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“Courageous” team envisions new life for Longmont’s derelict, dangerous sugar mill as a neighborhood

by Monte Whaley 3:44 AM MDT on Sep 13, 20231:55 PM MDT on Sep 13, 2023

The plan to remake the former economic engine of the city starts with an $80 million conversion of a huge, bullet-riddled shed into a performing arts center

Posted inCulture

Workers at one Colorado opera company push to unionize as another is accused of union busting

by Stephanie Wolf 3:31 AM MDT on Sep 7, 20239:58 PM MDT on Sep 6, 2023

Amid a growing labor movement, some say there has been “an awakening” among performing artists

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Posted inBusiness

The giant troll in Victor: A Danish artist brings one of his international sculptures to an old Colorado mining town

by Parker Yamasaki 4:04 AM MDT on Aug 21, 20233:46 PM MDT on Aug 21, 2023

The Gold Camp District Impact Group brought in Thomas Dambo’s “Rita the Rock Planter” as it tries to bring together the community and spark the local economy

Posted inEquity

Promising actors with disabilities take on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Denver

by Mark Jaffe 4:06 AM MDT on Aug 18, 202311:36 AM MDT on Aug 23, 2023

“This isn’t a sweet little thing where the audience goes and claps for the nice disabled people. We are trying to create rigorously artistic productions,” Phamaly Theatre artistic director said

Posted inArts

An arts oasis on Colorado’s high plains is reckoning with changing climates of all kinds

by Tracy Ross 3:28 AM MDT on Aug 11, 20237:01 AM MDT on Aug 13, 2023

Maureen Hearty and Kirsten Stoltz’s big idea for Prairie Sea Projects is to get people thinking about the uncertain future of life in eastern Colorado by embracing the best parts of rural life

A hammock-like cradle clings to an heart-shaped artwork in middle of the desert floor
Posted inArts

160 acres of sculptures are on display in rural Colorado through June 2025

by Parker Yamasaki 3:50 AM MDT on Aug 2, 202310:35 AM MDT on Aug 3, 2023

Black Cube, a Denver-based nomadic art museum, helped produce Marguerite Humeau’s “Orisons,” the largest earthwork by a single female artist

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Posted inArts

Stranger’s donation finally gives Chicano arts group a permanent home in Denver

by Parker Yamasaki 3:50 AM MDT on Jul 26, 20239:23 AM MDT on Jul 26, 2023

After years of having to relocate, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council was gifted a building in the Art District on Santa Fe, providing it a new location in a rapidly changing arts district

A person walks in front of Central City Opera House
Posted inCulture

President and CEO at Central City Opera out in the middle of the company’s summer festival

by Stephanie Wolf 3:36 PM MDT on Jul 19, 20237:20 PM MDT on Jul 19, 2023

The opera company’s board hired Pamela Pantos to the role in February 2022. She left the organization after a monthslong labor dispute between arts workers and management.

Posted inArts

The true story behind the conspiracy-ridden murals at Denver International Airport

by Rocky Mountain PBS 3:50 AM MDT on Jul 7, 20234:44 PM MDT on Jul 6, 2023

Artists Leo Tanguma and his daughter and collaborator Leticia Darlina Tanguma share the heartfelt intentions behind their DIA murals

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Colorado and its cities end up on a lot of “best-of” lists. Here’s how those rankings hijack your brain.

Kevin Simpson by Kevin Simpson 3:32 AM MDT on May 28, 20234:33 PM MDT on May 31, 2023

Data dives and polling on any number of watercooler topics have become a pervasive, and largely successful, marketing strategy

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