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Vampire Ball 2025

“When the night comes, we shall rise” On All Hallows’ Eve, the Dairy Arts Center invited you to The Vampire Ball, a decadent realm of shadows and desire straight from your most delicious nightmares. Our nocturnal coven welcomed you to a world of ballgowns and bloodlust, opera gloves and neon lights, 1890s grandeur meeting 1990s

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Open Call for Artists: “Go West” Exhibition Spring 2025

Exhibition Dates: May 16 – June 29, 2025 Submission Deadline: December 6, 2024 Guest Jurors: Rajiv Menon and Roseline Nevling The Dairy Arts Center is excited to announce an open call for submissions to our spring 2025 exhibition, Go West!  This group exhibition will center the experiences of artists with ties to Colorado who self-identify

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Locals Only Gallery

What to expect as an artist in the Locals Only Gallery… Find resources below that will help you prepare for exhibition. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, concerns, or snags along the way.  Caruso Lounge Created during our elevator renovation circa 2019, the Local’s Only gallery is located within our

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Grounded

Grounded October 18 – December 1, 2019 Participating Artists: Sonja Hinrichsen , Kathleen Probst, Eileen Roscina Richardson, Tyler Jones, Gregg Deal, bARTer Collective, Tory Tepp, Ana Maria Hernando and Kenneth Robinson. Land affects all of us. From the moment we take our first steps to the realization that the land we walk on may not actually belong to us, the place

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Modern Habitat: Building Energetic Spaces

Modern Habitat: Building Energetic Spaces September 5 – October 13, 2019 Previous Next Featuring Will Day, Margie Criner, Davis Arney, Mike Homner, Arch11, Workshop 8, Pyatt Studio, HMH Architecture + Interiors, Renée del Gaudio Architecture, Sopher Sparn Architects & Housefish In partnership with Month of Modern & EFFA (Boulder, CO – August 5, 2019) –

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Creative Nations Indigenous Arts Market & Festival

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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Sacred Space Exhibition Page

Sacred Space Exhibition Page To Do: Exhibition Deliverables Please prepare the following documents and email to drew@thedairy.org : Fill out the contact form below Artist Bio Inventory of Exhibited Works (include Title, Size, Medium, Date, Price/Insurance Value) 2-3 high resolution images for marketing (details work too!) Completed W-9 (download here) Exhibition Contact Form Basic information collected for exhibiting

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Art Gallery Information

The Galleries McMahon Gallery The largest gallery that is housed at The Dairy, the McMahon Gallery is a 1023 sqft traditional white box space with a gray concrete floor. This gallery is locked during closed hours and is best for fragile works, participatory works, works shown directly on the floor, large sculptures, installations, projection/new media,

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Dairy Arts Center Establishes First Endowment Fund

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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Dairy Arts exhibit showcases layered work of AAPI artists from all backgrounds

‘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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Catch a vibe! Boulder’s Story Slam hosts the first slam of 2022 – in person! 

March 13, 2021: Boulder’s Story Slam will bring storytellers and audiences together in the same room for their first in-person event in 2022.  Over the past 2 years of the pandemic, Boulder’s Story Slam and The Dairy Arts have hosted 7 virtual slam as well as 3 hybrid slams – with audiences safely gathering at

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A Message from the Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors

As many of you know, the Dairy Arts Center has always reflected a wonderful sense of community and shared resources.  And even though it still holds true, this past year’s necessary hibernation, numerous tragedies, and violent clashes have revealed a need to reevaluate our values and longstanding sense of community. In addition to working hard

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Shadow Puppet Hero – Jessica Robblee

Age Group: Elementary school, with adult helpMaterials: Pencil, Paper, Scissors, Easy-to-cut cardboard (cereal box or shoe box), Tape, Straws/sticks/skewers, Lamp, bed sheet or paper for makeshift screen Starting with a short performance of a shadow puppet story, this video covers the basics to start creating your own shadow puppet show. It also covers the “hero’s journey”

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Testigos / Witnesses Spotlight at Museo de las Americas

“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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Muralist Thomas ‘Detour’ Evans brings activism, emotionally charged artistry to new heights

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,

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In 1963 Len Barron began college at the University of Colorado; he was thirty years old. After CU he went to graduate school in Washington D.C.  Later he taught Sociology at the University of Colorado, San Diego State University, and Prescott College in Arizona. Back in Boulder, in 1980 he began to write and perform in solo and ensemble

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Hazel Miller

Hazel Miller is a singer, mentor, bandleader, booking agent…ect.  All this means is that Ms.Miller has found a way to break into the Colorado music scene and stay in demand for more than 30 years.  Ms. Miller has appeared at all the major music venues and festivals in Colorado…from Band on the Bricks in Boulder to The Bohemian West Fest,

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Gene Hayworth

Gene Hayworth is the proprietor of Inkberry Books, an emerging cultural hub in Niwot, Colorado. He is also the director of Social Sciences at the University Libraries, University of Colorado Boulder. In addition, he is the publisher and chief editor of Owl Canyon Press, and author of non-fiction and literary translations. He lives in Boulder with his

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Open Studios

Open Studios has for nearly a quarter-century been a visible and successful supporter and promoter of visual art and artists in Boulder. Founded by Gary Zeff in 1995, the nonprofit organization began as the free, self-guided Open Studios Artist Tour held each fall, during which juried artists welcome the public into their workspace to show their

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Olivia Dwyer

Staff Accountant | olivia@thedairy.org  Olivia Dwyer is a born and raised Boulderite, who graduated from CU Boulder is 2016 when she started at The Dairy Center. She is a freelance artist and dancer and is excited to be with the Dairy as a Staff Accountant and Patron Service Associate. She is excited to continue her

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Felicia Furman

Felicia Furman – Cultural Communications Facilitator Formerly the Managing Director of the Colorado Dance Festival, Felicia Furman has been a supporter and patron of the arts in Boulder for over thirty years. She has been a professional in the field of historic preservation in New York City, Washington D.C., and Boulder, as well as a

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R. Alan Brooks

Alan joined the Dairy Arts Center in 2021 as an Artistic Collaborator/Content Creator. R. Alan teaches writing for Regis University’s MFA program, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He’s the author of “The Burning Metronome” and “Anguish Garden” – graphic novels featuring social commentary, as well as The Colorado Sun’s weekly comic, “What’d I Miss?”. He also

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MARCH 2020

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.

If you have a question about an event please contact the presenting arts organization. For films, Dairy Presents and all other questions contact the Box Office at 303.440.7826