Art Exhibits, Lectures & Special Events

Exhibits

37th Annual All Colorado Art Show  
When: July 11- September 12

Live Walk Through with the Juror- Friday, July 10 4pm Facebook Live

Q&A with Juror, Rachel Basye- Thursday, August 27 7pm Zoom Meeting

The City of Greenwood Village’s Curtis Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the 37th Annual All Colorado Art Show. This exhibit is a celebration of art in our state and open for submissions from artists in all mediums, currently residing in Colorado. The exhibit takes place from July 11 through September 12th 2020. There will be a walk through of the exhibit with the juror and a Juror’s talk, both events will take place online. Check back here for the dates and times for those events. Due to the current health crisis, these dates are subject to change. 

Phase Change 
When: September 12- October 31

In 2019, Greenwood Village resident, Tina Suszynski, and Martha Russo of Ward, Colorado, embarked upon a conversation about personal artistic development and the collaborative process. While in the midst of this conversation, they stumbled upon the Red Lodge Clay Center Artist-Invites-Artist Residency program in Montana. The timing was uncanny. The two decided to put a group together and apply for the residency for September of 2020. After a bit brainstorming and a flurry of emails, they established a group of eight artists and secured the residency. 

“Some of us had met, some of us were friends, some had never heard of the other except in the emails discussing the Red Lodge Artist-Invites-Artist Residency. Although everyone was busy and productive in their studio art practices, we all agreed that leaving our daily lives behind to come together in beautiful Montana would facilitate conversation and experimentation beyond what we could achieve in our individual home bases.” 

The common denominator for all of these artists is their love of clay. Their experience with clay ranged from decades to just a few years. Five of them are from the length of Colorado’s front range, two are from the Aspen Valley and one flew in from California. All had concluded that the collective experience of this group of artists together with the community and facilities of the Red Lodge Clay Center would undoubtedly spur innovation and excellence. It was a unique opportunity to assemble as a group to forge new professional and artistic relationships that would undoubtedly last a lifetime.

And indeed, it did just that. Eight independent artists with multiple trajectories, histories, skills, and ideas came together as individuals interacting in varied ways. They spent over two weeks together experimenting with different clays, different forms and different methods of firing. They pushed and prodded, laughed and cajoled. The resulting creative chaos produced new, dynamic ideas and opportunities for further exploration. 

The process was organic and interactive, culminating in an exhibition-ready presentation that will showcase individual works from before, during, and after the residency, as well as collaborative works created at Red Lodge. The show, entitled “Phase Change”, will open in mid-September at the Curtis Center for the Arts in Greenwood Village.

The Colorado Women’s Caucus for Art Presents- Old Myths, New Stories  
November 7- December 23

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women (womxn, womyn, wimmin) the right to vote. This gives us pause to consider where we’ve come, where we are and where we’re going as women and artists. Much has been achieved with the recent emphasis on women artists of the past and the spotlight on contemporary women artists.

This show will feature women in the arts expressing ideas about the experience of women through time and today. What is the unique voice of women; the feminine, and the sacred feminine in art? Show us your visual voice and vision of the power of women’s past, present and future in society and in the arts.

It is open to interpretation through all styles and media except video and performance.