Curator Conversation: The Life and Work of Nancy Hemenway Barton
Join curator Jill D’Alessandro and the artist’s son, Bill Barton, for a discussion about Nancy Hemenway Barton's artistic influences, practice, and personal history. From 1966 to 1997, Nancy Hemenway Barton, an artist from the Maine coast, created large-scale wall reliefs using hand-loomed fabrics primarily sourced from indigenous weaving communities in South America and Africa, where she had lived and worked. (less)
Join curator Jill D’Alessandro and the artist’s son, Bill Barton, for a discussion about Nancy Hemenway Barton's artistic influences, practice, and personal history. From 1966 to 1997, Nancy Hemenway Barton, an artist from the Maine coast, cr (more)
Candida Alvarez calls her paintings chatty abstractions. Comprising controlled fields of color, delicate mark-making, and seeping geometries, Alvarez's paintings may contain bright and vivid tones or more somber hues that evoke a soliloquy and a mental landscape. Born from the artist's close observations of her family she grew up in a lively Puerto Rican household and from everyday experience, these ebullient works recall the distant horizons as seen from her childhood home in a Brooklyn high-rise and describe its intimate interior. Lately, Alvarez has drawn inspiration from the tropical environment of Puerto Rico and her mother who had returned to live on the island before the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria in 2017 forced her to move. (less)
Candida Alvarez calls her paintings chatty abstractions. Comprising controlled fields of color, delicate mark-making, and seeping geometries, Alvarez's paintings may contain bright and vivid tones or more somber hues that evoke a soliloquy an (more)
Shiva Ahmadi orchestrates exquisitely crafted scenes of beauty and terror. Her vibrant fantasy realms are, upon closer inspection, macabre theaters of conflict where faceless figures engage in endless cycles of struggle and pain. Combining luminous colors and mystical beings with violent imagery, Ahmadi creates watercolor paintings, sculptures, and digital animations that illuminate global issues of migration, war, and brutality against marginalized peoples. Her work is informed by current events in the Middle East and the US, and inspired by Iranian, Turkish, and Indian book and miniature painting traditions.
In 2016, Ahmadi received the Anonymous Was A Woman Award and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work is in the collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Dallas Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. (less)
Shiva Ahmadi orchestrates exquisitely crafted scenes of beauty and terror. Her vibrant fantasy realms are, upon closer inspection, macabre theaters of conflict where faceless figures engage in endless cycles of struggle and pain. Combining lu (more)
ONSITE - Behind the Baton LIVE: Where the Wild Things Are and the Music of Mozart
In partnership with CPR Classical, this event brings to life the radio feature Behind the Baton with Scott O’Neil, the former Colorado Symphony resident conductor. O’Neil will explore the music of Mozart and its influence on Sendak’s creative process, performing selections on the piano while uncovering the mysteries behind Mozart’s masterpieces.
Denver Art Museum Director and Wild Things curator Christoph Heinrich will delve into the deep connections between music and art, sharing vivid imagery from Sendak’s beloved works, including Where the Wild Things Are, A Hole is to Dig, and Little Bear. Together, O’Neil and Heinrich will illuminate the dynamic interplay of music and visual storytelling that defined Sendak’s groundbreaking career. (less)
In partnership with CPR Classical, this event brings to life the radio feature Behind the Baton with Scott O’Neil, the former Colorado Symphony resident conductor. O’Neil will explore the music of Mozart and its influence on Sendak’s creative (more)
Research shows that humans are hard-wired to create and to look at art. Both activities stimulate our brains, provoke our emotions, and help us to connect with the world around us. In this learn about the impact of artmaking and art-viewing on the brain, explore artworks that were created for the act of beholding, healing, and growth, and spend time in the galleries with a slow art experience. (less)
Research shows that humans are hard-wired to create and to look at art. Both activities stimulate our brains, provoke our emotions, and help us to connect with the world around us. In this learn about the impact of artmaking and art-viewing o (more)
Across cultures and time, art has played a deep role in human connection. Indigenous elders have passed down creative traditions from one generation to the next, some artworks were created to support spiritual connection (with higher powers or ancestors), and other objects came to be through human collaboration. In this session, we’ll consider artists and their work as ties that bind us together in the past, present, and future. (less)
Across cultures and time, art has played a deep role in human connection. Indigenous elders have passed down creative traditions from one generation to the next, some artworks were created to support spiritual connection (with higher powers o (more)
VIRTUAL - Behind the Baton LIVE: Where the Wild Things Are and the Music of Mozart
In partnership with CPR Classical, this event brings to life the radio feature Behind the Baton with Scott O’Neil, the former Colorado Symphony resident conductor. O’Neil will explore the music of Mozart and its influence on Sendak’s creative process, performing selections on the piano while uncovering the mysteries behind Mozart’s masterpieces.
Denver Art Museum Director and Wild Things curator Christoph Heinrich will delve into the deep connections between music and art, sharing vivid imagery from Sendak’s beloved works, including Where the Wild Things Are, A Hole is to Dig, and Little Bear. Together, O’Neil and Heinrich will illuminate the dynamic interplay of music and visual storytelling that defined Sendak’s groundbreaking career. (less)
In partnership with CPR Classical, this event brings to life the radio feature Behind the Baton with Scott O’Neil, the former Colorado Symphony resident conductor. O’Neil will explore the music of Mozart and its influence on Sendak’s creative (more)