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The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism is the first major U.S. retrospective of Camille Pissarro, known as "the first impressionist," in over 40 years. The exhibition will present an overview of the artist's illustrious career and examine his singular role within the Impressionist movement, bringing together more than 100 paintings from nearly 50 international museums and private collections, alongside six works from the Denver Art Museum's holdings.

Born on the island of St. Thomas in what was then the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) to French Jewish parents, Pissarro spent time in Caracas and La Guaira, Venezuela, before settling in Paris in 1855. There, he became acquainted with a group of young artists who were challenging the traditional modes of painting and would eventually go on to birth the Impressionist movement. A versatile artist, Pissarro embodied the role of insider, contributing to the establishment of Impressionism as a coherent avant-garde phenomenon while maintaining his artistic independence as he eschewed his peers choice of upper-class subject matter to depict scenes of the mundane. Pissarro's Impressionism reflects this dichotomy, while selections from Pissarro's letters provide insights into his artistic process and worldview more broadly.

Co-organized with the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, Pissarro's Impressionism will feature landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings, showcasing the breadth of Pissarro's oeuvre and the various influences that shaped his practice as he responded to the social and political environment of the day.

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Gift cards may be redeemed onsite for tickets, memberships, or merchandise within the Shops in the Hamilton Building and Sie Welcome Center. Not valid for online purchases.

Gift cards should arrive within 5-10 business days.

Limit 1 per transaction. To purchase multiple gift cards, call 720-913-0130 to speak with an associate.

We look forward to your visit!

Gift cards may be redeemed onsite for tickets, memberships, or merchandise within the Shops in the Hamilton Building and Sie Welcome Center. Not valid for online purchases.

Gift cards should arrive within 5-10 business days.

Limit 1 per transaction. To purchase multiple gift cards, call 720-913-0130 to speak with an associate.

We look forward to your visit!

The foundations of learning and practice in this 1-day workshop will be centered around the question of how the Impressionists captured light and color in their paintings. Students will explore different approaches in creating a sense of atmosphere with color, light and shadow, and mark-making through the study of The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism and other Impressionist works in the DAM collections. Students will learn basic watercolor techniques to guide their artistic explorations, culminating in a finished painting made during the workshop.

In this 1-day workshop, students will learn how to make paper from recycled materials. Students will gain an understanding of papermaking methods through the process of creating paper pulp and using different screen sizes to press and dry their own custom paper pages. This paper can be used for cards, tags, and artwork. Each student will leave the workshop with a handful of unique recycled paper sheets.

Price includes a $60 Studio Fee for all materials provided.

The Traditional Japanese Art of Bonseki: Seasons in Sand will introduce participants to the meditative practice of arranging white sand, stones, and small tools on black lacquer trays to create ephemeral miniature landscapes. Rooted in ancient Japanese and Chinese traditions and connected to the appreciation of suiseki (scholar’s stones), bonseki embodies themes of ephemerality, seasonal awareness, and poetic reflection. Through guided demonstrations, hands-on practice, and quiet viewing (haiken), students will learn both introductory and intermediate techniques for shaping landscapes such as winter skies, blossoms, and birds in flight. The workshop will incorporate seasonal poetry, a tea and sweets service, and group reflection. In addition, participants will have the rare opportunity to view selections from the instructor’s personal antique bonseki collection, including traditional trays and tools, offering a tangible connection to the art form’s history and refinement. The class resonates with Japanese aesthetic traditions within the Arts of Asia collections at the Denver Art Museum.

*Price includes a $60 Studio Fee for all materials provided.

This 4-week class will offer a well-rounded introduction to the art of crochet taught by Sadie Young, the creator of The Tangled Self, an installation at the Denver Art Museum. Class will begin with instruction on the basics of crocheting in 2D, using single crochet and double crochet, allowing students to work on a small project, such as a scarf or beanie. Later, students will expand their knowledge of 2D stitches and build a deeper understanding of different stitches with hands-on assistance. As the class progresses, students will learn more complex methods of crocheting and how to crochet in the round, perform color changes, and more! Students will also learn about the basic tools needed for crocheting as well as tips and tricks for specific tools. This class will cover the differences between yarn types and provide guidance on where to source various yarns. The instructor will introduce students to the basics of reading patterns and impart the necessary foundational knowledge and confidence to crochet simple items without a pattern. The goal of this class is for students to leave the course with the knowledge they need to continue crocheting on their own as well as leave classes with finished items to treasure forever! The class will spend time in the installation The Tangled Self, where students will learn how the instructor problem-solved specific sculptural and 2D elements inside of the installation.

Create & Play is an early childhood program for ages 0-5 and their caregivers. The group is welcomed on the third Thursday of each month from October through May.

Upon arrival, participants check in at the front desk in the Hamilton Building and head down to Sharp Auditorium. There the kids are greeted by two very talented actors who initiate everyone into the "Imagination Factory." The kids are then tasked with solving a big problem: the creativity juice has run out! They must get more! To do this, the group is led to the galleries to collect the creativity juice by looking at and engaging with art! The program ends with artmaking in the early childhood classroom.

The basic benefits, including unlimited free general admission for an entire year for two named card-holders and four guests per visit, up to six total adult tickets per visit, including the cardholder(s) plus:

• Expanded reciprocal admission benefits at more than 500 museums nationwide via the Art Museum Reciprocal Network (AMRN), the Reciprocal Organization of Associated Museums (ROAM), the Western Reciprocal Program, and Museum's West
• Four free admissions for every ticketed exhibition

• Advance purchase for ticketed exhibitions
• Six complimentary one-time use general admission guest passes
• 30% off coupon for one item in the Shop

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Each label in the Denver Art Museum lists the artwork’s materials. From traditional mediums (oil paint, bronze, clay) to everyday objects (bottle caps, fluorescents lights, pantyhose), these materials have larger human stories to tell.

In this three-session course, experience the museum’s collections with a look at creative processes and materials. Through interactive lectures, hands-on exploration, and time in the galleries, we’ll ask, “How’s it made?” and learn what materials and methods can tell us about global human contact, scientific and creative innovation, and changing definitions of art across time. Walk away with refreshed perspectives on the collections and discover new ways of approaching any work of art.

Where do paints and pigments come from, and how has that changed over time? Can you name the bug that artists have used for centuries to create red color? What technologies gave rise to a newly vibrant palette for the Impressionist artists? And how does a particular type of paint impact creative expression? Explore these questions and others as we investigate paint from earth to lab to canvas, textile, paper and more. Along the way, uncover stories of innovation, industrialization, and globalization.

This is session one of How Do We Art? Materials, Methods, and the Stories They Tell. Purchase the full three session course here.

Jaye Rhee explores how we navigate physical and virtual spaces, constructing ambiguous environments and imaginary worlds through video, photography, and performance. In her practice, Rhee engages with images and their production, reflecting the way visual culture mediates identity, memory, and perception.

Rhee has shown her work at various international venues, including the Bronx Museum of Arts, New York; Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea; La Triennale di Milano, Italy; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Norton Museum of Art; Queens Museum of Art, New York; and Seoul Museum of Art.

She has participated in artist residences at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Changdong International Studio Program, Palais de Tokyo Workshop, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Rhee received a BFA in 2001 and an MFA in 2003 from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works in New York and Seoul.

Rhee’s multi-channel video installation Voiceless Song (2025) is currently on view in the Arts of Asia Galleries on level 5 of the Martin Building.

Andrea Carlson imagines in-between spaces of dislocation and belonging, destruction and reclamation, domination and liberation. Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe and European settler descent) considers how the land is an embodiment of a people’s histories and memories, creating intense and deeply introspective landscapes comprising prismatic layers of color, text, flora, fauna, and cultural objects.

As an Indigenous futurist, Carlson contemplates “deep time” and cycles of the natural world, using multiple sheets of paper to suggest the movement of objects, landforms, and other characters. Her dynamic compositions reference issues of ecology, challenge colonial narratives in the US, and envision a future of long-lasting Native resilience, knowledge, and survival.

Born in 1979, Carlson earned her BA in 2003 from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and MFA in 2005 from Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Her honors include fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and United States Artists Fellowship and awards from Artadia and Creative Capital. Carlson has had solo exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Carlson is the co-founder of the Center for Native Futures, an art space dedicated to the work of Native artists in Chicago, and lives and works in Minnesota.

Carlson joins Rory Padeken, Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in a conversation about her process, inspiration, and influences.

In the two decades following photography’s invention around 1839, a group of French painter-photographers embraced and advanced the new medium’s artistic potential. This formative generation, which included Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègres, and Eugène Cuvelier, elevated the craft and critical dialogue swirling around photography, a medium many felt was better suited to science, industry, and commerce than art. This lecture by Dr. April M. Watson, Senior Curator, Photography at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, will explore the significance of these artists and the debates they sparked as they helped set the stage for the radical innovations brought about by Impressionism.

In the two decades following photography³ invention around 1839, a group of French painter-photographers embraced and advanced the new medium³ artistic potential. This formative generation, which included Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègres, and Eugène Cuvelier, elevated the craft and critical dialogue swirling around photography, a medium many felt was better suited to science, industry, and commerce than art. This lecture by Dr. April M. Watson, Senior Curator, Photography at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, will explore the significance of these artists and the debates they sparked as they helped set the stage for the radical innovations brought about by Impressionism.

Enjoy a 60-minute docent-led tour of Pissarro offered every Sunday and Thursday, November 2, 2025 – January 22, 2026.

Discover the artworks of Camille Pissarro, known as the "father of Impressionism," in this tour that traces five decades of the artist's career. Follow the evolution of Pissarro's practice from his early years in the Caribbean and South America, to his time in France through the development of Impressionism and its transformations at the turn of the 1900s.

Southwest Impressions: A Broader Perspective

The unique beauty of the American Southwest has inspired generations of artists including printmakers. Thanks to Barbara J. Thompson's generous gift of fine art prints on display in Southwest Impressions exhibition, the Petrie Institute of Western American Art is able to tell these multi-faceted stories of inspiration, exchange, and artistic excellence.

In conjunction, this symposium will consider an array of American printmakers  stories and techniques from the late 1800s into the mid-1900s as they sought to capture and express their impressions of the region.

Questions? Please email symposium@denverartmuseum.org or call 720-913-0130.