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Have you ever wondered about an artworks journey before finding a home at the Denver Art Museum? Museum Friends are invited to join the provenance team for an evening of sleuthing and storytelling and learn more about the research that sheds light on an object’s origin story. As part of the program, guests will explore a selection of the museum’s collections including Western Art, Arts of Asia, European and American Art before 1900, Northwest Coast Indigenous Art, and Arts of Africa, to see firsthand how provenance work unfolds across cultures and time periods.

The evening kicks off with a relaxed reception and stunning views from the Martin Building's Summit Room terrace.

Photographer Alexey Titarenko explores the character of a city and its people, blending the reality of a moment with metaphor. By using long exposure times and darkroom techniques, he makes photographs that evoke a mood and the passage of time.

Titarenko grew up and studied photography in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia). He first made collages and photomontages commenting on the oppressive communist regime but after the fall of the Soviet Union, he shifted focus. Inspired by literature and music, he began making pictures that poetically express the feelings and the stories of the lives of people in St. Petersburg. Alexey Titarenko took this approach to photographing other cities including Venice, Italy, Havana, Cuba, and New York City, where he lives and works today.

Following this talk, there will be a book signing of the new expanded edition of The City is a Novel (2025).

This program is presented in connection with the photography exhibition What We’ve Been Up To: People, February 8 – September 29, 2026.

Jungjin Lee embraces a meditative approach to photography and creates pictures that encourage reflection. Her poetic images, often made in nature among deserts, mountains, water, trees, and through a meticulous printing process, are expressions of her feelings and her relationship with the world around.

Jungjin Lee began making photographs while studying ceramics in Seoul, South Korea and went on to earn her MFA in photography at New York University. Throughout a nearly forty-year career, her work has been widely exhibited, collected, and has been the subject of many thoughtful photobooks. Jungjin Lee lives and works in New York City.

Photographer and educator Zora J. Murff creates pictures of people and the urban and natural environments that surround them. For some projects, he also incorporates appropriated imagery to reflect on his own experiences and to examine social and racial injustices. His work considers minimized histories, experiences of being a Black person in America, and the ways visual culture shapes and is shaped by us.

Zora J. Murff’s monograph True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) was published by Aperture in 2022 and he received a prestigious Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography in 2023. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Photography at University of Oregon.

This program is presented in connection with the photography exhibition What We’ve Been Up To: People , February 8 – September 29, 2026.

All members are invited to attend the DAM's Annual Membership Meeting. RSVP required.

From materials to inspiration, nature shows up in art in all kinds of ways. This week, we’ll think about the connection between art and the environment as we explore the galleries. By the end of the week, you’ll be able to take home some nature-inspired artwork of your own!

This week, campers dive into the creative overlap of games, storytelling, and art. Inspired by historical artworks, they’ll invent characters, design worlds, and bring new ideas to life through hands-on projects.

Experiment with all kinds of media, from paint to paper to fabric and more! Play with materials and ideas like a true artist and take–home art inspired by the many genres and materials seen in the museum’s diverse collections.

In this camp for our youngest museum friends, we’ll explore the basics of art! We’ll learn all about textures, shapes, lines, and more through games, stories, and of course art projects!

Join Jill D’Alessandro, Director and Curator of the Avenir Institute of Textile Arts and Fashion, for a behind-the-scenes look at Conversation Pieces: Stories from the Fashion Archives.  Showcasing nearly 70 designs, the exhibition explores DAM’s permanent fashion collection, pairing the historic with the avant-garde to create surprising juxtapositions.  In this talk, D’Alessandro will share a few of the stories behind these garments and how they entered the museum’s holdings.

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.

Creativity in Practice is the DAM³ professional development for early childhood educators designed to increase their confidence in incorporating art and creativity in the classroom. This two-day institute offers 7 hours of professional development credit through Colorado Shines PDIS.

Sessions:

Teacher Art Identity: Reflecting on teacher identity in relation to art and creativity.

Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB): Introduction to TAB techniques and materials.

Art, Drama & Storytelling: Incorporating drama and storytelling with art and creativity to foster social emotional learning.

Teacher Lesson Planning with Objects and Artworks: Introduction to using objects and artworks at the museum to meet early childhood learning objectives.

Dates:

February 28th | 10am´pm

March 1st | 10am-3pm

In-person at the DAM.

If you teach a Title I or Head Start school, you qualify for a 50% discount on the Creativity in Practice Mini Institute. Family Friends and Family homeschool educators qualify for additional discounts as well. Please email Claudia Munoz cmunoz@denverartmuseumn.org for more information on discounted registration.

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

Join us for our annual Día del Niño (Children's Day) festivities, a global celebration of children, with a wide variety of live music, dance performances, art making, and free general admission for everyone.

April 27 is a Free Day at the DAM. Advanced reservation is recommended, but not required.

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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.

One of our oldest art forms, humans have created objects from clay across cultures, geography, and time. What exactly is clay, and how have artists used this foundational, universal medium to tell stories, connect with the spirits, and create functional (and beautiful) objects? Explore porcelain, earthenware, stoneware, and other ceramic mediums and processes as we consider the many roles clay has played in society.

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

Celebrate Denver’s Month of Printmaking (Mo’Print) with a deep dive into printmaking processes and histories. Pre-social media, printmaking revolutionized communication, access to images, and creative expression. In this session, learn about printmaking techniques (engraving, woodcut, lithography, screenprint, and more), and consider how prints have helped us to rally for a cause, advertise, document, and share beauty.

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

Museum Friends are invited to a special evening exploring Ink & Thread: Codices and the Art of Storytelling.

The program begins with a small reception and a chance to meet members of the curatorial team. Guests will then enjoy a curator-led tour offering insights into ancient Mesoamerican codices and their influence on contemporary works by Enrique Chagoya and Eric Garcia. The tour will also highlight Leslie Tillett’s monumental tapestry and the newly gifted preparatory studies that illuminate his research process. The evening offers a focused look at how artists across time have used codices to record histories, reinterpret narratives, and communicate cultural memory.

Be an architect in training and explore how superstar architects Daniel Libeskind and Gio Ponti design buildings for art using angles and patterns. Pull ideas from great downtown architecture and get inspired to design your own buildings.