Our understanding of the natural world roots and connects us
When you think of culture, what do you include? Maybe the traditions and holidays your family holds dear. Or your favorite works of art hanging in a museum or gallery. Or the festivals and events we celebrate as a collective each spring, summer and fall. Do you add to this list foundational contributions made to…
Difundir en su enfoque, uno en su misión
El paisaje artístico y cultural nos rodea todos los días. Impulsa y desafía nuestro pensamiento. Ilumina nuestros momentos más sagrados y nuestras reuniones más grandes. Fue construido y se mantiene en el área metropolitana de Denver en gran parte por la pasión y el propósito de las mujeres. Son los guardianes de la tradición, los…
Diffuse in their focus, one in their mission
The arts and culture landscape surrounds us every day. It buoys and challenges our thinking. It illuminates our most sacred moments and our largest gatherings. It was built and is maintained in the Denver metro area in no small part by the passion and purpose of women. They are the tradition keepers, the ecosystem warriors,…
At SCFD, #CultureForAll means culture BY all
For Paul Stewart, it all started with a fascination with the Black experience in the American West. It became an ever-growing display on the walls of the barbershop he owned. People from the neighborhoods in Northeast Denver who did not need a haircut would come just to look at his menagerie of artifacts and curiosities….
Arts through it All holiday campaign launches to help save local arts and culture
New SCFD survey data signals threat to arts and culture sector due to economic challenges of the pandemic Read the full COVID impact survey If you just can’t live without live music. If your holiday season won’t be complete without the Nutcracker or Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum. If you treasure a childhood memory…
A life well lived carries on
There is a deep interconnection between culture and community. Wilbur Flachman knew it. So, when the native Iowan settled with his wife in Westminster in 1961, he set about making that connection tangible and visible. Flachman passed away in September. But the foundations for art and culture he built in the north metro area will…
Local artist focuses on his own work and the cultural future of his community
Jeff Lapin will be the first one to tell you he spent about 40 years as a magazine publisher living vicariously through the artists his magazines featured. Then retirement came. Suddenly, he had the time and space to reconnect directly with art and reimagine himself as the artist he had been during his undergraduate years…
Con una energía sin límites y un optimismo sin fin, Steve Wilson se enfrenta al futuro
La mejor manera de entender a Steve Wilson podría ser saber que él no hizo eludido con entusiasmo a su esposa una vez en una producción de Tartuffe en el Arvada Center. Su esposa Leslie, una actriz de teatro de larga trayectoria en el Denver Center for the Performing Arts, tuvo shows superpuestos y Wilson…
With boundless energy and endless optimism, Steve Wilson faces the future
The best way to understand Steve Wilson might be knowing that he enthusiastically understudied his wife once in a production of Tartuffe at the Arvada Center. His wife Leslie, a long-time stage actress with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, had overlapping shows and Wilson stepped in to finish the last week of her…
Boulder oceanic institute helps students chart course to a healthier environmental future
Dr. Mikki McComb-Kobza is convinced that by connecting landlocked Colorado students to the ocean, salvation for our ailing planet is possible. She might be right. Consider for a moment the work she does. As the Executive Director of the Boulder-based OceanFirst Institute, McComb-Kobza prioritizes hands on research for students from across the Denver Metro area….
Every community needs a Florence Ayers
Every community needs a connector. That person who makes space where there wasn’t space before. Who creates opportunity out of whole cloth. For the black arts community, Florence Ayers is one of those people. Ayers has given more than three decades to creating and producing the Colorado Black Arts Festival, which now stands as an…
Art is just a dream away
Homare Ikeda dreams his creations into being. In some ways, that has been true for his entire life. The Denver-based painter rises at 4 a.m., makes coffee and puts brush or pen to paper, creating a new work each day and posting it to Instagram. His attention and his dreams during the quarantine have turned…