Boulder, CO – March 13, 2025 – The Dairy Arts Center is proud to announce its highly anticipated annual fundraiser, PEEK, an exclusive evening offering behind-the-scenes glimpses into the diverse artistic experiences showcased at the Boulder-based nonprofit. On Thursday, April 24, 2025, guests will immerse themselves in a unique celebration of creativity, collaboration, and community […]
Presentiment March 4-April, 9, 2022 Featuring works by Emily McIlroy, Paula Gasparini-Santos, Sarah Darlene Palmeri, and Alli Lemon The galleries are free and open to the public Monday-Sunday, from 2pm-6pm. Docent tours are available Thursday beginning at 5pm in the lobby, or by special arrangement. Presentiment showcases the work of four artists all separately and collectively
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KEITH BRENNERBELGIN YUCELENBELGIN YUCELENNATASHA MISTRYPAUL BROKERING Previous Next On View November 5, 2021 – January 7, 2022 New Visual Arts Exhibits at the Dairy Arts Center: “Diptych” by Keith Brenner and “Contemplation” by Belgin Yucelen, Natasha Mistry, and Paul Brokering Opening Reception is Friday, November 5th from 5:30 – 8:00pm: Join us for the opening
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Featuring Anthony Garcia Sr., Juan Fuentes, Markham Maes, Anthony Maes, Diego Flores Arroyo, Victor Escobedo, UC Sepia, and Karma Leigh Opening Reception: September 10th from 5:30-7:30 pm Exhibition runs from September 10 through October 31, 2021 ¡Oye! More Than Street Art: De La Gente brings together a diverse group of Colorado-based street artists reflecting inspiration,
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Visual Arts Exhibit at the Dairy Arts Center: Brutal RealitiesAn exploration of alternate and real-life hard to believe realities. On View: January 17 – February 23, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, January 17, 5:00pm Co-curated by Drew Austin and Mark Amerika, Brutal Realities exposes how contemporary artists confront their shifting nature of reality in digitally mediated
Autumn T. Thomas Dark Side of the Moon Autumn T. Thomas Dark Side of the Moon, 2019 Wood, Copper, Cement, Resin 72″ x 48″ x 12″ On view on the Dairy’s Palmer Terrace: June – September Dark Side of the Moon is an Afrofuturistic self-portrait and a reflection of the ways in which I
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Scottie BurgessCause 2 Become Image courtesy of Scottie Burgess Scottie Burgess Cause 2 Become Expanded polystyrene & latex paint 9’5” x 3′ x 3′ On view on the Dairy’s Palmer Terrace March-June Comprised of materials originally meant to be discarded, this form exists as a means to capture hopeful ephemera. Through the coloring,
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https://vimeo.com/600381231 The Dairy Arts Center’s newest outdoor mural/wheatpaste by Erica Pacha, is a collaboration with Streetwise Boulder and Project Worthmore, an organization in aurora Colorado who works with refugees from 160 countries. “We have been working in the refugee community since 2009 and the entire time we have always woven arts and music into the
New Dairy Arts Center exhibition unpacks the politics of water in a changing climate By Jezy J. Gray – September 22, 2022| Boulder Weekly The Colorado River is in trouble. Now in its 23rd year of drought, the once-mighty water source flowing nearly 1,500 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California is
By Will Matuska – September 15, 2022 | Boulder Weekly It may seem like Robert Martinez is established, “but it’s been a long road to walk,” says the Native artist from the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. Despite his work being shown across the country, for most of his 25 years creating art, Martinez
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The second annual Creative Nations Indigenous Arts Market & Festival comes to the Dairy Arts Center to Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day Weekend October 6-10, 2022 (Boulder, CO – September 19, 2022) – The Dairy Arts Center is set to host the 2nd annual Creative Nations Indigenous Arts Market and Festival during Indigenous Peoples’ Day weekend
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The Found Collective Market Brings 25+ Vendors of Artists, Makers, Vintage Collectors, and Small Businesses to the Dairy Arts Center Saturday, September 24, 2022 (Boulder, CO – August 31, 2022) – The Dairy Arts Center is set to host the first of many outdoor marketplace events on Saturday, September 24 from 2 pm-6 pm. The
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The Dairy Arts Center is pleased to share the exciting news of our new endowment fund, recently established through a generous bequest from the Polly Addison estate. The newly established fund, the first of its kind at the Dairy, will help support our visual arts program and allow us to continue to offer award-winning exhibitions, free and
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‘inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE’ will be up through July 16 “inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE” on display at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, in Denver, in October 2021. The exhibition is opening at Dairy Arts Center on Friday and will additionally feature a handful of Boulder-based AAPI creatives. (Wes Magyar/Courtesy photo) By KALENE MCCORT | kmccort@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily CameraPUBLISHED: May 19, 2022 at
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inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE: New Visual Arts Exhibit at the Dairy Arts Center Curated by Boram Jeong, Boyung Lee, Sammy Lee, and Chad Shomura On View: May 20 – July 16, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, May 20th, 4:30pm – 8:00pm The theme inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE captures the struggles of Asians and Asian Americans to survive and
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A Bright, White Light by Brandi Stanley A written response to Emily McIlroy’s exhibition The Lilies How They Grow (March 4th – April 9th, 2022) including images courtesy of Emily McIlroy, Elliot Whitehead, and Drew Austin This work was produced as part of the Visual Literacy Program at Dairy Arts Center Can funerals be held
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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
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An exploration of intuition throughout the artistic process On View: March 4 – April 9, 2022 – Opening Reception: Friday, March 4th, 5:00pm – 8:00pm The galleries are free and open to the public Monday-Sunday, from 2pm-6pm. Docent tours are available Thursday beginning at 5pm in the lobby, or by special arrangement. Presentiment showcases the
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NAACP Boulder County kicks off Black History Month with Dairy Arts Center exhibit, ‘Walk With Me’ series By KALENE MCCORT | kmccort@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily CameraPUBLISHED: January 12, 2022 at 10:41 a.m. | UPDATED: January 12, 2022 at 10:49 a.m. The photographs of Ernest C. Withers line the walls at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder on Tuesday. Withers documented African-American life
ART FOR REDEMPTION Open June – July 2021 You will find these works on display outside the Dairy Arts Center building. Over the next two months, we will be showcasing a series of incarcerated artists in collaboration with Art For Redemption on the front walkway wall of The Dairy Arts Center. AFR is a Social
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Moe Gramm | Denver Colorado GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE WORK YOU DO: I am an interdisciplinary visual artist most commonly known for my large scale mixed media collage and mural paintings. WHAT DO YOU WISH MORE PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT JUNETEENTH? WHAT DOES JUNETEENTH MEAN TO YOU? – The freedom of enslaved black people
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Jahna Rae Church | Denver, CO GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE WORK YOU DO: Most of my work is a combination of ink and various types of paint, and recently got into painting murals. I’ve always been interested in the sacred feminine and feminism in modern society, so a lot of what I create includes
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‘We’re still here’ In a bid for greater equity, the Dairy Arts Center changes its rental policy and makes room for indigenous artists at the Creative Nations Center By Caitlin Rockett -Boulder Weekly April 1, 2021 ‘Sing Our Rivers Red’ Courtesy Tanaya Winder Melissa Fathman remembers a moment two years ago, on Indigenous Peoples Day, watching Sarah
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Amplifier has come to the Dairy! We are so excited for our newest outdoor art installation! For Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020, Amplifier, Nia Tero and IllumiNative teamed up to launch a new large-scale public art campaign to elevate Indigenous land stewardship EVERYDAY! The artwork series explores various concepts tied to Indigenous sovereignty, civic engagement, and
Mary K. (Polly) Addison passed away peacefully January 11, 2021 and is remembered as a woman who offered so much to so many. Whether it was helping with fundraisers, the visual arts committee or serving as a board member, her dedication and unflagging energy was always there to support the Dairy Art Center’s growth—often providing
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Art Outside and Online in the Face of the Pandemic with the Dairy Arts Center As a hub of creativity and learning, the Dairy Arts Center encompasses a lot for the Boulder community. Their iconic building, a former milk-processing facility, hosts a wide variety of artists, activities, performances, classes, and more. Unfortunately, that is just the type
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Jan 17th – Jan 18th, 2021 – With the support of The City of Boulder Office of Arts + Culture, The Dairy Arts Center is pleased to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with live programming throughout the weekend including a public poetry workshop, virtual slam poetry performances, cinema, music, and more!
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Our Stories: a community resource for purposeful art education presented by the Dairy Arts Center Deadline for Proposals: December 27th, 2020 Final Product due: January 24th, 2020 With the generous support of the Xcel Energy Foundation, the Dairy Arts Center is seeking proposals for virtual arts education instructional videos targeting a range of age groups
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“More than two years in the making, Museo de las Americas, in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Center, is pleased to announce a powerful, deeply moving and timely exhibit opening October 29th, 2020. Testigos / Witnesses is a portrait-based exhibition born out of a friendship that developed between the artist Gaal D. Cohen and artisan Genaro Fuentes
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By KALENE MCCORT | kmccort@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily CameraPUBLISHED: August 29, 2020 at 1:35 p.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2020 at 1:36 p.m. Denver-based creative crafts everything from massive murals to smaller commissioned pieces In March 2020, Thomas “Detour” Evans paints a mural on the Scarpa building on Frontier Avenue in Boulder. Evans is an all-around creative specializing in large-scale public art,
In conjunction with Mo’Print (regional biannual celebration of printmaking) featuring eight female artists, all of whom were born abroad. On View: February 28 – April 5, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday, February 28, 5:00pm – 7:00pm Foreign Born explores the unique perspectives of female immigrants from Asia, South America and Europe. Individually, each artist charted a
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Varied art by CU’s TECHNE Lab affiliates will be on display through Feb. 23 By KALENE MCCORT | kmccort@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily CameraPUBLISHED: January 24, 2020 at 8:00 am | UPDATED: January 24, 2020 at 9:32 am A still from the net art piece “Famous Men Who’ve Cried Online” by Melanie Clemmons. This piece, along with others by CU’s TECHNE Lab affiliates,
‘Brutal Realities’ examines our digital-driven world through digital-driven art By Caitlin Rockett | Boulder Weekly – January 16, 2020 ‘Unfolded III’ – Annette Isham The Amazon rainforest was ablaze last year as artist Mark Amerika and curator Jessica Kooiman Parker began to conceptualize a new media exhibition for the Dairy Arts Center. In fact, the
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Peggy Turchette brings the costumes and fashion of ballerina Anna Pavlova to life by Angela K. Evans – December 12, 2019 | Boulder Weekly “My dancing belongs to the world,” Anna Pavlova once said. Yet almost a century after the ballerina’s death, many people have never heard of Pavlova or her dance company, which she used to bring
The 5 elaborate Altars on display at the Dairy Arts Center were created by Amistad’s Compañeras Program and community members. Programa CompañerasEstablished in 2002, with the mission of “increasing the quality of life and well-being of women, providing access to educational, cultural and mutual support programs in an inclusive and safe space”.The Compañeras Program of
The Dairy Arts Center is happy to announce the dedication of a new mural in acknowledgment and recognition of the culture and history of Boulder’s Indigenous people on Saturday, October 12th at 10AM at the Dairy Arts Center. In partnership with StreetWise Boulder and the City of Boulder the Dairy Arts Center will be unveiling
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In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, and as an acknowledgment to the land that The Dairy sits on, we have partnered with Street Wise Boulder as a wall sponsor and are so excited to welcome muralist LMNOPI (or “Lopi” for short) from Vermont/NYC. Lopi painted a portrait-based mural on the west-facing side of the building located in our main
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Street Wise mural festival hopes to foster community with public art -By Amanda Moutinho– September 19, 2019 | Boulder Weekly – when you enter an art gallery, you agree to an experience. There will be some sort of exchange between art and viewer — more often than not, that is the reason you entered the gallery
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By MADELINE ST. AMOUR | mstamour@timescall.com | Boulder Daily Camera – On May 27, 1974, Alamosa attorney and University of Colorado Law graduate Reyes Martinez, 26, University of Colorado Boulder junior Neva Romero, 21, and CU Boulder double major graduate Una Jaakola, 24, were killed in a bombed car at Chautauqua Park. On May 29, another car bomb near
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By KALENE MCCORT | kmccort@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily Camera – Where we lay our heads at night is such a vibrant part of who we are. Beyond the floor plan and color palette, the vibe and very concept of “home” is one that differs by person, region and culture. A newly opened exhibit at the Dairy Arts Center,
Boulder Lifestyle Magazine Article Amelia Broughton | Photography Lindsey Haligas – DESIGNING & DECONSTRUCTING THE DAIRY ART CENTER’S NEWEST EXHIBITION, MODERN HABITAT When entering a home, some things might seem familiar, others foreign, and others fascinating. One might notice the arrangement of the furniture, the adorned walls, and the way natural light shimmers through the windows.
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INSIGHT By Sophie Walker – Standing in the vast lobby of The Dairy Art Center, I overheard a disparaging remark about one of the exhibits. The “art critic” was there with a friend of mine. Not one to be shy, I introduced myself and suggested they might like to join a docent-led tour in 10 minutes
Created by artist David “Ocelotl” Garcia, this mural measuring roughly 18′ x 40′ in size, depicts Garcia’s vision of Mother Earth and her struggle against humanity’s use of her resources. The artist states, “This mural depicts Mother Earth (Tonanzin) and her struggle with humanity’s unbalanced use of her natural resources, and our growing carbon footprint
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This mural by Florian Lopez is a gift from Ciudad Mante, Tampaulipas, Mexico to the people of Boulder in appreciation for medical and cultural exchanges between the two cities. Boulder and Mante became Sister Cities in 2000 as an outgrowth of medical missions initiated by First Presbyterian Church and Boulder Community Hospital. “When visiting Boulder
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As of today, 3/12/2020, The Dairy Arts Center remains open and operational. Should scheduling changes occur, ticket holders will be directly notified by The Dairy Arts Center.
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