. Built by the community and for the community, COLORCON seeks to re-imagine public space in unconventional ways, re-think art, and inspire creative entrepreneurship for all.

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Babe Walls
Aug
13
to Aug 16

Babe Walls

This festival is a celebration of women and non-binary folks in art along with the celebration of the community we can create together. It is not to be excluded by gender – but to celebrate our community formed by the feminine, which we inherently relate to. We are organized as a safe place for women, who not only have made their name in the mural world, but to also give opportunities to up and coming female artists that don’t know how to make the first step. Each artist is collaborating with another artist to create a work of art that not only shows their strengths and styles as artists, but the commonality of our femininity. We are here to champion all gender of artists because we are all equal people in our artistic drive and will to create. We all have artistic struggle and we all generate a part of ourselves in multiple art forms, WE ARE ALL ARTISTS. We are here to celebrate women in their art and what we can do as women when we come together to create.

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Pink Progression
Jul
2
to Nov 8

Pink Progression

  • Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Pink Progression: Collaborations takes over all three of the Arvada Center's galleries in a spectacular celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women's right to vote. The exhibition recognizes the consecutive dates in which all women received the right to vote in America and the complex struggle for universal suffrage today.

The artist collective Pink Progression rose out of the 2017 Womxn's March to inspire social change and explore ideas of feminism, equality, inclusivity, gender identity, unity, and community through creative expression. For Pink Progression: Collaborations, creatives fused their narratives into multidimensional works, ranging from site-specific installations, video, performance, and traditional fine arts

DUE TO COVID, PLEASE CONTACT ARVADA CENTER TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT

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A Gentle Pause
Oct
4
6:00 PM18:00

A Gentle Pause

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A solo exhibition at Alto Gallery | Opening reception October 4th 6p-10p

We live in a fast-paced world; children grow up learning how to become busy and adults live toeing the line between an outward presentation of self vs. a rawer internal self. We do not have time to stop and process anymore. We are bombarded with information and requests constantly. Yet expected to be forever reflective and introspective. We are sometimes asked to be ourselves in a world where we struggle to find our most authentic way of functioning.

So how do we figure out who we are while still accomplishing our most audacious goals?

About the Exhibition:

Years of collecting, creating, thinking, expounding, and collecting and creating again have resulted in “A Gentle Pause”. Gram leads you through a showcase of strength, down her path of unfortunate circumstances and growth. She attempts to process past life experiences while living through real-time demands of existing.

While the exhibition extends an encouraging hand, the work itself presents as a large expanse for you to insert your own interpretation. Abstract in nature and deeply personal, all that Gram asks is that you walk with her, sit with her, talk and look with her; but also simultaneously at yourself.

Process the work in front of you while you process your most personal journey. Sit alone while also completely engulfed in humanity at the same time. Gram has created a space that is together overwhelming and welcoming within the same moment, presenting to you an opportunity to feel her development as she is experiencing it. "A Gentle Pause" takes your hand and guides you through the scrapbook of Gram’s life, from her California roots to her adult life in Denver.

Allow yourself the opportunity to venture into the mind of Moe Gram and take a
the moment for a gentle pause.

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Biennial of the Americas
Sep
14
to Sep 15

Biennial of the Americas

  • McNichols Building (map)
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Join us as we explore how artists are employing the transformative power of art to cultivate empathy and encourage civil discourse. The artistic works of our panelists Adriana Ramírez and Carlos Martiel will be featured during the Biennial of the Americas 2019 Festival curated by Marisa Caichiolo.

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Untitled at the Denver Art Museum
Aug
30
6:00 PM18:00

Untitled at the Denver Art Museum

Untitled Final Friday is the DAM’s monthly late-night program featuring unconventional experiences developed in collaboration with local creatives and community members.

August's Untitled event highlights the creative practice of performance and dance artist Kate Speer, with the theme "A(me)ricana," inspired by "The Light Show" exhibition at the DAM.

What can you expect at this month's Untitled? An interactive baseball performance, a pie-eating contest, line dances and more!

Throughout the 2019 season, enjoy performances, tours and artmaking activities to spark your creativity. Each event includes a cash bar for adult beverages and yummy eats available from a different food truck each month.

Untitled is included in general museum admission, which is free for members and youth 18 and under every day. Students with valid ID receive two-for-one tickets during Untitled.

Untitled Final Fridays are presented by Your 6 Hometown Toyota Stores.

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Far Out Factory
Oct
13
5:00 PM17:00

Far Out Factory

Far Out Factory, presented by O.penVAPE, is like no other festival you’ve experienced before. We’re taking over an old factory building to create a truly radical experience inspired by Colorado cannabis. Wander from bay to bay on the factory floor and discover interactive exhibitions sponsored by Meow Wolf, tasty munchies from food trucks, and local craft beverages alongside live tunes and local art performances. 21+ only

Tickets available here.

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Art on Tap! Salty Seamen and Mouthy Mermaids
Jul
22
1:00 PM13:00

Art on Tap! Salty Seamen and Mouthy Mermaids

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Art on Tap! is an event taking place 3 times a year, brought to you by the Rackhouse Pub and Moe Gram Art & Lifestyle, LLC. The Rackhouse Pub is the tap room and kitchen for Bierstadt Lagers and CSquared Ciders. Moe Gram is a local Denver Artist that is active in the Arts and Creative communities of Denver and surrounding areas. The Art on Tap! event is an opportunity for Moe Gram and The Rackhouse to give humans access to great beer, fabulous food and creative outlets.

Mural Painting: $40 presale/ $45 at the door. Pretend vandals and wannabe thug muffins are welcome with purchase of a ticket. Zero risk of criminal charges guaranteed. Mural sessions are available to share! Each mural spot can feature up to 5 artists. Each group will get one large 6ft wall space to make their own. Admission includes mural painting materials, instructor for the evening, and access to the color bar. Instructor to be announced. Learn mural painting techniques including: drafting a design, brush work, spray paint, stencil techniques, and more. All murals will remain on display for 3 months. There will be 15 mural spaces available.

Canvas Paint Sessions: $20 presale/ $30 at the door. Want to be crafty, but really want to bring something home to show for it? The canvas session is perfect for you. Admission includes first beer, canvas, painting materials, instructor for the evening, and access to the color bar. Instructor to be announced. Learn painting techniques including: drafting a design, layering, brush work, and more. All canvas participants will get to take their creations home with them. Canvas sessions are limited to 50 people.

General Admission: $7 presale/$10 at the door. More interested in drinking beer and being casually crafty? We don't mind, that's why we created the Color Bar. Admission includes coloring pages, crayons, markers, and various other coloring supplies for those of you who want to doodle while you drink. You can take home whatever creations you make. Color Bar is open to all.

 

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