Time Machine Tuesday: The WPA in Colorado
During the height of the Great Depression, as banks failed, unemployment soared, and farm prices…
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Herndon Davis, Colorado Artist
You’re probably familiar with the Face on the Barroom Floor, the mysterious portrait of a…
Navajo Textiles
One of the newer additions to our library collection is Navajo Textiles: The Crane Collection…
Time Machine Tuesday: Native American Rock Art
Petroglyphs in Mesa Verde National Park. If you are exploring the rural areas of western…
Time Machine Tuesday: Byers-Evans House Museum
Nestled between the looming structures of the Denver Art Museum is a hidden treasure, the…
Time Machine Tuesday: Creative Spaces
As housing prices go up and more and more people want to live in the…
Colorado Artists
Our library collection contains a number of biographies on Colorado fine artists. Titles of interest…
Denver Artist's Guild
One of History Colorado’s regional museums, the Byers-Evans House Museum, currently is holding an exhibit…
Art Exhibition Honoring the State Capitol Dome
Now that the restoration of the Capitol dome is complete, Colorado Creative Industries is celebrating the…
Colorado State Capitol Art and Memorials
Colorado’s State Capitol is filled with artworks, from murals by Allen Tupper True to stained…
Creative Districts
In 2011 the Colorado General Assembly passed legislation to allow for the establishment of Creative…
Colorado Art
Did you know that August is American Artist Appreciation Month? This celebration highlights the contributions…
Denver's Civic Center
Exciting news for Denver: Civic Center has been recommended by the U.S. Department of the…
Folk Arts in the Classroom
Attention teachers: as you probably know, one very meaningful way of teaching children the arts…
New Guidebook on Arts Education
The Colorado Department of Education has just published a guidebook for arts education in Colorado….
Creative Capitol
Colorado has an interesting arts program called “Creative Capitol,” where artworks reflecting Colorado life, environment,…
Over the River
Artist Christo’s plan to hang fabric over a portion of the Arkansas River has generated…
Arts Education
A new bill introduced this session, HB10-1273, aims to strengthen the requirements for Arts education…
Colorado Public Art
Yesterday’s passing of artist Jeanne-Claude, who was working with her husband, Christo, on the “Over…
Colorado Landscapes
The Colorado Council on the Arts has a new publication featuring landscape paintings by Colorado…