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Gift cards should arrive within 5-10 business days.

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We look forward to your visit!

Gift cards may be redeemed onsite for tickets, memberships, or merchandise within the Shops in the Hamilton Building an Sie Welcome Center. Not valid for online purchases.

Gift cards should arrive within 5-10 business days.

Limit 1 per transaction. To purchase multiple gift cards, call 720-913-0130 to speak with an associate.

We look forward to your visit!

Gift cards may be redeemed onsite for tickets, memberships, or merchandise within the Shops in the Hamilton Building an Sie Welcome Center. Not valid for online purchases.

Gift cards should arrive within 5-10 business days.

Limit 1 per transaction. To purchase multiple gift cards, call 720-913-0130 to speak with an associate.

We look forward to your visit!

Gift cards may be redeemed onsite for tickets, memberships, or merchandise within the Shops in the Hamilton Building an Sie Welcome Center. Not valid for online purchases.

Gift cards should arrive within 5-10 business days.

Limit 1 per transaction. To purchase multiple gift cards, call 720-913-0130 to speak with an associate.

We look forward to your visit!

Students will have to opportunity to learn how to create cyanotypes using varying found objects, drawing on transparencies, photography, and the sun! This process is engaging and involves working with exposure to light. It is an accessible and fun way to learn how to draw with light exposure.

Etching is an intaglio printmaking process where an image is incised onto a plate, then inked and printed on a press. This class seeks to demystify etching by teaching a method that is as simple as drawing. No expensive metal plates, no acid baths! Just an etching needle, a plexiglass plate, and you. We will learn what intaglio is, the difference between traditional acid etching and drypoint, and how to ink and print an image.

Flow State is a one-day workshop that explores the connections between intuitive painting, mindfulness meditation, and community. Participants will learn how to combine abstract painting and drawing skills with mindfulness meditation techniques, and will explore how this hybrid practice can be used to hold space for our Selves and each other. Participants will work individually and as a group using acrylic paint, pastels, paper and canvas. This class will connect to abstract works in the Denver Art Museum collection, including pieces by artists like Mark Bradford, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Sam Gilliam, Shinique Smith, and Sonia Gechtoff.

Do you have old t-shirts, socks, bandanas, or pillow covers shoved in a corner of your closet?

Instead of throwing those away, you can transform the old garment with natural indigo dye at this workshop. Students will learn about the art of indigo dyeing and how to make natural indigo vats using fructose sugar, henna and iron ferrous sulfate. We will explore making various resist patterns including Japanese techniques, Shibori and Ita-jime.

In this class, students will learn how to carve their own block, and print on fabric. The class will begin by introducing students to block printing. We will spend one class exploring the museum, looking for inspiration in the exhibitions and designing the blocks we want to carve. Then students will carve their own block(s) and use them to print on fabrics and other textile goods.

In this class, students will learn how to use oil paints as the primary medium by introducing fundamental painting techniques and materials. Students will study composition, basic color theory, painting terminology, methods of application, working from observation, and historical contexts. The primary subject will be figures and portraits in a landscape or atmospheric setting. Students will learn how to see, with an emphasis on composition, proportion, and balance. Denver Art Museum exhibitions, such as Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead and Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, will be used to teach students how to contextualize the self and place both visually and conceptually.

In this class, students will investigate a selection of fiber-based objects in the collection of the Denver Art Museum. The course will be an exploration into the process and techniques used by specific fiber artists to create their artworks. Focusing on notions of off-loom weaving, participants will be encouraged to explore various methods while responding to their own interests.

Join us for a panel discussion featuring artists Jennifer Elise Foerster, Steven Yazzie, and Dana El Masri as they respond to the exhibition Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism.

Learn how their contributions to the exhibition, including two custom scents developed by Dana and a video poem created by Jennifer and Steven, respond to, complicate, and reappropriate the colonial perspectives of the artworks on display. Moderated by exhibition curator JR (Jennifer R.) Henneman.

Dana El Masri is a perfumer, interdisciplinary artist, lecturer, writer, and storyteller based in Montreal, Canada who is inspired by the scents and sounds of contemporary landscapes, as well as by her deeply rooted Egyptian Lebanese cultures and global life experience.

Jennifer Elise Foerster (Mvskoke) is the author of three books of poetry, The Maybe Bird (2022), Bright Rain in the Afterweather (2018), and Leaving Tulsa (2013).

Steven Yazzie (Navajo/Laguna Pueblo) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the complexities of the post-settler colonial indigenous experience as it relates to personal identity, community relationships, and the essential connection to the land as the source of life, stories, conflict, and healing.

Experiment with all kinds of media, from paint to paper to fabric and more! Play with materials and ideas like a true artist and take home art inspired by the many genres and materials seen in the museum’s diverse collections.

From clay vessels to abstract sculptures, we have it all in the museum! We’ll take what we see in the gallery and apply it to our art in the workshop. At the end of the week, you’ll have all kinds of sculptures to share with family and friends!

In this class for our youngest museum friends, we’ll explore all the basics of art! We’ll learn all about textures, shapes, lines, and more through games, stories, and of course art projects!

Join JR Henneman, Curator and Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art for an after-hours tour of the exhibition Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism. This presentation of artworks explores the many ways that the style and substance of French Orientalism directly infl uenced American artists and their representations of the American West in art and popular culture during this period. Learn more about this exhibition's themes with key insights from JR on this private tour! Mingle with Museum Friends and share your thoughts over food and drink on level 2 of the Hamilton building before and after the tour.

The galleries will remain open until 8 pm.

5:30 pm| Doors

6:00 pm| Curator Tour

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What role does community play in the development of an exhibition?

Get a glimpse into Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism with JR (Jennifer R.) Henneman, director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art and curator of the exhibition, and Lauren Thompson, senior interpretive specialist. Learn how the exhibition team collaborated with local community members, national scholars, and the Denver Art Museum’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) committee and Indigenous Advisory Council to create a multi-faceted and thought-provoking visitor experience.

What role does community play in the development of an exhibition?

Get a glimpse into Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism with JR (Jennifer R.) Henneman, director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art and curator of the exhibition, and Lauren Thompson, senior interpretive specialist. Learn how the exhibition team collaborated with local community members, national scholars, and the Denver Art Museum’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) committee and Indigenous Advisory Council to create a multi-faceted and thought-provoking visitor experience.

We’re scaling down the artwork but not the fun! This week we’ll put on our artistic engineering hats and learn how to make miniature versions of artworks and artwork-inspired objects.