Posted December 5, 2011 by Featured Instructor
Wondering what a Tibetan Singing Bowls “Sound Healing Concert” is all about? It is an opportunity to lay down (if you wish) and receive some seriously good vibrations….literally!!! Sound healers Jason and Chris Anne Coviello will begin the concert with Jason playing his Hang Drum which is a very rare steel drum that is made by only two people in the world. Some say it sounds like a stringed instrument. Jason’s Hang Drum is tuned to the note that vibrationally corresponds to the heart chakra and when he plays the drum, he takes you on a heart-opening journey. If you would like
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Posted November 18, 2011 by Featured Instructor
The holiday season is upon us!! Whew, how did that happen? Wasn’t it just summer yesterday? Well, it seems like it, anyway.
With holiday lights being installed on homes and businesses all over town and Blossoms of Light (BOL) at Denver Botanic Gardens on York Street and Trail of Lights (TOL) at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield opening soon, it’s time to get out your camera and tripod and get ready to take some wonderful holiday photographs. If you’re really organized, you can visit BOL or TOL early in the season, make a nice family portrait in front of the beautiful lighting displays and have your cards printed and delivered in plenty of time to beat the holiday rush! Wouldn’t that be awesome?!!
Photographing BOL and TOL presents some unique challenges. The biggest challenge is the low light you’ll be photographing in. By the time these events open to the public each evening, it is fully
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Posted July 25, 2011 by Kim Manajek, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Art & Library Collections
Native Roots | Modern Form Tour & Lecture Series
Ryan Rice, curator “Site Seen: Native Art in Public Spaces”
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 – Walk: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., Talk: 7 – 8 p.m.
By locating native art that occupies space in public settings, a connection between identity and place is made. Curator Ryan Rice investigates these connections and addresses the continuum of marking territory across the land.
Ryan Rice (Mohawk) – Artist and Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, NM. His personal and curatorial work has been exhibited internationally at such places as the Iroquois Indian Museum and the Walter Phillips Art Gallery in Banff. Rice is also the co-founder and chair of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
Purchase your ticket online:
Lecture Prices: $8 student/ $10 member / $12 non-member
Walk Prices: $15 member / $18 non-member
Reduced prices made possible by new underwriters!
Lecture Prices: $5 students/$8 members/$10 non-member
Walk + Lecture combo: $9 student/$12 member/$14 non-member
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Posted July 14, 2011 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
Shakespeare’s plays are “evergreens” of the dramatic arts: they always have something to say to the current time. I was so pleased to learn that Pik*Nik Theater is going to put on a performance at the Gardens. Their performance of Much Ado About Nothing is set in the 1940s. It makes perfect sense to think about the prince and company returning from war. In Denver, it will be July 17, 6 p.m. at Denver Botanic Gardens.
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Posted June 28, 2011 by Kim Manajek, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Art & Library Collections
August 18-21, 2011
Re-discover Santa Fe through the art of acclaimed late sculptor Allan Houser. Follow my lead as we tour the Allan Houser Museum, archives, foundry and gallery. Enjoy a personalized guided tour as we visit Taos Pueblo; and relax in soothing, deluxe accommodations while absorbing the culture of Santa Fe, NM. We will be there in time for Indian Market.
Allan Houser Sculpture Garden at the studio compound; Photo courtesy http://www.allanhouser.com/compound.php
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Posted May 27, 2011 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
Scott Dressel-Martin is the Gardens’ official photographer. He has his own business, which keeps him hopping from shoot to shoot and client to client, generating wonderful photographs of many subjects. You’ve seen his work all over www.botanicgardens.org, and on this blog, and in the Gardens’ newsletter and multiple books. If I could hang only photographic art on my walls, I’d still be out of space after Scott’s portfolio.
However Scott is also an instructor at Denver Botanic Gardens, and very popular one: not just for his botanical photography, but because he has invested himself in the Gardens, its staff and its members. He radiates back the same enthusiasm that people feel for the plants, and art and community, and he teaches you how to see it photographically.
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Posted May 23, 2011 by Erin Algiere, Former Exhibitions Project Associate
This week kicks off the Contemporary Perspectives: A Series, a monthly program of curatorial talks and walks that broaden understanding and observations about not only Allan Houser’s work, but also contemporary issues facing American Indian artists and communities.
Wednesday, May 25 presents “Native Modernism” with Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk)
- Curator and contemporary artist Truman Lowe explores the works of Allan Houser within the context of Native Modernism. Lowe was the first Curator of Contemporary Native Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., where he curated the inaugural exhibition, Native Modernism: the Art of Allan Houser and George Morrison in 2005.
Lowe recently retired from of the Sculpture Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to focus on his own artwork. Don’t miss his show in Gates Garden Court Gallery, Between the Real and the Imagined, May 19 – August 7, 2011.
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Posted May 23, 2011 by Erin Algiere, Former Exhibitions Project Associate
Truman Lowe, Mnemonic Study3, wood, wire and paper, 2011.
The Gardens hosts an unprecedented exhibition with new works created by contemporary artist Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk) in Between the Real and the Imagined , May 19 – August 7, 2011, in Gates Garden Court Gallery. Meet the artist at the opening reception on May 26, 5:30 – 8 p.m.
Lowe creates a site-specific installation spanning the Lobby Court and Gates Garden Court Gallery, responding to the strong presence of water in the Gardens and reflecting the moving water motif recurrent throughout his career. Borrowing many of the themes and techniques inspired by the beadwork, split-plait basketry and canoe building of his childhood, he constructs sculptures and 2-dimensional objects out of natural materials. The effect of his work triggers the senses, evoking the sound of water, the smell of the forest floor and warmth of sunlight through the trees. Read more about this show in the Westword.
Lowe grew up in the Ho-Chunk community along the Black River in northern Wisconsin. He has
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Wondering what a Tibetan Singing Bowls “Sound Healing Concert” is all about? It is an opportunity to lay down (if you wish) and receive some seriously good vibrations….literally!!! Sound healers Jason and Chris Anne Coviello will begin the concert with Jason playing his Hang Drum which is a very rare steel drum that is made by only two people in the world. Some say it sounds like a stringed instrument. Jason’s Hang Drum is tuned to the note that vibrationally corresponds to the heart chakra and when he plays the drum, he takes you on a heart-opening journey. If you would like 
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