Spring is almost here…and in Colorado, that means the snowiest months of the year!
Say goodbye to cabin fever by getting out of the house and checking out these incredible exhibitions and art events in Denver and beyond. Featuring our Resident Artists and alumni, here are your can’t-miss March art events.
Edgar L. Page: “The Feeling of an Emotion” Performance
What: Dance Performance
Where: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre - 119 Park Ave West, Denver, CO, 80205
When: March 18 & 19, 7pm
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About the show: Feel the Movement returns to stage with “The Feeling of an Emotion,” Edgar’s first fully realized production since the onset of the pandemic.
These evening of dance that invites viewers on a journey of self-discovery, love and intimacy through the lens of loss. After more than 2 years of starts and stops, this is a serendipitous return with a message rooted in celebrating the human condition as it evolves.
Edgar came out of retirement to be able to tell this story, his story, our story of triumph of the heart in these uncertain times. It features Edgar L. Page: Feel the Movement, an intersectional and multi-generational collective of movers. A true representation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, where every body and everybody can see themselves reflected through the dancers.
About the artist: Edgar L. Page is originally from Detroit, MI. He furthered his dance studies at the Alvin Ailey School and the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange before earning his BA in Dance from Western Michigan University as a Wade H. McCree, Jr. Incentive Scholar and a Martin Luther King, Jr. Diversity Scholar. Mr. Page spent a season with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Second Company before joining the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. Page toured domestically and internationally as a principal member of the company for nearly a decade. Mr. Page has been named a City of Denver Cultural Partner, a Creativity Connects Fellow, A Next Stage Now Artist, the inaugural recipient of the Presenting Denver Dance Festival's Audience Favorite Award and the current Presenting Denver Dance Festival Artist in Residence. His company was voted the 2019 Readers’ Choice for Best Artist in the annual Top of the Town Awards presented by 5280 Magazine.
Contact: edgarlpage@gmail.com
Artist website: https://edgarlpage.com/
Instagram: @edgarlpage
Cherish Marquez — “The Rite of Spring…Break” Group Exhibition
What: Group Exhibition
Where: Evans School — 1115 Acoma St, Denver, CO, 80204
When: March 17-20, nightly from 7:30-9:30pm
Resident Artist Cherish Marquez will have works in this exhibition, which is presented at the Redline-supported Evans School and curated by Emilie Trice of the Denver-based artist collective Last/Resort Club
About the exhibition: The “Rite of Spring…Break” is a group exhibition that combines emergent digital artistic practices such as site-specific video projections and projection mapping, interactive installations, audio interventions, and augmented reality.
The exhibition’s title is a reference to Stravinsky’s famous ballet, “The Rite of Spring,” which ushered in a new era of modernism when it debuted in Paris in 1913. The infamous score is an early example of dissonance and is considered by many iconic musicians and scholars as “the most important piece of music of the 20th century.” The premise for the ballet was a pagan ritual in which “a sacrificial virgin dances herself to death.”
Spring Break — the week every March when university students typically engage in epic debauchery — is also a pagan-like ritual, worshiping sexuality and intoxication, but updated for the 21st century. Since the exhibition venue itself was originally a school, the theme of spring break is also a nod to the historical building itself.
Spring is also the season of rebirth and, historically, a universal source of inspiration for artists, writers, and musicians. The Rite of Spring…Break will interweave these themes in a weekend-long celebration that pays homage to — as Stravinsky said — “the mystery and the great surge of the creative power of spring.”
Artists include: Jeremy Billauer, Sarai Levinson, Cherish Marquez, Scott McKinney, Sharifa Moore, Austin Slominski, Emilie Trice, Jullian Young, Joshua Ware, Eren Yazzie, and others yet to be announced.
About the artist: Cherish Marquez is from a very small town called Sierra Blanca, TX, a place that has been a significant inspiration to the artist's work. As a third-generation native of Sierra Blanca, Texas, the artist's body has been exposed to several personal and political atrocities. Sierra Blanca is located 16 miles from the Mexico border, which means she came into constant contact with border agents for most of her life. She experiments primarily with video games and interactive media that exist in similar spaces within her alternate universe. She has shown in galleries in the past, such as RedLine Contemporary Art Center and Leon Gallery. She completed her MFA in Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver.
Contact: cmarq321@gmail.com
Artist website: http://cherishmarquez.com/
Instagram: @cherish.marquez
Tony Ortega - “Fronters del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond” Exhibition
Images courtesy of Tony Ortega - Mickey Muerto at Teotihuacan, hand colored etching
What: Exhibition
Where: National Hispanic Cultural Center - 1701 4th St. SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
When: March 11, 2022 - January 9, 2023
Resident Artist Alumni Tony Ortega will have 3 pieces in this exhibition.
About the exhibition: “Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond features artworks that explore the intersections of art, science, technologies (both ancient and modern), cosmic-musings, future-oriented visions, and more. The exhibition engages with themes that are relevant in New Mexico (and beyond) with contributions from artists in New Mexico, across the nation, and internationally.”
About the artist: Tony Ortega has been a working artist and teacher for the past 36 years. He is the recipient of the coveted Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1999) and the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1998). Tony Ortega’s lifelong goal is to contribute to a better understanding of cultural diversity by addressing the culture, history and experiences of Chicanos/Latinos through his art. His work can be found in the Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Latin America and other parts of the world.
Contact: tortegaartist@cs.com
Artist website: www.tonyortega.net
Instagram: @tortegaartist
Daisy Patton - “Uncovered Spaces” Group Exhibition
Image courtesy of Daisy Patton. Detail of "Untitled (Five Patterned Women on the Ledge with White Flowers)," 96"x80.”
What: Group Museum Exhibition
Where: International Museum of Art and Science - 1900 W Nolana Ave McAllen, TX 78504
When: March 26-July 10
About the exhibition: Uncovered Spaces is an exhibition and event series centered on female artists and LGBTQIA+ artists to explore the social structures that mediate our everyday experiences. The project serves as space for women and female-identifying artists and scholars to discuss their art practice related to gender, identity, and social norms. This exhibition seeks to connect the creative process, shared knowledge, and feminine solidarity in a collaborative and community-based arts research project in South Texas.
About the artist: Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist who was born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these conflicting cultural ways of being. Influenced by collective and political histories, as well as memory and the fallibility of the body, Patton’s work explores the meaning and social conventions of families, relationship, connection, storytelling and story-carrying.
Contact: daisy.a.patton@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.daisypatton.com
Instagram: @daisy_patton
Kelton Osborn - Solo Show
Image courtesy of Kelton Osborn. Jepun 2021, 51" x 51" mixed media on canvas
What: Solo Show
Where: Michael Warren Contemporary - 760 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO, 80204
When: March 8-April 9
About the exhibition: Kelton Osborn makes compelling mixed media works using a painterly language and conceptual framework from primary influences including architecture and abstract gestural mark-making.
These constructed narratives consist of textures, layers and positive/negative spaces that emphasize emotions as a primary conduit for his creative process. Each painting captures a series of intentional gestures and marks in combination with an intuitive understanding of color, form, composition and scale.
About the artist: My childhood memories inform my designs. Whether playing in the prairies with friends, catching lizards and snakes, or backpacking in the mountains with my parents – I have always enjoyed the process of exploration. Ironically, I was not a particularly good student in school. If I was not interested in the subject, I would draw in lieu of taking notes. A high school biology class with Mr. Wisner changed that. This is where I made the connection between exploration and learning. Through deep questioning, the world opened up to me and I began to approach life with the understanding that all things can influence our journey. My experiences have influenced my process of making.
Contact: keltonosborn@me.com
Artist website: www.keltonosborn.com
Artist Instagram: @keltono1
Charles Parson - “Then and Now” Virtual 3-Person Exhibition
What: Virtual 3 Person Exhibition
Where: The Pontiac Creative Art Center - 47 Williams St, Pontiac, MI 48341
When: March 12-April 18
About the exhibition: Colorado-based artist & former Redline Resource Artists has 75 one-person exhibits throughout the country. In 1972, three graduate students from nearby Cranbrook Academy of Art presented a largescale exhibit entitled "III Constructivists," at the Pontiac Creative Arts Center. This exhibition addressed each of their movements from a flat painting premise to more dimensional approaches. All three young artists — Richard Ancona, Larry Holmes and Charles Parson — were deeply influenced by the climate and culture of the times as well as the historic Cranbrook atmosphere with its staff of luminary artists and designers. This exhibit received significant attention at that time.
50 year later, reconnecting during the Covid era, the three artists have put together a virtual exhibit of an overview of the differing directions each have developed in their works and careers. The exhibit presents a virtual presentation focusing on a representation of each artist's works from each of the five decades in this span from Then to Now.
These works portray the distinct departures each developed, building upon the core foundations they shared of their formative years of education, studying with working artists and designers who spoke with their actions as well as words. An additional gallery of drawings from each artist further presents the role that this discipline has additionally played in their art.
This display, seen from March 12-April 18, has a virtual and live opening on March 12, 6-8 p.m. EST with a live stream with the 3 artists, who reside in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Colorado.
About the artist: Charles Parson was a Resource Artist at RedLine from fall 2018-spring 2020. He has over 75 solo exhibits throughout the United States. He has over 80 one-person exhibits throughout the U.S., along with an extensive participation in group exhibits, as well as large scale installations and monumental public sculptures which have been seen in places such as New York City, Chicago, Kansas City, and more.
Contact: cparson.art@gmail.com
Artist website: www.charlesparsonart.com
Instagram: @charlesparsonart
Ben Coleman - “Void” Group Exhibition
What: Group Exhibition
Where: Friend of a Friend Gallery - 1115 Acoma Suite #234 Denver, CO 80204
When: Open by Appointment February 19-March 20
Opening Reception: February 19, 7-9 PM
About the exhibition: Void explores vacuums, absence, chasms, and gaps. Viewers are confronted with works that reflect on loss, extinction or decay, disassociation, or evoke the sense there are gaps or lapses in our perception of them.
The featured artists use a variety of media and conceptual frameworks that meditate on what these themes mean for them in their practice and lived experience.
As one of the featured artists in the exhibition titled “Void,” Coleman will have an audio installation in its own room, immediately across the hallway from Friend of a Friend's gallery room. Ben Coleman has created an immersive soundscape meditating on the concept of white noise.
About the artist: Ben Coleman is a British multi-disciplinary artist residing in Denver, CO. His practice is multidisciplinary, grounded in sound and performance, and often encompassing other media, including music, dance, video and installation.
Contact: contactbencoleman@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.bencolemansounds.com/
Instagram: @bencolemanart
March Art Events with RedLine Artists & Alumni
Mo’Print (Month of Print Making) Event
What: Printmaking celebration
When: Throughout the month of March
Where: TRVE Brewery, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver Art Museum, Art Student's League of Denver, printmaking artist's studios, and participating galleries all over the greater Metro Denver area.
About the event: Mo’print is a celebration of the art of making original prints to inspire, educate and promote awareness in the Denver Metropolitan Area, the Front Range Region, and throughout Colorado.
Month of Printmaking (Mo’print) is a city-wide celebration with various events happening throughout the month of March:
Black Ink Fundraiser, Friday March 4, 6-midnight at TRVE Brewery 227 Broadway.
Open Portfolio Saturday March 12, 1-4 at Denver Botanic Gardens.
Print Jam, Saturday March 19, 10-4 at Denver Art Museum Martin Building
Learn more: https://www.moprint.org/
“Oh My Stars!” Monthly Zodiac Themed Skate Date
What: Roller Skating Pop Up
When: March 18th (Pisces), April 15th (Taurus), and May 20th (Gemini), 2-10pm.
Where: RollerDome, 2375 South Delaware Street, Denver, CO 80223
About the event: Rainbow Dome’s mission is to offer an alternative to the classic roller rink experience, combining art, community, roller skating, and FUN!
“Oh My Stars!” is a monthly zodiac-themed skate date at the Rollerdome, home of Denver Roller Derby and Rocky Mountain Rollergirls. Every third Friday of the month, this series features pop-up art + roller skating experience!
Entry is $10 online ($15 at the door) and offers access to an open skating rink from 2pm to 10pm. Free skate rentals (kids sizes - men’s size 14), art installations, photo booth, exclusive merchandise, and local DJs.
The events will feature Rainbow Dome’s signature attraction, the integration of roller skating with experiential art, inviting attendees to experience custom made art designs and installations. Families welcome, though we ask that children are supervised while skating. The Rainbow Dome is an art project led by Therin Zimmerman and RedLine Alumni artists Frankie Toan and Kate Speer.
Learn more: https://www.rainbowdome.com/
Contact: skaterainbowdome@gmail.com
March Exhibitions at RedLine
From March 4-April 10, join us in celebrating the creative life of Colorado artist Sally Elliot in this retrospective exhibition: ““Dissonant Harmony: A Life in Art.”
Elliot’s work will be displayed in the Main Exhibition space. The work of 27 past mentees, advisees, and peers will be simultaneously displayed in the Project Space.
Learn more about the Sally Elliot Retrospective and plan your visit today >
