Keep On Truckin’

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! And also Saturday: Monster Jam visits Colorado this weekend for its 2012 tour, featuring Grave Digger, SpiderMan, Iron Man and Batman (among other trucks) and their drivers, performing their most daring, jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring stunts. But the stunts aren’t the only reason Monster Jam is so popular, explains…

From The Heart

The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council gave 350 blank wooden hearts to local artists and non-artist community members with a flair for design, and asked them to create individual pieces of art for their silent auction tonight. The project illustrates an exploration into creativity, says director Crystal O’Brien. “It’s exciting…

Britt Madden works with a letterpress and an iPhone. Which one is art?

When talking to Britt Madden about her show opening this Friday at Kaze Gallery, Diversions, which features eight pieces of iPhotography, she reminded me that not too long ago, photographers, “real” photographers, wouldn’t have anything to do with digital photography. “There are the guys saying iPhotography isn’t art,” she says…

Impossible Winterbourne’s unsanctioned public art goes steampunk

The Impossible Winterbourne, a Denver artist, doesn’t consider himself a “street artist” because his art isn’t limited to the streets. But like street artists, Winterbourne’s installations appear quietly, waiting to be noticed. He’s been in Denver “scarcely a year,” and during that time has added his sculpture to ordinary urban…

Heidi Hafenstine talks about art as therapy and her Goddess Project

Most people stopped practicing art in grade school, and according to Heidi Hafenstine, that’s why art therapy works so well for adults. Art, according to Hafenstine, offers a form of communication that taps into the subconscious. Because unlike language, most adults have lost their mastery and ability to “manipulate” the…