Creative Collective, the group show on view at the Tointon Gallery in Greeley, is really a measure of both: the ways the artists know their home in Colorado, and the ways that they show it love. The collection of 72 artworks was done by members of the Greeley Art Association, a local group that hosts regular meetups and workshops.

There’s a reason that we reach for furniture when hard news is coming. The standing body is precarious, wrapped in air and prone to crumbling. The seated body, though, is supported. It can take more. This is what Brady Smith’s new show Sitting Together at Kin Studio feels like: support.

The same way a dancer works hard to appear soft, Elnaz Javani’s works in Oddments, on view at the Mariani Gallery until October 10, exude a quiet sense of power. On display are ten hanging pieces made over the past two years and a set of animal-like figures constructed in 2020. 

Some people are made for cities; but are cities made for people? Between Us: The Downtown Denver Alleyways Project attempts to answer that question. Four local alleyways—five when the exhibition opened in 2018—are public venues for Carlos Frésquez, Kelly Monico, Joel Swanson, and Frankie Toan to create pieces that teeter between art and urban planning. The easy analogy for this open air exhibition is city-as-museum, but the apt analogy is city-as-curator. Downtown Denver does more than provide infrastructure to house the works—it shapes the viewer’s entire experience according to its own whims. The pieces will remain on view until Spring 2022.