Denver Arts & Venues Announces $1 Million in Aid for Struggling Venues and Artists
Denver Arts & Venues set aside a sizable sum of emergency relief funding for both venues and artists suffering financially as a direct result of the COVID-1...
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Denver Arts & Venues Will Close All Its Venues in October, Including Red Rocks, Until Further Notice
Earlier this week, Red Rocks (along with 1,500 venues) put out a plea for help in the form of red lights. Dubbed the #RestartRedAlert, venues nationwide lit up ...
World Art Drop Day Expands Virtually This Year to Art “Shop” Day
For the last several years on the first Tuesday of September, artists have hidden art all over Denver during World Art Drop Day. This year, despite all of the i...
New Fitness Series Comes to Downtown Denver this August
This summer, Denver Arts & Venues has teamed up with 10 local fitness studios and cultural arts organizations to bring exercise and culture to downtown.
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A New Public Art Project Reimagines Abandoned Lily Ponds in Denver’s City Park
A sediment pond in Denver's City Park, near the corner of 17th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, was originally created in 1917 as a living work of art. Filled wit...
The Urban Arts Fund Murals Are on Hold For 2020
For over a decade, Mary Valdez with Denver Public Art has organized a program where local, national and international street artists are given a stipend to pain...
A Guide to Resources for Artists and Creatives Affected by the Coronavirus
In these uncertain times, many livelihoods are in limbo, stalled out or maybe even gone for the foreseeable future. This, of course, includes artists and creati...
Want To Paint A Mural in 2020? Denver’s Urban Arts Fund Applications Are Now Open
For over a decade now, Denver's Urban Arts Fund (UAF) has paired street artists with walls all over the city and county, paying them to paint murals that live o...
Murals in the McNichols Building Celebrate Denver’s Chicano/a Culture
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Denver's vibrant and colorful mural scene can trace many of its roots back to the charged Chicano/a rights movements in the 1960s and '70s. The Chicano movem...
There’s a Life-Sized Coloring Book Mural You Can Draw On This Weekend in Denver
Denver-based artist Markus Puskar likes to find interesting ways to paint murals and bring his community together. After moving to Denver in 2017, Puskar's frie...
Denver Arts & Venues Announces $80,000 Strategy Supporting Local Music
Local music is a precious thing that both entertains as well as enhances our culture as a city. Denver knows this fact, from the Mission Ballroom rising in RiNo...
The Five Points Jazz Festival Returns for 15th Anniversary
On May 20 Denver Arts & Venues will be hosting the 15th Annual Five Points Jazz Festival. The Five Points Jazz Festival, while being a mecca for jazz enthus...