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Gift cards may be redeemed onsite for tickets, memberships, or merchandise within the Shops in the Hamilton Building and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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!

Throughout his nearly 50 year career, highly regarded photographer and educator Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has explored the importance of community and weight of history through his compelling portraits and landscapes. From 1988 to 1991, he photographed African Americans in the streets of various American cities. For this project entitled Street Portraits, Bey asked a cross section of these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self-presentation and performance in their urban environments.

Please join us for a conversation between Dawoud Bey and Eric Paddock, Curator of Photography at the Denver Art Museum, to learn more about the artist’s process, inspiration, and the importance of this earlier work to his career as a whole. This program is presented in connection with his exhibition Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits.

Please note that the Art Emergency: Sendak Edition play runs 45 minutes long. Please purchase your play ticket one hour before or after your entry time to the Wild Things: Art of Maurice Sendak exhibition.

COMPOSING COLOR: THE WORLD OF ALMA THOMAS

American artist Alma Thomas once wrote “Love comes by looking.” In this multi-session course, take a closer look at the artist, her art, and her world. Learn about Thomas’s creative philosophies and inspiration, fall in love with her eye for color and pattern, and dive into the deeper context of her long life and impactful career.

Session #1 – Alma Thomas: The Creative Age

September 14th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s long life and late-career breakthroughs prove that creativity gets better with time. Like other artists who were prolific well into older age, Thomas’s creativity dynamically evolved in her later decades. In this course session, we’ll celebrate Thomas’s vibrant abstractions from the 1950s-1970s and consider her journey and others’ who worked well into their seventies, eighties, and beyond.

Session #2 – Alma’s World

October 19th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s life was as rich and complex as her paintings. The third session of this course focuses on the larger context in which Thomas lived and worked, paying particular attention to the artistic, social, and political movements that influenced Thomas’s development as an artist.

Session #3 – The Meaning and Making of Color

November 16th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

For Alma Thomas, the “spirit and living soul of the world” was manifest through colors. She used art’s most luscious resource brilliantly, concentrating on what she called “beauty and happiness,” rather than urgencies of “inhumanity.” This session offers deep context for how and why artists throughout history have found, manipulated, coded, and celebrated color to achieve staggeringly diverse ends. It’s the ultimate shape-shifter. Color produces happiness—and it also registers power, privilege, spirituality, symbolism, technologies, emotion, and reason. With color at the forefront, artists create endless pathways to expression and offer us inexhaustible insights.

Presented by Stella Paul, writer and educator, author of Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art

COMPOSING COLOR: THE WORLD OF ALMA THOMAS

American artist Alma Thomas once wrote “Love comes by looking.” In this multi-session course, take a closer look at the artist, her art, and her world. Learn about Thomas’s creative philosophies and inspiration, fall in love with her eye for color and pattern, and dive into the deeper context of her long life and impactful career.

Session #1 – Alma Thomas: The Creative Age

September 14th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s long life and late-career breakthroughs prove that creativity gets better with time. Like other artists who were prolific well into older age, Thomas’s creativity dynamically evolved in her later decades. In this course session, we’ll celebrate Thomas’s vibrant abstractions from the 1950s-1970s and consider her journey and others’ who worked well into their seventies, eighties, and beyond.

Session #2 – Alma’s World

October 19th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s life was as rich and complex as her paintings. The third session of this course focuses on the larger context in which Thomas lived and worked, paying particular attention to the artistic, social, and political movements that influenced Thomas’s development as an artist.

Session #3 – The Meaning and Making of Color

November 16th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

For Alma Thomas, the “spirit and living soul of the world” was manifest through colors. She used art’s most luscious resource brilliantly, concentrating on what she called “beauty and happiness,” rather than urgencies of “inhumanity.” This session offers deep context for how and why artists throughout history have found, manipulated, coded, and celebrated color to achieve staggeringly diverse ends. It’s the ultimate shape-shifter. Color produces happiness—and it also registers power, privilege, spirituality, symbolism, technologies, emotion, and reason. With color at the forefront, artists create endless pathways to expression and offer us inexhaustible insights.

Presented by Stella Paul, writer and educator, author of Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art

This package includes a Contributing DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

• Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
  • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
  • Collection talks and gallery visits
  • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
• Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
• Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
• Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
• Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
• First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

Create Playdate is an early-childhood program at the Denver Art Museum for families with children ages 0-5 (though siblings are always welcome too!). Create Playdate offers a range of experiences within the museum, including time close looking at art in the galleries, artmaking, and a participatory performance.

This program is included with the price of admission. Join in the creativity and fun!

Give to the Denver Art Museum's Annual Fund

Your 100% tax-deductible contribution supports inspiring art connections, powerful artist collaborations, community-minded programming at the Denver Art Museum. During these unprecedented times, your donation helps the museum reimagine how we connect in person and online through a series of new opportunities for visitors of all ages. Thank you for your support of the Denver Art Museum's annual fund.

This package includes a Dual DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

• Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
  • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
  • Collection talks and gallery visits
  • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
• Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
• Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
• Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
• Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
• First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

This package includes a Family Plus DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

• Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
  • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
  • Collection talks and gallery visits
  • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
• Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
• Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
• Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
• Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
• First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

This package includes an Individual DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

• Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
  • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
  • Collection talks and gallery visits
  • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
• Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
• Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
• Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
• Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
• First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

Sonya Clark transforms everyday fiber materials hair, flags, and found fabrics into profound statements on race, culture, and class. Working with her chosen objects, Clark weaves, stitches, folds, braids, dyes, pulls, and snips threads of ideas to create new meanings. For more than thirty years, she has explored ideas of Blackness, uncovered little-known objects from American history, and sought to bring greater visibility to figures from the African diaspora.

Clark is professor of art at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and was Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts and Commonwealth Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond where she served as chair of the Craft/Material Studies Department from 2006 to 2017. Her work is the public collections of Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, among others.
 
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion and the Modern and Contemporary Art department.

See Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak before the museum opens to the public. This time is exclusive for members.

Museum Friends are invited to a private reception in the Congdon Boardroom with renowned artist Dawoud Bey. Join us immediately following the Anderman Photography Lecture: A Conversation with Dawoud Bey, which begins at 6:00 PM. This exclusive event offers a unique opportunity to connect with the artist in a more personal setting, and we hope to see you there.

This package includes a Supporting DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

• Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
  • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
  • Collection talks and gallery visits
  • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
• Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
• Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
• Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
• Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
• First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

Donations to this fund are invested by the DAM foundation with the intention to grow the fund in value over time. This fund provides an annual distribution based on the Foundation's policy.  Distributed funds are used to acquire new artwork for the DAM.

The Museum regularly reconciles expenditures made from distributed funds to ensure that they are allocated as intended.

Purchase tickets to a Wild Things Member Morning here.

Access Free Day special pricing for Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak here.

Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak presents more than 400 artworks created by Maurice Sendak. One of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century, Sendak is best known for picture books, especially the award-winning titles Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and Nutshell Library. He also designed theater sets and collaborated on films.

Wild Things is named after Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, the beloved children’s book he authored in 1963 that became a cultural touchstone. The exhibition's title signals to all the beauty, whimsy, and mischief that his art inspired over his 65-year career. Visitors will see unique examples of Sendak’s timeless art, such as the final artworks for Where the Wild Things Are, and get a sense of his extraordinary skill and his deep understanding of the process of creating picture books and designs for the stage, television, and film productions. The show will include a wide array of drawings, paintings, posters, and mockups for books. It will also include set designs for the Where the Wild Things Are opera and the costumes for the live-action, feature-length film.

Alongside Sendak’s work, Wild Things will showcase works by other artists that Sendak collected throughout his life, tracing the origins of his creativity to William Blake, Winsor McCay, Beatrix Potter, George Stubbs, and Walt Disney. Sendak’s collaborations with distinguished directors, composers, writers, and choreographers such as Carroll Ballard, Frank Corsaro, Carole King, Spike Jonze, Tony Kushner, among many others, are also illuminated throughout the exhibition.

This ticket includes General Admission to the museum. To purchase a regular admission ticket without access to Wild Things, click here.