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SUMMARY:Set The Table Exhibition Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: May 15\, 5 – 8 PM | On View May 15 – Aug 2 \nCelebrate the opening of Set the Table: The Art of Nourishment at the Dairy Arts Center with an evening of art\, food\, and community. Spanning all gallery spaces\, the exhibition explores the table as a powerful site of connection—where food\, culture\, and environment intersect\, and where relationships to land\, labor\, and one another take shape. \nGrounded in Colorado’s agricultural landscape and shaped by global perspectives\, Set the Table considers nourishment as more than sustenance—revealing it as a force of memory\, ritual\, creativity\, and care. \nEnjoy food\, music\, and the opportunity to connect with exhibiting artists throughout the evening. In collaboration with MAD Agriculture\, the event will also feature information and materials highlighting their work in regenerative agriculture\, inviting deeper engagement with the ideas at the heart of the exhibition. \nJoin us in gathering around the table—where art\, food\, and community meet.
URL:https://thedairy.org/event/set-the-table-exhibition-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Dairy Arts Center\, Walnut Street\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Boulder Eats At The Dairy
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\nBoulder Eats at the Dairy: Panel Discussion & Communal Supper \nPresented in connection with the Set the Table exhibit at the Dairy Arts Center\, Boulder Eats at the Dairy is a special evening that brings the exhibition’s themes to life—exploring how food\, culture\, and community converge at the table. \nIn collaboration with the Museum of Boulder’s exhibition Boulder Eats and Community Table Kitchen—the social enterprise of Boulder Bridge House—the event highlights Boulder’s rich food heritage and the cultural and ecological systems shaping how we share and experience food today. \nThe evening begins with a panel discussion moderated by acclaimed food writer and radio host John Lehndorff\, featuring local restaurateurs and culinary professionals. Together\, they will reflect on Boulder’s evolving food landscape and the ways food is a site for rich artistry and creativity on and off the table. \nFollowing the conversation\, guests will gather for a communal dining experience featuring three chef-curated tasting stations by Boulder Bridge House. Each station—Comfort\, Migration\, and Celebration—offers a lens into how food across Boulder and the Front Range connects us to memory\, movement\, and belonging. \nMore than a meal\, the evening uplifts the work of Boulder Bridge House\, whose culinary training program provides vital job skills\, daily meals\, and pathways out of homelessness. The chefs and servers participating in the event are part of this initiative\, grounding the experience in both exceptional food and meaningful social impact. \nAbout Community Table Kitchen:\nCommunity Table Kitchen (CTK) is a Boulder-based social enterprise catering and food production program of Bridge House. We provide high-quality\, seasonal food for events while offering paid job training and employment for individuals working to rebuild their lives after experiencing homelessness. Through our catering\, café\, and food production programs\, we combine thoughtful\, from-scratch cooking with meaningful workforce development\, using food as a tool to build community and create pathways to long-term stability. \nAbout Boulder Eats! exhibit at Museum of Boulder:\nBoulder Eats! is an exhibition at the Museum of Boulder focusing on food traditions along the Front Range\, with a special emphasis on our community’s restaurants\, farms\, and kitchens. Over 300 objects from the Museum’s historic collection featuring kitchens\, health food businesses\, orchards\, schools and restaurants will be on view. Programs including cooking classes\, demonstrations\, nutrition workshops and more will also be available to our visitors making this a can’t miss experience. \nUsing objects from the Museum’s permanent collection\, the exhibit tells Boulder’s story through the foods we eat. Exploring our farms and gardens\, the evolving technology in our kitchens\, the impact Boulder’s natural food businesses have had on our own and our nation’s health\, as well as the cultural stories reflected at our dinner tables both at home and in local restaurants come together to tell and even shape our community’s history. Boulder Eats! Food Traditions along the Front Range explores Boulder and how the food we consume energizes\, celebrates\, and reflects our traditions\, who we have become\, and what we value today. \nAbout John Lehndorff:\nJohn Lehndorff is the Food Editor of the Boulder Reporting Lab and Exhibit Historian for the Boulder Eats exhibit at the Museum of Boulder. He has written about food and culture in Boulder for nearly five decades including as the Food Editor of the Daily Camera\, and Dining Critic for the Rocky Mountain News. A former restaurant cook\, caterer and cooking teacher\, Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles and Kitchen Table Talk on KGNU. He is the former Executive Director of the American Pie Council and Chief Judge at the National Pie Championships.
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LOCATION:Dairy Arts Center\, Walnut Street\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Set the Table: Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\nJoin us for an evening of conversation inside Set the Table: The Art of Nourishment\, a multi-gallery exhibition exploring the table as a site of connection\, culture\, and exchange. \nThis artist talk brings together participating artists for an intimate discussion on the ideas\, materials\, and processes behind their work. From food as memory and ritual to questions of ecology\, labor\, and community\, the conversation unpacks how each artist approaches nourishment in its many forms—cultural\, emotional\, ecological\, and creative. \nSet within the exhibition itself\, the talk invites audiences to engage directly with the artworks and the artists who made them\, offering deeper insight into the stories\, research\, and lived experiences that shape the work on view. \nFollowing the discussion\, guests are encouraged to stay\, explore the galleries\, and continue the conversation. \nAbout the Exhibition\nSet the Table: The Art of Nourishment spans all of the Dairy Arts Center’s gallery spaces\, examining the table as both a physical and symbolic space—where food\, art\, and community intersect. Through installation\, photography\, sculpture\, and interdisciplinary practices\, the exhibition considers how shared meals carry histories\, shape identities\, and reflect our relationships to land\, labor\, and one another.
URL:https://thedairy.org/event/set-the-table-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Dairy Arts Center\, Walnut Street\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Set the Table: Immersive Dinner & Art Retreat
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\nThe Set the Table exhibition brings together food\, art\, home\, and community\, exploring how the table serves as a universal locus for culture\, environment\, and the many ways we come together over food. \nThe Dairy Arts Center brings this exhibition to life with a very special event: Set the Table: Immersive Dinner and Art Retreat. On July 22\, guests are invited to an intimate farm-to-table dinner surrounded by the artworks of Set the Table\, where dining becomes a creative\, multi-sensory experience. \nThe evening will feature a beautifully crafted five-course meal by Forage Sisters\, a local\, women-owned farm-to-table catering company. Their menu offers a culinary journey through Colorado’s diverse peoples\, places\, and histories\, with each dish rooted in seasonal ingredients\, sustainable practices\, and the rich narratives embedded in the region’s foodways. \nThroughout the evening\, Boulder-based artist and founder of Schoolhouse Studios\, Kristen Abbott will guide guests through a mini artist retreat. Through a series of hands-on\, creative activities woven into the rhythm of the meal\, participants are invited to reflect\, play\, and embrace Abbott’s philosophy of “joyful experimentation.” \nThe tablescape itself is part of the experience—a feast for the senses that blurs the boundaries between installation\, performance\, and communal dining. An evening where the act of gathering becomes an artwork in itself. \nIncludes a five-course dinner\, one drink\, and all artist-led activities and materials. Bar will be available. \nMenu to be announced soon. Capacity is limited to 40 guests—reserve your spot for this special one-night experience. \nAbout Set the Table Exhibition:\nThe Set the Table exhibition\, at the Dairy Arts Center from the 15th of May to the 2nd of August\, explores the table as a site of connection—where food\, art\, and community intersect. Bringing together artists working across disciplines\, the exhibition considers how the table is a locus point of culture\, and how shared meals carry histories\, shape identities\, and reflect our relationships to the environment\, heritage\, and one another. \nAbout Forage Sisters:\nForage Sisters is a full service event and farm-to-table catering company\, born between two best friends whose passion lies in bringing people together through intentional food and thoughtful events. \nAbout Kristen Abbott:\nKristen Abbott is a mixed media painter and textile artist based in Boulder\, Colorado. Her practice moves between abstract painting and cyanotype textiles\, shaped through an experimental\, process-driven approach. \nIn her cyanotype work\, sunlight acts as both collaborator and catalyst\, imprinting organic forms onto hand-coated fabrics such as linen\, cotton\, and silk. Abbott often reworks these surfaces with additional materials\, building layered compositions that shift with the viewer’s perspective and gradually reveal new details over time. \nGuided by a philosophy of “joyful experimentation\,” her work embraces unpredictability and reflects an intuitive dialogue with place\, light\, and material—inviting viewers into quiet moments of reflection and discovery.
URL:https://thedairy.org/event/set-the-table-immersive-dinner-art-retreat/
LOCATION:McMahon Gallery\, Walnut Street\, Boulder\, Colorado\, 80302\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Off the Page Exhibition Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:On View Aug 14 – Nov 1 | Opening Reception: Aug 14\, 5 – 8 \nThis group exhibition explores how contemporary artists engage with the written word\, literature\, media\, and storytelling\, examining language as both subject and material. Through practices spanning photography\, sculpture\, installation\, and mixed media\, the exhibition asks: What does the word mean today\, and how are artists using language as a creative tool\, a source of inspiration\, or a physical presence within their work? \nThe exhibition considers the power of words to shape identity\, transmit knowledge\, and build community\, while also reflecting on the evolving role of language in a media-saturated world. It highlights the importance of literature\, freedom of expression\, and storytelling as vital forces that connect people across generations\, cultures\, and backgrounds. \nAccompanying the exhibition is a rich slate of educational and public programming\, developed in partnership with local libraries\, the school district\, and the University of Colorado. Programming will include author talks\, workshops\, and collaborative initiatives with nonprofit organizations focused on literacy and reading\, creating multiple entry points for audiences of all ages to engage with language\, ideas\, and creative expression. \nParticipating artists: Mariel Reed\, Nathan Storey Freeman\, Bug\, Josh Hughes\, Dagny Chika\, Dawn Siebel\, Leona Lazar\, Sarah Tenney\, Samuel Austin\, Lisa Berley\, Jacqueline Moulton\, Austin Baskett\, and Russell Schnell.
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LOCATION:Dairy Arts Center\, Walnut Street\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Human Animal Exhibition Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Nov 13 – Jan 31 | Opening Reception: Nov 13\, 5 – 8 \nThis exhibition explores how conceptual artists use imagery of animals\, creatures\, and “the other” to reflect on human nature and the breadth of human experience. Through large-scale installations and sweeping conceptual works\, the exhibition examines the symbolic power of the nonhuman as a mirror through which social\, political\, and psychological realities are revealed. \nFocusing on the figure of the animal—and the idea of the “human as other”—the exhibition interrogates themes of aggression\, dominance\, fear\, and control\, questioning the often false or ironic divide drawn between humanity and the natural world. What we project onto animals and imagined creatures frequently exposes our own instincts\, anxieties\, and contradictions\, revealing how closely intertwined human behavior is with the forces we claim to stand apart from. \nServing as a launching point for dialogue around American legacy\, the exhibition opens space for conversation on politics\, history\, and contemporary cultural and social issues. By situating animal imagery within broader conceptual frameworks\, the works challenge viewers to reconsider narratives of power\, violence\, and belonging\, and to reflect on what it means to be human in relation to the world we inhabit. \nParticipating artists: Jessica Teckermeyer\, Michael Brohman\, Tricia Waddel\, Xan McKenna\, Bailey Anderson\, Creative Nations
URL:https://thedairy.org/event/the-human-animal-exhibition-opening-reception/
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