Welcome to DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, a publication devoted to art writing and criticism focused on the Denver-area visual art scene. DARIA seeks to promote diverse voices and artists while fostering critical dialogue around art.
Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 3080 Valmont Rd, Boulder, CO 80301, 720-379-5328, Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm, Sun: 12-5pm
Aug 1-Sep 30: Addison Blocher
Oct 1-31: Becky Hawley
Nov 1-Dec 31: Ashley Yony
Jan 1-Feb 28: Laurie Shellenberger
Boulder County Arts Alliance, 2400 28th St #103, Boulder, CO 80301, 303-447-2422
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-443-2122, Tues-Sun: 11am-5pm
Aug 26, 2024-Feb 2, 2025: Darcie Shively: A Woven Channel (The Canyon Gallery; Opening reception: Aug 26, 5:30-7:30pm)
Sep 12-Jan 12, 2025: Smoke & Mirrors (Opening reception: Sep 12, 6-8pm)
Sep 19, 5:30-7:30pm: Iván-Daniel Espinosa: MycoMorphosis: Dancing with Fungi (Present Box)
Oct 26-Nov 2: Día de los Muertos Installation (Opening reception: Oct 26, 6-8pm)
Nov 2-Dec 22: Holiday Pop-Up Shop
Boulder Public Library Galleries, 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-441-3100, Mon-Thurs: 9am-7pm, Fri-Sun: 12-5pm
Aug 1-Nov 3: Teen and Adult Library Card Contest Entries (Reynolds Library)
Aug 2-Oct 30: Exploring the Intimacies of the Living World (Meadows Library)
Aug 7-Nov 1: Jyotsna Raj and Anita Nagpal Schwartz: Celebrating India (Main Library)
Aug 30-Nov 24: Boulder Food Rescue, Faces of Food Access, and Community Resiliency
Sep 3-Nov 13: Maker Made: Presented by BLDG 61 Makerspace (Reception: Oct 1, 5 pm)
Dec 11, 2024-Jan 30, 2025: Creativity Alive: The SEEN Project (Canyon Gallery; Opening reception: Dec 11, 5 p.m.)
Feb-Mar, 2025: BRAVA: Women in the Arts
B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance, University of Colorado, Roser ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St. 320 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, 303-735-4577
The Collective: Community Arts Center, 201 N Public Rd Lafayette CO 80026, 303-661-1261, Tues-Thurs, Sat: 10am-5pm, Fri: 10am-7pm, Sun: 12-5pm
Jul 24-Sep 22: Changing Seasons: Mosaics
Sep 25-Nov 3: Día de los Muertos Exhibition
Nov 6, 2024-Jan 5, 2025: Interchange: Access/VSA Emerging Young Artists Program by the Kennedy Center
Jan 8-Mar 9: A Year on Coal Creek Trail: An exhibit of all seasons, wildlife, and activities on the trail
Mar 12-May 11: Black Futures: The Space Between Us
The Crowd Collective, 4939 N Broadway, Unit 58, Boulder, CO 80304, First Fridays (Mar-Dec) and by appt
Sep 6-Oct 4: Adam Anglin: Stilted Forms
Nov 1-Dec 7: Small Originals: Group Show
Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-440-7826, daily: 12-6pm
Jun 14-Sep 8: Roberta Begaye: Weaving Prayers: Ocean’s Edge to Mesa’s Ledge
Jul 26-Sep 21: Drip|Run|Freeze|Crack|Melt: Jarod Charzewski, James Tapscott, Brenda Bionda, and Christopher Warren
Aug 30-Sep 21: Dante Ortiz (Locals Only Gallery)
Sep 13-Nov 3: Homelands: Reconnection Exhibition: An Annual Exhibition Honoring the Ute, Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes (Opening reception: Sep 13, 5-8pm)
Sep 27-Oct 27: Open Studios Preview Exhibition
Nov 8–Dec 8: Laura Brenton (Locals Only Gallery)
Nov 8, 2024–Jan 5, 2025: Abstract Art Group Show
Dec 13, 2024–Jan 12, 2025: Jerome Coffey (Locals Only Gallery)
Jan 17–Feb 23, 2025: Jocelyn Roy (Locals Only Gallery)
Jan 17–Mar 30, 2025: Black History Month Exhibition: Solo Shows by Yazz Atmore, Marcus Murray, and Adri Norris; Group Exhibition curated by Adderly Grant-Lord
East Window, 4550 Broadway, Ste C-3B2, Boulder, CO 80304, Mon-Fri: 4:30-7:30pm, Sat: by appt, info@eastwindow.org
Jun 7-Sep 27: Lisa Berley (Patio Gallery Grand Opening)
Jul 5-Oct 19: Joseph Tisiga: An Elegance Unknown To Scoundrels
Aug 9-Sep 20: XOXO: Performance, Love, and Affection: Su Kaiden Cho, Venus Cruz, Steven Frost, Kalyn Heffernan, David Mramor, and Natalie Sharp (curators: MG Bernard and Genevieve Waller)
Oct 4-Jan 31, 2025: Love Party is Over: Coline Radcliffe (Patio Gallery)
Nov 1-Feb 28, 2025: Nothing Happened Here: Jeremy Dennis
(Window Gallery)
Nov 1-Feb 28, 2025: Anna Tsouhlarakis (Main Gallery; Opening Reception: Nov 1, 7-9:00pm; Artist Talk: Jan 23, 2025, 7-9:00pm)
Eldorado Springs Art Center, 8 Chesbro Way, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025, 303-378-0454, galleries open by appt, grounds open daily 10am-6pm
Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave, Longmont, CO 80501, 303-651-2787, Wed-Sun: 12-5pm
Jul 13-Sep 8: Translated Landscapes: Chloe Wilwerding, Chuck Brenton, and Kerry St. Laurent (Main)
Sept: Summer Artist in Residence Erica Podwoiski Culminating Exhibit (Main); Exhibition Curated by Erica Podwoiski (South); Monica Carrol, Mega LeSage, and Laura Caruso (Studio 64)
Oct: Dia de los Muertos and Jamie Chihuan (Main); Community Catrina Paintings (South); Kylee Covili (Studio 64)
Nov: Artist Members Exhibit: Hangtime (Main); Winter Resident Artist Kenzie Sitterud (South); Nate Abrahams (Studio 64)
Dec: Front Range Community College (Main); Winter Resident Artist Kenzie Sitterud (South); Holiday Programming (Studio 64)
Feb 15, 6-9pm: Opening reception for Kenzie Sitterud Happy | Sad
Gallery @ the Bus Stop, 4895 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304, Fri: 4-7pm, Sat: 1-5pm, Sun: 1-4pm, and First Fri: 6-9pm
Sep 6-29: SMiLE: A Golden Thread
Oct 4-27: Kevin Hoth: Hotharoids
Nov 1-24: Helen Masvikeni-Masango: Melanin Musings: An Earnest Peek into the Margins
Dec 6-29: Liz Compos: Pigments & Petals with the Jamestown Jade Collective and Community Herbalists; Holiday Ceramics Market
Jan 10-Feb 2, 2025: Handweavers Guild of Boulder: Colorado Grasslands: Textile Arts Exhibit
Feb 7-Mar 2, 2025: Black Futures in Art - The Spaces Between Us
House of Serein, 103 Canyon Blvd, Boulder, CO 80302
Kin Studio and Gallery, 4725 16th St #104, Boulder, CO, 80304, 720-309-1992, Tue-Thu 11-3pm, Fri 10-2pm, or by appointment
Sep 6-30: Mary Manusos: Visceral: states of being (Opening: Sep 6, 5-8 pm)
Oct 5-6 & 12-13: Open Studios Tour with Allyson McDuffie: Queer As: Prints from Digital Drawings (Opening: Oct 4, 5-8 pm)
Dec 6-31: Brady Smith: Sitting Together: Drawings and Paintings (Opening: Dec 6, 5-8 pm)
Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Rd,
Lafayette, CO 80026, 303-665-5200, Mon-Thu: 10am-8pm, Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 1-5pm
Sep 9-30: Suzanne Frazier: Spirit Light series
Lightwell Architecture, 198 2nd Ave, Ste 1A, Niwot, CO 80544, 303-763-0140, Mon-Fri: 8am-5pm
Jun 7-Sep 29: Suzanne Frazier: Boketto Series
The Lincoln Gallery, Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80301, Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm
Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd, Longmont, CO 80501, 303-651-8374, Mon-Sat: 9am-5pm, Thurs: 5-9pm, and Sun: 1-5pm
Jun 1, 2024-Jan 12, 2025: Build: Design & Create with LEGO!
Sep 14-Fall 2025: Crisis to Camaraderie: The 2013 Flood Photography Exhibition
Feb 1-May 5, 2025: A Graphic Journey: Prints by Pablo Picasso
Louisville Center For The Arts, 801 Grant Ave, Louisville, CO 80027, 303-335-4581, hours for each exhibit listed here
Aug 27-Sep 9: National Fine Art Show
Louisville Historical Museum, 1001 Main St, Louisville, CO 80027, 303-335-4850, Tue: 10am–3pm, Wed: 1-6pm, Thu-Sat: 10am–3pm
Sep 6, 5-pm (Artist reception and courtyard event): James Dixon: Fire Vase
Andrew J. Macky Gallery at Macky Auditorium: BMoCA @ Macky, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St, #104, Boulder, CO 80309, 303-492-8423, Mon afternoons, Tues & Thurs: 10am-4pm, during performances, and by appt
Mercury Framing, 4692 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304, 303-938-0123, Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm and Sat: 10am-5pm
Jul 12-Sep 28: John Aaron: Still Standing
Oct-Dec: Dan Baumbach
Messinger Gallery, Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave, Boulder, CO 80303, 303-998-1900, Mon-Fri: 9am-4pm
May 30-Sep 11: Mark Villarreal
Sep 26-Dec 4: Alissa Davies and Courtney Cotton: Exploring Transition (Opening reception: Sep 26, 5:30-7:30pm)
Dec 11-Feb 27: Rob Levy and Sara Sanderson
Museum of Boulder at Tebo Center, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-449-3464, Wed-Mon: 9am-5pm
Sep 29, 2023-Sep 2025: Proclaiming Colorado’s Black History
Aug 23-Oct 28: 80 Years of the Boulder Historical Society
Permanent Exhibition: Boulder Experience Gallery
Permanent Exhibition: Playzeum
Permanent Exhibition: Google Garage
Nalanda Campus Galleries, Naropa University, 6287 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80301, The Cube Gallery: Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm; The Nalanda Gallery: Mon–Fri: 10am-5:30pm; The Lounge Gallery: Mon–Fri: 10am-5:30pm
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesa Lab, 1850 Table Mesa Dr, Boulder, CO 80305, 303-497-1000, Mon-Fri: 8am–5pm, Sat-Sun: 9am-4pm
NEST Studio for the Arts, University of Colorado Boulder, CASE Building, Room W250, 1725 Euclid Ave, Boulder, CO, 80309, 303-735-0047, open by appt
The New Local, 741 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302, Mon-Sat:10am-6pm, Sun: 11am-5pm, The New Local Annex, 713 Pearl St; The New Local Annex, 713 Pearl St., Tues-Fri: 11am-3pm, Sat/Sun: 11am-5pm
Aug 30-Oct 20: Sara Goldenberg-White (New Local Annex)
Oct 25-Dec 8: Allyson McDuffie (New Local Annex)
Dec 13, 2024-Feb 2, 2025: Belgin Yucelen (New Local Annex)
Nick Ryan Gallery, 1221 Pennsylvania Ave, Suite 110, Boulder, CO, 80302, 303-918-4858, Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm and by appt
Aug 16–Sep 28: Recollections: Daniel Granitto, Jessica Rohrer, Brenda Stumpf, and Andrew Watel
Oct 4–Nov 9: Shapespeak: Ky Anderson, Emilio Lobato, Andy Ryan, Courtney Sennish
Nov 14–Jan 11, 2025: Debra Smith
Jan 16–Mar 1, 2025: Brenda Stumpf
NoBo Art Center, 4929 Broadway #E, Boulder, CO 80304, 303-523-1117, First Fridays: 5-9pm and, for an appt, email: Galleries@NoBoArtDistrict.org
Sep 6–29: Lorena Fox and Cindy Brittain: Digging up Dirt
Oct 4–27: Hana Smith: Nature's Light in Cold Wax and Oils; Boulder Art Association: BAA 100th Anniversary: Playing with a Full Deck
Nov 1–24: Molly Jackson: Pigments & Petals
Dec 6–22: NoBo Art Holiday Market
Off Broadway Arts, Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine Street, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-442-6530, Sun: 9am-12pm, Mon-Thu: 10am-4pm
Open Studios Gallery, 3075 Pearl Parkway, Boulder, CO 80301, 303-444-1862, Wed-Sun: 11am-5pm
Osmosis Gallery, 290 Second Ave, Niwot, CO 80503, 303-652-2668, Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm, Sat: 11am-5pm, First Fri: 5-9pm
Oct 4–Dec 31: Ruth Soller
Feb 1-Mar 7: Lonny Granston
Rare Visions Gallery, 455 College Ave, Boulder, CO, 80302, 303-489-8946, open days and hours listed below
The Paramita Gallery, 3285 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80301, Mon–Fri: 10am-5:30pm
Sanctuary Art Gallery, in the Sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-819-7404, Sun: 9-10am, 11:30am-12pm, or by appt
Seidel City Contemporary Art Gallery, 3205 Longhorn Rd, Boulder, CO 80302, Fri-Sat: 11am-4pm and by appt
St. Julian Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302, Sun-Sat: 9am-5pm
University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St, Boulder, CO 80309, 303-492-8300, Tues-Sat: 10am-4pm
Aug 20–Oct 26: Better Days
Sep 13–Dec 20: William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations
Nov 9–Nov 21: Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Show: Round 1
Dec 7–Dec 19: Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Show: Round 2
University of Colorado Earth Sciences and Map Library, Benson Earth Sciences Building, 2200 Colorado Avenue
Boulder, CO 80309, 303-492-6133, Mon-Fri: 9am-5pm
University of Colorado Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St, Boulder, CO 80302, 303-492-6504, Mon-Sun: 7am-7pm