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…
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….
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
The essential connection
Yolanda Ortega hadn’t really thought of her work as essential until last Sunday. As a multi-decade veteran of the Denver stage, she’s performed for thousands. She has inhabited iconic roles…
In the midst of struggle, local theater gets a priceless gift
Len Matheo got a wholly unexpected gift in the middle of our unfolding crisis. The executive and artistic director of the Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden had just finished meeting…
MCA Denver announces new glasses for color blind visitors to have richer, fuller, colorful museum experience
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) announced it would be the first museum in Colorado to offer visitors EnChroma glasses for color blind visitors. The museum began offering…