As September ushers in the first hints of fall, Denver's creative energy shows no signs of cooling down. The city’s vibrant arts scene continues to flourish, offering new opportunities to engage with art and community.

We’re embracing the change of season with exciting new art events and exhibitions!

This Saturday, we’re proud to present a special event, Live Music & Art Making with Lonely Parrots. Join us at RedLine from 6-9pm for an evening of community art-making, accompanied by the soulful sounds of Denver duo Lonely Parrots. All proceeds will benefit RedLine’s REACH Open Studio program.

Through October 6th, you can experience The Other Side of the Tracks at RedLine. This traveling exhibition features the work of nine national and internationally recognized contemporary artists who come from these communities, whose voices have been excluded from the triumphal tales of the track.

In Colorado and beyond, below are our top 5 art events and exhibitions this September, featuring RedLine Resident Artist Alumni!

**Joel Swanson - Orderings Solo Exhibition**

What: Solo exhibition
Where: Astor House - 822 12th St, Golden, CO, 80401
When: August 24, 2024 - November 3, 2024

About the Exhibition: Through a diverse array of artworks that simultaneously embrace and challenge various approaches to ordering information, Swanson illuminates the subtle yet profound influence these systems exert on our perception of reality.

About the Artist: Joel Swanson is an Associate Professor in the ATLAS Institute and the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society at the University of Colorado Boulder where he works and teaches at the intersection of language and technology.

He directs the TYPO Lab, a speculative design lab that critically explores the intersection of text and technology. He received his Master of Fine Art at the University of California, San Diego with a focus in Computing and the Arts.

Contact: joelericswanson@gmail.com
Website: www.joelswanson.art
Instagram: @joel.swanson

Sam Grabowska - Haptic Terrain Solo Show

What: Solo exhibition
Where: Leon Gallery - 1112 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80218
When: September 28 - November 6, 2024
Opening Reception: September 28, 6pm-10pm

About the Exhibition: "Haptic Terrain" probes the porous boundary between our bodies and environments, examining how we mutate, evolve, and adapt to endure a hostile world. Featuring multiple sculptures, a video, and 3D modeling prints, this collection uses materials like melted skin-like grocery bags, excavated concrete, deformed insulation foam, and transplanted human hair.

The exhibit invites viewers into the intimacy of disgust, the familiarity of struggle, and the escapism of imaginary worlds.

About the artist: Sam Grabowska is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Denver, Colorado, USA. Working predominantly in sculpture, their installations aim to reconstruct the body after emotional trauma. Grabowska has exhibited their work in museums and galleries across the US and Sweden including the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Art Museum, SOO Visual Art Center, and Rejmyre Art Lab. They hold a PhD in architecture with a cognate in cultural anthropology, an MH in interdisciplinary humanities, a BFA in film, and a BA in environmental design. Grabowska is the founder of Manifolding Labs, a research and consulting firm focusing on trauma-responsive spatial design.

Contact: manifolding@gmail.com
Website: www.samgrabowska.com
Instagram: @samgrabowska

**Ben Coleman - Movements Towards Freedom Group Exhibition**

Elena Dahn, *Pendiente*, 2024. Performance at PROA21, 2022. Courtesy the artist.

What: Group Exhibition
Where: MCA Denver - 1485 Delgany St, Denver, CO, 80202
When: September 20, 2024 - February 2, 2025

About the Exhibition: Linking physical and social definitions of movement, Movements Toward Freedom examines how the articulation of our bodies, collectively and singularly, informs and shapes a vital society.

Showcasing recent work and new commissions that span genres of performance, sculpture, video, painting and installation, the exhibition considers the ways that physical movement plays an integral role in exercising personal and collective agency, as a means for community-building, civic change and liberation, as well as serving as an antidote to strife and a vehicle for healing and care.

About the artist: Ben Coleman is a British multi-disciplinary artist residing in Denver, CO. His practice is multidisciplinary, grounded in sound and performance, and often encompassing other media, including music, dance, video, and installation.
Coleman grew up in theatre and music, and formed his first bands in London while simultaneously studying performance art. His performance and installation work retain the playful, participatory approach, and scrappy DIY aesthetic that distinguished these scenes.

Contact: contactbencoleman@gmail.com
Website: www.bencolemansounds.com/works
Instagram: @isthisbencoleman

**Daisy Patton - Imaginary Homelands Group Exhibition**

What: Group Exhibit
Where: Augusta Savage Gallery - 103 New Africa House, MA, 01003
When: September 13 - December 4, 2024

About the exhibition: In Imaginary Homelands, the body becomes a vessel for storytelling, exploring identity, diaspora, place, and time. Inspired by Dutch master portraiture, Alicia Brown’s gorgeously decorated figures pose as a pointed connection to the history of the Caribbean and colonialism.

Patton’s focus on women from the Southwest Asia and Northern Africa region speaks to her efforts to (re)connect with Iranian culture and the interiority of women’s lives which often go unrecognized despite how they carry forward family histories.

About the Artist: Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Los Angeles to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met.

Influenced by collective and political histories, Patton explores storytelling and story-carrying, the meaning and social conventions of families, and what shapes living memory.

Currently residing in western Massachusetts, Patton has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, including at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado, the Chautauqua Institution, MCA Denver, Spring/Break NYC, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Katonah Museum of Art, The Delaware Contemporary, the International Museum of Science and Art, among others.

Contact: daisy.a.patton@gmail.com
Website: www.daisypatton.com
Instagram: daisy_patton

LA Samuelson - Fellowship at RISD

*Images of Telegraph Valley at Redline. Photos by Jun Akiyama.*

What: Solo Show

About the Show: Resident Alum LA Samuelson received a year-long fellowship at RISD’s Movement Lab for further research and development of Telegraph Valley, an evolving performance and installation project, created in partnership with RedLine Contemporary Art Center, the National Performance Network, square product theatre, and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator.

RISD’s Movement Lab Fellowship offers post-graduate artists and scholars the opportunity to focus on independent creative research that advances the study of movement into uncharted territory. The fellowship enables recipients to embark on projects involving animation, filmmaking, immersive arts, performance, game arts, dance, puppetry, robotics, kinetic sculpture and more.

Samuelson’s fellowship project,Telegraph Valley, is a performance and installation work that centers the friction at the heart of two overlapping ideas: that humans “have” physical bodies while also somehow “being” physical bodies. During their fellowship, Samuelson will investigate how experimental approaches to image frame rate and motion capture can be used to animate the queerness that lives inside this friction.

About the Artist: LA Samuelson is an artist working in contemporary performance, sculpture and media. Their work follows the transmission of feeling across objects, sites and bodies, searching for new strategies to help us bear impermanence, and attachments to living and to one another.

Samuelson’s projects have been presented by MCA Denver, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Understudy, Black Cube Nomadic Museum and the Denver Art Museum. They hold an MFA in Dance from Colorado University-Boulder (CU-Boulder), with secondary emphases in visual art and somatics, and a graduate certification in emergent technologies and media arts practices. They are a proud alum of RedLine’s Resident Artist Program.

Contact: lauraann.samuelson@gmail.com
Website: www.lauraannsamuelson.com
Instagram: @lauraann.samuelson