Speaking of Clay
March 5-April 21, Art Students League of Denver, 200 Grant Street, Denver
Clay, a most malleable material, takes form through sculptural and ceramic art with surfaces holding unlimited possibilities. Hand-built, thrown, or used in combination with mixed media, clay expresses modds - dynamic or still, representational, classic, abstract or conceptual. Clay speaks!
Visiting Ceramic Artist Arthur Gonzales. In conjunction with the exhibit a free public lecture will be held on Friday, March 12 and a demonstration (there is a charge) titled Figurative Ceramic Sculpture: Building the Head and Torso on March 13&14.
Go to www.asld.org for more details or call (303) 778-6990.

Los Originales
March 5-27, CHAC (Chicano Humanities & Arts Council), 772 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
CHAC Gallery: Features Carlos Sandoval, Jerry Jaramillo, Stevon Lucero, Al Sanchez y Los Hijos.
Kids Art Saturday, March 20, 2-4pm: April Fools in March
Poetry y Mas, March 13, 2-4pm: Irish and Mexican Lore.
CHAC Del Norte Gallery (right next door): Featuring Fernando Duran Alcantar, Stevon Lucero, Dominic Domingo, Bob Martinez, Suzanne Martino, Michael Penny and James Mascarenas.
Gallery hours are Wednesday & Thursday - 10am-4pm, Friday - Noon-6pm, First Friday - Noon-10pm, Third Friday - Noon-9pm, Saturday - Noon-4pm. For more information visit www.chacweb.org or call (303) 571-0440.

Conflict | Resolution
March 26-June 20, opening celebration Friday, March 26, 5-7pm, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs
A multidisciplinary project exploring the concepts of conflict and resolution through visual arts, performing arts and arts education.
Danger Toy Love Gun by Sean O'Meallie. Danger is at play in this Colorado Springs artists sculpture, reminding us that our childhood fascination with guns and bombs may not be something we so easily outgrow.
Dealing with Difference: Domination/Compromise/Integration features 20th and 21st century art that draws attention to selected aspects of conflict and resolution; aspects like war, terrorism, gender and cultural indentity, poverty and oppression.
W Dictionary by Carlos Aguirre is a series of works focusing on the role of the media as it communicates and responds to world conflict, specifically the events of 9/11 and its aftermath.
Spores by Chris Weed simultaneously suggests something playful yet threatening, natural yet out-scaled, organic yet industrial.
Wounded Warriors Exhibition from military personnel suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
For more information visit Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center or call (719) 634-5583.

Ropes | Face to Face | Relational Fabric in Space & Other Works for the Dark
January 19-May 23, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th Street, Boulder
Ropes: Patti Lee Becker is exhibiting pencil drawings and sculptures which explore the boundaries and beauty in the seemingly mundane materiality of ropes. She descrribes being inspired by the simplicity of a line that can become increasingly complex through tangles and knots.
Face to Face: Beverly McIver's powerful and poignant visual story comes alive. Her expressionistic paintings are materful and bold. Vigorous brushstrokes work equally well to portray sensitivity and distress and paintings appeal both visually and conceptually.
Relational Fabric in Space & Other Works for the Dark: Steve Steele's work is comprised of three mixed media installations that includes 333 objects, bulbs, platforms and wood panels. The artist describes it as being about the infinite number of relations existing between objects, words, meanings, the natural world and man as intelligent spectator.
Visit bmoca.org or call (303) 443-2122 for more information.

La Malagua
February 4-June 6, Museo de las Américas, 861 Santa Fe Drive, Denver
Curated by Maruca Salazar, El Colectivo Malagua features the talent of 5 artists from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico: Jessica Felix, Sergio Martinez, Fernando Sanchez, Miguel Perez and Ireri Topete. The Colectivo has taken the Mexican Loteria (game of chance) iconography and has changed the rules by adding a new card: La Malagua (The Jellyfish). This change prompts a visual reinterpretation of La Loteria that parodies its predecessor, along with the comical and the colorful characters of Mexican society. Two Colorado artists, Carlos Fresquez and Belen Escalante, are also featured and will provide their own take on La Loteria. Come and play. For more information visit www.museo.org/ or call (303) 571-4401.

Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delganey, Denver
Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made
Before the face. Beneath the surface. Beyond reason.
- Michaël Borremans, opens January 29, 2010. The films, paintings and drawings by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans engage the viewer with stilled images rendered in a precise and exacting style. His seductive works contain timeless images that capture what has been described as "the inner drive and external force — the latent pressures — involved in being human." His figures perform common rituals and simple gestures, though they are set within an environment shrouded in mystery or ambiguity. His intensely atmospheric images are puzzles that oscillate in a fragile way between inexorable realism and nebulous distance.
- Samuel Beckett, opens January 29, 2010. Samuel Beckett, the late dramatist and writer, is represented by an historic video of his dramatic monologue Not I. This work features a pulsing fourteen-minute monologue spoken by a woman who is only visible as a mouth on a black background. The phrases she speaks, though obscure and fragmented, take the shape of a story; an older woman is trying to recount the memory of a traumatic event. This unexplained event seems to be responsible for her inability to emerge as a fully functioning person, as an "I" in the world. Though Beckett worked outside the field of visual art, his interest in how human beings attempt to make meaning out of their world speaks directly to the interests of contemporary artists.
- Erick and Heather ChanSchatz, opens January 29, 2010. Eric and Heather ChanSchatz will present paintings, sculptures, works on paper and books which, in their words, "inhabit the architecture and psychology of the social condition." Resulting from their engagements with individuals, communities and institutions, the ChanSchatz's have created artworks that explore communal relationships, structures of individuality, and the mapping of socio-political networks. Such interactions typically span several years to reach completion and have taken place internationally from New York to Iraq. The works included at MCA Denver present projects at different stages of progress providing our audiences with a unique view into, and an opporutinity to participate with, the many layers of the ChanSchatz's conceptual and provocative practice.
- Lorraine O'Grady, opens January 29, 2010. In Lorraine O'Grady's own words, Miscegenated Family Album (1994) is a "novel in space." Installed as a series of 16 photo-based diptychs, the work began as a memorial to her older sister Devonia, who died unexpectedly at the age of 37, while the two were estranged. The photographs of Devonia and her family are contrasted with images of Queen Nefertiti, the ancient Egyptian queen – enabling the viewer to draw parallels between Devonia and Queen Nefertiti, a woman who had disappeared from Egyptian history when she was 36. O'Grady's work extends beyond personal reflection on this tragedy by taking on the universal challenges of memory, loss and the erratic shifts in how history is preserved.
- A.G. Rizzoli, opens January 29, 2010. Achilles G. Rizzoli was a draftsman who created finely detailed pictures of grand buildings as portraits of people he knew. He understood his architectural renderings as "symbolically portraying" his subjects. though the connection between the buildings and the people remains a mystery to the viewer. Rizzoli lovingly dedicated his drawings to the people he depicted, suggesting that he saw in them something other than outward appearances. The sincerity of his messages combined with the majestic character of his buildings creates the sense of a beautiful soul.
- William Stockman, opens January 29, 2010. William Stockman presents drawings that are often dark, fragmented and mysterious. Though he typically depicts human figures, they are enigmatic and archetypal. Stockman often culls his images from daily newspapers, but he abstracts and disassembles them, simplifying them using bold outlines. His drawings appear to be quick and unconscious, rather than laborious efforts. The results are pictures that feel archaic or pre-modern, as if he was trying to find, before the rational mind, a more primitive beauty.
For more information visit the Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver or call (303) 298-7554.

Botanic Gardens Exhibitions
1005 York Street, Denver
Joellyn Duesberry's Southwest: Sharpening the Edge, January 23-April 4, 2010. Explore one of the country's most important plein-air painters. Joellyn Duesberry has mastered a balance between traditional representations and abstracted reductions of form. She successfully introduces formalist representations of landscape with the energy of expressionism.
Moore in the Gardens, March 8-Jan. 31, 2011. Presenting a landmark exhibition of monumental works by the internationally acclaimed British sculptor, Henry Moore (1898-1986). This powerful exhibition highlights the inspiration Moore found in natural environments, emphasizing the relationship of humanity to the natural world. Twenty of Moore's massive sculptures are displayed within the landscape settings of the Gardens' York Street and Chatfield locations, providing the perfect backdrip for work which demands to be seen in the open.
From Penstemons to Pines: Illustrating Colorado's Natives, April 10-May 25, 2010. Reception Sunday, April 18, 1-3pm. RSVP to exhibits@botanicalgardens.org. A significant juried exhibition of Colorado native plants commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Botanical Art & Illustration Program at Denver Botanic Gardens. Jurors include Lesley Elkan, Botanical Illustrator, Royal Botanic Gardens Trust, Australia; Ann Swan, Botanical Artist, UK; Stephanie Schrader, Curator of Drawings Getty Museum; Susan Spackman Panjabi, Senior Research Associate, Colorado State University.
For more information visit www.botanicgardens.org.

Denver Art Museum Temporary Exhibitions
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver
Allen True's West through March 28, 2010, One of Colorado's native-born artists whose art is as complex as it is enduring. Discover the work of Allen Tupper True in this three-part exhibition presented by the DAM, Denver Public Library and Colorado Historical Society.
Embrace! through April 4, 2010, see what happens when artists take over the DAM, transforming unique spaces into amazing works of art.
A New Indian Image: Fritz Scholder through May 30, 2010, A dozen works showing the artist's attempt to alter the image of American Indians in the 20th century, from his defiantly controversial Indians to a deceptively intimate self-portrait.
Face to Face through June 30, 2010, Explore one of the oldest forms of art – the portrait – in this exhibition of 30 drawings by Bill Amundson, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Marlene Dumas, Lucian Freud, Philip Gaston, Richard Phillips and others.
Shape & Spirit through September 19, 2010. Beauty and function meet in this exhibit which showcases the wonder of bamboo through more than 200 objects that capture the spirit and cultural character of their makers.
A Visual Alphabet: Herbert Bayer's Anthology Paintings through December 31, 2010, this exhibition highlights Bayer’s anthology paintings, including a selection of canvases and works on paper-some complete compositions, and others, preliminary sketches for large anthology paintings.
For more information visit www.denverartmuseum.org.

Denver Public Library
10 W. Fourteenth Avenue Parkway, Denver
Allen True's West, October 2, 2009-March 28, 2010, Central Library, Western History Gallery - Level 5. The Denver Art Museum, the Colorado History Museum and the Denver Public Library join forces to tell the story of one of Colorado's favorite artists.
Visit the denverlibrary.org or call (720) 865-1111 for more information.

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
1311 Pearl Street, Denver
100 Years of Colorado Art, through April 4 at the Arvada Center. Partnering with the Arvada Center for the Arts to present a wide-ranging survey of Colorado art from the Kirkland's extensive collection.
Visit the kirklandmuseum.org or call (303) 832-8576 for more information.

Kids’Art Club
No classes at this time.
Meininger Art Supply recognizes the benefits of art education. We strive to support the efforts of our community to continue the education of children in art. At our Denver store, we offer art classes to children ages 6 to 12 during the year with our popular Kid's Art Club. We also provide a resource on our website for teachers and parents to exchange ideas for creative activities and lesson plans. Click here for more information.

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