Evolving Doors Dance 

Evolving Doors Dance performed S(LAB) at RedLine on the evening of April 27, 2013. The Spring Lab  2013 performance involved live drums and ukelele by Executive Director, Amy Shelley, and several choreographic works-in-progress by Artistic Director, Angie Simmons, with contributions from the dancers. 

After a brief preview on RedLine's patio, the performances moved freely throughout the exhibition hall, between movable walls, with the audience in tow for this informal showing of work. According to Evolving Doors Dance, the "fragments" performed at S(LAB) intended to "physically navigate line, texture, relationship, and juxtaposition, appealing to patrons of both visual and performing art." Watch the YouTube videos below and decide for yourself!

Videos 

Evolving Doors Dance 

Evolving Doors Dance on RedLine's Patio 

Evolving Doors Dance and Ukelele Performance 

Participating Dancers

Ying Zhu - Resident EDD Dancer

Serena Chopra - Resident EDD Dancer, RedLine Resident Writer

Annabel Reader - guest dancer, Costume Designer

Yael Japha - guest dancer

Charissa Bowditch - guest dancer

Gretchen LaBorwit - guest dancer

Aesthetics and Politics:

The relationship between art, politics and activism

Artist: Andre Daughtry

Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013

Time: 6-8 pm

Cost: $10 program admission, free to members 

This lecture is intended to help explore the relationship between the arts and political life of society. The philosopher Jacque Ranciere is very well known for his writings on the subject. Ranciere considered the ability of the two domains of activity to be intrinsically linked because of their striking similarities in relation to the expansion of human perception, thinking and possibilities in relation to living.

Please come out and enjoy an exploration of this interesting subject matter with fellow RedLine members in a discussion led by artist-in-residence, Andre Daughtry.

RedLine's new program series, "The Artist's Studio," features one resident artist every month. Taking place during RiNo Second Saturdays, the featured artist will produce an event of their own design. With the resident artists' complete creative license and flexibility, each event will be a unique happening. This program seeks to more closely connect RedLine members and visitors with our resident and resource artist community and their work. For more information, please click HERE or contact Louise at louise.martorano@redlineart.org.

RedLine Open Studio

Dates: First Tuesdays

Time: 6:30-8:30 pm

Cost: $5 suggested materials donation for non-members

RedLine Open Studio welcomes artists of all skill levels to work alongside peers every first Tuesday in the Community Studio. Each session ends  in a half hour voluntary, informal peer critique. All media are welcome. If you do not want to pay the materials donation, please feel free to bring your own supplies.

Not Exactly Homeless Breakfast

Date: May 3, 2013 

Time: 7:30-9 am   

Location: RedLine 2350 Arapahoe Street Denver, CO 80205

Registration: Please RSVP to Audrey at apotter@redlineart.org

What Can You Do?

Photo by Cong Lu 

S(LAB): Real People. Real Moving.

Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013

Time: Please arrive by 7 pm

The Artist's Studio

Dates: Second Saturdays

Time: 6-8 pm

Cost: $10 program admission, free to members

RedLine's new program series, "The Artist's Studio," features one resident artist every month. Taking place during RiNo Second Saturdays, the featured artist will produce an event of their own design. With the resident artists' complete creative license and flexibility, each event will be a unique happening. This program seeks to more closely connect RedLine members and visitors with the resident and resource artist community and their work.  

2013 Calendar

May: Andre Daughtry 

June: Justin Beard

July: Jaime Carrejo

August: Donald Fodness

October: Laura Shill

November: Blake Sanz

December: Zach Reini

2014 Calendar

January: Chinn Wang

February: Katie Caron

March: Amber Cobb

April: Alvin Gregorio

May: Katie Watson

June: Nikki Pike

August: Heather Doyle-Maier

September: dylan scholinski

Drawing by Jared David Paul, 2013

PANDA: Performance Art Night Denver Aaaaaa

Date: Saturday, May 18, 2013

Time: 7 - 9 pm

Copyright for All Photographers

Presented by APA Colorado

Date: April 25, 2013

Time: 7 - 9 pm

Cost: General Admission $20/ Students $15/ APA members $10

MoP - Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography through 100+ collaborative public events throughout Denver and the region for the month of March - April 2013. We are joining multiple museums galleries and schools surrounding ideas in fine art photography creating an exciting artistic and educational event for the city of Denver and the region.

http://mop2013.blogspot.com   

Interview with Serena Chopra - Part 2

The following interview with is continued from last week. Please click here to see part 1. Serena's book, This Human, will be celebrated with a booksigning, reception and reading on Thursday, April 11, 6:00-9:00 pm.

When you started college did you intend to become a writer and poet?

When I started undergrad I was on a dance scholarship to CU Boulder. I was a ballerina, but the program was mostly modern technique based and, though I am a modern dancer now, I became discouraged at the time. I knew I wanted to do something artistic, but I was feeling a bit trapped and uninspired in the dance program. I had kept a journal since I was a kid and always wanted to be a writer, but didn’t know if it was something I was good at or should pursue; I loved to write, though. I spent hours in my dorm room, engrossed in my notebook. One morning, while waiting for a dance class to begin, I found a copy of the campus literary journal with a flier for a campus undergraduate writing award folded inside. I thought it would be so neat to be published, so I submitted a poem to the journal and a piece of fiction to the contest. My poem was selected for the journal and my story won the contest. I then signed up for the introductory creative writing workshop the following semester and eventually applied for the undergrad creative writing program, which is what my BA is in. I also attended the masters program in creative writing at CU, which I finished in 2009; I’m now at DU as a PhD candidate in creative writing. And so today, today—it happened so organically, and nearly unintentionally.

With your numerous creative outlets, where does your inspiration lay? Who (or what) are your greatest creative influences?

That is a big question. The possibility for inspiration is vast and in any moment. I believe that an artist works constantly. I am never “off the clock,” so to say; because it is my job to observe and create, I always have to be on. Inspiration can come from a class or a book, on a walk, during a fight, in a dream, at lunch—I keep pens and paper at very distinct locations around my house and on my person at all times so I can take a note at any moment. I am never at rest; my head is always going—critically and sensually consuming the world around me. No moment is lost time or useless; whatever I perceive is potential.

As far as specific historical and contemporary inspirations, I try to read and see as much as I can, so my current influences are constantly shifting; what I notice or am attracted to changes depending on what is attracting my curiosity at the time, and how I perceive relates to the writing or art I am working on. Right now, I am inspired by Milton’s absolute genius, the body, the human, the recent shooting tragedies, Romanticism, Modernism, Dorthea Lasky, Pina, female reproductive organs, solitude and loneliness, aggression, the breaking point of language, architecture, urban planning, zoo animals, machines and mechanisms, dead materials, clutter, Wagner operas, Lilly Mae Martin, Kurosawa, Clifford Still, gardens, deserts, and obsessive compulsive disorder.

I know that you've done a reading in a salvage yard before. What are some other unusual places you've created, exhibited or read your work?

I haven’t exhibited in many weird places other than the salvage yard. I am part of a theater group, GASP (Girls Assembling Something Perpetual) and we host plays in my home, which we turn into a really neat theater. Other than that, does Craig’s List count as a place?

Some of RedLine's previous resident artists have moved on to other residency programs in Denver to as far away as Denmark. Where would be your ideal place to create new work?

I love Denver; I feel so blessed to have such a vibrant creative community here. After I graduate, I’d like to move to San Francisco or Paris or any place that is a dream, I suppose.

Image: Reiner Riedler, from the series Fake Holidays: Horizon #1, Tropical Islands, Germany, 2007,
Represented by Sous Les Etoiles Gallery NYC

A RedLine and MoP Celebration

A thank you celebration to the supporters and participants of MoP

Date: April 24, 2013 

VIP and Members: 6-7 pm   

Public: 7-10 pm

The exhibition is The Reality of Fiction- a survey of photographers work who explore the subject of reality and fiction in this new millennium. The photographs range from serious social documentation to humorous and absurdities of our modern culture, including portraits of extreme plastic surgery, hyper realistic fake babies, fake holidays, fake relationships, fake realities, UFO Polaroids and much more.

Participating artists:

Emily Peacock - Reiner Riedler  - Phillip Toledano - Sarah Martin - Sally Stockhold - Rebecca Martinez - Greta Pratt  - James Soe Nyun - Joe Clower - j.frede  - Katie Taft - John Bonath - Christine Buchsbaum - Conor King - Michael Ensminger -  Edie Winograde - Pablo Gimenez Zapiola - Lori Nix - Liz Greene - Harry Walters - Adam Milner -  T. John Hughes - Nina Berman - Sarah Haney - Susan Anderson -Justin Beard - Zach Reini

MoP - Month of Photography Denver is a celebration of fine art photography through 100+ collaborative public events throughout Denver and the region for the month of March - April 2013. We are joining multiple museums galleries and schools surrounding ideas in fine art photography creating an exciting artistic and educational event for the city of Denver and the region.

For more information on Month of Photography events throughout Denver, please visit www.mopdenver.com 

Interview with Serena Chopra - Part 1 

RedLine resident writer, Serena Chopra, has just released her first full length poetry book-- This Human. The accomplishment will be celebrated with a book-signing, reception and reading on Thursday, April 11, 2013 from 6-9 pm. Friends of Serena, Michael Flatt (author, Absent Receiver) and Noah Eli Gordon (author, The Year of the Rooster), will also read at the event. 

“This Human maintains that the human is the only mechanism by which beauty is known. A human is an individual being with an anatomy that has the capability to perceive beauty and a mind to interpret and reason beauty.”

- Serena Chopra, excerpt from This Human

Interview

You created a multi-media piece for RedLine's 2012 resident artist exhibition, Material Engagements that included a mono print and a recording of one of your poems- “House of Shores.” Is this the first time you've exhibited visual art or has it been a long-time passion?

I have exhibited visual art before, but in a very small way—local restaurants and whatnot—nothing as formal as the RedLine. My gratitude goes out to RL for giving me the opportunity; visual art is a passion that I have not academically or otherwise formally pursued, but is a necessary part to my overall creative practice. I am also a dancer, performing now with Evolving Doors Dance Company, and I consider the three “genres” of art (writing, dance, and visual art) to simply be different modes or expressions of the same impulse. Through these three expressions, I find my way through whatever ideas or imaginings I am contemplating.

Do you consider the visual artwork an extension of your poetry?

In this way, I absolutely consider the work at RL as an extension of the poem, and of the entire book (of poems) I am currently composing. The poem, “House of Shores”, that is recorded for the visual piece is part of the book I am working on and is somewhat representative of the entire book. I plan to open up the scroll and continue the visual piece alongside the composition of the book. There exists a partnership, for me, between writing and visual work: some artists or writers work on multiple paintings or books at once; I work on one project through multiple modes, simultaneously. This is how I find “the idea to be discovered,” as our adored William Carlos Williams articulates.

The visual work says things that I cannot find words for; as I articulate the visual work, I come to understandings that open new points of access, which the language can then attempt to work towards in new ways. I often discover the poem in a visual articulation or movement of it; I discover the expression of movement in a poem or a visual articulation; and I discover the visual substance in the dance or poem. If I had any talent at music, I’d throw that in there too; what really is the difference except in tools and product? The process is the same. I think this is the capacity of expression, and its capability.

So you also have a background in dance?

Dance was my first art. I’ve been at it since I was two, so it is where I learned what expression was, what it meant, how I held it in my being, and its significance. Dance also taught me to be critical, to ask questions of aesthetic and intention. Finally, dance taught me that the only way to gain momentum is to ditch the ego, to just create because you have to, because that is what is to be done. This is a necessary value for my art-making process—it is what allows me to explore and work through a variety of artistic modes, and it is what encourages me to experiment.

Have you ever incorporated an element of dance into a poetry reading?

Whereas music accompanies dance, dance and poetry are exactly the same thing for me. When I dance I am thinking with my body and the thoughts are in a language that resembles poetry. When I write, I feel the language as movement rather than words communicating ideas. More precisely, dance and poetry are the same expressions for me. So my concern is, if I express something through movement, then how do I incorporate poetry without it feeling like a repetition of that movement, or worse, a blatant telling of the movement’s intention. So blending the two is tough for me. But I’ve seen it done beautifully, in particular by one poet, Ronaldo Wilson, and it is so moving.

And that being said, I do sort of dance when I read my work aloud because the act of composition is a dance. When I read aloud there is movement, but it is not a dance performance as such, it is the gestures of the language and composition—I cannot read without those gestures, they are a significant part of the expression of the poem. I feel these gestures are available when the poem is read on the page, but when I read it aloud, I use movement to translate what the audience cannot see happening on the page. Similarly, when I dance I am reading the audience poetry, but I am not speaking.

Boys To Men

Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Time: 6 pm

Location: Wonderbound: 1075 Park Avenue West Denver, CO 80205

Inocente Film Screening

Date: Sunday, June 2, 2013

Time: 4:15, 4:30 pm 

Location: Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80206

Tickets: $25, Click HERE to purchase

Join RedLine and Not Exactly artist, Inocente, for a screening of the Academy Award Winner for Best Short Documentary, Inocente, at the Sie FilmCenter. Q & A and reception with Inocente will be held after the screening.

Intensely personal coming of age feature documentary about a young artist’s fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. 

Told entirely in her own words, we come to Inocente’s story as she realizes her life is at a turning point, and for the first time, she decides to take control of her own destiny. Irreverent, flawed and funny, she’s now channeling her irrepressible personality into a future she controls. Her talent has finally been noticed, and if she can create a body of work in time, she has an opportunity to put on her first art show. Meanwhile, her family life is at a tense impasse – – if she legally emancipates herself from her mother to strike out on her own, she’ll risk placing her brothers in foster care, but to stay is unbearable. INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America, children. 

Not Exactly

Between home and where I find myself

On the aesthetics of recognition

Curated by Chad Kautzer and Robin Gallite

Exhibition Dates: June 1 - July 28, 2013

Reception: June 1, 2013

Time: Members 6-7 pm, Public 7-10 pm

Not Exactly is a powerful exploration of ambiguous identities, social relations, and the porous boundaries of public and private spaces. According to Curator, Chad Kautzer,

“Not Exactly speaks to the distinction between the lack of shelter and the denial of social recognition that leads to an experience of homelessness. Each has its own logic, generates unique forms of division, and calls out for different kinds of intervention and artistic expression. Social recognition is foundational to our identity, gives expression to our humanity, and connects us to a community.”

Chad Kautzer, Curator

Some people without shelter don’t identify as homeless because they have a sense of belonging, while others call themselves homeless, because they feel marginalized or vulnerable even with shelter. The artists of Not Exactly have captured these subtleties of community and identity without resorting to conventional representations. In addition to the exhibition, critical questions will emerge through creative programming collaborations with the community and public officials.

“RedLine’s Not Exactly exhibition engages the private, public and nonprofit sectors in a thoughtful and artistic dialogue into what it means to be homeless. Pathways Home Colorado will work with partners to address the causes and misconceptions of homelessness in Colorado.”

John W. Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado

The opening reception for RedLine members will be held on June 1, 2013 at 6 pm, followed by a public reception from 7-10 pm. RedLine's exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Participating Artists

Christina Battle and Julie Carr, bARTer Collective, Lauren Bon, Glen Carney, Paulo Cirio, Amber Cobb, Heather Doyle-Maier, Gonzo, Alvin Gregorio, Rose Henderson, Inocente Izucar, Sharon Morrison, Caroline (OUI) Pooler, dylan scholinski, Laura Shill, Sevilla Stinnett, Frank Sturgell, Matthew Thompson, Rebecca Vaughan, Eric Wingard and Jody Wood

Related Events & Programs

Friday, May 3, 7:30-9 am

Fundraising breakfast with Governor John W. Hickenlooper and Mayor Michael Hancock

Sunday, June 2, 4-6 pm

Screening of Academy Award Winner for Best Short Documentary, “Inocente,” at the Sie Film Center followed by a reception and Q&A with Inocente Izucar

Tuesday, June 4, 6 pm

Boys To Men: A conversation with the little league players and coach who grew up on the most dangerous baseball field in America: PJ D’Amico RedLine Executive Director (aka Reebok), Deandre Fountain (aka Pede), and Antoine Carlisle (aka Dirty Red)

Sunday, June 16

Voice: An evening of readings, reflection, and resistance, featuring Dr. Nikki Giovanni, Dr. Vincent Harding, Dr. Lisa M. Calderón, and Dr. Art Jones

Tuesday, July 16

Biennial of the Americas exhibition opening in Sustainability Park (SPARK)

Date to be Announced

Performance by Romero Theater Troupe

Date to be Announced

Prison Performance featuring the LIDA project and the SOURCE Theater Company

BFA Thesis Exhibition at RedLine

Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, May 7 – Thursday, May 16, 2013

Closing Reception: Thursday, May 16, 5–8 pm

The Department of Visual Arts and the College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD) proudly presents the Spring 2013 BFA Thesis Exhibition at RedLine. This exhibition will represent the graduating seniors in the emphasis areas of Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Design, and Digital Animation.
 

Wonderbound dancer play fighting with Katie Taft's photograph, Four Fathers, 2001 

Photos courtesy of Mark Sink

Wonderbound

Wonderbound is a re-imagining of Ballet Nouveau Colorado's professional dance company. Not to be left behind, The School of BNC has transformed into the Colorado Conservatory of Dance. With these changes, the new Wonderbound seeks to "re-imagine how the performing arts are created, supported and shared in a rapidly evolving world." According to the Artistic Director, Garrett Ammon,

"We must revel in our complexity, we must embrace it, celebrate it, and be bound to it. We must reach far into our past and strive relentlessly toward our future. We must be forthright about our frailties and lay bare our souls.

We must dream, we must work, we must be rigorous. Only then might we glimpse the true possibility that resides within all of us.

This is the essence of WONDERBOUND."

Along with the a new name, Wonderbound has a new location. We're excited to have them as our new neighbors at 1075 Park Ave West, just behind RedLine. As our partner in crime on many occasions, we hope that Wonderbound's new move will lead to many future collaborations. Watch Wonderbound's introductory video on Youtube and explore their channel further for interviews with the dancers. Please visit wonderbound.com for more information.

This Human by Serena Chopra

Book Release w/additional readings by Michael Flatt, Noah Eli Gordon and Dorthea Lasky

Date: Thursday April 11, 2013

Time: 6-9 pm

The first full-length book from RedLine Resident Writer, Serena Chopra, will be out from Coconut Books on April 1. The new book will be celebrated with a release party at RedLine on Thursday, April 11, at 6:30 pm. The event will include a book-signing, light reception and a reading from Chopra and guest authors Michael Flatt (Absent Receiver), Noah Eli Gordon (The Year of the Rooster) and Dorthea Lasky (Thunderbird). Copies of all three books will be available for purchase at the event.

This Human, Serena Chopra

This Human is a long poem in seven parts that examines the relationship between loneliness and beauty, and presses into further implications of this relationship. Artwork for This Human includes work by Gretchen Marie Schaefer (RedLine resident artist from 2010-2012) and a cover image by Lu Cong. 

About Serena 

Serena Chopra is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver, a 2009 graduate of University of Colorado at Boulder’s MFA program, and a 2011-2013 Writer-In-Residence at RedLine. She has been published in Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, VOLT, Versal, Vinyl, Hot Metal Bridge, and No Tell Motel. Her chapbook, Speaking to Your Man, was released in August 2010 by Peninsulas Now Press, her chapbook, Penumbra was released 2012 from Flying Guillotine Press, and a version of her book, Livid Season, was released in chapbook form from Free Poetry in 2012. She was a finalist for the 2011 Dorset prize and a 2010 Kundiman fellow. She is also a dancer with Evolving Doors Dance Company in Boulder and a visual artist. Serena currently teaches at the Boulder Writers Studio and with Writers in the Schools. 

Absent Receiver, Michael Flatt

Michael Flatt's Absent Receiver is a love poem of physicality and distance, music and musicality, reverberations and delays. In Flatt's formally adventurous fragments, memory competes with resignation, false memories are invented, and language is re-purposed to sometimes humorous, sometimes withering ends. Popular music, professional hockey, and French surrealism are given equal consideration by this speaker, but above all there is the hope that you are outside the car, that "you [will pull] me back into the snow."

About Michael

Michael Flatt is an associate editor for Counterpath and Field Editorial. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 1913: A Journal of Forms, The Destroyer, Horse Less Review, SpringGun, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. His reviews of poetry and fiction have appeared in Colorado Review, NewPages, Octopus Magazine, and Cutbank.

The Year of the Rooster, Noah Eli Gordon

The Year of the Rooster offers in its title work a kinetic, convulsive, epic poem that explores and explodes through slippery, circumspect pronouns expectations of gender, the authority of artifice, the act of looking, and the action of thought. Is the rooster a trope? Is he a trooper? Maybe he’s a she and she’s the expectation of masculine bravado he’s trying to unmask. Part action painting, part abstract estrangement, part enactment of the artist’s uncertainty about all things art, the weird world of this poem is forever in flux, off-kilter, unanswerable. Planting bullets in the flowerbed of the sonnet, “Diminishing Returns” and “Returning Diminishments,” two extended, meditative yet humorous suites, bookend the title poem.

About Noah

Noah Eli Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, an editor for The Volta, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press. More info can be found here http://www.noaheligordon.com/

RedLine Facilities Manager Jeremiah Archuleta and Executive Director PJ D'Amico

Rebecca Martinez in front of her work with Mark Sink and RedLine Staff- Louise and Jeremiah

Michael Ensminger posing in front of his photograph Herald, 2008. 

Katie Taft posing with her photograph- Four Fathers, 2001

Wonderbound performing at the reception

Photos courtesy of Mark Sink

The Reality of Fiction

RedLine is thrilled to serve, once again, as the anchoring contemporary art space for Month of Photography Denver, with exhibitions, lectures and portfolio reviews. The marquis exhibition in 2013 is The Reality of Fiction: The realities and absurdities of our modern age, curated by Mark Sink. The exhibition is a survey of photographers work who explore the subject of reality and fiction in this new millennium. Consisting of hyper-realistic fake babies, fake holidays, fake relationships, fake realities, UFO Polaroids and much more, the photographs range from serious social documentation to humorous play of the absurdities our modern culture. 

RedLine has received a lot of attention for our involvement in Month of Photography Denver. The Reality of Fiction has been featured on the front page of the Denver Post and in Westword, Denver Centric and The New York Times. Alongside other MoP venues, RedLine has also received international press in France's Le Journal de la Photographie. The exhibition will continue through April 28, 2013.

According to RedLine staff member, Audrey Potter, "One of the best things about MoP is that it is such a community endeavor. Volunteers assist in planning and hanging exhibitions around the city, wheat pasting buildings and distributing posters. With over 170 exhibitions and events and plenty of media coverage, it's like a month-long celebration for Denver's art community. "

For upcoming photography lectures, please follow the links below to RSVP on Facebook:

Action Figures – March 24, 6pm

A participatory performance and discussion on photography with "Musical Chairs" by Katie Taft and Don Frank 

APA Lecture – April 25, 7 – 9 pm

Art Photographers of America presents Jackie Shumaker, with a lecture on copyright law and licensing your work in today's world of the internet. 

Note: Become a member at the $100 "Donor" level by April 30 and receive a commemorative MoP mechanic shirt- a $35 value, free of charge. Click HERE for information on membership. To get the deal, mention "MoP Mechanic" in your Paypal notes.

EPIC Arts Spring 2013 Youth Exhibition

Student work inspired by Social Justice

Exhibition Dates: May 11 – May 24, 2013  

Reception: Saturday, May 11, 1-4 pm

The EPIC Arts Spring 2013 Youth Exhibition will feature artworks created by students participating in RedLine’s Educational Partnership Initiative for the Creative (EPIC) Arts program at Whittier ECE-8 School, Bruce Randolph School, Joliet Learning Center, Noel Community Art School, Gilpin Montessori, SOAR Charter School, Denver Green School and Odyssey School.  

RedLine’s EPIC Arts program provides a platform for RedLine Resident Artists to work in collaboration with students and educators over several weeks in K-12 schools to implement an experiential curriculum that creates a body of artwork through a lens of contemporary social justice.  EPIC Arts empowers youth to become active interpreters within their own unique art practice alongside a professional artist both in and outside of the classroom.

Image (above): Beth Vallieres, The Deception (detail), 2012, lithograph, 35" x 24"

Image (above): Diane Cionne, Romance and Reason #4 (detail), 2012, monoprint, 20" x 17" 

Image: Humberto Saenz, La Arca, 2012, lithograph, 19" x 15"

Leading up to Month of Photography, February has been a month of printmaking at RedLine. 528.0 opened on February 1 with over 100 print works on display in RedLine's Project Space. 12 Juror's Favorite awards were announced at the reception. Humberto Saenz won the Sue Cannon Award for Excellence in Printmaking for his lithograph, La Arca, pictured above. 

On Saturday, February 23, 1:30-3 pm the Invisible Museum will host a print symposium at RedLine entitled Printmaking in the 21st Century: Are traditional methods of fine art printing still relevant? Come participate in the conversation with panelists, Dennis Dalton (Professor, CSU Pueblo), Susan Oehme (Homeographics, Steamboat Springs), Ivar Ziele (Owner, Plus Gallery) and Melanie Yazzie (Associate Professor, CU Boulder. 

The exhibition ends on February 24.