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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.

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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.

Meet the spring Native Arts Artists-in-Residence, Adrian Stevens (Ute-Shoshone Bannock-San Carlos Apache) and Sean Snyder (Navajo-Ute), for an intimate artist lecture.

Stevens and Snyder were featured in Vogue for their beaded “Birkin” bag, which also won the top beadwork ribbon at the 2024 SWAIA (Southwestern Association for Indian Arts) Indian Market. Their most recent fashion ensembles hit the runway in 2025 at the SWAIA Native Fashion Week and the second annual Indigenous Fashion Gala in Los Angeles.

Learn about their craft, their passion for preserving Native American arts, and visit their studio.

This event is for members of CultureHaus, a membership package designed for young people ages 45 and under.

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.

You are invited to come and listen to, and ask questions about what DAM conservators have been treating in the conservation laboratories for current and upcoming exhibitions. At the Kirkland Museum, travel back to the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in Space is the Place. See the paintings, furniture, and furnishings from this era that we worked on. On the sixth floor of the Martin Building, Conversation Pieces, highlights the work of our textile conservators and fashion from the collection. Learn about how we collaborated with tribal advisors for the upcoming Blackfeet exhibition. Plus more!

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.

Color surrounds us, but we don’t always notice its effect on the world around us. This week, we will slow down and think about how artists use color to express feelings and ideas. Explore the galleries, get creative in the workshop, and fall down the rainbow rabbit hole!

From clay vessels to abstract sculptures, we have it all in the museum! We’ll take what we see in the gallery and apply it to our art in the workshop. At the end of the week, you’ll have all kinds of sculptures to share with family and friends!

Use photography to tell a story your way. You’ll experiment with framing, sequencing, and point of view while looking at how artists use images to capture people, moments, and ideas. Inspired by What We’ve Been Up To: People and other works in the museum, you’ll create a photo series that builds a narrative across multiple images.

Pack your imagination and get your art passport ready! This week, we’ll explore artwork from cultures across the globe. Each stop on our journey inspires a new hands-on project back in the workshop, letting campers create their own world of art.

Break the rules of painting! This workshop is all about experimenting with color, texture, and materials beyond traditional painting. You’ll explore mixed media techniques, layer unexpected materials, and take inspiration from artists like Cornelius Annor and Susan Wick while figuring out what works through trial, error, and process.

Color surrounds us, but we don’t always notice its effect on the world around us. This week, we will slow down and think about how artists use color to express feelings and ideas. Explore the galleries, get creative in the workshop, and fall down the rainbow rabbit hole!

From clay vessels to abstract sculptures, we have it all in the museum! We’ll take what we see in the gallery and apply it to our art in the workshop. At the end of the week, you’ll have all kinds of sculptures to share with family and friends!

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.

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.

From clay vessels to abstract sculptures, we have it all in the museum! We’ll take what we see in the gallery and apply it to our art in the workshop. At the end of the week, you’ll have all kinds of sculptures to share with family and friends!