Colorado Is Arty. Just Check Out the Artposium and the Art Ranch PDF Print E-mail
Written by Marj Hahne   
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Artist/naturalist Sherrie York and participants sketching their observations
So, whaddya get when you cross a farmer, a fly fisherman, a cellist, and a poet?

Artposium.

Don’t go anywhere. This isn’t some overly intellectual, artsy-fartsy event for the conspicuously pompous. It’s a weekend of smart, interdisciplinary presentations, conversations, and workshops organized around an art-meets-land theme germane to the locale.  Held twice annually in different Colorado towns, the next Artposium is coming up real soon: May 16–18 in Steamboat Springs

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Art Laced with Commentary PDF Print E-mail
Written by Molly Page   
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
Viviane LeCourtoisViviane Le Courtois is the kind of artist who makes art accessible. Piles of junk mail, collections of single socks and empty pickle jars are the everyday objects Le Courtois uses to tackle huge societal issues — like materialism, waste, junk food and what she calls “the invasion” of digital media.

By connecting the absurdly simple with the absurdly complex, she makes people laugh. And think.

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Lydia: Denver Center’s dark angel shines PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Kuebler   
Thursday, 31 January 2008

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Stephanie Beatriz as the title character in Denver Center Theatre Company's production of "Lydia"
After seeing one of Octavio Solis’s plays, one audience member asked Solis’s set designer, “Is Octavio a happy man?” 

“Oh yes,” replied the designer. “You see, that’s him over there—smiling.”

“Then how,” asked the audience member, “can such a dark story come out of him?”

Solis, well known for his brooding and intense human dramas did not scare away Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson, who commissioned Lydia from Solis a little more than a year ago. The play is enjoying its world premiere as part of the DCTC’s 3rd Colorado New Play Summit.

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Colorado is for Film Lovers and Filmmakers PDF Print E-mail
Written by Julie Speer Hunniford   
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Tommy (Brian Phelan) shows his tough guy stance to Max(Spencer Berger) in "Skills Like This."

A little-known fact to those outside of the "industry” is that Colorado is actually a landmark in the history of cable television.

Thanks to Bill Daniels, aka “The Father of Cable Television,” Denver took an early lead in the cable race in the 1950s.

Today, a surprising amount of cable TV content is produced in our own backyard by a handful of independent producers and companies.

High Noon Productions produces shows for Discovery, HGTV and the Food Network. The Comcast Media Center creates cable specials and video-on-demand content.

Yet Kevin Shand, Colorado Film Commissioner, says TV commercials are the most consistent independent production work in the state.

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