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Make sure to come see all the amazing work this Saturday. More info: http://www.xrocksthespot.com/home/?q=content/artcrank-denver-opening-nig...

xrocksthespot™ presents:

SPTMBR First Friday @ The Garage

Featuring: New Works from Kyle Warfield and Lifted.

With Musical Guests: Johnny Woodrose & The Broken-Hearted Woodpeckers, Helicopter Bear Shark, with Robin Walker.

$5 Billy Jacks (Can of Beer, Shot of Whiskey, & a Smoke)
10pm-2am: $3 Jagers $3 Bud & Budlight Drafts

Free Entry. 21+

ARTCRANK Denver will open on Saturday, September 4 at the Lisa Koslowski Gallery in Denver’s River North Arts District. The show will feature the work of 56 local artists and run through Saturday, September 11. It will also serve as a kick-off to the Denver edition of the Bicycle Film Festival, which is scheduled for September 9-11.

In that spirit, plan on biking down to the opening night party on Septmeber 4: Bike Denver is setting us up for valet bike parking in the evening, and the folks at Denver B-cycle are offering a sweet deal on annual memberships with every poster purchase. The poster party will roll on from 1:00 p.m. ’til 11:00 p.m. If you’re on Facebook, please RSVP so we know you’re coming.

Please check back for updates, and follow ARTCRANK on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ARTCRANK and Facebook for the latest news on this and other ARTCRANK events.

Artists:

RGB V. CMYK

Friday at 11:00am - July 26 at 4:00pm
Philip J. Steele Gallery @ RMCAD Campus
1600 Pierce St.
Denver, CO

Joe Garrick & Kyle Warfield present:

An exhibition featuring 4 typographic works that debate with each other about the subject of Print media surviving in a predominately Digital society.

This short-term show was produced for a project in Martin Mendelsberg's Experimental Typography class.

Cactus, a Denver-based advertising agency is inviting bike enthusiasts from all over the metro area to pedal in and party on at the Second Annual Bike From Work Bash on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 in celebration of Bike to Work Day.

Building on the success of last year with over 600 attendees, the Bike From Work Bash will once again be an evening of two-wheeled delight in the Cactus parking lot – a perfect stop for commuters, located next to Confluence Park, the Platte River and Cherry Creek trails, and just minutes from Union Station. With the help of partners and sponsors, we’ll have free beer from Breckenridge Brewery, wine from The Infinite Monkey Theorem, complimentary burritos from Illegal Pete’s, a bike check-up by Salvagetti’s, BMX stunts by the Yellow Designs Stunt Team, a bike polo demo by the Denver Mallet Mafia, free bike valet by Bike Denver, beats by DJs Pictureplane, poncie lifestyle and §creen§saver§ and live music by Zach Heckendorf.

The Cactus Bike from Work Bash is a unique community event with a simple philosophy: have fun, promote a healthy lifestyle, support the environment, and build relationships within the community. While the event is free, partygoers are encouraged to show a little love by donating a few bucks to Bike Denver, Denver’s bicycle advocacy organization.

The Nitty Gritty:

WHEN: 5 -8 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WHERE: Cactus Parking Lot (corner of 15th & Little Raven)

WHY: Because who doesn’t love bikes, burritos, and parties?

COST: Gratis (that is fancy speak for free)

Black Book Gallery is proud to present: Good Intentions
An exhibition of new work by Bask & Tes One | June 4th, 2010
Opening reception 5pm-Midnight

Black Book Gallery
555 Santa Fe Drive
Denver Colorado 80204

More info: www.theblackbookgallery.com

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ABOUT BASK:

Bask is the moniker of one, Ales Bask Hostomsky, who along with his parents emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Florida and began to soak up America’s popular iconic imagery along with the sun. He quickly began to notice similarities between the communistic iconic propaganda from his youth and the consumer advertising of his teens. Bask soon discovered that they were simply, two sides of the same coin. Each vying for our short-lived attention spans, all the while selling us (or telling us?) anything and everything from Marxism to McDonalds. Seeking conspiracies -and finding them embedded in the popular iconography of the mass media, Bask began painting bold, media critical broadsides to assuage his fear of being manipulated. A fear cultivated in a repressive regime, had now returned, but to the most unlikely and safest of places- The American living room.

More info: www.knownasbask.com

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ABOUT TES ONE

Friday, May 28, 6–10 pm

• Feast your eyes on a special screening of Typeface at 7 pm.
• MATTER Studio sets up and demos presses, presses, and more presses. Get the whole story with Rick Griffith and his band of master printers and typesetters.
• DAM curator of architecture, design, and graphics Darrin Alfred steps onto the soapbox to talk style and design.
• Compete in a scrabble tourney or scour the DAM for a typo scavenger hunt.

This unique event focuses on the arts of letterpress printing and typography as they exist in America today.

The afternoon begins with the screening of two short documentaries: Typeface (2009, 59 minutes), a film about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Wisconsin which is home to the largest public repository of historic American wood type; and Jack Stauffacher, Printer (2002, 22 minutes), a short film about the San Francisco-based letterpress printer and book designer whose work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum.

The films will be followed by a panel discussion featuring respected printmakers from across the country, including Rick Griffith of MATTER, Denver; Jim Sherraden and Brad Vetter of Hatch Show Print, Nashville; Nick Sherman of The Font Bureau, Inc., Boston and woodtyper.com; and Tom Parson of Now It’s Up to You Publications, Denver.

SPONSORED BY: The Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics of the Denver Art Museum, Design Council, AIGA Colorado, Denver Film Society and MATTER.

For more information contact Laura Bennison at 720.913.0101.

Cost:
$10 General admission
RSVP at Blacktie Colorado
Event Code: ABOUTFACE

In the DEWmocracy Flavor Campaign, three teams are crisscrossing the country capturing votes for three flavors of Mountain Dew. Team White Out is on its way to Denver, and they’re hosting a one-of-a-kind screen print poster show!

You’re invited to swing by Illiterate Gallery and check out black-and-white screen prints from Denver's top artists, each printed in ultra-limited quantities (around five each). Pick one up, and the proceeds will go straight to a local charity. Make sure to bring some dough, this is a cash-only one night event and the posters are super affordable!

Come down at 5:00pm to get your fill of free White Out, and stay for the after-party for some beer (suggested donation)!

Participating Artists:

John Fellows
THINKMULE
Anthony Cozzi
Chris Huth
Liz Miller
Andrew Hoffman
Adam Reker
Aaron Ray
Max Kauffman
Brian Son
Craig Holden Feinberg
Josh Shively
Spence Trierweiler
+ more!

Music by:

Josephine and the Mouspeople

Join Illiterate for the unveiling of new works by our studio artists on Friday, May 7 at the opening reception of the Illiterate Group Show.

The Artists:

David Cocaggna
Andrew Hoffman
Sander Lindeke
Katherine Rutter

Illiterate's Group Show features IIliterate's four resident artists, David Coccagna, Andrew Hoffman, Sander and Katherine Rutter, who have created individually cohesive bodies of work alongside one another to form an exhibition void of uniformity and emancipated from premise. Pieces range from figurative to nonrepresentational, utilizing a variety of techniques including book alteration, oil painting, digital manipulation, watercolor, noise recording and video
performance. Working side by side for nearly six months at Illiterate, each artist utilized techniques and investigated subject matter representative of their current individual style and
approach to the creative process. However, working in close quarters inevitably interaction occurred, resulting in a collective exhibit both in contrast and in conversation.

“If the Illiterate Group Show had a theme, it might be incidental dialog.” said Adam Gildar, Illiterate's Director “As a whole the art forms an eclectic exhibition highlighting the conscious
and unconscious exchange that happens between different artists and their art when placed in close proximity."

The Illiterate Group Show explores the possibilities of creativity by boldly showcasing a variety of works that contribute to the contemporary incongruence of the show while allowing for
multiple vantage points of comparison and connection.