Extremes: Faculty Sculptors of the League
January 2-March 28, Art Students League of Denver, 200 Grant Street, Denver
Faculty artists exhibit their unique art in this diverse exploration of the third-dimension. Sculpture is a highly physical artform that integrates process and concept. Whether stone, clay, plaster, wire, paper or mixed-media, Extremes showcases the art of our nationally recognized faculty artists who offer the widest specturm of sculpture classes in the region. Participating faculty artists: Kathi Caricof, Peter Durst, Tim Flynn, Mark Friday, Gayla Lemke, Andi Mascarenas, Valentin Okorokov, Barry Rose, Janey Skeer, Jeff Wenzel and Josh Wiener.
Go to www.asld.org/exhibitions for more details or call 303.778.6990.

Art of the Earth | Milagros del Corazón
February 1-25, opening reception postponed until Third Friday, Feb. 17, 6-9pm, CHAC (Chicano Humanities & Arts Council), 772 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
CHAC Gallery: Art of the Earth. Featured artists Beverly Green, Joe Molina, Pegi Taylor, Gary Saunders and Ellen Rincon-Pruitt.
Milagros del Corazón: Miracles of the Heart annual silent auction fundraiser, at Space Gallery, 765 Santa Fe Drive, Friday, February 10, 7-9:30pm.Tickets $10 ea. or $15 per couple.
CHAC Norte & La Galería Cocina (right next door): Featuring artists Anthony Armigo, Stevon Lucero, Robert Martinez, Suzanne Martino, Krystle Rose Millich, Michael Penny, Lisa and Trisha Sanchez, Carlos Sandoval and Rob Yancy.
3rd Friday: Raku! 6-9pm. Featuring a live demonstration of Raku pottery firing by Joe Molina.
Kids Art Saturday, February 18, 2-4pm. Don't miss this opportunity to learn to paint pandas with CHAC's own exhibiting artist, Beverly Green! See Beverly's paintings and learn to paint like a pro. Parents and children are welcome! Cost is free. If you are able to provide a suggested donation of $2.00 to cover materials, CHAC thanks you!
Gallery Hours: Wed-Thu: 10am-4pm, Fri: 12noon-5pm, First Friday: 12noon-10pm, Third Friday: 12noon-9pm, Sat: 12noon-4pm.
For more information visit www.chacweb.org or call 303.571.0440.

Fantastic Menagerie | Coalescence
December 17-February 19, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs
Manley Gallery: Fantastic Menagerie: The Work of Jessica Freyre-Cuebas, October 22-TBA. A series of wood engravings and linocuts representing a cast of fantastic animal charactes that embody human emotions and personality traits.
Seagraves and North Events Galleries: Coalescence: Photographs by Barbara Sparks, December 17-February 19. For Colorado Springs photographer Barbara Sparks, the camera has become an essential part of her experiences traveling throughout the world. This exhibition of Sparks's photographs from Nepal, Turkey, Italy, Guatemala, New Mexico and Colorado are a luminous glimpse into the landscapes and cultures of these regions.
For more information visit Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center or call 719.634.5583.

Why Not...
February 2-May 28, Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
There is no other artist in Colorado that can claim to be a "Regional Mythologist."  Daniel Luna's paintings of chickens crying over a frying pan full of eggs or a native woman holding a toaster to roast watermelons will remind you of a magic that reality holds within our dreams.
For more information visit www.museo.org/ or call 303.571.4401.

Denver Art Museum Temporary Exhibitions
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver
Herbert Bayer 1900-1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years, opens February 11. The first in a chronological series of exhibitions that trace Bayer’s development from his earliest days in Austria through his years in the United States.
Changing Landscapes: Themes in 19th Century French and American Painting, through February 12. A selection of landscapes on view in our level six European and American art galleries trace the development of landscape painting among artists of the late 19th century Barbizon movement in France and some of their contemporaries in the United States.
Rupprecht Matthies: ¿Being Home?, through February 19. A community inspired, site-specific, interactive artwork that changes with each presentation.
Gary Emrich: Contact, through April 8. Features a painterly montage of luscious foliage, vibrant flowers, and a curiously rotating moonscape to create a dreamlike realm that upends our understanding of time and space.
Ed Ruscha: On The Road, through April 22. A vibrant exhibition featuring works inspired by Jack Kerouac's seminal work On The Road, the novel that came to define the Beat Generation.
American Indian Art, through April 29. Experience one of the world's premier collections of Native American Art in newly remodeled galleries.
Focus: Robert Motherwell, through May 27. To coincide with the opening of the much-anticipated Clyfford Still Museum, the department of Modern and Contempory Art will present a selection of paintings and drawings from its collection of some 20 works by abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.
Bue & White: A Ceramic Journey, through May 27. Conveys the popularity of blue-and-white pottery throughout the centuries in different parts of the world.
Focus: Earth & Fire, through July 1. Showcases ceramic work in the DAM's modern and contemporary art collection, as well as paintings that respond to earth and fire.
Nampeyo: Excellence by Name, through July 1, on view in the American Indian art galleries, Hopi artist, Nampeyo, is recognized as one of the greatest ceramicists of the 20th century.
Texture & Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo, through July 29. Focusing on Japanese woven bamboo, over 70 beautiful pieces will be displayed in this installation, including baskets, screens, trays, containers, accessories, hand warmers, and a chair. Among the works on view are pieces by basket makers who have been designated Living National Treasures.
Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful through September 16, photographed in crowds and on the street from his early days as a New York magazine freelancer in the 1950s to his last years in Los Angeles.
Olivetti: Innovation & Identity through September 30, showcases the Italian company's groundbreaking approach to product design and promotion.
What is Modern?, through October 28. Features imaginative furniture, industrial and graphic designs that span more than 200 years, from the early 1800s to the present day.
Mud to Masterpiece: Mexican Colonial Ceramics, through November 13. Explores the era of global trade and its effect on traditional Mexican earthenware, Chinese porcelain and Mexican majolica.
Potters of Precision: the Coors Porcelain Company, through November 18. Now known as CoorsTek, create specialized scientific forms — crucible, beakers, evaporating dishes — that remain virtually unchanged since their earliest iteration. Beauty and funcition exist simultaneously in vessels that serve scientists' precisely stated needs.
Sleight of Hand, through November 25. Meet fourteen contemporary artists whose works surprise the eye while challenging and intriguing our powers of perception.
The Roath Collection, through December 30. This collection includes more than 100 works ranging from the 1870s to the 1970s focusing on the art of the American Southwest.
For more information visit www.denverartmuseum.org.

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
15th & Delgany St., Downtown Denver
West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America 1965-1977, through February 19, 2012. In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West — from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest — broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the countercultural movement. The exhibition West of Center illuminates the unique works of these individuals through videos, photographs, drawings, ephemera and other original and re-created objects and environments.
Thinking About Flying, through April 30, 2012. A project by artist Jon Rubin where MCA has been provided with a group of young homing pigeons to be cared for by the museum and trained by its visitors. Museum visitors are invited to participate by taking home a pigeon in a carrying case and releasing the pigeon to fly back to its loft on the museum's roof. The pigeons will travel distances increasing from a few blocks to many miles.
For more information visit www.mcadenver.org.

Botanic Gardens Exhibitions
1005 York Street, Denver
William Corey's Japanese Gardens, Mitchell Hall, through Nov. 30. Experience the breathtaking beauty of William Corey's photography. Capturing Japanese Gardens over decades, Corey's sensitivity to his subject is captured on film.
Estuarine: Works by Trine Bumiller, February 18-April 29, opening reception Wednesday, Feb. 22, 5:30-8pm, artist talk 6:30pm. A true color virtuoso, Trine Bumiller pulls from the resources of nature to investigate geometry, patterning and chance. These irregularly shaped and active compositions are simultaneously fantastic and familiar. Organized in collaboration with Robischon Gallery, Denver.
Fluid Duality: Bamboo sculptures by Kenichi Nagakura, May 12-August 5, artist reception Wednesday, May 16, 5:30-8pm, curator talk 6:30pm. Nagakura expands the Japanese tradition of bamboo baskets, moving beyond the functional into the realm of abstract sculptural forms. Using splitting and plaiting techniques learned from his grandfather, the artist creates forms that are bold and expressionistic. Organized in collaboration with Tai Gallery, Santa Fe.
Someone Like You: Paintings by Margaret Kasahara, August 18-November 4, reception Wednesday, Aug. 22, 5:30-8pm, artist talk 6:30pm. Of Japanese descent, Kaahara uses the lightness of kitsch and humor to explore the heavy topics of stereotypes and personal identity. An Asian American living in the West, her colorful images pull from Japanese pop culture and manga as well as cowboy hats and hamburgers.
For more information visit botanicgardens.org.

Denver Public Library
Central Library, 10 W. Fourteenth Avenue Parkway, Denver
IWORLD, January 10-March 25, Western History Gallery, Level 5. A juried show of images responding to the "i-zation" of our culture.
Art of the Library, January 12-February 27, Vida Ellison Gallery, Level 7. This exhibit highlights the creativity, diversity and individuality of the Library staff.
Visit the denverlibrary.org or call 720.865.1111 for more information.

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
November 11-April 1, 2012, 1311 Pearl Street, Denver
Colorado Abstract Expressionism: In this exhibition, Colorado artists are recognized for their contributions to perhaps America’s most important art movement, one that moved the art capital of the world from Paris to New York. The works on display are all from the permanent collection of Kirkland Museum.
Liberty of London & Archibald Knox, September 16-January 29, 2012. In May of 1899, London’s Liberty & Co. launched their new line of silver and jewelry with a catalog and exhibition at the store. Founded in 1875 and still in business today, Liberty was a retail emporium for imported fabrics, metalware, and home furnishings, as well as work by local Arts & Crafts artists.
Archibald Knox (1864-1933) was born, died and lived mainly on the Isle of Man — in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland (under Viking, Scottish and now English sovereignty). He became one of Liberty’s principal designers from 1899 to 1905, although his designs continued to be manufactured until at least 1908 or even perhaps 1910. In addition to metalwork, he designed jewelry, textiles and ceramics for Liberty. Knox was also an accomplished watercolorist and educator.
Visit the kirklandmuseum.org or call 303.832.8576 for more information.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
February 23-June 17, 1750 13th Street, Boulder
Edible?: Viviane Le Courtois
In addition to the newly commissioned interactive installation The Garden of Earthy Delights, the exhibition comprises a mid-career retrospective of food-related work of the past twenty-two years by this Denver-based artist. Through sculptures, performances, videos, photos, prints, and interactive installations, Le Courtois explores the processes of consumption, focusing on the repetitive aspects of food preparation, ceremonial food offerings, and the social implications of eating.
SP4C3CR4FT: Jason Rogenes
Styrofoam and cardboard, the quintessential symbols of our consumer culture, are the materials of choice for Brooklyn-based artist Jason Rogenes. Making use of commonly disregarded aesthetic attributes, including their inherent surface qualities, color, and varying degrees of translucency, he creates large-scale installations, suspended sculptures, and reliefs. Illuminated from the inside, the works acquire a monumental and spiritual presence usually associated with totems or space stations, and are equally representative of human aspirations and accomplishments.
Visit bmoca.org or call 303.443.2122 for more information.

CU Art Museum
1085 18th Street, Boulder
The Anxiety of Influence: September 8-June 25, 2012, interprets the significant role that "influence" plays within the global history, culture and tradition of ceramics, drawing on Harold Bloom's seminal work of poetic criticism, "The Anxiety of Influence".
Keeping It Real: February 3-May 12, Korean artists in the age of multi-media representation. This exhibition comments on the contemporary state of South Korean art by offereing a unique and unprecedented opportunity to experience new art forms pioneered by emerging Korean artists working in Seoul, New York and Europe. These artists lead us into a mysterious, ironic and hybrid reality, a reality that completely challenges our perceptions of the world as we are conditioned to think about it.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series through Department of Art & Art History
Visit CU Art Museum or call 303.492.8300 for more information.

Kids’Art Club
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