It’s a season of celebration at the DAM!
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) offers fun ways for families to celebrate the close of 2024 in artistic style. From vivid, wow-inducing colors, to exploring the depths of space, to appreciating the richness of Indigenous cultures, the DAM offers wildly immersive art experiences for families to journey through this entire holiday season.
Oh, and did we mention youth aged 18 and under receive free general admission every day thanks to the museum’s Free for Kids program?
EVENTS AT DAM
Indomitably Indigenous now through Jan. 3, 2025
The creativity of Indigenous youth ages 12-25 is on full display. Artworks in this showcase celebrate the Indigenous identities and artistic abilities of emerging artists in the Denver metro area.
Art Emergency: Sendak Edition Nov.23, 2024 and Dec. 28, 2024, 11 am–12 pm
Join us for Art Emergency: Sendak Edition, a play that investigates what inspired Maurice Sendak to create the art found in Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak.
Demo Artist: Akemi Tsutsui-Kunitake Nov. 9, 2024, 12 pm-3 pm
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process and connect with local artists with Studio Saturdays in the Wild Studio.
Foxy and Shmoxy: Art Detectives Nov. 10, 2024, and Dec. 8, 2024, 10:30 am-12 pm
Join two witty, silly foxes who solve mysterious cases involving artworks in the galleries! Using a humorous storytelling format, Foxy and Shmoxy help young children access and experience artworks in unique ways.
Demo Artist: Andrea Fischer Nov. 16, 2024, and Dec. 7, 2024, 12 pm–3 pm
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process and connect with local artists with Studio Saturdays in the Wild Studio. With the strict use of recycled yarn, Andrea makes one-of-a-kind soft sculptures. Her color experiments mingle with her own self-discovered technique of rug-making to create whimsical functional objects.
New Year’s Eve Wild Rumpus Dec. 31, 2024, 1 pm–4 pm
Ring in the New Year with a Wild Things-themed bash at the Denver Art Museum!
Celebrate this family-friendly event with artmaking activities, tasty snacks, giveaways for kids, and have a ball with an early countdown to New Year’s. Plus, take in a Wild Things-themed play and visit The Wild Studio for some additional fun!
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak – now through Feb. 17, 2025
Wander through wildly new exhibition honoring the imagination and creative genius of Maurice Sendak. You know “Where the Wild Things Are” but there is so much more to explore from the mind that popularized the word “rumpus.”
Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum – now through Jan. 12, 2025
Whimsical colors come to life from the hands of groundbreaking color maestro Alma Thomas. Dive deep into the worlds of her inspiration which range from outer space to her kitchen window and see them expressed as colorful, dazzling paintings.
Tokio Ueyama’s life tells the story of a Japanese-born artist who became a community leader during World War II at the Granada Relocation Center, now the Amache National Historic Site, in southeast Colorado.
Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits – open Nov. 17, 2024, through May 11, 2025
A trail-blazing photo artist, Dawoud Bey invited Black Americans across many American cities to pose for him to present themselves openly and intimately to the camera, the viewer, and the world.
Sustained! The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art – opening Dec. 22, 2024
This show explores the ways in which Native people have been sustained by beauty, by connections and by spirituality, tracing these themes through fashion, family, ancestors and the reasons people gather, such as games, ceremonies and dance.
IN THE GALLERIES
Featuring more than 40 exquisite works of Korean Buncheong ceramics from the 15th century to today, renowned for their white slip and adorned with diverse surface decorative techniques. The exhibition also includes four 20th- and 21st-century paintings as well as 16 drawings by five painters.
Ink and Thread: Codices and the Art of Storytelling – opens Nov. 17, 2024
Explores the visual language of both ancient American codices and contemporary examples by Mexican artist Enrique Chagoya. Like the ancient examples, Chagoya’s codices feature superheroes and offer histories of conquest and survival through a wry, tongue-in-cheek lens.
Space Command – now through Jan. 20, 2025
Created by Colorado artist Chris Bagley, Space Command is an immersive installation with a whimsical approach to the atomic age. Visitors are invited to probe the boundless mysteries of space by wandering and immersing their senses through sight, sound, and touch as they take in the wonders of “cosmic” debris—both familiar and foreign.
Author: Mile High Mamas
