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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!

Class Description:

In this class, students will explore oil painting fundamentals in an accelerated format. They will survey the DAM’s collection and sketch from art within the galleries. Students will create individual pieces inspired by their research sketches, utilizing their newly built skills. The intent of this class is to bring each artist through the entire process of researching and creating a completed piece of work.

What to Expect:

Students will learn or in some cases relearn fundamental skills in addition to some tricks of the trade. This knowledge will help them work within the museum to sketch and generate ideas and bring those ideas into the studio to complete a finished project.

Timeline:

Week 1

• Focus on oil painting fundamentals

Week 2

• Focus on oil painting fundamentals

Week 3

• Gathering sketches and ideas in the museum’s galleries

Week 4

• Gathering sketches and ideas in the museum’s galleries

Week 5

• Painting in the classroom

Week 6

• Painting in the classroom

Class Cancellation Policy:

If a class or workshop needs to be cancelled due to inclement weather or teacher illness, a “make-up” day will be scheduled on a FRIDAY or SATURDAY as the educator’s schedule allows.

Materials:

Students will purchase their own materials and should expect to spend $60-100.

We partner with Meininger’s for local shopping, purchase a kit of your required materials online for in-store pickup, or purchase the below items individually.

Educator:

Born in Denver in 1972, Michael Dowling spent much of his early life as a typical kid apart from being an obsessive drawer. It wasn’t until the age of 25, and after several years studying various subjects as well as working in many fields, that Michael started painting. With that late beginning, Dowling dove full in and began studying extensively. At 28, he decided to sell a burgeoning art sales company and moved to Florence, Italy to focus on painting. He has since returned to his native Denver where he lives and works.

Michael Dowling's work has been characterized as a combination of traditional practices in realism and his explorations of mark, pattern, and color to disrupt that reality. In many compositions, figures presented as portrait, morph into their surreal self, and lone objects tell stories through their subtle positioning. These objects and characters sit in bizarre spaces with intentionally disrupted atmospheres in order to find further meaning within the imagery.

https://m2lr.com/artists/72-michael-dowling/

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.

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.

Doug Salati, author of the award-winning 2022 picture book Hot Dog, began developing the idea for his book during his Sendak Fellowship in 2015. As an archives assistant at the Maurice Sendak Foundation, Salati immersed himself in Sendak’s creative world, studying original sketches, preliminary drawings, and final works. In this lecture, Salati will share behind-the-scenes insights into his creative process, lessons learned from one of the greatest storytellers of our time, and how Sendak’s methodologies continue to inspire his work today.

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

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

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.

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

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 package includes a Young Museum Associates 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

Please select the date you would like to visit the Denver Art Museum. Your tickets will be valid for the entire day.

The basic benefits including unlimited free general admission for one for an entire year, plus two free general admission guest passes