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July 7–11 | Where the Wild Things Are (age 5–6)
Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! This week, get to know the animals in the DAM’s collection, then make art inspired by our furry friends back in the workshop. Be sure to have your safari hats and binoculars ready for this adventure!
June 16–20 | Art & Nature (ages 5–6)
From materials to inspiration, nature shows up in art in all kinds of ways. This week, we’ll think about the connection between art and the environment as we explore the galleries. By the end of the week, you’ll be able to take home some earth-inspired artwork of your own!
June 16–20 | Art for Social Change (ages 12–14)
Are you an artist who wants to make the world a better place? Then this is the camp for you! This week, we’ll learn about how art is a tool for activism and use our creativity to speak up for the causes we care about!
June 16–20 | Play with Patterns (ages 7–8)
From Navajo weavings to Chinese ceramics, there are patterns everywhere! We’ll see how many patterns we can find in the galleries and create our own back in the workshop!
June 16–20 | See Your Story (ages 9–11)
From picture books to comics, visual storytelling is all around. This week, we’ll draw inspiration from the galleries to tell new visual stories of our own. A little drawing, a little writing, this camp has it all!
June 23–27 | Fabrics & Fashion (ages 12–14)
From fashion to soft sculpture, there are all kinds of artwork to create with the versatile medium of fabric! This week, campers will take a closer look at this material, both in the galleries and as artists in the workshop.
June 23–27 | Miniatures at the Museum (ages 9–11)
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 artwork and artwork-inspired objects.
June 23–27 | Sculpt This, Sculpt That (ages 5–6)
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!
June 23–27 | Where the Wild Things Are (ages 7–8)
Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! This week, get to know the animals in the DAM’s collection, then make art inspired by our furry friends back in the workshop. Be sure to have your safari hats and binoculars ready for this adventure!
June 9–13 | Art & Nature (ages 9–11)
From materials to inspiration, nature shows up in art in all kinds of ways. This week, we’ll think about the connection between art and the environment as we explore the galleries. By the end of the week, you’ll be able to take home some earth-inspired artwork of your own!
June 9–13 | Games, World-Building, and Art, Oh My! (ages 12–14)
This week we’re becoming worldbuilding MVPs and giving historical artworks a new life (pun intended). This camp for emerging teens is all about exploring the surprising intersections of storytelling, artistry, and game design!
June 9–13 | Play with Patterns (ages 5–6)
From Navajo weavings to Chinese ceramics, there are patterns everywhere! We’ll see how many patterns we can find in the galleries and create our own back in the workshop!
June 9–13 | See Your Story (ages 7–8)
From picture books to comics, visual storytelling is all around. This week, we’ll draw inspiration from the galleries to tell new visual stories of our own. A little drawing, a little writing, this camp has it all!
Logan Lecture: Shiva Ahmadi
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.
Logan Lecture: Stephen Prina
Stephen Prina is an art polymath. Since the late 1970s, Prina has moved nimbly between the disciplines of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and music. His projects reference art history, personal biography, and musical compositions that shift and change depending on the context in which they are presented. Prina often appropriates the work of other artists, exploring the post-studio afterlife of objects and recordings presented in galleries and museums, and received by critics and historians of art. Through his engagement with these works, Prina highlights the shifting nature of art’s reception and interpretation across time.
Looking Out, Looking In: Legacies of the Masuda Collection
The Provenance Research Department is excited to present Looking Out, Looking In: Legacies of the Masuda Collection. Provenance Research Fellow Mac Coyle will highlight works at the Denver Art Museum from the collection of Baron Masuda Takashi (1848-1938). President of Mitsu Company, Masuda was an avid collector during Japan’s transformative Meiji period (1868-1912) who assembled one of the most impressive and influential holdings of Japanese art—the legacy of which can still be felt in Japan’s cultural patrimony laws and in Japanese art collections worldwide.
Member Preview of Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors
Members see it first! Experience Kent Monkman’s U.S. debut exhibition, History is Painted by the Victors, featuring 41 monumental works, Monkman reimagines Western art history through an Indigenous lens, addressing themes such as colonial injustice, generational trauma, and Two-Spirit and queer visibility. The exhibition includes newly created works, pieces from the DAM’s extensive collection, and loans from other institutions, showcasing Monkman’s mastery of history painting as a contemporary genre.
Night at the Museums
To celebrate Night at the Museums, the Denver Art Museum will be free to all from 5 - 10 pm. Explore our reimagined, expanded campus. With innovative creative spaces, incredible views, and inspiring art from around the world and across time, there is something for everyone to love.
(Re)discover how art opens minds, conversations, and possibilities. Learn more at denverartmuseum.org.
Advance ticket reservations are strongly encouraged.
The Ponti restaurant will also be open. Reservations available at thepontidenver.com
Sensory Friendly Morning
The museum’s Sensory-Friendly Mornings is a program for kids with neurodiversity or sensory processing disorders and their families to visit the museum in a safe and fun way. The museum will open early, dim the lights, and provide tools to aid and guide a sensory-friendly experience for the whole family.
Session #3 Why Should We Art: Art Speaks
As a form of communication, art has the power to provoke, ask important questions, and call for change. In this we’ll look at artists as observers of and participants in contemporary life. Explore their visual interrogation of politics, identity, and history and celebrate their diverse creative voices. We’ll also ask what happens to the human creative voice and agency with the rise of AI.