It’s hard to believe 2022 is coming to an end. We’ve just welcomed our new cohort of Resident Artists, who are busy preparing for their first Resident Artist exhibition in January. Our Youth Art Mentors are hard at work on socially engaged art projects with their student mentees, who will exhibit their work in May of 2022.

Meanwhile, we still have a few exciting art events at RedLine, including an artist talk with Beau Carey and Ian Fisher on December 14th and a panel on art criticism and art writing presented with Southwest Contemporary on December 9th!

And as always, our Resident Artists and Alumni are offering plenty of opportunities to keep you engaged in the arts this month. From beading workshops to group and solo exhibitions, check out our top 4 December art events around Denver & beyond!

Chelsea Kaiah - Beading Workshop Series

*"Nuche" Beaded purse made from mother of pearl, seedbeads, vintage beads, and leather.*

What: Beading workshop series
Where: Denver Art Museum — 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204.
When: December 3, 2022 & January 3, 2023

About the workshop series: Chelsea Kaiah isn’t just part of our Resident Artist cohort at RedLine — she’s also the Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at the Denver Art Museum!

“In this hands-on workshop, Chelsea Kaiah, the DAM’s Native Arts Artist-in-Residence, will help participants understand the basic techniques, materials, and history of beadworking while creating a small project. As part of each workshop, Kaiah will also highlight works in the collection and help participants see details of the beadwork that often get overlooked.”

About the artist: Chelsea Kaiah (b. 1995) is Ute and Apache/ Irish settler, born on the Northern Ute reservation. As an artist she currently resides in Denver Colorado. She is a passionate activist for Native rights, awareness, and sustainability. Chelsea earned her BFA at Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville Tennessee. Today, she learns traditional practices of pine needle weaving, beading, porcupine quilling, buffalo hunting, and hide work. Incorporating her interdisciplinary skills to meld a perspective of culture and artistic practice. She’s a 2022-2024 Resident Artist at RedLine.

Artist website: www.chelseakaiah.com
Instagram: @chelsea.kaiah

Daisy Patton - Deep Roots: Ornamentation and Identity Group Exhibition

*Detail of "Untitled (Dear half 5-4-1927)" *translated, 80"x60", 2021. Photo sourced from Cairo, Egypt.*

What: Group exhibition
Where: Susquehanna Art Museum — 401 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA 17102
When: October 8, 2022–January 22, 2023

About the exhibition: “Deep Roots: Ornamentation and Identity features the work of artists Kuzana Ogg, Cecilia Paredes, Daisy Patton, Helice Wen, and Helen Zughaib. This collection of mixed media pieces utilizes rich patterns and textures to represent important layers of identity.

“Visual storytelling is one of the crucial methods rooting our contemporary lives to the past; each artist weaves the story of their living memory with the traditions characteristic of their heritage.

“Deep Roots accompanies Fleeting Pleasures, the historic exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints on loan from the Georgia Museum of Art. These contemporary reflections on traditional patterns and modes of ornamentation uniquely counterpoint the beloved ukiyo-e works on view.”

About the artist: Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist who was born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these conflicting cultural ways of being. Influenced by collective and political histories, as well as memory and the fallibility of the body, Patton’s work explores the meaning and social conventions of families, relationship, connection, storytelling and story-carrying.

Artist website: https://www.daisypatton.com
Instagram: @daisy_patton

Christine Nguyen - Parallels: Women of Abstract Expressionism Group Exhibition

What: Group Exhibition
Where: Bell Projects — 2822 E. 17th Avenue Denver, CO 80206
When: December 2-December 18, 2022
Opening reception: December 2, 6-10pm
About the exhibition: “This group exhibition was born as an homage to the pioneering Women of Abstract Expressionism: Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine De Kooning, Betty Blayton, Joan Mitchell, and many more. These women gave a voice not only to abstraction as a relevant collective language, but also gave a voice to female artists who were oftentimes overshadowed by their partners or male colleagues.

“The only parameter given to each artist was the resulting size of the finished paintings, all other components and decisions were left to each individual artist. Experimentation, exploration, risk-taking, and pushing the boundaries of their normal practices were all outcomes from the residency. Many artists felt freer to create something out of the ordinary or to try something new with their works.”

*Time, Space, Micro and Macrocosms, 110” x 196” ,salt, epsom salt, and borax on unprocessed fuji crystal archive photographic paper (2022)*

Christine will also be showing in the group exhibition Surface Tension - dimensional photography and installation.
Where: Bethel University’s Olson Gallery — 3900 Bethel Dr, St Paul, MN 55112
When: Oct. 27–Dec. 16, 2022
Learn more >

About the artist: Christine Nguyen was born and raised in California and currently resides in Aurora, Colorado and also works in Long Beach, California. She is a lover of animals, plants, and nature. She received her B.F.A from California State University, Long Beach and M.F.A from University of California, Irvine. Exhibitions of her work have been shown nationally and internationally. She’s a 2022-2024 Resident Artist at RedLine.

Artist website: www.christinenguyen.art
Instagram: @seamoonshe

**Becky Wareing Steele - Vessel Group Exhibition**

Pictured: A still from the stop motion animation 'Alaskan Drive', 2021, by oral historian Shannon Geis and artist Becky Wareing Steele as part of Personal Geographies, a collaborative art project which translates individuals’ memories of spaces they’ve occupied in the past into auditory and visual installations in the present. Learn more at *personalgeography.org*

What: Group exhibition
Where: Dairy Arts Center - 2590 Walnut (26th & Walnut), Boulder, Colorado, 80302
When: December 2, 2022-January 28, 2023

About the exhibition: “A vessel takes on many different definitions and exists within a range of disciplines; from science and the blood to vessels that sail the wide open seas, all the way to ancient vessels that were used for water transportation or storage. The ways in which vessels are understood are also quite abstract and far-reaching. Artists have expanded what their thoughts around traditional vessels are, transcending categorization to include things like time, narrative, illness, humor, stereotype, and self-identification.

This exhibition explores the ever-expanding boundaries that are contained within and make up the idea of a vessel. What truly is a vessel, and how can we singularly contain its definition?

Participating artists:

Tyler Alpern, Virginia Diaz Saiki, thnhdnh, Personal Geographies (Becky Wareing Steele and Shannon Geis), Jane Glotzer, Andrea Gordon, Dylan Griffith, Brenda Jones, Hannah Leathers, Marsha Mack, Peter Manion, Evan Mann, Layl McDill, Andra Stanton, Lindsay Stripling, Robert Sunderman, Lucas Thomas, Chase Travaille

About the artist: Becky Wareing Steele is an artist living and working in Denver, Colorado specializing in small scale sculpture. Her work deals with the commonalities that exist in our shared experiences through the examination of scale and environment. Through her sculptural and photographic work with 1:160 scale figures and 1:12 scale objects she explores the impact of scale and how it affects our perception of the world around us.

Artist website: https://beckywareingsteele.com/
Instagram: @beckywareingsteele