Neighborhood: Beyond Denver

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

Photo Pensato: A Photographic Collective
January 6 – April 1
Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo

Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 4 – 7 PM
(In conjunction with First Friday Art Walk, free)

Artist Talk: Saturday, January 7, 11 AM – Noon

A creative group of photographers, Photo Pensato, brings their unique lens back to the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, exhibiting in the Regional and Hoag galleries. The exhibit will showcase fine art photography with traditional and contemporary themes featuring landscape, abstract, portrait, still life and more.

Members come from decades of experience across the field of photography and are all now focused on fine art imagery. Their journey is embodied in “Pensato,” an Italian term for a musical note so exquisite that it can be neither played nor heard. Photo Pensato members’ work has been widely shown in various exhibitions and can be found in both private and public collections. They are visual storytellers, master printers, historical image-makers, and creative collaborators, with a strong passion for photography.

Artists Include: Thomas Carr, Ron Johnson, Linda Little, Raj Manickam, Jim Montague, Stephen Podrasky, Ward Russell, and John Shelton

Kei Ito | The Beginning, in the land around me
The Griffin Foundation Gallery, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art (Fort Collins) 
January 18 – April 2, 2023
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: January 19, 5 PM 

Presented in partnership with the Center for Fine Art Photography
In collaboration with the Asian Pacific American Cultural Center at Colorado State University

The Beginning, in the land around me is a solo exhibition featuring the work of multimedia artist Kei Ito. The five individual projects presented span work Ito completed between 2020–2023 that converge on and center around his own nuclear heritage as a third generation hibakusha—atomic bomb victim—and expand Ito’s exploration of and research into the American nuclear experience. The exhibition surveys the experiences of “downwinders” (a person living downwind of a nuclear test site or reactor) and creates an environment to discuss the shared pasts and traumas both hibakusha and downwinders have suffered at the hands of nuclear weapons, all that goes into their creation, as well as issues surrounding health, environmentalism, and our current global system of war and peace.

A gallery talk and reception with Kei Ito will take place on Thursday, January 19 at 5 pm.
Admission is free; registration is required.

Air of the Ancients
Featuring Angela Faris Belt, Natascha Seideneck, and Melanie Walker
The Center for Fine Art Photography in partnership with Artworks Center for Contemporary Art (Loveland) 
January 20 – April 1, 2023

Reception: January 20, 6 pm MST
Virtual Artist Talk: March 11, 2 pm MST

The air we breathe is the air of the ancients. Constants of air, dirt, fire, and water have cycled through natural processes for time immemorial. In recent times, two hundred years give or take, humans have invented and introduced previously non-existent materials, chemicals, nanoparticles, and forever chemicals that have irreparably changed the elements and the environment.

Angela Faris Belt, Natascha Seideneck, and Melanie Walker’s work explore nature and the continuum of what was, is, and most importantly, what will be. We are in an uncertain new era of imbalance that we have created and now struggle to bring back to balance.

While we continue to breathe the air of the ancients, most of us are questioning the future of the planet and ways of life, cycles of nature, and what we knew as constants that are no longer.

–Hamidah Glasgow

About the Artists:
Angela Faris Belt is a visual artist whose work studies relationships between humankind and the more-than-human world. Influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime spent in nature, she uses photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself— sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration—and its inherent ability to simultaneously record and infer. Angela’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in collections including Kaiser Permanente, Reynolds & Reynolds, the Crowne Collection, Chicago; and the Smithsonian Museum. She is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver. She is Program Chair of the Studio Art & Art History Departments at Arapahoe Community College.

Natascha Seideneck is from Germany, grew up in England and lives in Denver, Colorado. She holds an MFA from Tufts University and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Metro State University of Denver. Natascha exhibits her work extensively and has produced numerous site – specific artworks, often collaborating with artists, designers, and architects. Her work is interdisciplinary, often engaging in experimental processes that integrate still and time-based visual technologies. In particular she is interested in how land is surveyed and surveilled within historical and contemporary contexts.

Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over 50 years. Her expertise is in the area of alternative photographic processes, digital and mixed media as well as large scale photographic installations and more recently, public art. She has received a number of awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and an Aaron Siskind Award. She taught at a number of universities and currently teaches in the Media Arts Area at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Immortalized: Lens & Light
February 23 – April 1, 2023 
Center for the Arts Evergreen

Artists have used glass to create art for centuries. Estimates say that glass lasts longer than 1 million years—an almost infinite amount of time in human history.

Immortalized: Lens & Light explores the way in which artists create with glass and glass lenses—stained, fused, mosaic, and fine art photography—to celebrate and commemorate people, cultures, or moments in time. This contrasting exhibition includes the work of glass artists Trudy Chiddix, Maria Sheets, and Susan Wechsler, and Photo Pensato Collective photographers Thomas Carr, Ron Johnson, Raj Manickam, Stephen Podrasky, Ward Russell, John Shelton, and Michael Trupiano.

The exhibition will run through Saturday, April 1, 2023 and is free to the public thanks in part to SCFD, Colorado Creative Industries, and exhibition sponsors Mountain Home Evergreen, Alexa Interiors, and Pandora John Properties.

Some Assembly Required
February 24 – March 30, 2023
ART Gallery at Red Rocks Community College

Opening reception: Thursday, March 9th (4 – 6 pm)

Free & open to the public!

Meditative Transformation: Lauri Dunn
March 1 – April 2
Valkarie Gallery
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday 4 – 7, Thursday 4 – 9:30, Friday 4 – 8:30, Saturday 12-6, Sunday 12 – 5
Opening Reception: March 3, 5 – 8:30

In this exhibit, artist Lauri Dunn transforms images of insect wings into meditative, modern photographs and photo sculptures. “My work is inspired by the natural world, but I bring my love of the urban environment to each piece with strong contrast, geometric forms, and metallic resin coating,” Lori writes. “I begin each piece by photographing an insect that I have rehydrated and spread. Each wing has something extraordinary, whether it be the color, the texture of the scales, or the beautiful shapes that repeat themselves and I photograph them in a way that emphasizes these attributes.”

Workshop: Black + White Darkroom – Beginner + Intermediate
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 6 – 8 pm 
March 1 – 31, 2023
Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design 

Join us for Beginner & Intermediate Darkroom instruction at the Rocky Mountain College of Art Design (just west of Denver in Lakewood).

Instructor Michael Snively will lead this darkroom methods workshop for those looking to get back into film and print processing and reorient themselves with darkroom work. He will also present advanced darkroom techniques such as the Zone System, push/pull film developing, and split-contrast printing as students move towards an understanding of The Fine Print.

Beginners in the class will be introduced to black and white film photography basics such as camera operation and light-metering. In the darkroom, film developing, proofing, and printing on photographic paper will be introduced.

This workshop is presented and organized by the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in collaboration with Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design.

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Erin Dvorak Clark: A River Flowing Upward
March 2 – April 2, 2023
Art Gym

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 2, 6 – 9 pm

Art Gym Gallery is excited to present “A River Flowing Upward”, a solo exhibition of new work from Erin Dvorak Clark in conjunction with the Month of Photography Denver. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday March 2 from 6-9 pm. The show will be on view through April 2.

“I live in the West, but I am a transplant, as they say here. This is not my state, not my land, and not my trails. In terms of connecting with the land, the water is the aspect about this place that defines me as a human navigating this space with my mind, body, and soul. I drink the water, bathe in the water, and feed my family using the water. In the American West, water is the resource that is the most finite, but also is the resource that is the easiest to take for granted, which, in turn, creates a misunderstanding with the landscape. A River Flowing Upward is a photographic body of work that attempts to restructure the image of water to redefine this resource as a place of intimacy and spiritual connection.”

Erin Dvorak Clark was born and raised in rural Iowa and received her undergraduate degree in Photo Media from the University of Kansas. She now resides in Aurora, CO and is working full time as a Manager for a Photo Editing team. Erin is also pursing her MFA in Photography through Savannah College of Art and Design’s SCADnow program. Her main photographic interests include large format photography and creating work that considers themes of place, relationship, and the landscape. Her work has been shown at a national and local level in various group shows throughout the past decade. She looks forward to wrapping up her thesis work in 2023 with a solo exhibition that will take place at Art Gym during the Month of Photography Denver festival.

Emma Powell – Rain or Shine
March 3 – April 30, 2023
Bell Projects 

Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 6 – 10 pm 

In celebration of Month of Photography, please join us for the opening reception of Emma Powell’s “Rain or Shine” on Friday, March 3rd from 6 – 10 pm.

Powell’s work will be on view through April 30 in the Living Room Gallery at Bell Projects.

In “Rain or Shine” we see how Powell’s artwork investigates the ways in which photographs can go beyond factual rendering to tell fictional stories, harnessing the power of fantasy to create metaphor and narrative.

She often utilizes digital collages or photograms (objects placed on the material during exposure) to build unexpected scenes. These fictional images border on the cinematic and are created by combining semi-staged location shoots and digital editing. Powell has found creative inspiration in developing hybrid approaches that merge current digital technologies with early photographic processes and methods such as the photogram. Since her first introduction to historic photographic processes in 2005, she has employed multiple techniques through many unique projects. Powell considers the physical crafting of the prints to be an integral part of her artistic practice. By utilizing chemical processes, she produces images that evoke illustration and invite viewers to suspend their disbelief.

“Rain or Shine” features 10 new pieces from Powell, including cyanotypes on linen and on paper, and kallitypes on paper to demonstrate the range of her photographic processes.

Emma Powell received her MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited both within the U.S. and internationally. Powell has taught photography at the college level for over 10 years, including full-time at Colorado College and Iowa State University. She has also been an instructor, leading alternative process photography workshops at Penland School of Crafts, and other educational institutions. Powell currently lives in Colorado.

Tony Umile: Captured Images

Firehouse Art Center (Longmont) 

March 10 – April 9, 2023

Opening Reception: March 10, 6 pm – 9 pm

After Tony Umile passed away suddenly in 2022, friends and family committed to sharing his work and celebrating the mark he left on his community. “Captured Images” is a comprehensive look at Umile’s growth as a photographer, highlighting his unique humor and wit, as well as his love for travel and experimentation in the medium. Three decades of work will be detailed in this show, with guests getting a chance to peek into Umile’s dark room and office, complete with slides, handwritten notes, awards, letters, and other items, giving the viewer an idea of the man behind the camera. It is both a celebration of life and a testament to Umile’s beloved standing in the Longmont creative community, a moving reflection on living, losing, and memorializing.

Blue Wonder
March 10 – April 28, 2023
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)

Opening Reception: Friday, March 10, 4 – 7 pm

Immerse yourself in a beautiful blue and white exhibition of cyanotypes by DAVA teens and guest artists Lizeth Guadalupe, Christine Nguyen, Leah Diament, and Christopher R. Perez.

DAVA will host a free Opening Reception on Friday, March 10^th from 4 pm – 7 pm in conjunction with Month of Photography Denver. DAVA is located at 1405 Florence St., one block south of Colfax Avenue in the Aurora Cultural Arts District. This exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, from 10 am – 5 pm, through April 28, 2023.

DAVA’s middle and high school students learned about the history of photographic processes before exploring a myriad of cyanotype possibilities with artists Lizeth Guadalupe and Leah Diament.

Students used film photography, digital photography, drawing, and digital collage as the base of their works. Some even experimented with cyanotypes on porcelain! In addition, DAVA’s youngest students in the Open Studio took photos using disposable film cameras. The photos are displayed as a mobile with fabric pieces, hand prints, and text.

The guest artists included in Blue Wonder use the historical process of cyanotype to explore a variety of subjects and techniques that represent their unique story and experimental approaches.

Lizeth Guadalupe, who also teaches at DAVA, covered a skirt with cyanotypes using photographs of family members and digital drawings to represent her family tree and cultural heritage.

Leah Diament is folding cyanotype prints to create a light-filled three-dimensional installation. Christine Nguyen’s large experimental cyanotypes use botanical items and cosmic special effects. A master of photographic processes and light, Christopher R. Perez uses cyanotypes in ethereal landscapes. All of the artists in the show provided technical knowledge and inspiration for teachers and students at DAVA.

Kaitlyn Jo Smith – Mass Production

March 19 – April 30

Opening Reception: March 19, 4 – 8 pm 

EVOLVING GEOGRAPHIES
MARCH 24 – APRIL 28
TOINTON GALLERY (GREELEY)
Attached to the Greeley Recreation Center and Union Colony Civic Center

OPENING RECEPTION: MARCH 24, 5 – 7 PM

Evolving Geographies features photography by Andrew Liccardo, a Greeley-based artist and educator whose lens points to the West and the intersection of our natural and built environments. In this exhibit, Liccardo explores the idea that the environment we live in (and create) will ultimately define us, and how we alter and maintain it will tell the story of our evolution as a people and culture — and eventually, in part, write our history.

Liccardo’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including such venues as the Reykjanes (Iceland) Cultural Festival; Kansas City Public Library; Houston Center for Photography; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Amarillo Museum of Art. A project portfolio of his work was recently published in the book Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky by Texas Tech University Press as part of its Voice in the American West series.

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

Photo Pensato: A Photographic Collective
January 6 – April 1
Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, Pueblo

Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 4 – 7 PM
(In conjunction with First Friday Art Walk, free)

Artist Talk: Saturday, January 7, 11 AM – Noon

A creative group of photographers, Photo Pensato, brings their unique lens back to the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, exhibiting in the Regional and Hoag galleries. The exhibit will showcase fine art photography with traditional and contemporary themes featuring landscape, abstract, portrait, still life and more.

Members come from decades of experience across the field of photography and are all now focused on fine art imagery. Their journey is embodied in “Pensato,” an Italian term for a musical note so exquisite that it can be neither played nor heard. Photo Pensato members’ work has been widely shown in various exhibitions and can be found in both private and public collections. They are visual storytellers, master printers, historical image-makers, and creative collaborators, with a strong passion for photography.

Artists Include: Thomas Carr, Ron Johnson, Linda Little, Raj Manickam, Jim Montague, Stephen Podrasky, Ward Russell, and John Shelton

Kei Ito | The Beginning, in the land around me
The Griffin Foundation Gallery, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art (Fort Collins) 
January 18 – April 2, 2023
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: January 19, 5 PM 

Presented in partnership with the Center for Fine Art Photography
In collaboration with the Asian Pacific American Cultural Center at Colorado State University

The Beginning, in the land around me is a solo exhibition featuring the work of multimedia artist Kei Ito. The five individual projects presented span work Ito completed between 2020–2023 that converge on and center around his own nuclear heritage as a third generation hibakusha—atomic bomb victim—and expand Ito’s exploration of and research into the American nuclear experience. The exhibition surveys the experiences of “downwinders” (a person living downwind of a nuclear test site or reactor) and creates an environment to discuss the shared pasts and traumas both hibakusha and downwinders have suffered at the hands of nuclear weapons, all that goes into their creation, as well as issues surrounding health, environmentalism, and our current global system of war and peace.

A gallery talk and reception with Kei Ito will take place on Thursday, January 19 at 5 pm.
Admission is free; registration is required.

Air of the Ancients
Featuring Angela Faris Belt, Natascha Seideneck, and Melanie Walker
The Center for Fine Art Photography in partnership with Artworks Center for Contemporary Art (Loveland) 
January 20 – April 1, 2023

Reception: January 20, 6 pm MST
Virtual Artist Talk: March 11, 2 pm MST

The air we breathe is the air of the ancients. Constants of air, dirt, fire, and water have cycled through natural processes for time immemorial. In recent times, two hundred years give or take, humans have invented and introduced previously non-existent materials, chemicals, nanoparticles, and forever chemicals that have irreparably changed the elements and the environment.

Angela Faris Belt, Natascha Seideneck, and Melanie Walker’s work explore nature and the continuum of what was, is, and most importantly, what will be. We are in an uncertain new era of imbalance that we have created and now struggle to bring back to balance.

While we continue to breathe the air of the ancients, most of us are questioning the future of the planet and ways of life, cycles of nature, and what we knew as constants that are no longer.

–Hamidah Glasgow

About the Artists:
Angela Faris Belt is a visual artist whose work studies relationships between humankind and the more-than-human world. Influenced by nature writers, a unique multi-cultural heritage, Buddhist philosophy, and a lifetime spent in nature, she uses photographic media because its physical makeup mirrors nature itself— sensitivity to light, energy and time, metallic and chemical interactions, viability and expiration—and its inherent ability to simultaneously record and infer. Angela’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in collections including Kaiser Permanente, Reynolds & Reynolds, the Crowne Collection, Chicago; and the Smithsonian Museum. She is represented by Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery in Denver. She is Program Chair of the Studio Art & Art History Departments at Arapahoe Community College.

Natascha Seideneck is from Germany, grew up in England and lives in Denver, Colorado. She holds an MFA from Tufts University and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Metro State University of Denver. Natascha exhibits her work extensively and has produced numerous site – specific artworks, often collaborating with artists, designers, and architects. Her work is interdisciplinary, often engaging in experimental processes that integrate still and time-based visual technologies. In particular she is interested in how land is surveyed and surveilled within historical and contemporary contexts.

Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over 50 years. Her expertise is in the area of alternative photographic processes, digital and mixed media as well as large scale photographic installations and more recently, public art. She has received a number of awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and an Aaron Siskind Award. She taught at a number of universities and currently teaches in the Media Arts Area at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Immortalized: Lens & Light
February 23 – April 1, 2023 
Center for the Arts Evergreen

Artists have used glass to create art for centuries. Estimates say that glass lasts longer than 1 million years—an almost infinite amount of time in human history.

Immortalized: Lens & Light explores the way in which artists create with glass and glass lenses—stained, fused, mosaic, and fine art photography—to celebrate and commemorate people, cultures, or moments in time. This contrasting exhibition includes the work of glass artists Trudy Chiddix, Maria Sheets, and Susan Wechsler, and Photo Pensato Collective photographers Thomas Carr, Ron Johnson, Raj Manickam, Stephen Podrasky, Ward Russell, John Shelton, and Michael Trupiano.

The exhibition will run through Saturday, April 1, 2023 and is free to the public thanks in part to SCFD, Colorado Creative Industries, and exhibition sponsors Mountain Home Evergreen, Alexa Interiors, and Pandora John Properties.

Meditative Transformation: Lauri Dunn
March 1 – April 2
Valkarie Gallery
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday 4 – 7, Thursday 4 – 9:30, Friday 4 – 8:30, Saturday 12-6, Sunday 12 – 5
Opening Reception: March 3, 5 – 8:30

In this exhibit, artist Lauri Dunn transforms images of insect wings into meditative, modern photographs and photo sculptures. “My work is inspired by the natural world, but I bring my love of the urban environment to each piece with strong contrast, geometric forms, and metallic resin coating,” Lori writes. “I begin each piece by photographing an insect that I have rehydrated and spread. Each wing has something extraordinary, whether it be the color, the texture of the scales, or the beautiful shapes that repeat themselves and I photograph them in a way that emphasizes these attributes.”

Erin Dvorak Clark: A River Flowing Upward
March 2 – April 2, 2023
Art Gym

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 2, 6 – 9 pm

Art Gym Gallery is excited to present “A River Flowing Upward”, a solo exhibition of new work from Erin Dvorak Clark in conjunction with the Month of Photography Denver. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday March 2 from 6-9 pm. The show will be on view through April 2.

“I live in the West, but I am a transplant, as they say here. This is not my state, not my land, and not my trails. In terms of connecting with the land, the water is the aspect about this place that defines me as a human navigating this space with my mind, body, and soul. I drink the water, bathe in the water, and feed my family using the water. In the American West, water is the resource that is the most finite, but also is the resource that is the easiest to take for granted, which, in turn, creates a misunderstanding with the landscape. A River Flowing Upward is a photographic body of work that attempts to restructure the image of water to redefine this resource as a place of intimacy and spiritual connection.”

Erin Dvorak Clark was born and raised in rural Iowa and received her undergraduate degree in Photo Media from the University of Kansas. She now resides in Aurora, CO and is working full time as a Manager for a Photo Editing team. Erin is also pursing her MFA in Photography through Savannah College of Art and Design’s SCADnow program. Her main photographic interests include large format photography and creating work that considers themes of place, relationship, and the landscape. Her work has been shown at a national and local level in various group shows throughout the past decade. She looks forward to wrapping up her thesis work in 2023 with a solo exhibition that will take place at Art Gym during the Month of Photography Denver festival.

Emma Powell – Rain or Shine
March 3 – April 30, 2023
Bell Projects 

Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 6 – 10 pm 

In celebration of Month of Photography, please join us for the opening reception of Emma Powell’s “Rain or Shine” on Friday, March 3rd from 6 – 10 pm.

Powell’s work will be on view through April 30 in the Living Room Gallery at Bell Projects.

In “Rain or Shine” we see how Powell’s artwork investigates the ways in which photographs can go beyond factual rendering to tell fictional stories, harnessing the power of fantasy to create metaphor and narrative.

She often utilizes digital collages or photograms (objects placed on the material during exposure) to build unexpected scenes. These fictional images border on the cinematic and are created by combining semi-staged location shoots and digital editing. Powell has found creative inspiration in developing hybrid approaches that merge current digital technologies with early photographic processes and methods such as the photogram. Since her first introduction to historic photographic processes in 2005, she has employed multiple techniques through many unique projects. Powell considers the physical crafting of the prints to be an integral part of her artistic practice. By utilizing chemical processes, she produces images that evoke illustration and invite viewers to suspend their disbelief.

“Rain or Shine” features 10 new pieces from Powell, including cyanotypes on linen and on paper, and kallitypes on paper to demonstrate the range of her photographic processes.

Emma Powell received her MFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited both within the U.S. and internationally. Powell has taught photography at the college level for over 10 years, including full-time at Colorado College and Iowa State University. She has also been an instructor, leading alternative process photography workshops at Penland School of Crafts, and other educational institutions. Powell currently lives in Colorado.

Tony Umile: Captured Images

Firehouse Art Center (Longmont) 

March 10 – April 9, 2023

Opening Reception: March 10, 6 pm – 9 pm

After Tony Umile passed away suddenly in 2022, friends and family committed to sharing his work and celebrating the mark he left on his community. “Captured Images” is a comprehensive look at Umile’s growth as a photographer, highlighting his unique humor and wit, as well as his love for travel and experimentation in the medium. Three decades of work will be detailed in this show, with guests getting a chance to peek into Umile’s dark room and office, complete with slides, handwritten notes, awards, letters, and other items, giving the viewer an idea of the man behind the camera. It is both a celebration of life and a testament to Umile’s beloved standing in the Longmont creative community, a moving reflection on living, losing, and memorializing.

Blue Wonder
March 10 – April 28, 2023
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)

Opening Reception: Friday, March 10, 4 – 7 pm

Immerse yourself in a beautiful blue and white exhibition of cyanotypes by DAVA teens and guest artists Lizeth Guadalupe, Christine Nguyen, Leah Diament, and Christopher R. Perez.

DAVA will host a free Opening Reception on Friday, March 10^th from 4 pm – 7 pm in conjunction with Month of Photography Denver. DAVA is located at 1405 Florence St., one block south of Colfax Avenue in the Aurora Cultural Arts District. This exhibition is free and open to the public Monday to Friday, from 10 am – 5 pm, through April 28, 2023.

DAVA’s middle and high school students learned about the history of photographic processes before exploring a myriad of cyanotype possibilities with artists Lizeth Guadalupe and Leah Diament.

Students used film photography, digital photography, drawing, and digital collage as the base of their works. Some even experimented with cyanotypes on porcelain! In addition, DAVA’s youngest students in the Open Studio took photos using disposable film cameras. The photos are displayed as a mobile with fabric pieces, hand prints, and text.

The guest artists included in Blue Wonder use the historical process of cyanotype to explore a variety of subjects and techniques that represent their unique story and experimental approaches.

Lizeth Guadalupe, who also teaches at DAVA, covered a skirt with cyanotypes using photographs of family members and digital drawings to represent her family tree and cultural heritage.

Leah Diament is folding cyanotype prints to create a light-filled three-dimensional installation. Christine Nguyen’s large experimental cyanotypes use botanical items and cosmic special effects. A master of photographic processes and light, Christopher R. Perez uses cyanotypes in ethereal landscapes. All of the artists in the show provided technical knowledge and inspiration for teachers and students at DAVA.

Kaitlyn Jo Smith – Mass Production

March 19 – April 30

Opening Reception: March 19, 4 – 8 pm 

EVOLVING GEOGRAPHIES
MARCH 24 – APRIL 28
TOINTON GALLERY (GREELEY)
Attached to the Greeley Recreation Center and Union Colony Civic Center

OPENING RECEPTION: MARCH 24, 5 – 7 PM

Evolving Geographies features photography by Andrew Liccardo, a Greeley-based artist and educator whose lens points to the West and the intersection of our natural and built environments. In this exhibit, Liccardo explores the idea that the environment we live in (and create) will ultimately define us, and how we alter and maintain it will tell the story of our evolution as a people and culture — and eventually, in part, write our history.

Liccardo’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including such venues as the Reykjanes (Iceland) Cultural Festival; Kansas City Public Library; Houston Center for Photography; School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Amarillo Museum of Art. A project portfolio of his work was recently published in the book Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky by Texas Tech University Press as part of its Voice in the American West series.

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

Instagram: @the_big_picture_colo

Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog

2023 – 2025

The Big Picture

Denver, Boulder, and Beyond

Big Picture Launch Paste Party: March 26 (2 – 5 pm) 

Since 2009 the Big Picture has been mounting fine art photography images inside and out the door, down the alley and around the world.

The Big Picture is a biennial project whose mission is to connect the public to fine art photography in open-air settings with large murals wheat-pasted on walls. Through invitation and call for entry, the Big Picture selects winning prints for exhibition in Denver, Boulder, and sister cities worldwide.

Interested in submitting your work? View the Call For Entry.

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Facebook: bigpicturedenver

thebigpicture2013.blogspot.com

Photo: The Unperson Project – An Oblivion by Andrea Tejeda and Susana Moyaho – Mexico City

Special thanks to Month of Photography Denver.

Want to learn the art of wheat pasting and turning alleys into galleries? Come visit us and become a Big Picture ambassador in your area.

THE BIG PICTURE ARCHIVE

2021 – 2023 Catalog Coming Soon!

2019 Catalog
2017 Catalog
2015 Catalog
2013 Catalog
2011 Catalog