Event Type: Ongoing Exhibition

Other People’s Pictures: Gifts from the Robert and Kerstin Adams Collection
On view through April 2
Denver Art Museum
Martin Building, Level 6
Included with General Admission 

Other People’s Pictures: Gifts from the Robert and Kerstin Adams Collection explores the reciprocal relationships among artists and their creative exchange of objects. Comprised of more than 70 photographic works selected from a collection donated to the DAM in 2018 by Robert and Kerstin Adams, this exhibition also examines the themes of collecting, the pleasure of looking, and how diverse points of view interact to shape perspectives.

Through photographic themes of landscape and recreation; people and places; forces of nature; slowing down; and ethics, belief and memory, Other People’s Pictures invites visitors to contemplate their own connections to the objects, people, and places in their own lives and how photographs can convey that attachment.

Return of the Corn Mothers
Through October 1, 2023
Inspiring Women of the Southwest
History Colorado Center
Free for members and kids 18 and under, Adults (19+), $15

Return of the Corn Mothers marks a three-year effort to honor 22 new Corn Mothers in 2022. What began in 2007 with a small grant from the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute and eight local women, has now expanded to include more than 70 women.

Join in the rich tradition of honoring Southwest women through this revitalized exhibit. Share in an intergenerational gathering and honor the unsung heroes of the community, and celebrate the induction of 22 women to the Corn Mothers family.

Who Are the Corn Mothers?

The Indigenous peoples of southern Mexico started domesticating maize over 9,000 years ago. As cultivation of the once wild grass spread throughout the “Americas” and globally, the significance of this life-giving food was immortalized in legend and story. Among Southwest Pueblo peoples, the iconic Corn Mother deity embodied growth, life, creativity, community, and creation.

The Return of the Corn Mothers project is a book, a photographic body of work, and a written history exhibition at History Colorado of multi-generational and multi-cultural women from the Southwest who exemplify the essence of Corn Mother. Photographer Todd Pierson, editor Ed Winograd, graphic designer Toinette Brown, and curator Renee Fajardo, in conjunction with MSU Denver Chicana/o Studies, the Colorado Folk Arts Council, and the Chicano Humanities Arts Council, have spent 15 years documenting the stories of women, chosen by their communities, who have made selfless contributions and creative endeavors to better the lives of others.

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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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.

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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.

Jerrie Hurd: Beyond the Male Gaze
Guest curated by Joan Markowitz
January 19 – May 26, 2023
Macky Auditorium Concert Hall at University of Colorado-Boulder

The male gaze commonly describes a way of looking at and being seen in the world that empowers men and sexualizes women. It comes out of feminist studies and film studies and is often applied to the visual arts. Although usually applied to women, the process of objectification and sexualization also impacts men. For example, Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington recently complained about being labeled “a hunk.” Photographers like Jerrie Hurd who specialize in figurative images often
struggle to find form and beauty in the human figure while avoiding objectification.

About the Artist
Jerrie Hurd took up photography later in life after working as a novelist and teaching writing at several colleges. Her photographic work is almost exclusively figurative, and she often depicts figures in water and outdoor environments. She is interested in how water creates an ethereal quality and presents artistic challenges as models quickly change poses.

Hurd’s work is influenced by the photographs and writing of Anne Brigman (1869–1950), an early proponent of women’s rights known for her photographs of nude women. Hurd says, “Some modern feminists object to pictures of nude women because they appeal to the male gaze. Anne Brigman argues that it does not help to cover up and that hats, long skirts, and veils are also about the male gaze. I like to think that my photographs continue in that tradition. I often include masks, veils, and long skirts in my work as a way of asking viewers to look—really look—at what is happening between the body and coverings. This extends to the male body, which has its own rigid societal expectations.”

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.

The World in Denver: The Photography of Robert Weinberg
Through January 2024
History Colorado Center
Free for members and kids 18 and under, Adults (19+): $15

History Colorado is excited to celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival with a new exhibition, The World in Denver: The Photography of Robert Weinberg. This exhibition features large-scale reproductions of photographs taken by Denver’s preeminent photojournalist of the 1980s and 90s and will be open until January 2024.

Best known for his work with the Intermountain Jewish News, Weinberg focused on portraits of people in the Denver community. Weinberg’s photography adds a valuable dimension to the visual record of the Mile High City during this time and displays his innate ability to capture personal stories and emotions.

Weinberg prided himself on creating “people pieces” that connected Denver to the broader world. His photography focused on both everyday Denverites – such as Leonder Taylor, a man experiencing homelessness in 1994 – and globally renowned individuals – like Pope John Paul II, former President Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ellie Wiesel, John Fielder and Dan Rather.

Much of Weinberg’s work concentrated on identifying institutional racism and removing barriers for Denverites. Each of his photos connects not only to a specific moment in time but a larger story that was unfolding. The stories behind his photos are explored in quotes from Weinberg which serve as labels for the exhibition. Now legally blind, Weinberg requested the labels for this exhibition be as accessible as possible, so History Colorado partnered with the Colorado Center for the Blind to have them translated into Braille, along with the traditional English and Spanish versions.

About Robert Weinberg

Robert Weinberg was born in Denver to David and Faye Weinberg. His passion for photography began in East St. Louis as a Vista Volunteer photographer. After he honed his craft, he moved back to Colorado and started his own photography business. In the following decades, Weinberg captured the personal stories that intertwined in Denver during the 1980s and 1990s.

Weinberg began losing his sight in the early 1990s, and by 1998 he was legally blind. It took years for him to acclimate to his new life. He credits organizations like the Colorado Center for the Blind, Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Colorado Talking Book Library, and National Industries for the Blind for helping him learn to live independently as a person who is visually impaired.

A Celebration of Photography by Colorado Artists – Group Exhibit
January 31 – March 30
1101 Event Center 
Open Monday – Friday, 9 am – 4 pm 
Free and open to the public

To celebrate the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival, 1101 Event Center presents an exhibition of photography by artists based in Colorado. Photographs will be selected from an open call to all Colorado photographers.

What Remains
February 17 – May 14, 2023
University of Denver
Anderson Academic Commons, Dean’s Suite Gallery, Upper Level

Opening Reception: February 17, 5 – 8 pm in the Loft (Anderson Academic Commons 340)

What Remains brings together the work of artists who utilize photography to explore remnants and decay in terms of the medium of photography, the natural world, history, and human-made phenomena.

The artists in the show include Brian Cavanaugh (Colorado), Shana Cruz-Thompson (Colorado), Liam Currin-Rogers (North Carolina), Deanna Dikeman (Kansas), Chelsea Gilmore (Colorado), Jeffrey Mack (Nebraska), Leah Swenson (Colorado), and Thomas Jeunwon Yi (Colorado).

This exhibit is curated by Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller and takes place at Anderson Academic Commons (the Library at the University of Denver) in the Dean’s Suite Gallery on the upper level. A reception for the show will be held on February 17th in the Loft (AAC 340) from 5 – 8 pm.

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.

Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography is one of the first major museum surveys to explore the practices of Indigenous photographers working over the past three decades. Featuring works by more than 30 contemporary Indigenous photographers, the exhibition highlights the historically underrepresented views and voices of Indigenous communities. The works aim to shift power dynamics and bring attention to misrepresentations by focusing on Indigenous perspectives, exploring themes of history, loss, identity, and representation.

Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter), the exhibition features photographs from both emerging and established artists, including Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (Taskigi/Diné), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂), and Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock). The show will also include dynamic installations by Kapulani Landgraf (Kanaka´Ōiwi), Jolene Rickard (Skarù:ręʔ/Tuscarora), and Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River).

Speaking with Light is on view February 19, 2023, through May 21, 2023. The exhibition is included with general admission, which is free for everyone 18 and under every day, as well as museum members.

Altered Images – Online Exhibition
February 21 – June 30, 2023
Center for Fine Art Photography

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In celebration of Month of Photography, the Center for Fine Art Photography presents an online exhibition juried by Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

From the moment photography was announced to the world, its first practitioners were already altering their images to suit particular messages, styles, and points of view.

Today’s digital technology has revealed the endless malleability of the photographic image and opened new doors of artistic practice. The fracture, sampling, appropriation, and layering that define the field of digital media have also become fundamental concepts in photography.

The artists featured in this exhibition have embraced contemporary methods of image alteration in order to present a variety of viewpoints. Layering imagery, cultural commentary, and a wide variety of materials, these works of art explore themes of ancestry, nature, consumerism, and memory. In our digital age, image alteration is more relevant than ever, not only as a rich formal language, but also as a mode of contemporary expression.
-Lisa Volpe

Selected Artists: Norman Aragones, Cali Banks, Linda Barsotti, Bonnie Blake, Spiro Bolos, John Bonath, Joshua Brinlee, Nancy Stalnaker Bundy, Dawnja Burris, Meliss Des, Richard Edic, Alexa Frangos, Regan Golden, Abbey Hepner, Brenna Hilgers, Hsing-Chia Hsieh, Steve Huth, Christine June, Valerie Kim, Wayne King, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Hannah Latham, Chantal Lesley, Holly Lynton, Forrest McGarvey, Cheryl Medow, Danielle Owensby, Valerie Pfaff, Audrey Powles, Jason Reblando, Parker Reinecker, Thibault Roland, Sara Rytteke, Patrick Samuels, Vera Sprunt, Karen Stentaford, Marta Wapiennik, Vinci Weng, Vale Yang, CC Young.

“45 + Part II” of the Anniversary Exhibition Series
February 23 – April 29, 2023
Robischon Gallery 

On the auspicious occasion marking over forty-five years as a contemporary art venue in Colorado, Robischon Gallery is pleased to present PART II of the anniversary exhibition series “45 +” featuring a dynamic selection of varied media including photography, painting, print, and sculpture. While touching upon a specific selection of the gallery’s far-reaching dialogues within abstraction, part two of the exhibition series features new and memorable archived artworks by several gallery artists, including Kate Petley, Gary Emrich, Judy Pfaff, Ann Hamilton, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Deborah Zlotsky, Marcelyn McNeil, Ted Larsen, Derrick Velasquez, and Ana Maria Hernando in celebration of all of the exemplary artists the gallery has presented over its many decades-long presence in Colorado.

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!

Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15

February 24 – May 28

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15 is a collaboration with RedLine Contemporary Art Center to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary of artist residencies and education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change. This juried group exhibition features the work of RedLine alumni artists, including past participants in RedLine’s Artist Resident and Resource Artist program, some of which will be presenting photographic works. Curated by Miranda Lash, MCA Denver’s Senior Curator and Leilani Lynch, MCA Denver’s Associate Curator.

JOYSOME
Outdoor Exhibition
March 1 – 31
Dairy Arts Center (Boulder)

JOYSOME consists of 50 images selected from hundreds of responses to a call for work on the theme of joy. Submitted by artists and non-artists alike, the works in this exhibit span a range of disciplines and affective registers. JOYSOME celebrates our divergent experiences of joy while reflecting on the subjective worlds of this emotion, upon its unique timings and subsets, and upon joy’s crucial functions in human existence. The selected images are printed on flags and exhibited between Dairy Arts Center and East Window and at various partner locations including Whittier Elementary, Boulder Chamber, Museum of Boulder, Swoon Art House, The Gallery @ Bus Stop Apartments, and more! Exhibition juried by Charlo and Harry James Hanson.

Nowhere Lands: Joshua Palmeri
March 1 – 31, 2023
Lekker Coffee House

Nowhere Lands is a solo photography show by local visual artist Joshua Palmeri.

Nowhere Lands explores the identity of place and ubiquity. With the rapid expansion and development of our western landscapes, Palmeri constantly asks the question, what are we to become?

Utilizing a combination of traditional photography and digital photo-collage, light, and a contemporary perspective, Palmeri seeks to capture a memory of our dynamic time. He challenges the viewer to consider: how much of our past are we authentically bringing with us, and how much are we erasing?

Seen And Unseen 
March 1 – 31, 2023
Wash Perk (Coffee Shop) 

To celebrate Month of Photography, Wash Perk coffee shop is proud to present an exhibition of photographs by Aleah Meta. Through their multiple-exposure film photographs, Aleah explores the complex nature of time and attempts to peek into the world of the divine.

Artist Bio:

Aleah Meta is a non-binary artist in Boulder, Colorado. They work mostly with time-based mediums, such as film photography and cyanotype sun printing, but also have a deep love for performance art. Aleah takes their inspiration from clouds, pine trees, water, family ancestry, and their experience with the unknown. You can find more of their work at aleahmeta.com or on instagram @aleah_meta.

Erase the Word Lock That is You
March 1 – April 30, 2023
Bardo Coffeehouse

The Heads of Hydra Artists’ Collective presents Erase the Wordlock that is You — a group exhibition highlighting three creative photographers who have never exhibited before and are given the complete freedom to do whatever they want. Featuring Chloe Jakiela, Emma Hay, and Paul Storm.

Eye to Eye: Portraits of Pride, Strength, and Beauty
March 1 – 31
Bob Ragland Branch Library

In honor of Women’s History month, we are turning the library into an art gallery for this special photography show about women who aren’t typically recognized during Women’s History Month: They are older women, and they are part of the LGBTQ community.

The women in the portraits grew up when coming out meant risking their health, their jobs, their housing, their families, their friends. To stay safe, many stayed silent for years. In these portraits, they break that silence to be seen as they really are, to show you that being openly LGBTQ is profoundly human and courageous. Their history IS women’s history.

Visitors are invited to view the photos anytime during the library’s open hours.

Photographer Carey Candrian is an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and she serves on the National Board of Directors at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality. She came out to herself when she was 16 and didn’t tell her family and friends until she was 28.

She interviewed nearly three dozen older LGBTQ women (59-85 years old) during the first year of COVID-19 to understand their health needs and the challenges as they age. These portraits came out of those interviews.

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.”

March 1 – 31

6:30 pm – 11 pm MST

Daniels & Fisher Tower

The Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) presents a curated outdoor exhibition that will be digitally projected on the Daniels & Fisher Tower as part of Night Lights Denver during the 2023 Month of Photography Festival.

Curator: Samantha Johnston, CPAC Executive Director & Curator

Special thanks to The Denver Theatre District and Night Lights Denver for making this exhibition possible and supporting the 2023 Month of Photography Denver festival.

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

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.

Risa Friedman: Rectangled
Curated by Jane Burke
March 3 – 31, 2023

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th Street Boulder, Co 80302

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 9, 6 – 7:30 pm (Member preview 5 -6 pm)

Risa Friedman’s Rectangled is a nostalgic homage to counting rectangles in the puzzle section of the newspaper in her grandparents’ kitchen in Queens, New York.

Friedman will transform the architecture of BMoCA’s interior brick-lined lobby space into an immersive puzzle of parallelograms through the presentation of framed prints and photo-covered blocks. Friedman will activate the installation by adding photo-covered blocks throughout the month-long duration of the exhibition for visitors to count and rearrange. Through this interactivity, she simultaneously creates the opportunity to experience child-like wonder while attributing the stacking of right angles to the inescapable tasks of adulthood.

About the artist:
Risa Friedman is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on photography, paper arts and installation. Her work celebrates the beauty of place with an emphasis on people-made details and blocks of color. She hopes her work inspires others to stop and appreciate elements of their everyday environment in new ways. Risa grew up in suburban New York, but draws most of her inspiration from her time spent living in cities and watching them change—New York, Brighton (UK), Quito (Ecuador) and currently Denver. Her background and career in the social sciences (sociology and public health) also inform her approach to art. One of her favorite parts of her process is people: she loves collaborating with other artists and meeting those who live and work in the spaces she photographs. In addition to creating her own art, Risa curates art shows and organizes art-based fundraisers.

About Present Box:
Present Box is a series of temporary exhibitions that invite artists to transform BMoCA’s lobby and front entrance into innovative installations, performances, and events. The site-specific projects are intended to encourage artists to create work outside their comfort zones and to foster interactive participation. Artists are also urged to explore themes that are relevant for our present time.

VAMA Art Gallery Exhibition
March 3 – April 1, 2023
40 West Gallery

Opening Reception: March 3, 6 – 9 PM 

VAMA Art Gallery Exhibition creates engaging opportunities within the community, empowerment in the workplace, and manifesting behaviors that align with RRCC and VAMA values. As an expression of our department, we pull together a collection of work created by our students in collaboration with Foothills Art Center and 40 Arts West to bring a multimedia experience to the community.

The exhibition began over 6 years ago when a group of ambitious students came together with a plan to present artwork at the Foothills Art Center. They proposed a partnership that would present real-world experiences for all students. This launched the beginning of the VAMA Art Gallery Exhibition.

In Partnership with 40 Arts West, we bring our multimedia experience to a new audience. 40 Arts West is an inclusive non-profit volunteer organization that enriches the community and enhances the creative, cultural, and economic vitality of Lakewood.

40 West Gallery is a community gallery space located in 40 West Arts District, inside The HUB building.

Teen MOP Show: Forward Looking
March 3 – April 1, 2023
Red Rocks Community College, Library Atrium 

A juried exhibition of high school photography work hosted by Red Rocks Community College’s Visual, Audio and Media Department.

Organized by Denver Public School teacher Alexandra Overby for the past four MoP festivals. Jurors Mark Sink, Angela Belt, and John Kenney selected from hundreds of submissions, excepted and awarded outstanding work which will be on view.

4MHP Celebrates the Month of Photography: Capturing Colorado
March 3 – 31
Open Fridays – Sundays, 10 – 4 PM
Four Mile Historic Park  

Four Mile Historic Park is proud to be a participating venue for the Month of Photography Denver’s biennial festival celebrating the art of photography. Join us throughout March at the site of Denver’s oldest standing structure, the Four Mile House, to explore Colorado through the lenses of professional and amateur photographers for our month-long exhibition, 4MHP Celebrates the Month of Photography: Capturing Colorado.

The opening reception will be held Friday, March 3, 2023, in the Grant Family Education Center from 5 pm – 9 pm. Peruse the artwork, vote for people’s choice, and enjoy a stroll through the 12-acre Park to visit our friendly livestock and tour the historic Four Mile House with a libation in hand. All proceeds from the bar support the 4MHP 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the Four Mile House, education, and community programs.

This exhibition will hang in Grant Hall from March 3 through March 31, 2023. Visitors are welcome during general admission hours Friday through Sunday between 10 am and 4 pm all month long. Keep an eye out for the winner of Best in Show, who will be invited to hang a solo photography exhibition in Grant Hall in August 2023.

Where To Go Next…
An online /  live exhibit in bathrooms across Denver
March 1 – 31, 2023
RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Leon Gallery, Pon Pon/Lane Meyer, Pie Hole, and Ironton Distilling, among others

Adding a twist to how and where we can view art, “Where To Go Next” will exhibit photos from Brian Fouhy’s book, Occupied, placed in the space where they were photographed: the bathroom. Locations will vary from establishments featured in the book, to galleries, cafes, restaurants, and bars.

Each photograph on display will be accompanied by a QR code which will lead people to a website and map providing a convenient source to find all the urinals on display – and give an excuse for a visit to the loo.

The website will launch March 1, 2023 at wheretogonext.is.

Brian Fouhy is an artist and creative director that loves the internet and resides in Denver.

Gallery 6 Brings Colorful Colorado to Life for Month of Photography Denver
March 3 – March 31, 2023
Gallery 6

One of Denver’s few dedicated photographic art studios, Gallery 6, features a dazzling range of Colorado landscape and cityscape, portraiture, nature, and wild horses, including Anger Management, the 2022 Sony World Photography Award winner for Nature & Wildlife. Enjoy a wide array of local and international works by Resident Photographic Artists Tony Eitzel, Dave Stephens, Kevin Schwalbe and 2022 Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year, Scott Wilson.

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.

Opening Reception for the exhibit, 4MHP Celebrates the Month of Photography: Capturing Colorado 
Friday, March 3, 5 – 9 pm 
Grant Family Education Center
Four Mile Historic Park

Four Mile Historic Park is proud to be a participating venue for the Month of Photography Denver’s biennial festival celebrating the art of photography. Join us throughout March at the site of Denver’s oldest standing structure, the Four Mile House, to explore Colorado through the lenses of professional and amateur photographers for our month-long exhibition, 4MHP Celebrates the Month of Photography: Capturing Colorado.

The opening reception will be held Friday, March 3, 2023 in the Grant Family Education Center from 5 pm – 9 pm.

Peruse the artwork, vote for people’s choice, and enjoy a stroll through the 12-acre Park to visit our friendly livestock and tour the historic Four Mile House with a libation in hand. All proceeds from the bar support the 4MHP 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the Four Mile House, education, and community programs.

This exhibition will hang in Grant Hall from March 3 through March 31, 2023. Visitors are welcome during general admission hours Friday through Sunday between 10 am and 4 pm all month long. Keep an eye out for the winner of Best in Show, who will be invited to hang a solo photography exhibition in Grant Hall in August 2023.

Imprint Colorado Show Opening
March 3 – 31, 2023
Gallery 6

Three Winners of the Imprint Colorado contest open their own print show at Gallery 6 Denver in the Art District on Santa Fe.

40 West Gallery Members Photography Showcase
March 3 – April 1, 2023
Opening Reception: March 3, 6 – 9 pm 
40 West Gallery 

We have designated our two pop-out gallery spaces for a 40 West Arts Member Photography Mini-Exhibition. We asked our 40 West Gallery members to submit their most poignant, playful, unique, vivid, interpretive, wild, creative, and favorite photographs for a showcase in conjunction with our partner exhibition through Red Rocks Community College’s Video, Audio, Media Arts Department.

Denver Collage Club Returns to Alto Gallery 
March 3 – April 1, 2023
Alto Gallery (Located in RiNo Art Park) 

First Friday Opening Reception: March 3, 6 – 10 pm
With Fashion Performance by Matilda Marginal

Drop-In Workshop: Saturday, March 25, Noon – 2 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 1, 11 AM – 3 PM

Enjoy a selection of photo-based collages by nearly 50 past and present members of the Denver Collage Club. The Denver Collage Club is a Salon founded in 2013 by Mark Sink and Mario Zoots. Its mission is to share and learn about current and historical work and forward thinking ideas on the topic of collage today.

Access Denied, a group show featuring participants from Access Gallery’s Photography Residency, and 
Being Grayson, new works by Julia Vandenoever
March 3-31, 2023

First Friday Art Walk: March 3, 6 – 9 PM
Meet the Artists / Artist Talks: Friday, March 17, 6 – 8 pm

Free and open to the public

Gallery Hours: Thursday 1 – 4 pm; Friday 1 – 5 pm; and Saturday 1 – 4 pm

Access Gallery is excited to present two new exhibitions on display during the Month of Photography Denver festival: Access Denied featuring participants from Access Gallery’s Photography Residency, and Being Grayson featuring new works by photographer Julia Vandenoever.

Access Denied is an exploration of street photography through the lens of disability activism. This show is a culmination of Access Gallery’s photography residency program taught by teaching artists Ron Davis and Andre Rodriguez. Artists were supplied with cameras, mentorship, and instruction to document their experiences on the streets of Denver.

Davis states:

“The human experience is denied if access is not given to every form. We often think of physical barriers and isolation when it comes to people with disabilities but also consider the other areas that are denied to this community: personal expression, emotional space, individuality, talent, experimentation, and meaningful relationships. Access Gallery’s photography residency gave room for exploration, discovery, curiosity, and imagination to tell a story through the disabled lens.”

On our Spotlight Wall we will exhibit Being Grayson, mixed media photography by Julia Vandenoever that tells the story of her son Grayson who lives with ADHD and dyslexia. The series documents his daily life in two ways: portraiture and artifacts. Photographs are printed and given to Grayson to write out his emotional response to the images that depict himself. Also on display are Grayson’s own art projects, letters, to-do lists, and more. This collaboration between mother and son tells a compelling story of love, exasperation, and ultimately triumph.

Vandenoever states:

“As a child with ADHD and dyslexia, Grayson’s whole world operates on a separate frequency. Both of these are neurological, which means his brain is wired differently. There are no outward physical signs. The differences are shown through behavior like disorganization, forgetfulness, and impulsivity.

Being Grayson is an exploration and celebration of Grayson’s process, a process that is often misunderstood. For me, guiding him along his path at times has been isolating. The act of photographing both his and my experiences is cathartic and promotes understanding and acceptance to the mystery of his logic. We’ve learned how to have a dialogue. By slowing down alongside him, not asking him to change, I see his beauty and gifts to the world. There is space for Grayson to be Grayson.”

Bus Stop Gallery (Boulder) 

March 3 – 31

First Friday Opening Reception: March 3, 6 – 9 pm

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1 – 6 pm  

RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE & OUR BACKS HOLD STORIES / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KALI SPITZER
MARCH 3 – JUNE 28, 2023
EAST WINDOW (BOULDER) 

Opening Reception: March 3, 7-9 pm 
Artist Talk with Kali Spitzer: March 22, 7 pm 

Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous, femme, queer, photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. Kali’s work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self determined. Her collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.

Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) from her father who is a survivor of residential schools and Canadian genocide. Kali’s Mother is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting. She has documented traditional practices with a sense of urgency, highlighting their vital cultural significance.

Kali studied photography at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, and under the mentorship of Will Wilson. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at galleries and museums internationally including, the National Geographic’s Women: a Century of Change at the National Geographic Museum (2020), and Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum (2020). In 2017 Kali received a Reveal Indigenous Art Award from Hnatyshyn Foundation.

Janet Pritchard: More Than Scenery
March 7 – April 1, 2023 
O’Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University

Please join us for an exhibition featuring the artwork of artist Janet Pritchard. “More than Scenery; Yellowstone, a love story” explores Yellowstone as a site where “in this complex microcosm…nature and culture meet.”

About the Artist

Before pursuing a photography career, Pritchard worked as an outdoor education instructor and spent her youth traveling between the Northeast and Rocky Mountain West. She describes herself as geographically bilingual, and her early experiences led to an awareness of significant regional differences within the United States. She devised a methodology described as historical empathy, which relies on archival materials to guide her depictions of the complex landscapes she finds at the intersection of nature and culture.