VISUAL ARTS
The Dairy Arts Center presents dynamic visual arts exhibitions across its award-winning galleries, showcasing local and emerging artists from Colorado alongside artists from across the nation. Our Visual Arts Program highlights innovative, socially engaged, and conceptually driven work that sparks dialogue and reflects the complexities of our contemporary world, spanning practices from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video, and interdisciplinary media. Each year, the Dairy hosts six major exhibitions and countless free public events across the Hand-Rudy, MacMillan, Polly Addison, McMahon, and Caruso Galleries, including rotating outdoor sculpture and wheatpaste installations. Through artist talks, workshops, receptions, and community programming, exhibitions activate the entire building as a shared platform where artists and audiences come together to explore new ideas, stories, and ways of engaging with contemporary art.
All galleries are free and open to the public daily from 12–6 PM.
Current Exhibitions
Native Niches: Ecological Identity
Opening Friday February 20th, 5pm-8pm An exhibition showcasing Traditional Ecological Knowledge that Indigenous people have fostered for millennia. Curated by students, Asia Thunderhawk and Lucero Armendariz. On Display February 9th-April 5th,
BLACK FUTURES IN ART 2026
BLACK FUTURES IN ART 2026: The Excellence Beneath My Feet Lives Within My Bones, The Genome Speaks What Erasure Cannot Silence Dates: 20 February – 29 March, 2026 EVENTS “Whispers
Calls For Entry
Call for Public Sculpture 2026 – 2027
Public Sculpture Open Call Dairy Arts Center – Palmer Terrace2026–2027 Installation Cycle The Dairy Arts Center’s Visual Arts Program invites artists to submit proposals for individual sculptural works to be
Call for Workshops 2026-2027
The Dairy Arts Center invites proposals for community-based workshops, talks, and interactive programs to take place during the 2026–2027 season. All applications must go through Cafe Form, no direct applications
2027 Open Call for Art
The Dairy Arts Center invites artists, curators, and collectives to apply for our 2027 Call for Art Exhibitions. We are seeking bold, thoughtful exhibition proposals across all visual art mediums.
Visual Arts Events
Events
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