EXHIBITIONS
The Dairy Arts Center has four award-winning galleries that are free and open to the public, as well as two additional rotating gallery spaces. The main galleries include the Hand-Rudy, MacMillian Family Lobby, Polly Addison, and the McMahon Gallery, with rotating works in the Locals Only Gallery (located in the Caruso Lounge, near our West Entrance) as well as an exterior wheat pasted exhibition (found on the North East side of our main entrance). Annually our galleries show works by regional, national, and international artists in a variety of exhibitions. The galleries are free and open to the public Monday-Sunday, from 12pm-6pm.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Bubbling Up: Participatory Installation by Grace Gee
November 8 – December 1, 2024 Opening Night Reception: November 8th, 5 – 8 PM Bubbling Up is a Healing Art Installation for Community Unity on the Gordon Gamm Wall in the lobby of the Dairy Arts Center. Bubbling Up is a transformative installation that invites the community to engage in meaningful conversations around racism and xenophobia.
Thirteen Moons in the Land of Sky and Wind
Exhibition Dates: November 8 – January 6, 2024 Opening Reception: November 8, 5 – 8 PM Location: Sacred Space, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302 The Lakhota people have many names for the months of the year. The names of the moons are drawn from the resources available to them or are descriptions
Curious Realms: Step Into Abstraction
Curious Realms: Step into Abstraction November 8, 2024 – January 5, 2025 Opening Night Reception: November 8th, 5 – 8 PM Abstraction is defined as “existing in thought or idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.” Concepts like love, imagination, faith, and hope are abstract, yet they unite us through shared human experience,
Full Circle: Laura Brenton
Full Circle: Laura Brenton Exhibition Dates: November 8 – December 8, 2024 Opening Reception: November 8, 5 – 8 PM Painting with Music Workshop: November 16, 1 – 4 PM (TICKETS AVAILABLE SOON) Location: Locals Only Gallery, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302 The Dairy Arts Center proudly welcomes Laura Brenton back
Paper Skies | Brenda Biondo
Paper Skies Brenda Biondo Brenda Biondo investigates natural light, atmospheric color and the photograph as object, putting the most ubiquitous of subjects — the sky — into unconventional contexts to create illusions that challenge expectations. Her work references the Light and Space movement’s emphasis on light as subject, while the images’ formal aesthetic qualities are
Jodi Stuart – Nested Rhomboids
Jodi Stuart Nested Rhomboids Jodi Stuart Nested Rhomboids ABS Plastic, Nylon Filament 120″ x 60″ x 72″ On view in the Dairy’s West Entrance Jodi Stuart explores the aesthetic of the digital technologies which saturate our lives, in relation to tactile and sensory experience. Stuart subverts the materials and tools of high-tech culture through her
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
COWBOYS: JEROME COFFEY
Exhibition Dates: December 13, 2024 – January 12, 2025 Opening Reception: December 18, 5 – 8 PM Location: Locals Only Gallery, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302 Cowboys have long been romanticized in American culture. In the late 1950s and 60s, TV and movie Westerns epitomized the myths of American independence, grit, and the
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Homelands: Reconnection
Homelands: Reconnection Exhibition An Annual Exhibition Honoring Those Whose Land We Stand On: The Ute, Cheyenne & Arapaho On View: September 13th – November 3rd Opening Reception: September 13th, 5-8pm The “Homelands” art show is a profound tribute to the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute tribes, honoring their connection to their ancestral lands that now make
Open Studios Preview Exhibition
Open Studios Preview Exhibition September 27th – October 27th 2024 Opening Reception September 27th from 5:00-8:00pm Annie Wilson “Sunny Forest Trout” The 2024 Open Studios Tour will once again be held the first three weekends in October. The 2024 Tour features over 150 artists at over 100 studio locations throughout Boulder County. The annual Open
It’s In The Air | Dante Ortiz
It’s In The Air Dante Ortiz August 30 – September 21, 2024 Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) Opening Reception August 30th from 5:00-8:00pm I make art that envisions a culture/nature relationship mutually arising in a complexity of interexchange. My work is multi-disciplinary, dedicated to exploring the intersection of nature, art, and design. Tracing
Drip | Run | Freeze | Crack | Melt
Drip | Run | Freeze | Crack | Melt JULY 26, 2024 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 Featuring work by: Brenda Biondo (Manitou Springs, CO), Jarod Charzewski (Charleston, SC), James Tapscott (Victoria, AUS), and Christopher Warren (Durango, CO) In the era of Anthropocene, every action caries the weight of environmental consequence. When the world teeters on the
Orbs & Fronds: Ryan Wiese
Orbs & Fronds Ryan Wiese July 26 – August 25, 2024Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) Thank you for joining me in my world of playful minimalism, where bright colors and clean lines hold a story waiting to be discovered. I search for simplicity mixed with a vibrancy, and a place where balanced form
Weaving Prayers: Ocean’s Edge to Mesa’s Ledge | Roberta Begaye
Bitterwater Galerie Presents: Weaving Prayers: Ocean’s Edge to Mesa’s Ledge Roberta Begaye June 14th – September 8th, 2024 A journey of culture, prayers and hope for my people back home on the Navajo Reservation. I am of two Water Clans: Bitterwater and Zuni-Edgewater. Water is one of the four sacred elements and is essential for
300 Days of Sunshine: Jennifer Hohlfelder
300 Days of Sunshine Jennifer Hohlfelder June 14th – July 21st, 2024 Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) This exhibit of new oil paintings by Boulder artist Jennifer Hohlfelder celebrates the 300 days of sunshine Colorado receives each year. Enjoy the bold hues of these sunny scenes from ski slopes to swimming pools! When
Selections from Ana’s Art Gallery
Selections from Ana’s Art Gallery Called a “Hidden Treasure ” by one visitor, Ana’s Art Gallery features electrifying art from Africa, the Caribbean and South, Central and North America. Run by long-time art curator Ana Weir, the gallery specializes in oils and acrylics on canvas, wood masks and sculptures from established international and local artists. The commonality among
Stone and Wood Sculptures
Stone and Wood Sculptures Works by Bryan Valdez Redmoon May 10th – June 9th, 2024 Sacred Space Gallery Bryan Valdez Redmoon started his art at the age of 9 years old with oil paintings. In 1983 Bryan apprenticed under renowned native American artists Robert and Bennet Morninggun for 4 years carving stone. Bryan’s reputation for
Steadfast Into Spring: Sarah Kelly
Steadfast Into Spring New Works by Sarah Kelly May 10th – June 9th, 2024 Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) “Steadfast into Spring” is an inviting abstract art collection that is a vibrant testament to resilience, renewal, and the unwavering spirit of growth. Each piece celebrates the transition from adversity to vitality, capturing the
UndocuAmerica: Reclaiming Our Presence
UndocuAmerica: Reclaiming Our Presence MOTUS Theater May 10th – July 14th, 2024 Muralist Edica Pacha depicting UndocuAmerica monologist Laura Peniche, 2022 Motus Theater’s UndocuAmerica: Reclaiming Our Presence invites visitors to engage with art that centers undocumented community members’ stories through a wide variety of mediums including photography, illustrations, films, and animations. At a time when
Shakti: The Source of Strength
Shakti: The Source of Strength Bala Thiagarajan May 10th – July 14th, 2024 Shakti: The Source of Strength is a series of portrait paintings by artist Bala Thiagarajan, that captures the essence of Indian women as sources of strength beautifully embodying the concept of Shakti. Shakti, in Hindu philosophy, is the divine feminine energy that
In Search of Personal Icons: Sangeeta Reddy
In Search of Personal Icons Sangeeta Reddy May 10th – July 14th, 2024 Bound in the rock formations are joy and melancholy, loss and desire. The act of recognition–of examination and analysis–of drawing a piece of land or a rock formation and of interpreting and expressing it, is, at once, an act of surrender and
Horse (Drawn): Sophy Brown
Horse (Drawn) Works by Sophy Brown April 4th – May 4th, 2024 Locals Only, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) Someone somewhere is probably doodling a horse in the margin of a notebook, as people have been drawing horses from as far back as we can see. There are prehistoric engravings on pebbles and sketches on terracotta
BVSD Student and Faculty Exhibition 2024
BVSD High School and Faculty Exhibition 2024 April 4th – May 4th, 2024 Opening Reception April 4th from 5:00 – 8:00pm Boulder Valley School District and The Dairy Arts Center are proud to present the annual art exhibition featuring works by high school students and faculty. Works on display include paintings, drawings, mixed media, digital
Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines: Portraits of Life in Sanctuary
Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines:Portraits of Life in Sanctuary Joel Dyer May 10th – July 14th, 2024 WINDOWS A window takes on new importance when you’ve been trapped inside the same set of walls for years on end. In sanctuary, clear glass panes become everything. They are the only way to touch the outside world;
Spotlight On: Access Gallery
Spotlight On: Access Gallery February 23rd – March 30th The Dairy Arts Center, in partnership with Access Gallery, presents an exhibition born from a screen printing workshop designed and led by artist Chinn Wang. Participants embarked on a creative journey, exploring personal symbolism under Wang’s guidance while learning a new artistic medium in celebration of
Imagine! Artist Showcase
Imagine! Artist Showcase February 23rd – March 30th, 2024 Featuring work by: Bobbie G., Gabe R., Gerald S., and Tessa Opening Reception: February 23rd from 5:00-8:00pm Learn More About Imagine! Imagine! provides services designed to incorporate people with developmental, cognitive, and physical challenges into the fabric of their communities. Services include educational and therapeutic services,
Are You OK?
Are You OK? A Trans Survival Project by Jesse Freidin On view February – May 2024 North East Exterior Wall of Dairy Arts Center Engage with the Exhibition « All Events Are You OK? The Disappearing Faces of America’s Trans Youth March 22 @ 7:00 pm Free TICKETS Friday, 03/22/24, 7:00pm – This event focuses
Black Futures in Art: Can You Hear Me?
Black Futures in Art: Can You Hear Me? February 9th – April 6th Featuring work by: Adderly Grant-Lord, Louise Cutler, Lydia Carlis, Thomas Lockhart, John Toms, Gedion Nyanhongo Adderly Grant-Lord Take a moment to pause and reflect, can you sense the profound resonance of these words as they reverberate through the corridors of your heart?
Depths: Alissa Davies
Depths Alissa Davies Feb. 23rd – March 30th, 2024 Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) This body of work speaks to depth as it relates to the ocean, one’s inner world, and acrylic paint. Despite living miles from the ocean, the sea is always with me, woven into my blood from a childhood spent
Stay Puft : New Work by Chinn Wang
Stay Puft Chinn Wang Polly Addison Gallery February 23rd – March 30th, 2024 Opening Reception February 23rd from 5:00-8:00pm Chinn Wang’s new artwork, Stay Puft, continues the artist’s exploration into transitions in life and death. Wang’s installation plays with ideas of mortality using the character of an auspicious Chinese mythological creature, the qilin, a being
a place/we may or may not/actually visit: A Grix
a placewe may or may notactually visit A Grix February 23rd – March 30th, 2024 McMahon Gallery In this exhibition, a place we may or may not actually visit. A Grix continues their exploration into themes of longing and unfulfilled desire with a consideration towards future existence. The title for this show comes from a
LEAVE ME WANTING YOU – Todd Edward Herman
LEAVE ME WANTING YOU Todd Edward Herman Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge (West Entrance) January 12th – February 17th, 2024 LEAVE ME WANTING YOU is excerpted from my ongoing project SANCTUARY. Sourced from photographs made by myself, family members and generated from the surfeit of imagery found in AI datasets, the images included in LEAVE
SCAPES
SCAPES January 12 – February 17, 2024 Featuring work by: Richard Eisen, David Hollander, Molly Kaderka, and Pam Rogers Pam Rogers A scape in botanical terms is a long flowerless stem that extends from the bulb or rhizome of plants often buried right below the earth. Common scapes are the greens from onions or garlic,
Ghosts in the Light – Benjamin Stanford and Bruce Tetsuya
Ghosts in the Light Benjamin Stanford and Bruce Tetsuya November 17th – December 30th, 2023 Opening Reception: November 17th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm Benjamin Stanford Bruce Tetsuya Something shifts when you lean into the middle spaces; an internal landscape opens up in that liminal boundary that exists between reality and the edge of perception
In My Body – Courtney Griffin
In My Body Courtney Griffin Locals Only Gallery, Caruso Lounge November 17th, 2023 – January 7th, 2024 Opening Reception November 17th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm “In My Body” combines artworks from my two bodies of work over the last year. All of these paintings were made during seasons of immense physical change, including several
AN EXPLORATION OF RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE : OUR BACKS HOLD OUR STORIES
Creative Nations Arts Collective + East Window Gallery + The Dairy Arts Center Presents: AN EXPLORATION OF RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE : OUR BACKS HOLD OUR STORIES PHOTOGRAPHS BY KALI SPITZER November 17th 2023 – January 26th 2024 Curated by Todd Edward Herman Opening Reception November 17th from 5:00 – 8:00pm Kali Spitzer is an Indigenous,
‘Cuauhtémoczin’ – inside the process: Diego Florez-Arroyo
‘Cuauhtémoczin’ – inside the process October 28th – November 11th, 2023 Diego Florez-Arroyo with Jesse Lee Pacheco, Charlie Apple, Anthony Maes, and Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Closing Reception: November 10th from 5-8pm “A fresh take on a typical prison drama, the multimedia production follows the life of Dante as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery
Denver’s Art Seen: Selections – Raymundo Muñoz
Denver’s Art Seen: Selections Raymundo Muñoz October 28th – November 11th, 2023 Closing Reception November 10th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm This selection of linocut prints from my Art Seen series is part documentation of the Denver art scene as I experienced it over the last ten years or so and part creative interpretations of
Portrait Gallery
Portrait Gallery November 17th – December 30th, 2023 What is a portrait and how is it defined? Portrait Gallery, a large-scale group exhibition that was sourced from a public call for portrait based works, is created around this very question. Inspired directly by portrait galleries in prominent art institutions around the world, this salon-style hang
From Me in Her to Her in Me – Irene Delka McCray
From Me in Her to Her in Me Irene Delka McCray November 17th – December 30th, 2023 McMahon Gallery Opening Reception November 17th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm “Can we imagine that at the essence of human being is an insistence upon being witnessed – by others, by gods, by the cosmos itself – and
El año del coyote – Grace Gutierrez
El año del coyote Grace Gutierrez October 28th – November 11th Closing Reception: November 10th, 2023 5:00 – 8:00pm The coyote is an animal regularly typecast as a threatening predator with violent intentions. Communities all over the country have attempted to eradicate them, spending millions on coyote mitigation, some states still offering bounties for their
Flat Space
Flat Space: Whitman Lindstrom EXTENDED through November 12thCaruso Lounge Closing Reception: November 10th from 5:00-8:00pm Whitman Lindstrom’s latest exhibition ‘Flat Space’ at the Dairy Arts Center, offers a fresh perspective on the iconic Flatirons through an imaginative exploration of pictorial space. With his recognizable use of color and form, Whitman’s solo show ‘Flat Space’ invites
Open Studios Preview Exhibition
Open Studios Preview Exhibition September 15th – October 22nd Opening Reception: September 15th from 5:00 – 8:00pm Kathryn Moller BOULDER’S “OPEN STUDIOS TOUR,” a beloved 28-year-old fall tradition, is thriving and expanding in the post- pandemic environment. The 2023 Tour marks the first time since its founding in 1995 that its footprint is growing beyond
Scrawl – Allyson McDuffie
Scrawl August 17th – September 17th Opening Reception: August 17th from 5:00 – 8:00pm As an artist, I strive to explore the intersections between memory, identity, society, and resilience in my work. I often use humor and satire to subvert the seriousness of these topics. Throughout my life, my images have attempted to speak to
Neuron Forest
Neuron Forest Katie Caron September 15th – November 11th, 2023 McMahon Gallery Exhibition featured in DARIA, click here to read Opening Reception September 15th, 2023 @ 5:00 – 8:00pm I have always been compelled to create work inspired by nature’s geometries, specifically the self-similar branching fractals in our brains: neurons. These discrete nerve cells are
The Mercury Oracle
The Mercury Oracle Created by Lewis Neeff Installed along North East exterior wall, adjacent to main entrance The Mercury Oracle is a robust 88 card divinatory tool. Full of tried and true cosmologies, contemporary techniques, and oblique strategies, it is meant to help anyone from beginners to seasoned pros navigate an ever changing world through
Aberrant Behavior
Creative Nations is Native American Arts collective permanently housed at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder Chelsea Kaiah & Cody Norton Aberrant Behavior is an exhibition to showcase the lesser-seen areas within the hunting culture presented in the United States. Artists Chelsea Kaiah and Cody Norton give in-depth perspectives of Indigenous and Queer hunting practices.
Unlearning the Garment from the Body
Unlearning the Garment from the Body: Sasha de Koninck July 14th – September 9th, 2023 Opening Reception: July 14th @ 5:00pm – 8:00pm Unlearning the Garment from the Body is a process of taking apart existing garments–garments that I have found and collected over the years, and garments that I have made myself–in order to
Control
Control: Juvana Soliven July 14th – September 9th, 2023 A year ago, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court. Control. Control over our bodily autonomy, our rights toward self-determination, our gender expression, our narratives — control over what is inherently ours is under attack. This exhibition features works from Soliven’s Body Weaponized
Making a Mountain
Making a Mountain: Ana Maria Hernando July 14th – September 9th, 2023 For Making a Mountain, the community will be invited to sew together, sharing stories while building a large-scale installation made from pink and orange tulle. At the very beginning, visitors see a space with only chairs and sewing machines on tables arranged in
Assiduous
Assiduous July 14th – September 9th, 2023 Assiduous (adj) : showing great care or perseverance; constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; unremitting Assiduous unites seven artists, spanning various mediums and conceptual frameworks, under the shared umbrella of the titular word. It exemplifies the sincere act of repetition, the deliberate care embedded
All My Relations
Opening Reception: May 12th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm With DJ set from Machu Linea All My Relations Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand In Lakota we say “Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ” meaning ”all my relations” “we are all related.” This phrase is often said in prayer and ceremony and is an acknowledgement that everything is related from people
Luis Eades Centennial Art Exhibit
Luis Eades Centennial Art Exhibit On View July 7th – 9th, 2023 Opening Reception Saturday, July 8, 2023 from 4:00 – 8:00pm 100 years ago, Luis Eades was born in Madrid, Spain. So began his remarkable life and artistic journey that would span nine decades and touch the lives of countless people across several continents.
Prismatic
Opening Reception: May 12th from 5:00 – 8:00pm Light and shadow work in tandem to illuminate and define the world around us, and yet, when we look closer we can observe that light contains infinitely more than meets the eye. Much like our personhood, something that is so easily split into categories actually bursts forth
Black Futures in Art: We’re Not Just History
Black Futures in Art We’re Not Just History EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 7th Exhibition Documentation Creative Nations Sacred Space Guest Exhibition: NAACP Boulder County Exhibition Curated by Adderly Grant-Lord Read move about the exhibition at CU Independent Featured on Scripps News PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Adderly Grant-Lord; Painter, Curator and Producer of: Black Futures in Art: We’re Not
BVSD 2023
Boulder Valley School District High School and Faculty Exhibition April 6th – May 6th, 2023 Student Examples Emily Steele Hayden Guiler Boulder Valley School District and The Dairy Arts Center are proud to present the annual art exhibition featuring works by high school students and art education faculty. Works on display include paintings, drawings, mixed
JOYSOME
JOYSOME In Collaboration with East Window Exhibition part of Month of Photography 2023 , on view through April 9th JOYSOME will remain on view at Children’s Hospital Colorado through April and May Pictured: Whittier Elementary Joy is frequently understood as the fulfillment of desires which are considered essential to one’s own flourishing. Joy involves an existential
Water is Life
Water is Life Co-Curated by JayCee Beyale September 23rd – November 26th, 2022 Participating Artists: JayCee Beyale, Theresa Clowes, Kendall Rose Kippley, Zeke Peña, Nicole Salimbene, and Anna Tsouhlarakis “Water doesn’t discriminate, but people do. How do we make this a human need rather than a demographic need?” -JayCee Beyale Our bodies are living organisms
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