Welcome to DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, a publication devoted to art writing and criticism focused on the Denver-area visual art scene. DARIA seeks to promote diverse voices and artists while fostering critical dialogue around art.
Art Contained del Sol Studios, 3058 W 55th Ave, Denver, CO 80221, 720-331-8768, Sat: 12–4pm
May 8–Jun 27: La Chingona - Sacred Strength
Jul 10–Sep 5: Spirit Animals - A Global Journey
Sep 11–Oct 24: Star Nations - Ancestral Voices
ART Gallery at Red Rocks Community College, 13300 W 6th Ave, Lakewood, CO, 80228, Mon–Thu: 7am–10pm, Fri: 7am–8pm, Sat–Sun: 7am–6pm
Apr 22–Jul 10: Student Art Exhibition
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO 80003, 720-898-7200, Mon–Fri: 11am–7pm, Sat: 10am–4pm, Sun: 12–4pm
Jan 15–Dec 31: 50: Half a Century of Art
Jun 4–Aug 23: Tilting West: Defining A New Legacy (in partnership with Tilt West)
Sep 10–Nov 8: pARTy: Celebrating 50 Years; Rigsby Revisited: 50 Years Later
Nov 27—Dec 13: Annual Fine Art Market and Ceramics Sale
Arvada Public Library, 7525 W 57th Ave, Arvada, CO 80002, 303-235-5275, Mon–Thu: 9am–8pm, Fri–Sat: 9am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm
Ballyhoo Table and Stage, in partnership with BRDG Project, 3300 Tejon St, Denver, CO 80211
Belmar Library, 555 S Allison Pkwy, Lakewood, CO 80226, 303-235-5275, Mon–Thu: 9am–8pm, Fri–Sat: 9am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm
Jun 1–30: Lauren Gombas: Dust, Light and Lava: A Chromatic Journey
Jul: Kathy Mitchell-Garton: Charted Territories
Sep: Annual Teen Art Exhibition
Oct: SW Photo Club: Travel and Wildlife Exhibit
Nov: Colorado Mosaic Artists: Mosaics Now
BuCu West Development Association, 4200 Morrison Rd, Unit 3, Denver, CO, 80219, 303-936-4302, Mon–Fri: 9am–4pm
Center for the Arts Evergreen, 31880 Rocky Village Dr, Evergreen, CO 80439, 303-674-0056, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm, Sat: 10am–4pm
Jun 6, 2025–Jun 2026: Evergreen Sculpture Showcase
Jun 11–Jul 18: All-Call Exhibition: Art on the Menu
Aug 13–Sep 5: 100 for $200 Fundraising Exhibition
Sep 10–Oct 17: Rocky Mountain National Watermedia: National All-Call Exhibition (juror: Keiko Tanabe)
Oct 22–Nov 28: Of Chaos & Order
Dec 3, 2026–Jan 9, 2027: CAE Annual Member Show
CHAC (Chicano Humanities & Arts Council) Gallery, 7060 W 16th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 720-662-4822, open by appt
Jun 5–Jul 12: Queerazón: Roots in Amor Y Comunidad
City of Lakewood Galleries, exhibitions at various venues:
Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park, 801 S Yarrow St, Lakewood, CO 80226, 303-987-7850, Tue–Sat: 10am–4pm, Sun: 12–4pm
Jan 6, 2026–Jan 4, 2027: Building History
Jan 20–Oct 31: Volunteers Live Here; Birds Live Here
Jun 6, 2026–Jan 16, 2027: Happy Birthday, Heritage Lakewood
Aug 1–Nov 28: 50 Years of Heritage in Lakewood
Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 Allison Pkwy, Lakewood, CO 80226, 303-987-7845, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm, Sat: 9am–1pm
May 29–Aug 16: Complexity: Biennial of the Complex Weavers Guild (Lobby and Corner Galleries); Ron Isaacson: Amazar Tales: An Immersive Arts Experience (North Gallery); Colorado Watercolor Society (Mezzanine Gallery)
CORE Art Space, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Ste C, Lakewood, CO, 80214, 303-297-8428, Fri: 5–10pm, Sat–Sun: 12–5pm
Jun 19–Jul 5: Members Affordable Art Show with Member’s Pre-Owned Art Supply Sale (Annex)
Jul 10–26: Red, White & Blue Open Show with Zachary Grall (Annex)
Jul 31–Aug 16: Carolyn Doran, Antoinette Peshek with Jude Barton (Annex)
Aug 21–Sep 6: Kai Two Feathers Orton, Maggie Stewart with Ed Kutz (Annex)
Sep 11–27: Jody Beck and Judy Frank
Oct 2–18: Chuck McCoy, Peter Priedhorsky with Roseann Niemeyer (Annex)
Oct 23–Nov 8: Kathy Mitchell-Garton and Fred Becker
Dayton Memorial Library, Regis University, 3333 Regis Blvd, Unit D-20, Denver, CO 80221, 303-458-4030, Mon–Thu: 7:30am–12am, Fri: 7:30am–5pm, Sat: 10:30am–5pm, Sun: 12–10pm
Aug: Manuel Cordero: Tonos Latinos
Sep: Ken Philips: Prospero Project
Oct: Tony Ortega: Day of the Dead
EDGE Gallery, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-477-7173, Fri: 6–9pm, Sat–Sun: 12–5pm, and by appt
Jun 19–Jul 5: Candace Shepard; Lydia Farrell; Satellite Members Show
Jul 10–26: Gayla Lemke; Jason McKinley
Jul 31–Aug 16: ON EDGE; Annual Juried Show
Aug 21–Sep 6: Wynne Reynolds; Travis Vermilye
Sep 11–27: Kelly Pierce; EDGE Remembers 9/11: Members Show
Oct 2–18: Mark Brasuell; Stephen Shugart
Oct 23–Nov 8: Mala Setaram-Wolfe; Faith Williams; Katherine Johnson; John Horner
Nov 13–29: Gail Wagner; Jennifer Pettus
Dec 4–20: Members Annual Holiday Small Works Show
Dec 24–31: Gallery Closed
Edgewater Library, 1800 N Harlan St, Edgewater, CO 80214, 303-235-5275, Mon–Thu: 9am–8pm, Fri, Sat: 9am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm
Foothills Art Center, 1133 Arapahoe St, Golden, CO, 80401, 303-279-3922, Memorial Day–Dec 31: Mon–Sat: 10am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm; Jan 1–Memorial Day: Mon, Thu–Sat: 10am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm
Apr 11–Jun 28: Rob Bell: Rocky Mountain Muses
May 2–Jul 12: Tom Sarmo: Aiming to Miss
May 23–Jul 26: Chris Mora: The Articulate Robots
Jul 11–Oct 25: Sue Rose: Portraits in Glass
Jul 25–Oct 25: Structure: Ceramic Showcase (curator: John Hamilton III)
Aug 15–Oct 25: CarolAnn Wachter
Nov 19–Dec 29: 51st Holiday Art Market
40 West Gallery, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 720-901-8240, Wed–Thu: 12–4pm, Fri: 12–4pm and 5–9pm, Sat–Sun: 12–5pm
Jun 5–28: CommUNITY
Jul 3–Aug 2: Holding Time
Aug 7–30: Creation of Color
Sep 4–27: Drumstick/Iconic Colfax
Sep 19, 12–4pm: 4th Annual Colfax Chicken Fest
Oct 2–Nov 1: 40 West Members Showcase
Front Range Community College-Westminster Campus Visual Art Gallery, 3645 W 112th Ave, Westminster, CO 80031, 303-404-5390, Mon–Thu: 9:30am–6pm
Apr 16–Aug 20: Synergy Exhibition
Sep 3–24: Annual Faculty Exhibition (Opening reception: Sep 3, 12:30–3pm)
Oct 8–29: Monsterz Collectivo (Opening reception: Oct 8, 12:30–3pm)
The Furnace: A Glassworks, 8090 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-274-0643, Thu–Mon: 11am–5pm, Tue–Wed: by appt, First Fri: 11am–7pm(ish)
Genesis Gallery, at LUMC, 1390 Brentwood St, Lakewood, CO, 80226, 970-333-1409, Mon–Thu: 9am–1pm, Sat–Sun: 11am–1pm, First Fri: 5–8pm
Golden History Museum, 923 10th St, Golden, CO 80401, 303-278-3557, Tue–Sat: 10am–4:30pm
Jan 30, 2026–2027/2028: Glimpses of Golden
GreenWave Gallery at Elliott Gardens, 6321 Lowell Blvd, Denver, CO 80221, 303-428-4043, Mon–Sat: 9am–5pm, Sun: 10am–4pm
Apr–Jun: Virginia T. Coleman: Pipe Dream; Terra Marks: Enchanted; Chantal Persichetti: In the Garden; Susan McNeff Skokan: Lithe
Jul–Aug: Susan McNeff Skokan: Quench; Barb Gal: I Love Flowers!
Sep–Nov: Something Autumnal: Eli West, Marcus Fingerlin, Julie Jonronski, Manda Remmen, and Tess Chatfield; Susan McNeff Skokan: Felt
Kanon Collective, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-946-4870, Fri: 5–9pm, Sat–Sun 12–5pm
Jun 5–28: Mary Hudgins: Common Thread
Jul 3–Aug 2: Heads of Hydra Art Collective: Redacted Realities
Aug 7–30: Kym Bloom: Iconeonic
Lakewood Arts Gallery, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-980-0625, Wed–Sun: 12–5pm, Fri: 12–9pm
May 30–Jun 26: The Pride Show; Kay Picard: Dots Everywhere; Shirley Knapp: Bold and Bright!; Black Artists Guild
Lakewood Public Library, 10200 W 20th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80215, 303-235-5275, Mon–Thu: 9am–8pm, Fri–Sat: 9am–5pm, Sun: 12–5pm
Lapis Gallery, 5455 W 38th Ave, Suite L, Wheat Ridge, CO, 80212, 303-480-5126, Mon–Fri: 9am–5pm, Sat: 10am–5pm
Memento Mori Gallery & Tattoo, 6451 W Colfax Ave, Ste B, Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-974-5172, Wed–Sat: 12–7pm, Mon–Tue open by appt, First Fri: 5–9pm, First Sun Figure Drawing: 3:45–6pm
Jun 5–26: The Magic Remains: Folklore and Fairytale-Themed Group Show
Jul 3–24: Tropical Escapism (curator: Jon Lew of Fortune Cookie Tattoo)
Aug 7–28: The Flash Exhibit: Tattoo Art Group Show
Sep 4–25: Séance: Haunted Art Group Show
Oct 2–24: Skull & Bones V: Anniversary Skeletal Group Art Show
Mint & Serif, 1385 Carr Street, Lakewood, CO 80214, 720-509-9908, Mon–Fri: 7am–3pm, First Fri: 7am–10pm, Sat: 8am–3pm, Sun: 8am–12pm
Neu Hinterland, 17532 CO-8, Morrison, CO 80456, open by appt
NEXT Gallery, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, 303-433-4933, Fri: 5–9pm, Sat–Sun: 12–5pm, and opening receptions: 5–10pm
May 29-Jul 5: Post-Human (Member Gallery)
Jun 19–Jul 5: New Member Showcase; Nick Vialpando; Amy Manning: Shortgrass
Jul 10–26: Suzi Melly; 20th Anniversary Show
Jul 31–Aug 16: Rebecca Yaffe; Tatyana Hope: Folklorica
Aug 21–Sep 6: Laura McCraken; Rich Chamberlain: In Tune
Sep 11–27: Tess Chatfield; Emily Williams
Oct 2–18: Virginia T Coleman; Betsy Rudolph
Oct 23–Nov 8: Terra Marks; Tamara Mahoney
O’Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, 3333 Regis Blvd, Denver, CO 80221, osullivangallery@regis.edu, Mon–Thu: 12–6pm, Fri–Sat: 12–4pm
Pirate: Contemporary Art, 7130 W 16th Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214, pirateart3@gmail.com, Fri: 6–9pm, Sat–Sun: 12–5pm
Jun 19–Jul 5: Denise Pfau Demby: Fields at the Edge, Abstraction as Contemporary Inquiry; Dan Root: No World Order
Jul 10–26: Judith Grey; Randall Steinke
Jul 31–Aug 16: Craig Robb; Amanda Stavast
Aug 21–Sep 6: Bug; Dea Webb
Sep 11–27: Phil Bender; Skye Barker Maa
Oct 2–18: Louis Recchia; Connor Berglund
Oct 23–Nov 8: Day of the Dead
Red Rocks Fine Art Gallery, 112 Stone St, Morrison, CO 80465, 720-505-6807, Fri–Sun: 12–4pm
Jul 12–Aug 2: Keystone Beasties (Opening reception: Jul 12, 12–4pm w/the Shelvis Trio)
Aug 9–30: Man Cave (Opening reception: Aug 9, 12–4pm w/the CBDs)
Sep 13–Oct 4: Radical Expressionism: Yee, Peter Lutgen, Cindy Johnstone (Opening reception: Sep 13, 12–4pm w/Harmony Road)
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, 1600 Pierce St, Lakewood, CO 80214, Mon–Fri, 11am–4pm
May 29–Sep 4: Student Exhibition: Frv Hlavaty: PIGEON-HOLE(D) (Rude Gallery)
Jun 8–Sep 4: Alumni Exhibition: Alicia Ordal and Vinnie Alfonso: Better Out Than Around (Rotunda Gallery) (Opening reception: Jun 18, 4–7pm)
Jun 15–Jul 24: Sharifa Lafon and Maki Teshima: dry run (Philip J. Steele Gallery) (Opening reception: Jun 18, 4–7pm)
Sep 17–Nov 13: Radiance Awards Exhibition (Rotunda Gallery)
Sep 17–Jan 8: Student Exhibition: Mac Nicholson (Rude Gallery)
Oct 1–Nov 20: 63rd Annual Student Exhibition (Philip J. Steele Gallery)
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, 200 Violet St #140, Golden, CO 80401, 303-277-0377, Mon–Sat: 10am–4pm, Sun: 11am–4pm
Apr 20–Jul 18: Cindy Vermillion Hamilton: Medallion Quilts (Main Gallery); Phyllis Cullen: It’s All About…the Face, the Place, the Story (Northeast Gallery)
Jul 20–Oct 17: From the Collection: New Discoveries & Enduring Favorites (Main Gallery); 20 Perspectives: Conversing with the Earth (Northeast Gallery)
Tenn Street Coffee & Books, 4418 Tennyson Street, Denver, CO 80212, 303-455-0279, Sun–Thu: 7am–5pm, Fri–Sat: 7am–8pm
May–Jun: Chris E. Melton: Paintings
Jul–Aug: Dark Nature Designs: Nature Photography and Dark Art
Sep: TBA
Oct: William Thidemann: Tattoo and Art; William Thidemann: Paintings and Flash!
The Three Leaches Gallery, 1560 Teller St, Lakewood, CO, 80214, Thu: 1–6pm, Sun: 12–4pm
May 18–Jul 29: Kayli Cottonwood: Invoke
Valkarie Gallery, 445 S Saulsbury St, Lakewood, CO 80226, 720-220-7587, Thu: 4–9:30pm (Creative Night FREE), Fri: 4–8:30pm, Sat: 12–6pm, Sun: 12–5pm
Jun 4–Jul 5: Colleen Tulley and Alison Flannery: Tender Wild (Main Gallery); CaFÉ Call: Poetic Reverie (South Gallery)
Jul 9–Aug 2: Robert Newman and Erik Seaver: Synergy (Main Gallery); Collective Bloom: Angela Chirila, Miki Harder, Joshua Houska, and Kery O'Sullivan (South Gallery)
Aug 6–Sep 6: Barbara Hinnenkamp and Tatyana Hope: Two Paths, One Threshold (Main Gallery); Valkarie Resident Show (South Gallery)
Sep 10–Oct 4: Lisa Lee Adams and Kery O'Sullivan (Main Gallery); CaFÉ Call: Linear Entanglements (South Gallery)
Oct 8–Nov 1: Jane Falkenburg and Jamie Zerr Lockwood: Menagerie Exotic (Main Gallery); Valkarie After Dark (South Gallery) (Oct 24, 6–9 pm: VOODOO You: Vampires, Vamps & Villains at Valkarie (ticketed event))
Nov 5–29: Michele Montgomery and Grant Adams (Main Gallery); Arapahoe Community College Art Faculty: After Hours '26 (South Gallery)
Dec 3–27: VA La La La La GALA and FROST & FOUND Market (Opening event: Dec 3, 6–9pm)