There is a persistent and pernicious stereotype that artists working and living in areas outside of major metropolitan centers create art that is backwards, naive, retrograde, or of poor quality. Little-ton, Big-ideas: Honoring the Big Ideas of Women Artists, currently on view at Arapahoe Community College’s Colorado Gallery of the Arts, challenges this misconception. Sponsored by the Colorado Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCACO), the exhibition features works by WCACO members and by women and women-identifying artists in Littleton who submitted work to an open call. 

In its selection of objects and its own design, the exhibition Vanity & Vice at the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art presents the simplicity and curvilinear geometry characteristic of Art Deco, an art style popular during the 1920s and ‘30s. Curated by Becca Goodrum, Kirkland’s Curatorial Associate, the exhibition uses gender as a lens to view the trappings of social life in the United States during Prohibition.

William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations, organized by Grinnell College Museum of Art and currently on view at the CU Art Museum in Boulder, includes collages, video, sound, and sculptural works made during the past two decades. The exhibition challenges a white, male, colonialist gaze central to EuroAmerican histories of art. Interrogating the technologies and techniques that structure and facilitate this gaze, including scientific tools such as the telescope and microscope as well as art making itself, William Villalongo uses collage and (re)framing to emphasize the presence and agency of Black being across time and throughout artistic movements and styles. 

Hương Ngô’s Ungrafting at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center focuses on the politics of visibility in the context of French colonial knowledge production in Vietnam. The exhibition examines how power shapes what is seen and what is made to be unseen.