Event Type: Exhibition Opening Reception

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bus Stop Gallery (Boulder) 

March 3 – 31

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

Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1 – 6 pm  

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.

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.

Gallery M Presents: M27 – A Group Retrospective Featuring Masters of Photojournalism and Pop Culture
Exhibition Dates: March 9 – April 30
Free and open to the public for viewing at Metropolitan Frame Company: Monday – Friday, 10 AM – 5 PM
Opening Reception: March 9, 5 – 8 pm 

Join Gallery M and Metropolitan Frame Company for “M27”, a special collector evening as part of Denver’s Month of Photography.

“M27” is a group retrospective show featuring vintage and contemporary works by our internationally recognized and collected masters of the medium. Included are historic works by LIFE photojournalists and contemporary contributions from pioneers like Howard Schatz, Alex Cao, Peter Tunney, and Tyler Shields. Work with a specialist on your own collection needs and take advantage of the evening’s venue to pair your new work with our framing advisors.

RSVP online for opening reception or call 303-331-8400, x113

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.

The Photo Dept at the Temple 
March 11 – April 16, 2023
Temple Studios

Opening Reception: March 11, 7 – 10 pm 

The Photo Dept launches with a building takeover at the Temple Studios featuring artwork by Juan Fuentes, John Lake, Hayley Krichels, and more friends. Photographs and installations will be on view throughout the building and in the alley.

EVENT DETAILS:
Shadow Banned – Exhibition of Photographs by Shadows Gather
March 11 – April 22, 2023
Leon Art Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11
7 – 11 pm 

Talk: Sink and Shadow talk and walk off .. Polaroids then and now
Saturday, April 8
12 – 2:30 pm

Mark and Shadow will talk and tour their exhibitions with personal stories and discuss photography today. First stop RedLine Noon – 1pm next stop Leon Gallery 1:30 – 2:30 pm

The photographer known for her compelling portraits of Denver’s counterculture, Shadows Gather, will unveil her second solo show as part of Denver’s greater Month of Photography. Shadow Banned, on display March 11th thru April 22nd at Leon Art Gallery, celebrates all that our culture keeps in the shadows–with a special artist reception Saturday, March 11th.

Shadow Banned showcases photos not seen anywhere else, photos that have been banned, flagged, and removed from social media. This forbidden collection raises questions about censorship faced heavily by marginalized groups: the policing of female bodies, the algorithmic flagging of everyday imagery in the LGBTQIA sphere, and the disproportionate censorship of people of color.For many Americans, social media is an over-filtered, glamorous representation of themselves and the lives they wish they lived. Shadow Banned is a raw, unapologetic peek into lives lived after dark.

On display along with a collection of over a thousand original Instax images, Shadow will also display her most iconic banned images, blown up and enlarged in a way that captures the details. From the scratches, lipstick smudges, and dirt from the alley, these photos capture a historic moment in time.

About the Artist

Shadows Gather is a photography project that documents the alternative nightlife scene and the colorful individuals that thrive in it. Based out of Denver, Colorado, Shadow is a photographer who uses non-conventional techniques, such as pairing a Fuji Instax Neo Classic Mini with lighting from an iPhone flashlight, to create striking instant photographs that preserve and celebrate underground culture. In her photos, you’ll find energetic portraits from a mixture of scenes: gutter punks, drag artists, and creatures of the night.

Shadow has directly experienced the growth and cultural changes that have occurred in Denver and has focused her work on ensuring that the visual narrative of her subjects remains as the city continues to evolve. She celebrates the beauty of those on the cultural fringes and provides a sense of community and a safe haven to folks that have been deemed misfits by mainstream culture.
Following the project launch in March of 2019, Shadow has become a staple in music venues, nightclubs, and bars across Denver, Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles.

March 16 – April 9

D’art Gallery

Opening Reception: March 17, 6 – 9 pm

The Conceptual Photography Exhibition, juried by Mark Sink, will be exhibited at D’art Gallery March 16 – April 9, 2023. Selected works are a response to Call language that looks for unique work that takes fine art photography to new places. The Gallery loves portraits of emotions and the merging of nature and human elements.

Juror Mark Sink is a private art consultant who represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. 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.

Soft Mirror 
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery

Opening Reception for Soft Mirror and RULE’s concurrent exhibition, Rupture: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm

Rule Gallery is pleased to present Soft Mirror, a group exhibition guest curated by Britland Tracy and in partnership with Denver’s Month of Photography 2023, featuring artists Kei Ito, Dionne Lee, Rafael Soldi, and Tabitha Soren. A reception will be held Thursday, March 16, from 6 – 9 pm.

Soft Mirror unites four contemporary photographers who transform histories of violence into personal reflections on ritual, power, intimacy, and survival. Their practices stretch the material and representational functions of a photograph, reimagining it as both relic and reckoning in a culture saturated with visual input. Through alternative darkroom processes and repurposed screen-based imagery and ephemera, these artists cast their gaze onto the world while simultaneously looking back at themselves.

Britland Tracy: Rupture
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery 

Opening Reception for Rupture and RULE Gallery’s concurrent exhibition, Soft Mirror: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm 

TRANSIENT PRESENCE | Group Exhibition 
March 17 – May 13, 2023
Walker Fine Art

Opening Reception: Friday, March 17 | 5-8 PM and Saturday, March 18 | 11 AM – 5 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 13

Photography, similar to life itself, is in a continuous state of transformation. Throughout modern history, photography has played an integral role to remember historic events, form a public image, or express an idea through an artistic medium. Denver’s Month of Photography is a biennial celebration of this medium; TRANSIENT PRESENCE is a group exhibition within that celebration, featuring artists who illuminate ephemerality and existence via their own visual vocabulary.

Featuring Melanie Walker, Katie Kindle, Bonny Lhotka, Kevin Hoth, Joo Yeon Woo and Jane Fulton Alt.

Generations featuring Anthony Maes and select ArtLab Interns

March 17 – 31, 2023

PlatteForum

PlatteForum is excited to announce their Month of Photography show featuring photography by Anthony Maes and ArtLab interns that focuses on bringing up new “Generations” of Photographers. “Generations” will open on March 17th 6-8pm at the Savoy Building Gallery at 2700 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 80205 in the RINO Arts District.

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.

Kaitlyn Jo Smith – Mass Production

March 19 – April 30

Opening Reception: March 19, 4 – 8 pm 

Pause – Diana Photographs by Reed Weimer
March 31 – April 16, 2023
Opening Reception: March 31, 5 – 10 pm
Core New Art Space, Lakewood

Gallery hours: Friday 5 – 10 pm, Saturday / Sunday, Noon – 5 pm

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gallery M Presents: M27 – A Group Retrospective Featuring Masters of Photojournalism and Pop Culture
Exhibition Dates: March 9 – April 30
Free and open to the public for viewing at Metropolitan Frame Company: Monday – Friday, 10 AM – 5 PM
Opening Reception: March 9, 5 – 8 pm 

Join Gallery M and Metropolitan Frame Company for “M27”, a special collector evening as part of Denver’s Month of Photography.

“M27” is a group retrospective show featuring vintage and contemporary works by our internationally recognized and collected masters of the medium. Included are historic works by LIFE photojournalists and contemporary contributions from pioneers like Howard Schatz, Alex Cao, Peter Tunney, and Tyler Shields. Work with a specialist on your own collection needs and take advantage of the evening’s venue to pair your new work with our framing advisors.

RSVP online for opening reception or call 303-331-8400, x113

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.

The Photo Dept at the Temple 
March 11 – April 16, 2023
Temple Studios

Opening Reception: March 11, 7 – 10 pm 

The Photo Dept launches with a building takeover at the Temple Studios featuring artwork by Juan Fuentes, John Lake, Hayley Krichels, and more friends. Photographs and installations will be on view throughout the building and in the alley.

EVENT DETAILS:
Shadow Banned – Exhibition of Photographs by Shadows Gather
March 11 – April 22, 2023
Leon Art Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11
7 – 11 pm 

Talk: Sink and Shadow talk and walk off .. Polaroids then and now
Saturday, April 8
12 – 2:30 pm

Mark and Shadow will talk and tour their exhibitions with personal stories and discuss photography today. First stop RedLine Noon – 1pm next stop Leon Gallery 1:30 – 2:30 pm

The photographer known for her compelling portraits of Denver’s counterculture, Shadows Gather, will unveil her second solo show as part of Denver’s greater Month of Photography. Shadow Banned, on display March 11th thru April 22nd at Leon Art Gallery, celebrates all that our culture keeps in the shadows–with a special artist reception Saturday, March 11th.

Shadow Banned showcases photos not seen anywhere else, photos that have been banned, flagged, and removed from social media. This forbidden collection raises questions about censorship faced heavily by marginalized groups: the policing of female bodies, the algorithmic flagging of everyday imagery in the LGBTQIA sphere, and the disproportionate censorship of people of color.For many Americans, social media is an over-filtered, glamorous representation of themselves and the lives they wish they lived. Shadow Banned is a raw, unapologetic peek into lives lived after dark.

On display along with a collection of over a thousand original Instax images, Shadow will also display her most iconic banned images, blown up and enlarged in a way that captures the details. From the scratches, lipstick smudges, and dirt from the alley, these photos capture a historic moment in time.

About the Artist

Shadows Gather is a photography project that documents the alternative nightlife scene and the colorful individuals that thrive in it. Based out of Denver, Colorado, Shadow is a photographer who uses non-conventional techniques, such as pairing a Fuji Instax Neo Classic Mini with lighting from an iPhone flashlight, to create striking instant photographs that preserve and celebrate underground culture. In her photos, you’ll find energetic portraits from a mixture of scenes: gutter punks, drag artists, and creatures of the night.

Shadow has directly experienced the growth and cultural changes that have occurred in Denver and has focused her work on ensuring that the visual narrative of her subjects remains as the city continues to evolve. She celebrates the beauty of those on the cultural fringes and provides a sense of community and a safe haven to folks that have been deemed misfits by mainstream culture.
Following the project launch in March of 2019, Shadow has become a staple in music venues, nightclubs, and bars across Denver, Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles.

March 16 – April 9

D’art Gallery

Opening Reception: March 17, 6 – 9 pm

The Conceptual Photography Exhibition, juried by Mark Sink, will be exhibited at D’art Gallery March 16 – April 9, 2023. Selected works are a response to Call language that looks for unique work that takes fine art photography to new places. The Gallery loves portraits of emotions and the merging of nature and human elements.

Juror Mark Sink is a private art consultant who represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography. 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.

Soft Mirror 
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery

Opening Reception for Soft Mirror and RULE’s concurrent exhibition, Rupture: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm

Rule Gallery is pleased to present Soft Mirror, a group exhibition guest curated by Britland Tracy and in partnership with Denver’s Month of Photography 2023, featuring artists Kei Ito, Dionne Lee, Rafael Soldi, and Tabitha Soren. A reception will be held Thursday, March 16, from 6 – 9 pm.

Soft Mirror unites four contemporary photographers who transform histories of violence into personal reflections on ritual, power, intimacy, and survival. Their practices stretch the material and representational functions of a photograph, reimagining it as both relic and reckoning in a culture saturated with visual input. Through alternative darkroom processes and repurposed screen-based imagery and ephemera, these artists cast their gaze onto the world while simultaneously looking back at themselves.

Britland Tracy: Rupture
March 16 – May 6, 2023
RULE Gallery 

Opening Reception for Rupture and RULE Gallery’s concurrent exhibition, Soft Mirror: Thursday, March 16, 6 – 9 pm 

TRANSIENT PRESENCE | Group Exhibition 
March 17 – May 13, 2023
Walker Fine Art

Opening Reception: Friday, March 17 | 5-8 PM and Saturday, March 18 | 11 AM – 5 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 13

Photography, similar to life itself, is in a continuous state of transformation. Throughout modern history, photography has played an integral role to remember historic events, form a public image, or express an idea through an artistic medium. Denver’s Month of Photography is a biennial celebration of this medium; TRANSIENT PRESENCE is a group exhibition within that celebration, featuring artists who illuminate ephemerality and existence via their own visual vocabulary.

Featuring Melanie Walker, Katie Kindle, Bonny Lhotka, Kevin Hoth, Joo Yeon Woo and Jane Fulton Alt.

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.