Sunday, March 17, 2013
Exhibitions
Herbert Bayer 1900 to 1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years is the first in a chronological series of exhibitions that trace Bayer’s development from his earliest days in Austria through his years in the United States. Bayer was first a student and later a master (teacher) at the Bauhaus, generally regarded as the most important school of art and design of the 20th century. In Colorado, Bayer is best known as the designer of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, where he was able to apply the Bauhaus concept of “total design” across the Institute campus.
Focusing on Japanese woven bamboo, over 70 beautiful pieces will be displayed in this installation, including baskets, screens, trays, containers, accessories, hand warmers, and a chair. Among the works on view are pieces by basket makers who have been designated Living National Treasures. Texture and Tradition: Japanese Woven Bamboo highlights works from the Lutz Bamboo Collection and gifts from Paul M. Hoff III and Hazel W. Hoff in memory of Paul M. Hoff Jr.
Charles Partridge Adams was a Colorado landscape painter active during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Rocky Mountain Majesty: The Paintings of Charles Partridge Adams marks the first time that Adams’ paintings will be displayed together at a major art museum; and the Denver Art Museum will be the sole venue for this important exhibition that highlights his greatest paintings of Colorado.
Denver-based painter Rick Dula, who photographed the Hamilton Building throughout its construction, created hyper-realist painting A Moment in Time: Here in 2009. It appears to peel back the interior walls of the building to expose its steel girders and underpinnings, and reveals the angular skeleton of the structure, which opened in 2006.
Popular with museum members and volunteers, the artwork originally was on view in 2009 and 2010 in the exhibition Embrace!
See Dula and his team create the artwork on-site in the 10-minute timelapse video below.
To coincide with the opening of the much-anticipated Clyfford Still Museum, the department of Modern and Contemporary Art will present a selection of paintings and drawings from its collection of some 20 works by abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. This extraordinary collection spans the artist’s career from 1944 to 1990 and includes masterpieces such as the artist’s last Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
Motherwell's works-on-paper artworks will go off view after May 27, 2012, while the paintings will continue to be on view into 2013.
The Roath Collection includes more than 100 works ranging in date from the 1870s to the 1970s with a focus on art of the American Southwest. With iconic works from nearly every artist associated with the Taos Society of Artists, this collection is one of the best groups of Western American art in private hands. The collection also includes major works by Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington and Henry Farny, to name a few. The museum has selected 65 works that will be displayed in the permanent galleries for Western American art.
On view through January 5, 2014.
The 30 artworks in this exhibition reveal the versatility of lacquer as a media used by Japanese artists to create containers, trays, plaques, braziers, and screens. A wide range of techniques are represented to demonstrate how lacquer was used during the last century to create objects of enduring beauty. The selected artworks reflect the changing styles and tastes of successive generations of lacquer artists who produced designs based on plants, animals, and other elements of nature.
Following nearly one year of conservation treatment, an Italian masterwork discovered in the Denver Art Museum storage is on view. Since spring 2012, we have been writing updates about behind-the-scenes discoveries and decisions related to the restoration.
Experience one of the world's premier collections of Native American art. Reopened on January 30, 2011, our remodeled galleries of American Indian and Northwest Coast art focus on artists and their creations, revealing the hand and eye of each individual artist.
Nampeyo: Excellence by Name is on view in the American Indian art galleries. Nampeyo is recognized as one of the greatest ceramicists of the 20th century. This exhibition traces the full spectrum of the famed Hopi artist’s career, highlighting key elements of her innovative forms and designs and the work of successive generations of her family.
Kids & Families
This class will occur June 11–14, 10 am–noon.
American Indian artists have been creating beautiful works of art for centuries. With our American Indian galleries as inspiration, spend the week learning about and creating works in clay and other interesting materials...some inspired by historical artists and some by contemporary artists.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This class will occur June 11–14, 2012, 1–3 pm.
Line, shading and gesture are just fancy words for squiggle, smudge and splat! Travel all over the museum, read stories, then mash and mold clay, drip and splash on t–shirts, paint, collage and more.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This camp will occur June 11–14, 9 am–5 pm.
Get in the minds of three superstar architects! Construct with angles like Daniel Libeskind, create tile mosaics like Gio Ponti, and build with blocks like Michael Graves. Visit great downtown buildings and get inspired to design your own using trace paper, computers, and more.
$225 DAM members, $250 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This class will occur June 18–21, 10 am–noon.
Pick up some easy watercolor tricks that will make your paintings look incredible. Discover the power of black-and-white paintings in the Asian galleries. Try out unusual brushes and inks. Experiment in mixed media, and more.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur June 18–21, 1–3 pm.
Explore the world of painting and sculpture as we move from 2-D to 3-D. You may not believe your eyes as you look at your art and what you have created.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur June 18–21, 10 am–noon.
Search the galleries for famous faces. Get inspired and create your own faces with drawing, paint, prints and masks.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur June 18–21, 1–3 pm.
Claude Monet’s first pictures were caricatures. Picasso’s first word was pencil. Get to know a different artist each day, see what it’s like to work with their materials, and try out their techniques. Mystery guest: a real artist!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur June 25–28, 10 am–noon.
This class will occur June 25–28, 1–3 pm.
Meet all things wild at the Art Museum. Create masks, sculptures and collages from paper, paint, fabric, flour, water, glue and more.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This camp will occur June 25–28, 9 am–5 pm.
Prowl the museum galleries to create a play inspired by the artwork. Together we will write and act in a production to be performed in the art museum!
$225 DAM members, $250 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 9–12, 10 am–noon.
Explore the seasons through an art adventure the galleries. Get inspired by fall, winter, summer, and spring to dribble, splatter, and melt color to create each season.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 9–12, 1–3 pm.
Journey through the galleries to discover whimsical, amazing, and alien lands in abstract art. Create creatures and have fun setting them in exciting new worlds, built just for them!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 9–12, 10 am–noon.
Sniff, listen, and feel your way through the museum in a week-long adventure to engage all your/the senses! Prepare to see, taste, and make works of art in a whole new way!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 9–12, 1–3 pm.
Art supplies can be much more than pens, paints, and pastels. Discover how you can use ordinary objects to create extraordinary works of art.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 16–19, 10 am–noon.
Sculpt your version of Seymour (the museum’s monkey mascot), then travel to his home in the rainforest to create some friends to keep him company in paint, clay and collage.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 16–19, 1–3 pm.
Cows that can be seen from outer space. A horse built out of old cars. A broom and dustpan big enough to clean the city dump. We will launch into orbit and take a closer look at the strange and alien art around the galleries. Come back down to Earth to create alien pets and out of this world art!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This camp will occur July 16–19 (SOLD OUT) and July 23–26 (SOLD OUT), 9 am–5 pm.
Three little mice lead you behind the scenes of a Chinese palace around 1800. You’ll fit right in with the royal family wearing the imperial silk robe you make yourself. Paint a hand scroll to record your adventures.
$225 DAM members, $250 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This camp will occur July 23–26, 9 am–5 pm.
Charles and Ray Eames designed furniture, toys, films and exhibitions—all of which are still prized today. Their granddaughter, Carla Hartman, will encourage you to fill your designer’s notebook (and your arms) with designs for furniture, graphics, architecture, and photography.
$225 DAM members, $250 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This class will occur July 30–Aug 2, 10 am–noon.
Shed your t-shirts and flip-flops and take a trip back in time to Italy of the 1500’s—the world of velvet, gold, dragons and mysteries! Put yourself in a gold frame, paint with a raw egg, and make an extravagant treasure chest to hold your masterpieces. Buon viaggio!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This class will occur July 30–Aug 2, 1–3 pm.
Turn your 2-dimensional sketches into 3-dimensional sculptures. Explore the museum, sketch in your notebook and build fantastic sculptures in our studio. Make your ideas leap from the page with wire, paper and clay.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 30– Aug 2, 10 am–noon.
Mount your imaginary pony, and search the museum for horses made of metal, beads, and clay. After the roundup, draw, paint, print, and sculpt a whole stable full of horses.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur July 30–Aug 2, 1–3 pm.
Experiment with all kinds of media, wood, paint, paper, glass, dough, beads, and more. Take home art inspired by the many genres and materials seen in the museum, like Abstract, Architecture, Realism, 2-D and 3-D, clay, paint, and more.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur August 6–9, 10 am–noon.
Get inspiration from favorite works of art in the museum and learn to construct basic stop motion animations and Claymation. Then post your creations to YouTube to share with others!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This camp will occur Aug. 6–9 and Aug. 13–16 (SOLD OUT), 9 am–5 pm
What would it be like to grow up in an 18th-century Japanese castle? Follow the adventures of four young lords and ladies, design settings for seashells, embellish a samurai sword, and play the games kids played back then.
$225 DAM members, $250 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This class will occur August 6–9, 1–3 pm.
Every piece of art has a story to tell...your job is to use your imagination to unlock it! Collect words, sketches and ideas inspired by the art in front of you, turn them into out-of-this world stories and poems, and make whimsical books to hold them all.
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
This class will occur Aug. 13–16, 10 am–noon.
Explore all that flies! Make wings inspired by birds, bugs and butterflies. Steal ideas from flying machines to create your own kite, and every day add a new piece to your hovering mobile!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.
This class will occur Aug. 13–16, 1–3 pm.
Discover how to spin a story without saying a word. Create using paint, yarn and paper to make a book, print a drawing and weave a tapestry. All to tell your own special story!
$85 DAM members, $95 others. See all this summer’s classes and camps.
Registration for DAM members begins March 5; for non-members on March 12.