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Denver Artposium October 4, 2008

What's So Funny About Art?

For people who appreciate the power of humor in the arts and life.
The Artposium is an event exploring the intersection of writing, art with humor. This is not a comedy event, but rather a deadly serious exploration of how humor helps convey messages and educate audiences. Ok, maybe not deadly serious. Probably pretty funny, but we're not kidding around here.

Schedule   Bill Amundson, Denver artist and one-time stand-up comedian, appreciates the spread of tan-colored housing developments along the Front Range. It’s all material for his series of works entitled I (heart) the Burbs. Roz Chast, cartoonist for The New Yorker, uses her Theories of Everything to help us understand guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, and real estate. Marj Hahne, Colorado Art Ranch Poet Laureate. Marj is currently working on a series of poems that fit in the periodic table of elements. Adam Lerner, a funny guy with a PhD and the Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, will give us his irreverent (but scholarly) review of Art, Humor & the Human Condition. He is probably best knownas the youngest member of the Brooklyn Squares, Square Dance Club, at age 9 Patricia Marx, columnist for The New Yorker, novelist, and comedy writer, will  provide insight into why It’s Not Easy Writing Humor. Chris Ransick, City of Denver Poet Laureate. A lover of all things literary, Chris has 27 years of professional experience with college-level courses and community workshops. Libby Rowe uses humor in her photography and installations to help understand this wacky, angst-ridden world. She will take us on a whirlwind tour of her observations and reflections during In the Pink. Jon Spayde, a writer, Utne journalist, and performance artist from Minnesota, is the Eminent Emcee for What’s so Funny About Art? Brady Udall, a creative writing teacher at Boise State University, grew up in a big Mormon family in Arizona. He’ll give us a preview of his upcoming novel, The Lonely Polygamist.   Meredith and David Vaughn are Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders based in Denver. They will entice the audience to take a spoonful of Laughter Medicine.

Denver Artposium: What's so Funny About Art?
October 3-4, 2008
Registration $200

We have secure online registration, but if you don't like that new fangled stuff you can call Grant Pound (executive director) at 303.279.5198 or send a check to:

Colorado Art Ranch
6878 Taft Court
Arvada, CO 80004

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Colorado Art Ranch and Denver Botanic Gardens are collaborating on an exciting new program exploring the intersection of art, science, and nature. Like an Artposium (only shorter), the Artpositas are an inquiry led by dynamic experts, a lunch discussion, and hands-on workshop on the grounds of the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield.

We are thrilled to be working with the Botanic Gardens. They have recently added some very innovative programming, including urban art at the main gardens on York St.

Please join us at Chatfield for these great new programs.

InHABIT: Animals and Humans Shaping Spaces

September 27, 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield
$45.00 (DBG Member) / $50.00 (Non- Member)
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Join us for a day of art fused with science on the grounds of Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield. In this half-day workshop you will explore house building as an endeavor of animals as well as humans. Hear from a biologist, architect and landscape architect about how wildlife construct their homes and how animal homes inspire art. Discuss what you've learned over lunch, then participate in a fun artist-led activity using words and natural materials in the outdoors. Absolutely no experience is required!

Maria Cole, Architect, Klipp Architecture
Nancy Eastman, Artist/landscape architect, Art of the Land
Sheridan Samano, Professor of Biology and owner of Peregrine Tours.

Activity leaders:
Marj Hahne, poet/writer
Joel Allen, artist
Lise Mahnke, artist/landscape architect