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Written by Marj Hahne
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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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Written by Molly Page
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 Viviane 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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Written by John Kuebler
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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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Written by Angela Prond
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I have always been inspired by the landscape. I love being outdoors. As a kid, I never sat in front of the TV. At every opportunity, I was out the door and experiencing nature firsthand. I did have an inclination at that age that I wanted to be an artist, but didn't know what that meant until I went to an art school for my bachelor's degree in oil painting. It took me four years to learn how to paint what I felt when I looked at a landscape. Experiencing nature is not just how you see it, but what you feel when you are there; I try to communicate that within my paintings using color, abstraction, and collage. Colorado has some of the most beautiful landmarks I have seen and I’ve only just begun. Traveling to see new places is also inspiring. As an artist, I try to express the excitement of seeing a new place on the canvas.
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Written by Julie Speer Hunniford
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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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