June means Denver is in full festival summer season!

The Five Points Jazz Festival, The Juneteenth Festival, and many more arts, music, and cultural festivals are kicking off this month.

Here at RedLine, we’ve got some exciting new exhibitions on display this month: the Darrell Anderson: Risk & Change and FEMA Climate Resiliency exhibition open on June 28th, 6-9 pm.

Learn more about the opening reception here >

Our Resident Alumni are also hard at work on everything from new solo shows to group exhibitions, lectures to art classes and more.

Check out our top 9 June art events featuring RedLine Resident Artist Alumni!

Tya Anthony - Hear/Say Group Exhibition

What: Group Exhibition
Where: BRDG Project Gallery and Event Space 3300 Tejon St, Denver, CO, 80211
When: June 14th-July 14th, 2024

About the exhibition: At the intersection of art, science, and health, a new exhibition is taking shape at BRDG Project Gallery in Denver, Colorado. Entitled Hear/Say, the exhibition features local and national artists exploring a scientific topic through an artistic lens, encouraging conversation and open-minded understanding on a controversial subject.

Curator: Tya Anthony

Artists: Christine Nguyen, Beth Johnston, Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta, Autumn T. Thomas, Shaunie Berry, Jennifer Ghormley, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Peter Miles Bergman, Samuel Mata, Tiffany Medina, and Fernando Orellana in a collective celebration of artistic expression.

Tya Anthony - Grow Up Group Exhibition

What: Group Exhibition
Where: Bell Projects 2822 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80206
When: June 7th - July 7th, 2024

About the exhibition: Inspired by the Science-Informed Art model, Grow Up is an exhibition that empowers young student classes from various Denver institutions to explore the effects of high-concentration cannabis through their own creative lens. In conjunction with a campaign led by the University of Colorado School of Public Health, this exhibition is a science-informed artistic exploration by student artists on the health impacts of high-concentration cannabis.

About the artist: (b.1978) Tya Alisa Anthony, Interdisciplinary Artist + Independent Curator, explores themes of domestic resilience, social justice, human rights, and identity through sculptural painting, photography, and collage. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado, where she in addition to her artistic pursuits, she is the Director of Education & Community at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, the founder of Mahogany Vū Contemporary Virtual Gallery, and the editor of Contemporary Thought Magazine, Living Culture: A Mahogany Vū for BIPOC artists of the Diaspora.

Anthony's work has been exhibited nationally and is included in the permanent collection commissioned by the Octopus Initiative, Museum of Contemporary Art, Center for Visual Arts, LEON Gallery, and RedLine Contemporary Art Center.

Contact: tyaalisaanthony@gmail.com
Artist website: https://www.tyaanthony.com/
Instagram: @tyaanthony

Sarah Bowling - Quicksand Solo Exhibition

What: Solo Exhibition
Where: RULE Gallery, 808 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204
When: May 31 - August 3, 2024
Opening Reception: May 31, 6-8pm

About the exhibition: Quicksand is a solo show by Sarah Bowling at RULE Gallery.

About the artist: Sarah Bowling is an artist hailing from Denver, Colorado. She earned her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a focus on fiber art and sculpture.

Her work has been showcased in exhibitions across the nation, including venues such as LVL3 (Chicago, IL), RULE (Marfa, TX & Denver, CO), and The Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, PA). Bowling has participated in various prestigious residencies, notably The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Tough Art Residency (Pittsburgh, PA) and a two-year residency at RedLine Contemporary Art Center (Denver, CO). Currently, Bowling works and resides in San Diego, CA.

Contact: sarahcbowling@gmail.com
Website: www.sarahcbowling.com
Instagram: @_sarahbowling_

Sammy Lee - Moonlight in Colorado Solo Exhibition

What: Solo Exhibition
Where: The Store - 25 Pildong-ro 8-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
When: May 24-June 16, 2024

About the exhibition: Moonlight in Colorado, Sammy Lee's solo exhibition in Seoul, is a culminating event from one year of her Fulbright Award. Lee wants to share her gratitude and joy with you after finishing her Fulbright Seoul life with an individual exhibition.

About the artist: Sammy Lee is an artist based in Denver, Colorado. Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Southern California at the age of sixteen. She studied fine art and media art at UCLA and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Among her many accomplishments is a performative collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma during the Bach project tour in 2018. Lee is a Resident Alumni at RedLine, served as an ambassador for Asian Art at Denver Art Museum, was recently selected as a Fulbright US Scholar, and operates a contemporary art project and residency space, called Collective SML | k in Santa Fe Art District, Denver. 

Lee's work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections at the Getty Research Institute, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Spanish National Library in Madrid.

Contact: sammy@studiosmlk.com
Artist website: https://www.studiosmlk.com/
Instagram: @sammy_seungmin_lee

Becky Wareing Steele - I Regret to Inform You…Rejected Public Art Group Exhibition

What: Group Exhibition
Where: Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO, 80003
When: June 6-August 25, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 6, 6-9pm

About the exhibition: Explore the art that could’ve been. “I regret to inform you…” is commonly used in rejection letters sent to artists after submitting to exhibitions, calls, and public art opportunities. This exhibition highlights rejected public art proposals that were dreamed up by artists but were not selected to move forward.

For every public art piece that you pass by, there were probably two to four others that never came to fruition. This exhibition is about those pieces–the art that never happened.

About the artist: Becky Wareing Steele is an artist living and working in Denver, Colorado specializing in small scale sculpture and public art. 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. This impact can also be found in the way we perceive ourselves in our environment. 

Through this process she is able to alter the way people view everyday situations, seemingly mundane at times, and invite the viewer to think about their place in the environment by altering the scale.

Contact: bwareingsteele@gmail.com
Website: beckywareingsteele.com
Instagram: @beckywareingsteele

Regan Rosburg - Art and the Environment: Navigating a Rapidly Changing World Lecture

What: Lecture
Where: Online
When: Wednesday, June 12, 6pm

About the lecture: Artist and Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design professor Regan Rosburg has traveled to ecologically impactful regions of the world for the past 20 years and has become an advocate for artistic voices joining the conversation on climate change, over-consumption and human impact. In this talk, Rosburg weaves together climate change, the Anthropocene, ecopsychology, ceremony and ecological spirituality.

Fee: $10 member, $12 non-member

Regan Rosburg - Mixed Media Sculpture Class

What: Art Class
Where: Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St, Denver, CO, 80206
When: Thursday & Friday, June 13 & 14, 9:30am-3pm MST

About the class: We constantly interact with both living and non-living objects, yet rarely consider where they come from, how they influence us or what happens after we no longer use them. Explore found object sculpture in this workshop by combining organic and manufactured materials together in unique ways. Research your materials to develop cultural, historical, symbolic and personal narrative to create dynamic sculptures using the elements and principles of design.

Prerequisites: None

Fee: $195 member, $225 non-member (Fee includes some materials)

About the artist: Regan Rosburg is an artist, naturalist, and writer; she works in a variety of materials to blur the boundary between nature and culture. Her work is founded in the principles of Ecopsychology, which she describes as society's collective grief, environmental melancholia, and “collective social mania” (her term). She fervently believes that artists are a crucial voice in discussing climate change and human impact.

Contact: reganrosburg@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.reganrosburg.com
Instagram: @reganrosburgartwork

Ramón Bonilla - Ely Center of Contemporary Art Artist Residency

What: Artist Residency
Where: New Haven, CT
When: Spring ‘24

About the residency: This is a pilot for the Keyhole Workspace Residency Program with the theme of Climate Change. The Ely Center ECOCA is pleased to present 5 artists whose work examines the many issues of climate change. From social and racial justice/injustice to the use of natural and recycled materials to interrogating our relationship with the ecosystem.

About the artist: Ramón Bonilla is an artist from Puerto Rico working with painting, wall vinyl and installation work. From 2015 to 2017 Bonilla completed the Artist Residency at RedLine Denver and is also a recipient of the Insite Fund. In 2018, Bonilla presented art installations at The Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO and at the Understudy experimental art space at the Denver Theater District.

Bonilla's work has been recognized by The Government Development Bank Puerto Rico, Museum Of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico, Saatchiart.com and Artslant.com. His work has also been included in Artnet.com, Artsy.com, Puerto Rico Art News, and Autogiro. His work has also been commissioned by Absolut Art. The artist has been represented by Michael Warren Contemporary and currently is represented by Space Gallery Denver where he has participated in multiple solo and group shows.

As a member of the art group Direction/Instruction, Bonilla has shown his work at Paradigm Gallery Philadelphia, Space Gallery Denver and S16 Montreal. He also completed a multimedia room environment for Meow Wolf Denver titled “Aztec Camera” In 2022 Bonilla had a solo show at Alto Gallery, and in 2023 he participated in a solo show at the Arvada Center.

Contact: ramonbnll@gmail.com
Website: ramon-bonilla.com
Instagram: @studio_bonilla

Tony Ortega - Cinco de Mayo Live Painting

What: Public Live Painting
Where: Civic Center Park - 101 14th Ave, Denver, CO, 80204

About the event: Back in May, RedLine Resident Artist Alumni Tony Ortega had a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with Volkswagen for Denver's Cinco de Mayo celebration. Check out these photographs of Ortega painting their all-electric ID.4.

About the artist: Tony Ortega has been a working artist and teacher for the past 36 years.  He is the recipient of the coveted Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1999) and the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1998).

Tony Ortega’s lifelong goal is to contribute to a better understanding of cultural diversity by addressing the culture, history and experiences of Chicanos/Latinos through his art. His work can be found in the Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Latin America and other parts of the world. 

Contact: tortegaartist@cs.com
Artist website: www.tonyortega.net
Instagram: @tortegaartist