PINK PROGRESSION: COALESCE, 1.8-4.5, 2020
Pink Progression started off the year with a collaborative exhibit titled Dearly Disillusioned coinciding with the centennial of women's suffrage and the fourth annual Womxn's March. Four local collectives, including Birdseed Collective, Hardly Soft, and Odessa, came together to explore unique and compelling perspectives on gender identity, protest, and equality. Over 5,000 people walked through the galleries during the IMPACTO EXPO womxn's march event. The exhibit also included Art Hyve's Art 3rd annual Art + Feminism event, an artist talk event, and McNichols Civic Center created an inspiring opening reception which included music from Denver singer-songwriter Julie Davis with "Bluebook." Here are our publications from the exhibit:
DARIA, Exhibitions Reviews, Denver—Dearly Disillusioned: Birdseed Collective, Odessa, Hardly Soft, and Pink Progression, by Mary Voelz Chandler, March 2020
Westword, Ten Best Things for Denver Art Lovers to Do This Weekend, by Susan Froyd, February 20, 2020
Westword, Art Attack: Fourteen Best Things for Denver Gallery Lovers to Do This Week, by Susan Froyd, January 15, 2020
Westword, In Dearly Disillusioned Denver Artists Offer a Fresh Take on Women’s Suffrage, by Cori Anderson, January 16, 2020
303 Magazine, Don’t Miss These Denver Events in 2020, by Cori Anderson, January 9, 2020
EXHIBIT CATALOG LINK
https://www.blurb.com/b/10089111-pink-progression-coalesce
PINK PROGRESSION: COLLABORATIONS, 7.2-11.8, 2020
Pink Progression: Collaborations at the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities incorporated a fusion of narratives through collaborative artwork. These multidimensional works emphasize the collective issues that confront us and the transformational ways of finding common ground. Over 150 artists, writers, dancers, and musicians utilize the power of networks to inspire social change.
More than 2,500 people visited the galleries during the exhibit. We hosted a virtual artist talk series (recordings are located in Arvada Center's youtube channel, 1, 2, 3) and a poetry reading event. "Refuse to Stay Silent" was our accompanying poetry + art book, we have sold 60 books so far. We invite you to get your copy of our poetry + art book at: https://www.blurb.com/b/9973438-refuse-to-stay-silent. Nancy Rice, with tiny studio llc, designed our book and enhanced a photo by Judy Anderson for the cover. The book features 26 artists and poets who also took a collaborative approach. Pink Progression: Collaborations includes essays from author and professor of women and gender studies Lorraine Bayard De Volo and art + architecture writer Mary Voelz Chandler, a video documenting artists' processes edited by Arvada intern Claire Beutler, and the show featured a community wall of over 500 buttons—thank you to Bonnie Ferrill Roman for the idea and Melanie Yazzie for contributing so many amazing designs. Here are our publications from the exhibit:
Arvada Press, Pink Progression uses social momentum for artistic exploration, by Clarke Reader, September 14, 2020
Denver Post, Pink Progression is keeping the spirit of the Women’s March alive, hats and all, by Ray Mark Rinaldi, August 30, 2020
Westword, Art Attack: Ten Ways to See Art Live or Otherwise This Week, by Susan Froyd, July 1 2020
5280 Magazine, Inside ‘Pink Progression: Collaborations’ at the Arvada Center, by Jessica LaRusso, June 29, 2020
Pink Progression: Collaborations Part 1-4, The Nest by Grow Love and Moe Gram, JB-MK Notations by Jina Brenneman and Margaret Kasahara, In a Glade by Julia Rymer and Drew Austin, Untitled by Sangeeta Reddy and Jodie Roth Cooper, by John Moore, July 2020
CATALOG:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10372139-pink-progression-collaborations
BIOGRAPHY & ARTIST STATEMENT BOOK:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10160723-pink-progression-collaborations
*All participating artists, poets, writers, dancers and musicians, Emily Grace King (our lead curator for the exhibit), Collin Parson, Nicole Fleck, Arvada Center Staff, and Nancy Terry & Jodie Steeves were instrumental in making this exhibit happen.