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
Visual Dialogues: Verónica Love
Opening Reception: 16 May, 5 – 8 PM Poetry as Inspiration Workshop: 18 June, 5 – 8 PM (TICKETED) About the Exhibition Perspectives, like water, shift and slip. This collection explores our human capacity to intentionally alter our perspectival lens. How does the aperture of our looking glass alter what is seen and felt? How
Go West: Celebrating AAPI artists in the American West
May 16 – June 29, 2025 Events: Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 5 – 8 PM Vauhini Vara Book Launch: Saturday, May 17, 5 – 7 PM (TICKETED) Go West Artist Talk: Tuesday, June 10th, 5 – 8 PM (TICKETED) Go West Film Screening: Monday, June 23rd DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED Artists: Agnes Ma, Bala
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Exploring the Nature of Origins: Megan McCarthy
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Megan McCarthy, a water-based oil painter, begins each piece by instinctively washing her canvas with diluted paint, embracing the unpredictability of the initial marks. Over time, she has come to see these spontaneous foundations as integral to her process, often preserving the energy and rawness of the first strokes. Her painting The
Boulder Valley School District Art Show 2025
Exhibition: April 3 – May 4, 2025 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 art, animation, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and more! Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) comprises 56
Creative Nations: Albert Foote Sr & Darrell Spotted Horse
Exhibition: 7 February – 4 May, 2025 Opening Reception: 13 February, 5 – 8 PM, Creative Nations’ Sacred Space Join us in celebrating the incredible artworks of Albert Foote Sr, MATO SAPA “Black Bear”, a respected artist, storyteller, and tipi educator. Alongside Foote Sr are a variety of beautiful prints and artworks by artist and
gone over… : Lisa Berley
Exhibition Dates: February 28 – March 30, 2025 Gallery: Locals Only Gallery About the exhibition: gone over… takes its name from a repeated line in Lisa Berley’s poem UnChosen, encapsulating the unpredictable waves of grief and the collapse and expansion of time that follow profound loss. This deeply personal exhibition invites viewers into a collage
Feel The Love: Jocelyn Roy
Exhibition Dates: 17 January – 23 February, 2025 Feel the Love invites you to journey through the lives of legends from history, reimagined through the unique perspective of artist Jocelyn Roy. Each piece is rendered in a different style, offering a kaleidoscope of interpretations that reveal how Jocelyn sees these figures through her creative lens.
Black Futures in Art: The Space Between Us
Exhibition: 17 January – 30 March, 2025 EVENTS: Floral Altar Workshop: 4 February, 7 – 8 PM Artist Talk: Thursday, 13 February, 5 – 8 PM Art & Movement Workshop: Ancestral Movement Practice: 8 March, 1 PM (Tickets Required) Art & Movement Workshop: Yoga Nidra Meditation: 22 March, 1 PM (Tickets Required) Closing Reception: 27
Under The Cold Moon: Erica Podwoiski
6 December, 2024 – 6 January, 2025 About the Exhibition Erica Podwoiski’s Under the Cold Moon is a poetic exploration of the shifting seasons along Colorado’s Front Range, where life both endures and transforms in the quiet beauty of winter. Using cyanotype—one of the earliest forms of camera-less photography—Podwoiski collaborates with the sun to create
COWBOYS: JEROME COFFEY
December 13, 2024 – January 12, 2025 About the exhibition 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 frontier. Popular shows like Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Bonanza, and Have Gun Will Travel captured the imaginations of Americans
Bubbling Up: Participatory Installation by Grace Gee
Shattering Silence & Amplifying Voices for Social Justice | Nov 8 – Dec 1, 2024 Artist Statement Bubbling Up is a deeply personal project born from a desire to heal my own experiences with racial injustice and offer that same process to the community. Healing must be cultivated from within, but it can be accelerated
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
November 8, 2024 – January 5, 2025 Participating Artists Andrea Gordon, Alli Lemon, Elisa Wolcott, Ilan Gutin & Sean Hogan, JayCee Beyale, Johnny Draco, Kaitlyn Tucek, Natalie Thedford, and Olive Moya About the Exhibition Step into abstraction and discover the curious realms of our creative minds . . . Abstraction is defined as: “existing in
Full Circle: Laura Brenton
Locals Only Gallery | November 8 – December 8, 2024 About The Exhibition Laura Brenton’s art journey is a captivating reflection of her evolution from dancer to painter, encapsulated in her exhibition, “Full Circle.” As a founding member of “The Space for Dance” at the Gordon Gamm Theater, she honed her craft under the guidance
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
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
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
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