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|  | Griffin & Sabine and Beyond, Nick Bantock: A Retrospective
Sat Sep 18, 2010
Location: Museum of Outdoor Arts' Indoor Gallery
Opening Reception: September 18, 2010 5:00 - 9:00 pm. Book signing from 4:00 - 5:00pm
On September 18th, 2010 The Museum of Outdoor Arts, in Englewood, will open
Griffin & Sabine and Beyond
Nick Bantock: A Retrospective
The exhibition will be the internationally popular artist’s first ever retrospective and his first show in the United States.
Bantock’s “Griffin & Sabine” trilogy essentially created a new literary genre by combining fine art, fiction, and 3-dimensional interactive books. Bantock’s books have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide in 12 international editions; and the titles lingered 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Bantock has designed everything from postage stamps to pop-up books to the recently published Penguin edition of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.”
For the MOA exhibition, Bantock is creating 80 new paintings or drawings - many in large format. Approximately 70 pieces of original art from his “Griffin & Sabine” trilogy will be on exhibit as well. Bantock will transform MOA’s indoor galleries into various whimsical rooms such as “The Drawing Room” and “The Mail Room.”
Nick Bantock is scheduled to arrive in Denver for the installation beginning September 11th and will be available for interviews. On September 18th MOA will hold a book signing from 4 to 5 p.m., which will be followed by an artist reception from 5 to 9 p.m. The opening is free and open to the public. The Museum of Outdoor Arts is located on the second floor of the Englewood Civic Center at 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110. For more information visit www.moaonline.org or call (303) 806-0444. The Museum of Outdoor Arts was founded in 1981 with the mission to make art part of everyday life.
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Fri May 21, 2010
Location: Samson Park
Design and Build 2010's challenge was to build a "recycled dwelling" utilizing at least 75% recycled, reused or reclaimed materials. Interns were led by artist/architect in residence Doug Eichelberger to create three distinct sculptures that gesture to the idea of an architectural dwelling. Sculptures will be on display through September 30, 2010 and are one or four featured MOA installations for the Biennial of the Americas 2010.
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|  | Element House architecture for a new ecology
Sat Apr 10, 2010 -
Sat Aug 14, 2010
Location: Indoor Gallery
Opening Reception: April 10, 2010 5-9pm Lecture at 4:30
The Museum of Outdoor Arts will open Element House - architecture for a new ecology with an opening reception on Saturday, April 10th from 5 to 9 p.m.
A discussion with the architects, Principals Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS Architects will be held on Saturday, April 10th beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Exhibition continues through August 14th, 2010.
This exhibition will showcase the revolutionary design of a multi-component, modular green home prototype. MOS Architects have an extensive international portfolio including institutional buildings, urban strategies, research, books, installations including MoMA's PS1 and other projects that have been included in national and international publications such as DWELL.
The modular homes will be "off the grid", or capable of operating independent of all traditional public utility services, and will be designed for pre-fabrication, utilizing strict LEED™ design criteria and limited to 1500 square feet or less. The "Element House" is derived from the Fibonacci sequence, which in itself is a describer of developmental patterns in living organisms. This mathematical series was applied in order to explore the idea of recombinatory growth in building forms and the economics of spatial compartmentalization.
The Museum of Outdoor Arts is located at 1000 Englewood Parkway (at Hampden and Santa Fe - only a few minutes from downtown Denver) and is accessible from the Englewood light rail stations.
The Museum of Outdoor Arts is Free and Open to the Public Monday - Thursday 9 - 5 p.m. and Fridays from 9 - 4 p.m.
Exhibition Catalogue is available for $16.95 call 303-806-0444 to order or purchase at the Museum of Outdoor Arts. (tax and shipping & handling charges may apply)
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Past Exhibitions | View 6th Annual Paper Fashion Show
 | 6th Annual Paper Fashion Show
Thu Mar 18, 2010Thu Mar 18, 2010
Location: Mile High Station, Denver.
Museum of Outdoor Arts' Lonnie Hanzon designed "A Walk in the Sculpture Park", a dress made entirely of paper! The design took 1st place at the 6th Annual Paper Fashion Show in Denver. The piece is modeled by Jessica Brack. Hair and makeup by Steve Trujillo from El Salon in Denver.
The 6th Annual Paper Fashion Show descended upon Denver March 18, 2010 sending home patrons feeling like they just spent a night in wonderland. The show featured paper covered models in everything from glow in the dark paper dresses, garden themed décor, Amazonian warriors to models on stilts and more.The fact that every single garment in the show was made out of paper was made more amazing by the fact that many of the outfits looked better than what we usually see at ordinary fashion shows. But not all eyes were on the models. Designs were the result of a collaborative team effort by teams of local artists from all over Denver. The Museum of Outdoor Arts took home first place, after their extensive Garden themed model had the audience in awe. Proceeds from the nights ticket sales and silent auctions for the designs seen in the show go to benefit the Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA), a local community organization that provides after-school arts programs for at-risk youth.
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| | | View Public Forum for Artists & Community Members
 | Public Forum for Artists & Community Members
Tue Jun 29, 2010Tue Jun 29, 2010
Location: Museum of Outdoor Arts- 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110 303-806-0444
June 29, 2010 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
You are invited to a public discussion about a potential new sustainable community for Englewood. The Museum of Outdoor Arts, in cooperation with the City of Englewood, is sponsoring an effort to create a state-of-the-art community or eco-village designed specially for the needs of artists and creative businesses. The project, entirely powered by renewable resources, is intended for Englewood, and would offer affordable living and working space for artists of every kind; painters, sculptors, dancers, poets, musicians, filmmakers and more.
PLACE, a non-profit that builds sustainable communities for artists, will be the special guest.
We cannot do it without you.
We want the community involved in every aspect of this effort. Your support and your feedback will determine whether or not we move forward with this groundbreaking project. Help us shape the vision. The PLACE organization will discuss their recent findings and present case studies from around the country, including the WĀV, a recently-completed sustainable artists’ community in Ventura, California (pictured above). Then we would like to hear your comments and questions. Imagine a community that produces no waste and no pollution, but only clean, renewable energy. Imagine a place where artists and others can live and create in a beautiful, healthy and affordable neighborhood. Imagine that it’s affordable for everyone. Imagine that we create it together.
Please join this important conversation. See you there.
RSVP via FaceBook here!
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| | View Cabinet of Light and Sound
 | Cabinet of Light and Sound
Sat Oct 10, 2009Thu Feb 11, 2010
Location: Museum of Outdoor Arts' Sound Gallery
Opening Reception: October 10, 2009 5:00pm - 9:00pm
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to unexpected construction this exhibition has closed early.
A virtual cabinet made with light images from the past, present and future. Cabinet of Light & Sound is sure to intrigue the artist and scientist in all of us. Featuring sacred geometry, hubble imagery and other alluring forms.
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| View Cabinet of Curiosities
 | Cabinet of Curiosities
Fri Oct 09, 2009Fri Mar 05, 2010
Location: Indoor Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 10, 2009 5-9pm.
cab • i • net of cu • ri • os • i • t • ies (kab-i-nit of kyoor-i-os-i-
teez) (pl. -ties) n. 1. cabinet of curiosities (also known as
wunderkammer, cabinets of wonder, or wonder rooms)
were encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose
categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. 2. the most
famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and
aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early
practitioners of science in Europe, formed collections that
were precursors to museums
Cabinet of Curiosities is a whimsical exhibition showcasing the talents of 12 artists working in a new vintage style to create artistic worlds in furniture, cabinets, rooms, antique luggage, hand blow glass and fashion armoires. The juxtapositions of disparate objects is sure to delight the historian, tinkerer and armchair scientist. Among the many oddities, you will see Lewis Carroll's "Imaginary Cabinet Room" by Lonnie Hanzon, Nick Bantock's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" and Elaine Pellham's "Fisher King's Tackle Box".
Original cabinets dated from the 16th century and were entire rooms of specimens. The most famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science formed collections that were the precursors to the museum. In Cabinet of Curiosities, MOA seeks to recreate the wonder and contemplation once aroused in the 19th century cabinets.
Join us for the artist reception on Saturday, October 10 from 5pm - 9pm.
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| View Color of Sound II
 | Color of Sound II
Fri Jun 12, 2009Fri Sep 18, 2009
Location: The Museum of Outdoor Arts indoor gallery
Opening Reception: 02/21/09
The Museum of Outdoor Arts presents “Color of Sound II”, a sound and light installation premiering in our state of the art sound gallery. Experience 8 channel DSD surround sound While bathing in a synchronized chromo kinetic light show and hi resolution images of the Hubble Telescope. Allow our musical sherpa to guide you through this unusual experience that will captivate the senses. “Color of Sound II” opened on February 21st and has been extended to September 18th with new visual and audio additions due to its popularity at the MOA indoor gallery. Here is a video podcast of the making of "Color of Sound."
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| View Selections from the Collection
 | Selections from the Collection
Fri Jun 05, 2009Fri Sep 18, 2009
Location: MOA Indoor Galleries
Museum of Outdoor Arts is bringing the indoor collection out of the archive for public view! The indoor permanent collection only comes out of the archives every few years for view. "Selections from the Collection" features local and international artists such as Daniel Sprick, Robert Mangold, John Henry, Chen Chi, Issac Witkin, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Lin Emery just to name a few. Pieces range from photography and film to painting and sculpture.
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| View Magical Holiday Machines: The Wondrous Keep of Emry Gweldig
 | Magical Holiday Machines: The Wondrous Keep of Emry Gweldig
Fri Nov 21, 2008Sun Jan 04, 2009
Location: Cherry Creek North
Opening Reception: Grand Unveiling: 6pm, Friday, November 21
MOA's wizard-in-residence, Lonnie Hanzon designed an elaborate holiday window display at 158 Fillmore in Cherry Creek North, which will be featured on HGTV's holiday windows special.
See the window video here.
On view every day from 10am - 11pm every day through January 4, 2009.
FREE and open to the public.
HGTV's Holiday Windows 2008
Go behind-the-scenes in some of the most popular department stores in North America to witness the creation of their fabulous holiday window displays, and meet the talented designers who spend all year bringing these elaborate fantasies to life.
Air Times:
• December 14, 2008 8:00 PM ET/PT
• December 15, 2008 12:00 AM ET/PT
• December 21, 2008 5:00 PM ET/PT
• December 24, 2008 4:00 PM ET/PT
• December 25, 2008 11:00 AM ET/PT
• December 25, 2008 10:00 PM ET/PT
• December 26, 2008 2:00 AM ET/PT
(MT - Mountain Time is 2 hours earlier than ET)
www.hgtv.com
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| View Object Project
 | Object Project
Fri Feb 20, 2009Sat May 23, 2009
Location: Museum of Outdoor Arts
Opening Reception: 2/21/2009
On February 20, the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Englewood, Colorado will open an exhibition of works by some of America's leading proponents of contemporary realism. The exhibition, which is being traveled throughout the U.S. by the Evansville Museum, was curated by M. Stephen Doherty, Editor-in-Chief of American Artist, Watercolor, Drawing, & Workshop Magazine.
The organizing concept for the Object Project is brilliant in both its simplicity and its depth. Fifteen artists agreed to create one multi-panel painting or two similarly sized paintings, with the stipulation being that five common objects: a clear glass of water, a moth, a ball of string, a bone, and a mirror; would appear in some fashion within those pictures. The artists committed themselves to incoporatinng the objects in any way they saw fit. The intention was to present paintings that would be unified by the five common objects and, at the same time, seperated by the individual responses offered by each artist. It was assumed the final exhibition would be more about the unique vision of each artist than it would be about the repeated elements. Here is a video podcast and audio podcast of the panel discussion.
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| View Lonnie Hanzon: Magic Lantern
 | Lonnie Hanzon: Magic Lantern
Thu Nov 06, 2008Fri Feb 13, 2009
Location: Englewood Civic Center
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5:00 - 9:00pm
Magic Lantern offers an eccentric and romantic glimpse of a forgotten era through a collection of artifacts that are now obsolete. The exhibit features nearly 1,000 images from hand painted, hand photographed glass slides that Lonnie Hanzon has collected for the Museum of Outdoor Arts. Slides have been repurposed, presenting century old media through modern technology such as video and photographic reproductions.
Hanzon first discovered glass slides at an archaeologist's estate auction and was fascinated by an art form he had never before seen. "It is an obsolete media and yet when you look at them, you soon realize the Victorians were doing psychedelic art shows."
In conjunction with Magic Lantern, the Sound Gallery at MOA will feature obsolete audibles.
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| View “StickWorks” by Patrick Dougherty
 | “StickWorks” by Patrick Dougherty
Sun Apr 20, 2008Wed Apr 14, 2010
Location: Samson Park
StickWorks” is a site-specific installation that was created for the Museum of Outdoor Arts in April of 2008 using willow branches gathered in the local area, with the existing landscape as a template.
Patrick worked with several volunteers enduring the unpredictable Colorado weather. The result is a whimsical, imaginative structure, weaving in and out of existing trees.
Dougherty’s large-scale structures are built without the use of tools or any other supportive hardware. They are temporary, but usually last through several seasons. This installation is located in Samson Park, adjacent to the Museum of Outdoor Arts Fiddler&rsqu o;s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village, CO.
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| View Sacred Water Sacred Water
Fri Sep 14, 2007Sat Feb 16, 2008
Location: Englewood Civic Center
Sacred Water features a solo exhibition by Corwin Bell, whose work is most comparable to James Turrell’s light installations. Bell’s multimedia installations feature animation and graphic design work, ceramics, as well as glass pieces that will engage the viewer to interact with the work on display. Viewers will have the opportunity to explore and examine water from a different perspective.
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Sat Apr 28, 2007Sat Aug 18, 2007
Location: Englewood Civic Center
The Museum of Outdoor Arts presents ArchiTEXTure: Reinventing the Book, an exhibit of contemporary book arts by six local and national artists: Judy Anderson and Ginny Hoyle, Lonnie Hanzon, Jayne Harnett-Hargrove, Ellen Sollod, and David Zimmer.
The artwork on display does not follow the common perception of a standard “book.” An entire scope of artistic thought is articulated through the presentation of ArchiTEXTure. Layers of text, drawing and painting, film, paper, and found objects express the artists’ thematic visions.
The artists show a connection between imagination and reality, whether it is through a bleak graphic landscape or a 3D light box. These books are a vibrant reflection of the creative mind and its ability to design and build a narrative or dialogue through a multimedia vision. The artists featured in ArchiTEXTure are writers, artists, or both, but all are exceptional storytellers.
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| View Sculpture in Clay Sculpture in Clay
Fri Oct 06, 2006Fri Mar 30, 2007
Location: Englewood Civic Center
Featuring the following artists:
Lawrence Argent, Kim Dickey, Macy Dorf, Peter Durst, Peter Hayes, Tsehai Johnson,
Deborah Masuoka, Ursula Morley Price, Mia Mulvey, Maynard Tischler
Clay is lasting. Strongest of remains in tombs, piled under rock or Pompeian soot, these bodies defy the ephemeral nature of life. Lasting traces of ways past, or substituting as the closest thing to rock man has been able to create, clay plays myriad roles as artful form and functional object.
Sculpture in Clay calls attention to the expanded tasks of clay as architect and scientist, home decorator and entertainer. The ten artists represented have all pushed a solidly developed medium beyond its practicalities and evolved it to clay as sculpture.
-Cynthia Madden Leitner
President and Executive Director
Museum of Outdoor Arts
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