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$100 Gift Card

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!

$25 Gift Card

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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!

 

$50 Gift Card

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!

$75 Gift Card

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!

1-Day Workshop | Outsider Art: Collage as Self-Expression

*Price includes a $30 Studio Fee for all materials provided.

 

Class Description:

Whether using paper or fabric, collage has long been practiced by women, people of color, and those without access to a formal art education. In this class, we will examine the history of collage as an outsider art – how women and people of color used material at hand (paper and fabric scraps, for example) to create visual expressions that resonate powerfully today. Students will be asked to channel the spirit of these artists (many of whom remain unidentified) in creating their own works of art from the materials of daily life. The instructor will bring her expertise in history and collage to help students explore this vibrant and accessible art form.

 

What to Expect:

This class begins with a short presentation of the history of collage as an outsider art, and will include a visit to the Art of the Ancient Americas gallery for inspiration. Students will be asked to find three elements from pieces in the collection to inspire their collage composition. We will examine Enrique Chagoya's Borders of the Spirit in the Art of the Ancient Americas gallery as a way to consider how collage is a powerful medium for exploring identity.

 

Class Cancellation Policy:

If a class or workshop needs to be cancelled due to inclement weather or teacher illness, a “make-up” day will be scheduled on a FRIDAY or SATURDAY as the educator’s schedule allows.

 

Materials:

All materials will be provided for this workshop and are included in the Studio Fee of $30.

 

Educator:

Teresa Cribelli started her art career in the archive; inspired by the historical documents she used in her academic research in Brazil, she became interested in the ways that collage can bring the past and the present together. While living in Brazil she was also inspired by the wheat paste street art of Rio de Janeiro. Part of Rio’s vibrant street art culture, wheat paste posters (graphic art printed on paper and pasted to walls) became a type of open-air collective collage she watched for on her daily commute. Inspired by the outsider artists who make street art, she began collecting and then experimenting with vintage papers to make her own collages. Bringing her training as a historian to her practice (she taught Latin American History at the University of Alabama for 11 years) Teresa uses her small-scale analog collages to make visual statements about power, gender, and the environment told through the lens of history. Her work has been shown at Kolaj Fest in New Orleans and Paperworkers Local in Birmingham, Alabama among other venues. Her pieces are held in private collections and in the Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection. Street art pieces based on her collages can be seen in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama; Denver, Colorado; Barcelona, Spain; and São Luís, Brazil.

Composing Color: The World of Alma Thomas - ONSITE ALL LECTURES

COMPOSING COLOR: THE WORLD OF ALMA THOMAS

American artist Alma Thomas once wrote “Love comes by looking.” In this multi-session course, take a closer look at the artist, her art, and her world. Learn about Thomas’s creative philosophies and inspiration, fall in love with her eye for color and pattern, and dive into the deeper context of her long life and impactful career.

Session #1 – Alma Thomas: The Creative Age

September 14th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s long life and late-career breakthroughs prove that creativity gets better with time. Like other artists who were prolific well into older age, Thomas’s creativity dynamically evolved in her later decades. In this course session, we’ll celebrate Thomas’s vibrant abstractions from the 1950s-1970s and consider her journey and others’ who worked well into their seventies, eighties, and beyond.

Session #2 – Alma’s World

October 19th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s life was as rich and complex as her paintings. The third session of this course focuses on the larger context in which Thomas lived and worked, paying particular attention to the artistic, social, and political movements that influenced Thomas’s development as an artist.

Session #3 – The Meaning and Making of Color

November 16th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

For Alma Thomas, the “spirit and living soul of the world” was manifest through colors. She used art’s most luscious resource brilliantly, concentrating on what she called “beauty and happiness,” rather than urgencies of “inhumanity.” This session offers deep context for how and why artists throughout history have found, manipulated, coded, and celebrated color to achieve staggeringly diverse ends. It’s the ultimate shape-shifter. Color produces happiness—and it also registers power, privilege, spirituality, symbolism, technologies, emotion, and reason. With color at the forefront, artists create endless pathways to expression and offer us inexhaustible insights.

Presented by Stella Paul, writer and educator, author of Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art

Composing Color: The World of Alma Thomas - VIRTUAL ALL LECTURES

COMPOSING COLOR: THE WORLD OF ALMA THOMAS

American artist Alma Thomas once wrote “Love comes by looking.” In this multi-session course, take a closer look at the artist, her art, and her world. Learn about Thomas’s creative philosophies and inspiration, fall in love with her eye for color and pattern, and dive into the deeper context of her long life and impactful career.

Session #1 – Alma Thomas: The Creative Age

September 14th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s long life and late-career breakthroughs prove that creativity gets better with time. Like other artists who were prolific well into older age, Thomas’s creativity dynamically evolved in her later decades. In this course session, we’ll celebrate Thomas’s vibrant abstractions from the 1950s-1970s and consider her journey and others’ who worked well into their seventies, eighties, and beyond.

Session #2 – Alma’s World

October 19th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

Alma Thomas’s life was as rich and complex as her paintings. The third session of this course focuses on the larger context in which Thomas lived and worked, paying particular attention to the artistic, social, and political movements that influenced Thomas’s development as an artist.

Session #3 – The Meaning and Making of Color

November 16th, 2024 - 2:00 PM

For Alma Thomas, the “spirit and living soul of the world” was manifest through colors. She used art’s most luscious resource brilliantly, concentrating on what she called “beauty and happiness,” rather than urgencies of “inhumanity.” This session offers deep context for how and why artists throughout history have found, manipulated, coded, and celebrated color to achieve staggeringly diverse ends. It’s the ultimate shape-shifter. Color produces happiness—and it also registers power, privilege, spirituality, symbolism, technologies, emotion, and reason. With color at the forefront, artists create endless pathways to expression and offer us inexhaustible insights.

Presented by Stella Paul, writer and educator, author of Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art

Donation

Give to the Denver Art Museum's Annual Fund

Your 100% tax-deductible contribution supports inspiring art connections, powerful artist collaborations, community-minded programming at the Denver Art Museum. During these unprecedented times, your donation helps the museum reimagine how we connect in person and online through a series of new opportunities for visitors of all ages. Thank you for your support of the Denver Art Museum's annual fund.

Volunteer Acquisition Endowment

Donations to this fund are invested by the DAM foundation with the intention to grow the fund in value over time. This fund provides an annual distribution based on the Foundation's policy.  Distributed funds are used to acquire new artwork for the DAM.

The Museum regularly reconciles expenditures made from distributed funds to ensure that they are allocated as intended.

General Admission - Untimed Entry

Please select the date you would like to visit the Denver Art Museum. Your tickets will be valid for the entire day.

Gift Membership - Individual

The basic benefits including unlimited free general admission for one for an entire year, plus two free general admission guest passes

Individual + CultureHaus Package

This package includes an Individual DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

  • Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
    • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
    • Collection talks and gallery visits
    • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
  • Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
  • Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
  • Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
  • Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
  • First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

Individual + Museum Friends Package

This package includes an Individual DAM Membership plus a Museum Friends add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, Museum Friends enjoy the following benefits:

  • Free admission to talks by visiting scholars, curators, and lectures by contemporary artists
  • Greater discounts on exhibition courses and curatorial symposia
  • Advance registration for talks, lectures, courses, and symposia
  • Access to behind-the-scenes events and museum updates
  • Invitations to social and enrichment events that include activities such as:
    • After-hours programs and experiences with curator access and behind the scenes moments
    • Social gatherings and receptions featuring special guests
    • Exclusive tours of exhibitions and collections

Dual + CultureHaus Package

This package includes a Dual DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

  • Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
    • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
    • Collection talks and gallery visits
    • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
  • Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
  • Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
  • Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
  • Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
  • First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

 

Dual+ Museum Friends Package

This package includes a Dual DAM Membership plus a Museum Friends add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, Museum Friends enjoy the following benefits:

  • Free admission to talks by visiting scholars, curators, and lectures by contemporary artists
  • Greater discounts on exhibition courses and curatorial symposia
  • Advance registration for talks, lectures, courses, and symposia
  • Access to behind-the-scenes events and museum updates
  • Invitations to social and enrichment events that include activities such as:
    • After-hours programs and experiences with curator access and behind the scenes moments
    • Social gatherings and receptions featuring special guests
    • Exclusive tours of exhibitions and collections

First 100 Corporate

Corporate membership packages allow you to curate the benefits your company receives at every level of support. From access and networking, to complimentary event space and VIP invitations, your company can have it all or select only what means the most to employees, clients, and stakeholders. To learn more about corporate membership options and benefits, please contact us at CorporatePartnerships@denverartmuseum.org.

Every Corporate Membership Includes:

  • Corporate and Executive membership cards for free general admission
  • Corporate special exhibition ticket price available to all employees
  • 10% discount in the museum shop
  • Recognition in the museum's Annual Report
  • Access to virtual programming and art making activities
  • Bimonthly member magazine On & Off the Wall and Beyond the Walls patron newsletter
  • News and updates through exclusive member communications

 

Gift Membership - Dual

The basic benefits including unlimited free general admission for two for an entire year, plus two free general admission guest passes

Director's Circle

Corporate membership packages allow you to curate the benefits your company receives at every level of support. From access and networking, to complimentary event space and VIP invitations, your company can have it all or select only what means the most to employees, clients, and stakeholders. To learn more about corporate membership options and benefits, please contact us at CorporatePartnerships@denverartmuseum.org.

Every Corporate Membership Includes:

  • Corporate and Executive membership cards for free general admission
  • Corporate special exhibition ticket price available to all employees
  • 10% discount in the museum shop
  • Recognition in the museum's Annual Report
  • Access to virtual programming and art making activities
  • Bimonthly member magazine On & Off the Wall and Beyond the Walls patron newsletter
  • News and updates through exclusive member communications

 

Family Plus + CultureHaus Package

This package includes a Family Plus DAM Membership plus a CultureHaus add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, CultureHaus members enjoy the following benefits:

  • Complimentary access to quarterly CultureHaus programs like:
    • Museum after-hours events and curator tours
    • Collection talks and gallery visits
    • Behind-the-scenes moments with artists, museum personalities, and featured guests
  • Free admission to all DAM lectures and talks by contemporary artists, visiting scholars, curators, authors, and more!
  • Invitations to happy hour meetups before select museum programs
  • Four complimentary vouchers to any Untitled: Artist Takeover
  • Even greater discounts on courses, Creative Classes, and symposia
  • First access and discounted tickets to the Annual Ball, a signature CultureHaus event

Family Plus + Museum Friends Package

This package includes a Family Plus DAM Membership plus a Museum Friends add-on.

In addition to your DAM membership, Museum Friends enjoy the following benefits:

  • Free admission to talks by visiting scholars, curators, and lectures by contemporary artists
  • Greater discounts on exhibition courses and curatorial symposia
  • Advance registration for talks, lectures, courses, and symposia
  • Access to behind-the-scenes events and museum updates
  • Invitations to social and enrichment events that include activities such as:
    • After-hours programs and experiences with curator access and behind the scenes moments
    • Social gatherings and receptions featuring special guests
    • Exclusive tours of exhibitions and collections

 

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