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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Permanent Collection Highlights
February 17 – April 15, 2023
Opening Reception and MOP Kickoff: Saturday, March 4, 5 – 8 pm
Colorado Photographic Arts Center
1070 Bannock St., Denver
Free and open to the public

To celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s 60^th Anniversary, we invite you to take a journey through the history of photographic art with a special exhibition of works from CPAC’s Permanent Collection.

A cultural treasure, the collection houses more than 800 prints collected over six decades, donated by regional and national artists working from the mid-1800s to today.

Looking Back, Moving Forward offers a unique opportunity to see pieces from the collection for the first time in over 10 years. The exhibit highlights 45 images spanning a range of genres, approaches, and techniques, honoring CPAC’s past while looking to the future as the organization celebrates its 60^th year.

Johnston’s curation combines pivotal works from the 20^th century with national and regional works that demonstrate the breadth of the medium. Viewers can expect to see photographs by well-known masters like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Judy Dater, as well as Colorado artists such as Ewing Stiffler and Hal Gould, and contemporary photographers such as Greer Muldowney, Zora Murff and the collaborative duo Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman.

For more information please visit CPAC’s website.

Small Talk
March 2 – 31, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 2nd, 5 – 7 pm
Temple Buell Theatre Lobby
1350 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80202
Art viewing times: the exhibit is open to ticket-holders during performances. For a private tour, please contact Peter.Dearth@denvergov.org

The pandemic changed the way that we communicate and connect. Unable to meet in person, we had no one with whom to discuss our lives, our obsessions and our discoveries. So instead, we made “small talk” through the creation of bodies of work, a tangible yet physically distanced way to speak each other.

This exhibition explores people and places we found interesting, collaborations with loved ones and detours taken from larger projects paused by the pandemic. If our broader practices are the creation of large, sweeping bodies of work, Small Talk is a photographic collection of our short stories.

Co-Curators: Samantha Johnston, CPAC Executive Director & Curator, and Benjamin Rasmussen, Co-Founder of Pattern Denver

Featured Artists: Carl Bower, Daniel Brenner, Brendan Davis, Ryan Dearth, Juan Fuentes, Benjamin Rasmussen, James Stukenberg, Rebecca Stumpf, and Julia Vandenoever

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Permanent Collection Highlights
February 17 – April 15, 2023
Opening Reception and MOP Kickoff: Saturday, March 4, 5 – 8 pm
Colorado Photographic Arts Center
1070 Bannock St., Denver
Free and open to the public

To celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s 60^th Anniversary, we invite you to take a journey through the history of photographic art with a special exhibition of works from CPAC’s Permanent Collection.

A cultural treasure, the collection houses more than 800 prints collected over six decades, donated by regional and national artists working from the mid-1800s to today.

Looking Back, Moving Forward offers a unique opportunity to see pieces from the collection for the first time in over 10 years. The exhibit highlights 45 images spanning a range of genres, approaches, and techniques, honoring CPAC’s past while looking to the future as the organization celebrates its 60^th year.

Johnston’s curation combines pivotal works from the 20^th century with national and regional works that demonstrate the breadth of the medium. Viewers can expect to see photographs by well-known masters like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Judy Dater, as well as Colorado artists such as Ewing Stiffler and Hal Gould, and contemporary photographers such as Greer Muldowney, Zora Murff and the collaborative duo Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman.

For more information please visit CPAC’s website.