Event Type: Artist Talk

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.

An Exhibition Featuring Jay Dickman, National Geographic Photographer
March 3 – April 2, 2023
Niza Knoll Gallery

Niza Knoll Gallery is delighted to present photography by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer Jay Dickman to celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival. The exhibit will include a diverse group of images from Jay’s extensive portfolio of landscape and wildlife photography, and a special collection of photos of Rock and Roll stars from 1969-1985.

About the Artist

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer, Jay Dickman is a highly traveled, experienced and celebrated photographer. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize (and multiple domestic and international awards), Jay won the World Press Golden Eye for his photography. His long career has included 25 assignments for the National Geographic Society, and spanned a multitude of experiences, including three months living in a stone-age village in Papua New Guinea, a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack sub, and being aboard a sinking boat on the Amazon.

Jay and his wife, Becky, are founders of the FirstLight Workshop series, FirstLight being featured in American Photo magazine as one of the top 10 photographic workshops. Working with National Geographic Expeditions, Jay has been on more than 100 Expeditions/Workshops/Adventures as the “National Geographic Expert.” Working with National Geographic, Jay has also presented more than 15 lectures for the Society. Jay was cited as one of Travel + Leisure Magazine’s “Ten Fascinating People You Can Travel With in 2017”. PhotoBlog.com also cited “Where’s Jay” (Jay’s blog) as one of the 45 best photography blogs. He is co-author of the best-selling book, “Perfect Digital Photography”, published by McGraw-Hill.

Exit Paradise
March 18 – April 30
Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery (Boulder) 

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 5 – 9 PM 
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 2 -4 PM 
Closing Party: Sunday, April 30, 3 – 6 PM 
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 1 – 5 PM or Tuesday – Thursday by appointment

Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery presents Exit Paradise, an exhibition highlighting body-based photographic works by Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, Kristen Hatgi Sink, and Mark Sink.

Artist Talk: Kenneth Wajda – Creating VIP Portraits for The Wise Photo Project
March 27, 2023
7 – 8 pm MST 
Online via Zoom

In this online event, professional photographer Kenneth Wajda will discuss The Wise Photo Project, a photography project he started in 2015 with the goal of creating high-quality legacy studio portraits of seniors aged 70 and over at no cost, so that their future generations will always have strong portraits of their ancestors, these ‘very important people’ in their family’s history. Kenneth is currently seeking a Guggenheim grant to take the project to all 50 states and bring more photographers into the project. There are already two other photographers making work–one in Kentucky and one in Colorado. In this talk, Kenneth will show photographs that he’s made as well as how to get involved in your community to make these VIP portraits.

Logan Lecture: Cara Romero
March 28, 2023
6 – 7 pm 
Denver Art Museum, Sharp Auditorium, Hamilton Building, Lower Level

Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) stages theatrical compositions infused with vibrant color and dramatic lighting to illuminate Indigenous worldviews and aspects of the supernatural in everyday life. As a visual storyteller, Romero creates playful and sometimes serious images that explore collective Indigenous histories and identity. Romero, whose work is in the permanent collection of the DAM, as well as in the special exhibition Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, will discuss her career of over two decades as a photographer.

Ticket required discount for members, free for Museum Friends.
For details, please visit the Museum’s website.

Artist Talk: Meet the Artists of Inside and Out
With Ron Cooper and Dr. Jaime Belkind-Gerson
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6 – 8 PM
Koelbel Library (Centennial)  

Meet the artists of Inside and Out, an upcoming exhibition of photographs featuring Ron Cooper and Jaime Belkind-Gerson at the Curtis Center for the Arts April 8 – May 6, 2023.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul. They reveal true emotions, sentiments, and thoughts. The two artists in this exhibit convey the innermost and outermost beauty of humankind. Photographer Ron Cooper has traveled the world in pursuit of images that reflect local cultures and people. His photographs are intended to convey a sense of place, personality, and emotion. While his photographs document the many differences in appearance, dress, culture, and faith, he hopes they also convey the fact that our similarities and “connectedness” as humans far outweigh those superficial differences.

Doctor Jaime Belkind-Gerson creates his work with the images that surround him daily: X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs. In his artwork, he combines these images of our internal reality with images of the external world, manipulating them with specifically designed software algorithms.

Although these artists utilize vastly different approaches, both emphasize humankind’s reflections from within. Meet the artists and hear them talk about their process and inspiration.

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.

An Exhibition Featuring Jay Dickman, National Geographic Photographer
March 3 – April 2, 2023
Niza Knoll Gallery

Niza Knoll Gallery is delighted to present photography by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer Jay Dickman to celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival. The exhibit will include a diverse group of images from Jay’s extensive portfolio of landscape and wildlife photography, and a special collection of photos of Rock and Roll stars from 1969-1985.

About the Artist

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and National Geographic photographer, Jay Dickman is a highly traveled, experienced and celebrated photographer. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize (and multiple domestic and international awards), Jay won the World Press Golden Eye for his photography. His long career has included 25 assignments for the National Geographic Society, and spanned a multitude of experiences, including three months living in a stone-age village in Papua New Guinea, a week under the Arctic ice in a nuclear attack sub, and being aboard a sinking boat on the Amazon.

Jay and his wife, Becky, are founders of the FirstLight Workshop series, FirstLight being featured in American Photo magazine as one of the top 10 photographic workshops. Working with National Geographic Expeditions, Jay has been on more than 100 Expeditions/Workshops/Adventures as the “National Geographic Expert.” Working with National Geographic, Jay has also presented more than 15 lectures for the Society. Jay was cited as one of Travel + Leisure Magazine’s “Ten Fascinating People You Can Travel With in 2017”. PhotoBlog.com also cited “Where’s Jay” (Jay’s blog) as one of the 45 best photography blogs. He is co-author of the best-selling book, “Perfect Digital Photography”, published by McGraw-Hill.

Exit Paradise
March 18 – April 30
Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery (Boulder) 

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 5 – 9 PM 
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 15, 2 -4 PM 
Closing Party: Sunday, April 30, 3 – 6 PM 
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 1 – 5 PM or Tuesday – Thursday by appointment

Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery presents Exit Paradise, an exhibition highlighting body-based photographic works by Sherry Wiggins and Luis Branco, Kristen Hatgi Sink, and Mark Sink.

Walk and Talk lecture with Mark Sink
Saturday, April 1 
Noon – 1 pm 
RedLine Contemporary Art Center

Join artist Mark Sink for a Walk and Talk lecture in conjunction with Typed Live, Excuse Errors: A Mark Sink Retrospective, on view March 11 – April 9 at RedLine. His presentation will be a diary-like narrative of his projects and work and his connection to them.

The exhibit is a survey of works by Mark Sink, a photographer, curator, and family historian. Mark approaches art with an interdisciplinary mindset, by bringing the community together through art, gardens, and backyard and internet salons.

Mark finds his personal identity through his artistic family. He is a co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, founder of the Month of Photography Denver, The Big Picture street art projects, and the Denver Collage Club. His personal fine art photography is shown and collected worldwide. Currently, he is specializing in wet-plate collodion photography and collage. Kristen Hatgi Sink and Mark run studio photography services that include, portraits, products, architecture, and fashion.

Inside and Out 
Curtis Center for the Arts
April 8 – May 6
Artist Talk: March 30, see related event

They say the eyes are the window to the soul. They reveal true emotions, sentiments, and thoughts. The two artists in this exhibition convey the innermost and outermost beauty of humankind. Photographer Ron Cooper has traveled the world in pursuit of images that reflect local cultures and people. His photographs are intended to convey a sense of place, personality and emotion. While his photographs document the many differences in appearance, dress, culture, and faith, he hopes they also convey the fact that our similarities and “connectedness” as humans far outweigh those superficial differences.

Doctor Jaime Belkind-Gerson creates his work with the images that surround him daily: X rays, CT scans, MRI’s through which our internal reality and beauty manifest. These, he combines with other images that reflect our external world. They are manipulated with specifically designed software algorithms. Once captured, he uses manual processes for additional layering. Although these artists create their images very differently, both of them emphasize humankind’s reflections from within.

Inside and Out 
Curtis Center for the Arts
April 8 – May 6
Artist Talk: March 30, see related event

They say the eyes are the window to the soul. They reveal true emotions, sentiments, and thoughts. The two artists in this exhibition convey the innermost and outermost beauty of humankind. Photographer Ron Cooper has traveled the world in pursuit of images that reflect local cultures and people. His photographs are intended to convey a sense of place, personality and emotion. While his photographs document the many differences in appearance, dress, culture, and faith, he hopes they also convey the fact that our similarities and “connectedness” as humans far outweigh those superficial differences.

Doctor Jaime Belkind-Gerson creates his work with the images that surround him daily: X rays, CT scans, MRI’s through which our internal reality and beauty manifest. These, he combines with other images that reflect our external world. They are manipulated with specifically designed software algorithms. Once captured, he uses manual processes for additional layering. Although these artists create their images very differently, both of them emphasize humankind’s reflections from within.