CURATION

I REGRET TO INFORM YOU...
REJECTED PUBLIC ART

Arvada Center, June 5 - August 25, 2024
​Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​​Explore the art that could’ve been. “I regret to inform you…” is commonly used in rejection letters sent to artists after submitting to exhibitions, calls, and public art opportunities. This exhibition highlights rejected public art proposals that were dreamed up by artists but were not selected to move forward. For every public art piece that you pass by, there were probably two to four others that never came to fruition. This exhibition is about those pieces–the art that never happened.

"I Regret to Inform You also clarifies the sense of community between public artists. Instead of cutthroat competition, those working in this field often express a sense of solidarity." - Southwest Contemporary review
Participating Artists: ​Ramón Bonilla, Michael Clapper, Susan Cooper, Thomas “Detour” Evans, Carlos Frésquez, Kendra Fleischman, David Ocelotl Garcia, David Griggs, Lonnie Hanzon, Tiimo Mäng, Patrick Marold, Jaime Molina + Pedro Barrios, Christine Nguyen, Charles Parson + Robert Mangold, Nikki Pike, Roger Reutimann, Joe Riché, Yoshitomo Saito, Stephen Shachtman, Reven Marie Swanson, Becky Wareing Steele, George Peters + Melanie Walker, Mary Williams

​inFORMed SPACE: PERSPECTIVES IN SCULPTURE

Arvada Center, ​June 5 - August 25, 2024
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Roam through a forest floor of sculptures in a range of media, processes, concepts, and techniques, each taking up a four-square-foot area. Thirty artists demonstrate the limitless possibilities of form and dimensionality that are derived within the same space constraints.

"The work is elevated but unpretentious, polished yet handmade; caring and daring at the same time." - Denver Post review, Ray Mark Rinaldi
Participating Artists: Vinni Alfonso, Barbara Baer, Ana Maria Botero, Chuck Brenton, Wayne Brungard, Amber Cobb, Virginia T Coleman, Jodie Roth Cooper, James A Dixon, Norman Epp, Kim Ferrer, Donald Fodness, Amy Hoagland, Deborah Jang, Erick C. Johnson, Rian Kerrane, Max Kauffman, Nancy Lovendahl, Jennifer Pettus, Eleanor Sabin, Araan Schmidt, Ella Phen Sparkles, Autumn T. Thomas, Frankie Toan, Matthew Tripodi, Floyd D. Tunson, Tricia Waddell, Joshua Ware, Jerry Wingren, Melanie Yazzie

ARTIST PROOF: PRINT PROCESS AT OEHME GRAPHICS

Arvada Center, January 18 - March 24, 2024
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​​Explore selections of processes and final prints from the Oehme Graphics archives. Follow sixteen artists as they work with Master Printer Sue Oehme, tracking their unique concepts and techniques to create their artistic prints. Founded by Susan Hover Oehme in 2010, Oehme Graphics is a fine print publisher that collaborates with internationally recognized artists in a state-of-the-art printmaking facility. Nestled high in the Rockies in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, Oehme Graphics is one of the country’s leading fine art print publishers.
Participating Artists: Katherine Bradford, Ken Buhler, Taiko Chandler, Julia Fernandez-Pol, Louise Fishman, Deborah Freedman, Nancy Friese, Homare Ikeda, Patsy Krebs, Collin Parson, David Row, Connie Saddlemire, Catherine Shuman Miller, Frank Stella, Joanna Webster, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Deborah Zlotsky

528.0: REGIONAL JURIED PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION

Arvada Center, January 18 - March 24, 2024
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator, Juror

​Join us for a massive showcase of all things PRINT! This juried call for artwork was open to artists living in a 528-mile radius of Denver, Colorado. The number 528.0 refers to Denver’s altitude and status as the Mile High City (5,280 feet).  Printers from across the region submitted 553 artworks across all forms of printmaking. Jurors Emily Grace King (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO), Jennifer Lynch (Lynch Pin Press, Santa Fe, NM), and Howard Paine (University of Nebraska, Omaha) selected 83 works to celebrate the expansive diversity of contemporary printmaking found within the Western Region. This exhibition is in partnership with Denver’s Month of Printmaking (March 2024).
Participating Artists: Florence Alfano McEwin, Jude Barton, Mary Becker, Judith Bennett, Jill Bergman, John Bonath, Tonia Bonnell, Anne Burton, Curt Carpenter, Patrick Casey, Taiko Chandler, Catherine Chauvin, Evan Colbert, Bryan Dahlberg, Mark Dalessandro, Richard Dawavendewa, Leilani Derr, Rebecca DiDomenico, Alistair Dunnington, Shawn Edrington, Melanie Finlayson, Carlos Fresquez, Gay Germain, Jennifer Ghormley, Ada Gonzalez, Laura Grossett, Ilan Gutin, Theresa Haberkorn, Samira Hemmat, Todd Edward Herman, Sherry Hern, Lucy Holtsnider, Sophia Isaak, Jim Jereb, Erin Jones, Heather Kahn-Pyatt, Bug Karplus, Katy Kidd, Allyson Kotarsky, Viviane Le Courtois, Joanne Lefrak, Charles Livingston, Mark Lunning, Lynn Mandziuk, Audrey Mantooth, Alicia McKim, Dianna Miguez, Megan Morgan, Emily Moyer, Johanna Mueller, Raymundo Munoz, Andi Newberry, William Oberlander, Tony Ortega, Melissa Pickering, Maxwell Roath, Deb Rosenbaum, Gregory Santos, Brady Smith, Sue Sommers, Carol Till, Jini Veenker, Ting Wang, Chris Warot, Gail Watson, Jen Watson, Jerry Wingren, Mami Yamamoto, Bruce Zander

SUE OEHME: INCLUSIONS

Arvada Center, January 18 - March 24, 2024
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator
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​This solo exhibition features Master Printer Sue Oehme’s own creative print-based work. Featuring her signature colorful large installations and monoprints, Oehme utilizes everyday recycled objects within her print process to create complex, multi-layered images that are strangely and vaguely reminiscent of hints of life in our super-charged, consumer-based, politicized culture.

ART + SCIENCE

Arvada Center, January 19 - March 26, 2023
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

Fourteen contemporary artists use scientific concepts, datasets, research, and developments to inform their creative work. Art + Science portrays artistic practice and scientific discovery in new ways, broadening the understanding of both as visitors experience concepts in science through the unique voice of regional artists.

​Participating Artists: Monica Aiello, Tyler Aiello, Nicole Anona Banowetz, Katie Caron, Joelle Cicak, Erin Espelie, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Megan Gafford, Mia Mulvey, Netta Ofer, Clark Richert, Eileen Roscina, Justin Trupiano, Travis Vermilye, Steven J. Yazzie

GARY STAAB: SECOND NATURE

Arvada Center, January 19 - March 26, 2023
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Paleo-artist Gary Staab is renowned for his accurate and life-size sculptures of dinosaurs and prehistoric life models that are centerpieces of natural history museum collections across the globe. This process-based exhibition blurs the lines of artist, scientist, researcher, and craftsman. Journey through Staab's conception, research, scientific collaboration, models, molds, casting, and finishing as he creates full-scale recreations of some of Earth's most mysterious and ancient species.

FLORA:  Scientific Botanical Illustrations of Colorado Plants

Arvada Center, June 09 - August 28, 2022
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Scientists and artists often work together to capture and communicate relevant scientific data. In Flora, artists from the School of Botanical Art & Illustration at the Denver Botanic Gardens depict native plants of the state. Each illustration is joined by its relevant herbarium sheet. This exhibition is co-curated by the Arvada Center with Carina Bañuelos-Harrison, Manager of the School of Botanical Art & Illustration at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

In collaboration with The School of Botanical Art & Illustration at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

BUENO! MARK BUENO

Arvada Center, April 7 - May 7, 2023
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Mark Bueno mixes a dynamic array of visual references, mediums, techniques, concepts, and influences into several striking bodies of work. This solo exhibition presents several of Bueno’s distinct bodies of work, fusing together perceptions of beauty, banality, mythology, spirituality, paranormality, and pop culture. Though the materials and subject matter changes from series to series, all of his artworks broadcast a bold exuberance for life and holds something undeniably Bueno.

Wendy Kowynia: Following the Thread

Arvada Center, April 7 - May 7, 2023
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Wendy Kowynia explores line and form through the use of thread and a loom, weaving intricate fiber works that are uniquely folded and manipulated. Kowynia’s textiles are created using specialized Japanese yarns of linen, paper, and silk, and are colored using natural dyes like indigo, sumi ink, walnut ink, and soymilk. After carefully laying each thread in delicate lines, Kowynia bends the textile into gossamery structures that are both strong and elegant. This exhibition speaks to the iterative nature of the weaving process and brings awareness and intention to the laying in of each thread.​

BIG DRAW COLORADO

Arvada Center, June 8 - August 27, 2023
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator, Juror

​What is a drawing? In this juried group exhibition, the Arvada Center Galleries invited contemporary Colorado artists to submit works that celebrate the traditional roots of drawing and challenge preconceived definitions of drawing through explorations in rendering, mark-making, gesture, abstraction, realism, form, medium, and beyond. With 77 works from 71 artists, Big Draw Colorado illustrates the vast world of drawing across the state.
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Press:
Draw! A trio of summer exhibitions will change how you think about the world’s oldest form of visual art, by Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post
​Participating Artists: Josh Aiman, Drew Austin, Kevin Baer, Barbara Barnhart, Jude Barton, Christi Beckmann, Tree Bernstein, Matthew Bollinger, Tonia Bonnell, Mark Brasuell, Mindy Bray, Karen Breunig, Mark Brockman, Trine Bumiller, Andi Burnum, Jack Cackovic, Al Canner, Mitch Caster, Julie Chen, Diane Cionni, Alice Faye Conn, Charles Counter, Sue Crosby Doyle, Theresa Creahan Johnson, Benjy Davies, Josh Davy, James Dixon, Mark Evans, Richard Farley, Sharon Feder, Anne Feller, Rebecca Gabriel, Judy Gardner, Jason Lee Gimbel, Joyce Gold, Jamie Gray, Dylan Griffith, Brittany Hass, Joanna Hoge, Richard Jacobi, Margaret Kasahara, Paul Kenneth, Mary-Ann Kokoska, Bryan Leister, Dan Levinson, Lauren Lipinski Eisen, Charles Livingston, Erin Lucey, Patrick Marold, Tom Mazzullo, Matthew McHugh, Kalliopi Monoyios, Laura Nelson, Jonathan Nicklow, Holly Nordeck, Tony Ortega, Phillip Potter, Julie Puma, Elissa Quist, Mike Richins, Pam Rogers, Evan Rosato, Colin Ruff, Gregory Santos, Brady Smith, Leah Swenson, Bala Thiagarajan, Lucas Thomas, Travis Vermilye, Hugh Watson, Chloe Wilwerding

DRAWN: FROM THE SOURCE

Arvada Center, June 8 - August 27, 2023
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Pulling from real-world references like the landscape, still lifes, nature, and the human figure, Drawn: from the Source features the work of seven Colorado artists who use drawing mediums and techniques to capture and interpret the interconnected beauty of the objects, environments, and relationships around us.

Participating Artists: Andrew Beckham, Robin Cole, Irene Delka McCray, Anna Kaye, Ajean L. Ryan, Andrew Ramiro Tirado, Kaitlyn Tucek

EMILIO LOBATO: A MI MANERA

Arvada Center, January 19 - March 26, 2023
Role: Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

​Respected Colorado artist Emilio Lobato was born in San Pablo, a small farming town in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado. Lobato credits the region’s history of creativity, necessity, and spirituality as major inspirations in his work. A Mi Manera, or My Way, is a survey of Lobato’s work beginning in 1982. Lobato’s work weaves together lifelong themes of loneliness, isolation, tradition, and culture, using abstraction to reduce his subject to its basic elements.

ONE SHEET: WOOD, PAPER, MUSIC

Arvada Center, ​September 15 - November 13, 2022
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

For the exhibition series One Sheet, we invited over 60 Colorado artists to start with the same blank building block and create a new artwork. Each artist received a sheet of ¾” x 4’ x 8’ unfinished baltic birch veneer plywood, a sheet of 50" x 50" Stonehenge acid-free white 90lb paper, or a sheet of large format 16" x 26" 50 staves staff paper. The artist used this raw material as the building block for their creation. This material could be filled up, ripped apart, added to, or reimagined into something completely different. By highlighting the creativity, diversity, and range of processes and concepts that are derived from a simple sheet material, One Sheet showcases the limitlessness of the blank sheet and of the creative mind.
Participating Artists: One Sheet: Wood: Sabin Aell, Susan Blake, Brad Bolte, Anne Bossert, Ana Maria Botero, Mark Bueno, Scottie Burgess, Chris DeKnikker, Connor Deniston, Virginia Diaz Saiki and Lucas Thomas, Nathan Dominik, Matt Doubek, Trey Duvall, Tobias Fike, Javier Flores, Judy Gardner, Moe Gram, Derek Keenan, Mathias Leppitsch, Agnes Ma, Sarah McCormick, Tsogo Mijid, Sam Mobley, Christi Palitto, Roger Reutimann, Thomas Scharfenberg, Dan Sjogren, Gregory Santos, Eleanor Sabin, Autumn T. Thomas, Robert Turek, Jenny West   |   One Sheet: Paper: Vinni Alfonso, Libby Barbee, Pattie Lee Becker, Ramon Bonilla, Teresa Castaneda, Taiko Chandler, Carlos Fresquez, Homare Ikeda, Paulina M. Johnson, Max Kauffman, Los Supersonicos (Frank T. Martinez and Francisco Zamora), Raymundo Muñoz, Christine Nguyen, Kelton Osborn, Brady Smith, Charlo Garcia Walterbach   |   One Sheet: Music: Alex Anderson, Keith Ewer, Janet Feder, Nathan Hall, Mark Harris, Mamiko Ikeda, Masakazu Ito, Mary Jungerman, Ash Mach, Julia Mendiolea, Moss Pig (Victor John and Malia Martinez), Pierce Murphy, Tenia Renee Nelson, Eleanor Perry-Smith, John Rot, Cody Yantis

FLOYD D. TUNSON: ASCENT

Arvada Center, June 09 - August 28, 2022​​

Role: Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator, Catalog Design ​
This expansive survey exhibition features work from the past five decades by Colorado artist Floyd D. Tunson. Two major arts centers in the Denver metro area — The Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities and RedLine Contemporary Art Center — present Tunson’s works simultaneously, creating one exhibition across two locations.
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Floyd Tunson is one of Colorado’s most important contemporary artists. Over the past 50 years, he has prodigiously, fearlessly, and innovatively created art from his keen cultural perspective, taking on identity, race, and history. An incredibly influential educator for 30 years in the public school system, Tunson’s impact extends beyond the art world into local communities and future generations.
Collaboratively curated by Wylene Carol, Daisy McGowan, and Collin Parson.

ANTHONY GARCIA SR: PIGMENT

Arvada Center, June 09 - August 28, 2022
Exhibition Manager and Associate Curator

This solo exhibition features work from Denver artist Anthony Garcia Sr. Born and raised in the Denver neighborhood of Globeville, Garcia is an influential figure in the region both as an artist and activist. Best known for his large-scale murals throughout the state and beyond, Pigment showcases recent studio work that highlights Garcia’s astute exploration of color, scale, and perception while paying homage to his geographical, cultural, and historical upbringing as a Chicano artist.

​"Anthony Garcia Sr. is one of the most influential — and, arguably, most important — artists working in Denver today." - Ray Rinaldi, Denver Post

LAURI LYNNXE MURPHY:
Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Arvada Center,  ​April 08 - May 08, 2022​​
Exhibition Manager

​Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has developed an impressive career as an artist known for collaborating with creatures like snails, bees, and beetles to create a sprawling body of work deeply rooted in the natural world.

Alongside her robust studio practice, Murphy has spent her life building community and DIY gallery spaces and advocating for artists. Her work is research-driven and science-based, and it focuses on insect extinction, mutation, climate change, and biophilia.

Murphy is currently a resource artist at RedLine Denver and recently completed an installation at Meow Wolf’s Denver location Convergence Station and is a past recipient of Westword’s Mastermind Award. 

ART OF THE STATE

Arvada Center, ​January 20 - March 27, 2022​
Exhibition Manager, Catalog Designer

​Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. This open call open to all Colorado artists garnered 2,067 submissions by 734 artists. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected.

Press:
​Pride of Place: Latest Art of the State Showcases Strength of Colorado Artists, by Michael Paglia, Westword
Participating Artists: Vince Alfonso, alpert + kahn, Judy Anderson, Julie Anderson, Finn Baker, Andrew Beckham, Angela Faris Belt, Tree Bernstein, Brenda Biondo, Whitney Blue, Matthew Bollinger, Tonia Bonnell, Teresa Brooks, Alicia Brown, Trine Bumiller, Scottie Burgess, Michael Campbell, Al Canner, Taiko Chandler, Catherine Chauvin, Matt Christie, Joelle Cicak, Evan Colbert, Virginia T Coleman, Jodie Roth Cooper, Neil Corman, Emmett Culligan, Louise Cutler, William Day, Terry Decker, Chris DeKnikker, Robert Delaney, Connor Deniston, Scott DeWeese, Chapin Dimond, Thinh Dinh, James Dixon, Nathan Dominik, Peter Durst, Nancy Eastman, Richard Eisen, Sally Elliott, Chrissy Espinoza, Suzanne Faris, Sharon Feder, Lui Ferreyra, Kendra Fleischman, Ron Forest, Carlos Fresquez, Mark Friday, Melissa Furness, Gayle Gerson, Ania Gola-Kumor, Jean Gumpper, Jody Guralnick, Jane Guthridge, Ilan Gutin, Wendi Harford, Karen Haynes, Amy Hoagland, ​Deborah Jang, Marston A. Jaquis, Erick Johnson, Paulina M. Johnson , Ron Johnson, Heidi Jung, Junomatico, Susan Kane, Jonathan Kaplan,  Margaret Kasahara,  Rian Kerrane, Nicholas Kremske, Bryan Leister,  Gayla Lemke,  Lauren Lipinski Eisen, Nancy Lovendahl, Mark Lunning, Max Maddox, James Makely, Terry Maker, Raj Manickam, Joseph Manuel, Julie Maren, Betsy Margolius, Patrick Marold, Jesse Mathes, Tiffany Matheson, Tom Mazzullo, Sarah McCormick, Chuck McCoy, Irene McCray, Katharine McGuiness, Heidi Meissner, Amy Metier, Stan Meyer, Lola Montejo, Elizabeth Morisette, Grace Morris, Meredith Nemirov, Susan Oehme, Kyoko Ono, Al Orahood, Krista Ann Owen, Tony Ortega, Dallas Parkins, Mark Penner-Howell, Jennifer Pettus, Sara Ransford, Sangeeta Reddy, Roger Reutimann, Jeffrey Richards, Catherine Robinson, Eileen Roscina, Craig Rouse, Jaimie Rudy, Ajean Ryan, Eleanor Sabin, Yoshitomo Saito, Gregory Santos, Merryll Saylan, Naomi Scheck, Annalee Schorr, Heather Schulte, Stephen Shachtman, Whit Sibley, Evan Siegel, Brady Smith, Robert Smith, Sharon Strasburg, Jodi Stuart, Autumn T. Thomas, Lucas Thomas, Floyd D. Tunson, David van Buskirk, Becky Wareing Steele, Christopher Warren, Pamela Webb, Tracy Weil, Meghan Wilbar, Mami Yamamoto, Dave Yust, ​Renee Ziccardi

WORD PLAY

Arvada Center, ​September 17 - November 14, 2021​​
Exhibition Manager, curatorial team
Word Play showcased a selection of works that use text, language, and symbols to make a statement, express emotion, and celebrate the written word. From paintings to video games, neon to sculptures, and prints to silverpoint drawings, the versatility of language is on full display through the work of these regional artists.
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Participating Artists:Trey Duvall, Lares Feliciano, Donald Fodness, Paula Gasparini-Santos, Jade Hoyer, Jim Johnson, Sammy Lee, Cherish Marquez, Tom Mazzullo, Joe Norman, Jeff Page, Masha Sha, Joel Swanson, Paul Weiner, Scott Young

ROLAND BERNIER: IN OTHER WORDS

Arvada Center, ​September 17 - November 14, 2021​​
Exhibition Manager, curatorial team

​Influential text-based conceptualist Roland Bernier experimented with symbols and language by assembling words together, exploiting the visual characteristics rather than the meaning. The resulting paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations mix Bernier’s use of text with his bold colors, strong lines, and vast diversity of materials. Bernier, who passed away in 2015, was a fixture of Colorado’s art scene throughout his career.

​This exhibition was in collaboration with Walker Fine Art and Marilyn Bernier.

BRADY SMITH:
​(don't be embarassed by) Your Trouble with Living

Arvada Center, ​May 20 - August 22, 2021​​
Exhibition Manager, curatorial team

​Brady Smith’s thoughtful collection of works exploring struggles with suicide from individual and societal perspectives aims to make a space where healthy dialogue can happen. Despite reports that 10 million adults in the US have serious thoughts of suicide each year, talking about this topic continues to remain taboo.

VIRAL INFLUENCE: ART IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

Arvada Center, ​May 20 - August 22, 2021​
Exhibition Manager, curatorial team
In the midst of Colorado's stay-at-home order in early March 2020, local artists did what they do best: they continued to create. Some responded directly to the pandemic through the use of the new, changing imagery of society--face masks, sourdough bread, and quiet scenes at home. Others lost access to studio space and supplies, forcing them to get creative with kitchen-table studios and household materials. The artworks from this time capture the impacts of the pandemic on individuals and communities, portraying isolation, adaptation, despair, connection, distance, and closures.
Recognizing this outpouring of creativity from artists across Colorado, the Arvada Center asked for submissions of artwork created during the state’s response to the pandemic. Open from March - October 2020, the call garnered over 1,000 submissions of work from across the state. This exhibition showcases 259 works by 168 artists.

WOOD.WORKS

Arvada Center, January 21 - April 25, 2021 
​Exhibition Manager

This material-based exhibition involved everything WOOD. Following up 2017’s Paper.Works, Wood.Works featured 24 regional artists using wood as their primary medium. Through massive installations, elegant sculptures, and two-dimensional reliefs, Wood.Works showcased the vast creativity of artists working in the same natural material.

Participating Artists
Michael Beitz, Anne Bossert, Mark Bueno, Scottie Burgess, Katy Casper, ​Daniel Crosier, Christine Dawson, Chris DeKnikker, Corey Drieth, Norman Epp, Kim Ferrer, Brett Foxwell, Leo Franco, Deborah Jang, Andrew Lesuer, ​Patrick Marold, Jaime Molina, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Kazu Oba, Sean O’Meallie, Eileen Roscina, Anne Shutan, Autumn T. Thomas, Jerry Wingren

PINK PROGRESSION: COLLABORATIONS

Arvada Center, July 2 - November 8, 2020
Curator, Exhibition Manager. Co-curated with Anna Kaye and Collin Parson.

​Pink Progression: Collaborations took over all three of the Arvada Center’s galleries in a spectacular celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s right to vote. The exhibition recognizes consecutive dates in which all women received the right to vote in America. The artist collective Pink Progression rose out of the 2017 Womxn’s March to inspire social change and explore ideas of feminism, equality, inclusivity, gender identity, unity, and community through creative expression. For Pink Progression: Collaborations, creatives fused their narratives into multidimensional works, ranging from site-specific installations, video, performance, and traditional fine arts.
Participating Artists: Deidre Adams + Brooke Atherton, Judy Anderson + Ginny Hoyle + Christopher Hecker, Theresa Anderson + Alicia Ordal, Tya Alisa Anthony + Kim Putnam, Fawn Atencio + Bonnie Stolzmann + Sarah Wallace Scott, Mindy Bray + Tonia Bonnell, Trine Bumiller + Kathryn Winograd, Katie Caron + Lisa DiMichele, Irene Delka McCray + Tree Bernstein, Sally Elliot, Katie Elliott/3rd Law Dance, L. Ashwyn Corris, Corrina Espinosa + Elisa Groglio + Joanna Bugajska, Bonnie Ferrill Roman + Judy Gardner, Ashley Frazier + Becky Wareing Steele, Steven Frost + Frankie Toan, Sarah Fukami + Brooky Blunt + Nico Wilkinson, Melissa Furness + Rian Kerrane, Jennifer Ghormley + Victoria Eubanks, Ania Gola Kumor + Leah Swenson, Susan Goldstein + Gayla Lemke, ​Moe Gram + Grow Love, Jane Guthridge + Voices of Light Chamber Choir, Kim Harrell + Lynda Ladwig, Ana Maria Hernando + Amie Knox, Veronica Herrera + Lola Montejo, Deborah Howard + Laurel McMechan, Micaela Ironshell-Dominguez + Darion Sanchez + Renee Chacon-Millard, Rochelle Johnson + Sylvia Montero, Samara Johnson + Alanna Lacey + Samantha Bares, ​Tsehai Johnson + Leslie D. Boyd, Margaret Kasahara + Jina Brenneman, Anna Kaye + Sarah Wallace Scott, Sammy Lee + Megan Gafford, Jessica Loving + Rachel Doniger, Marsha Mack + John Roemer, Virginia Maitland + Melanie Walker + George Peters, Julie Maren + Jessica Drenk, The Great Shout (Kelly Monico + Rebecca Peebles + Natascha Seideneck), Laleh Mehran + Jayne Butler, Susanne  Mitchell + Janelle W. Anderson, Sophie Lynn Morris + Hannah Untiedt, Jennifer Pettus + Rebecca Vaughan, Sandra Phillips + Virginia Folkestad, Julie Puma + Patricia McInroy, Sangeeta Reddy + Jodie Roth Cooper, Susan Rubin + Peter Illig, Martha Russo + Tina Suszynski + Anna Suszynski + Emma Hardy, Julia Rymer + Drew Austin, Dylan Scholinski + Daphne Scholinski, Sue Simon + Mark Brasuell, Autumn T. Thomas +  Tricia Waddell, Susan Vaho + Elaine Stires, Sherry Wiggins + Luís Filipe Branco, Kate Woodliff O'Donnell + Stacey Stormes, Belgin Yucelen + Anne Waldman + Akin Koksal

NARKITA GOLD: BLACK IN DENVER

Arvada Center, November 19 - January 10, 2020​
Curator, Exhibition Manager

​Black in Denver was a photographic exhibition of work by photographer Narkita Gold, taking over the Arvada Center's Upper Gallery. Curated by the Arvada Center from Gold's body of portrait work, Black in Denver takes a critical look at identity.  Series participants offer poignant, poetic, and revealing accounts of life in Denver, ranging from the importance of community building to taking up space in an ever-evolving city. As a whole, the series reveals that Denver’s Black community fosters a culture of authenticity.
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Black in Denver supports and demonstrates the notion that Blackness, and identity in general, is not a monolith. In a society where Black people are often stereotyped and seen as homogenous, the artist hopes to change the narrative and raise awareness about the power of being one's self.
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