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
Off the Page: Language as Material
Please note the McMahon Gallery will be closing the exhibition on October 27th for the Dairy’s Vampire Ball Participating Artists: Austin Baskett, Bug, Dagny Rayn Chika, Dawn Siebel, Jacqueline Moulton, Josh Hughes, Leona Lazar, Lisa Berley, Mariel Reed, Nathan Storey Freeman, Russell Schnell, Samuel Austin, Sarah Tenney EVENTS: Opening Reception: August 14, 5 – 8
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 installed on the Palmer Terrace, an outdoor site located at the front entrance of the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado. This open call seeks
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 accepted. This open call is designed to bring artists, educators, performers, and creative facilitators into the Dairy’s galleries to lead engaging public programs that activate
Visual Arts Events
Events
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Sound and Scroll Workshop: An Evening of Reflection, Writing, and Ambient Music
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First Draft to Bookshelf: The Making of a Novel with Author Wallis Kinney
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