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Gallery Audio Tours

Audio Tours

Explore our sculpture field and gallery exhibitions in these audio tours! Hear from artists to learn about their inspiration, process and intention behind the artwork. 

Current Exhibitions

Wendy Kowynia: Following the Thread

Wheat Ridge High School graduate Wendy Kowynia explores line and form through the use of thread and a loom, weaving intricate fiber works that are uniquely folded and manipulated. Kowynia’s textiles are created using specialized Japanese yarns of linen, paper, and silk, and are colored using natural dyes like indigo, sumi ink, walnut ink, and soymilk. After carefully laying each thread in delicate lines, Kowzyina bends the textile into gossamery structures that are both strong and elegant. 

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Art + Science

Explore the ways that fourteen contemporary artists use scientific concepts, datasets, research, and development to inform their creative work. Art + Science portrays both artistic practice and scientific discovery in new ways, broadening the understanding of both as they experience concepts in science through the unique voice of regional artists.

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One Sheet: Music

A blank page, a blank canvas, a blank slate–widely-used idioms for limitless possibilities. Listen to an audio tour with artists working in music for One Sheet.

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One Sheet: Paper

A blank page, a blank canvas, a blank slate–widely-used idioms for limitless possibilities. Listen to an audio tour with artists working in paper for One Sheet.

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One Sheet: Wood

A blank page, a blank canvas, a blank slate–widely-used idioms for limitless possibilities. Listen to an audio tour with artists working in wood for One Sheet.

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Floyd D. Tunson: Ascent

This expansive survey exhibition features work from the past five decades by Colorado artist Floyd D. Tunson.

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Lola Montejo: After Another After

Inspired by the material means of destruction and transformation, these three series of works relate to memory, time, and the clashes that are found in the contrasting interlace of matter in the world. 

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Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: Seeing the Trees For the Forest

In the thirty years since her artistic debut, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has developed an impressive career as an artist known for collaborating with creatures like snails, bees, and beetles in her work.

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Pamela Webb: HAND + HAMMER

Dakota Ridge High School teacher and Pomona High School alumni Pamela Webb uses a variety of ancient metallurgical and hand-fabrication techniques to create organic wearable art and large sculptural instruments.

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Sculpture in the Field

This rotating exhibition of ourdoor artwork features works large and small in a natural setting, and is always free and open to the public.

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Past Exhibitions

Art of the State 2022

Every three years, all 10,000 square feet of the Arvada Center Galleries is filled with a celebratory survey of the incredible diversity, quality, and depth of work from Colorado Artists. 

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Word Play

Word Play showcases a selection of works that use text, language, and symbols to make a statement, express emotion, and celebrate the written word.

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Viral Influence: Art in the Time of the Coronavirus

Recognizing this outpouring of creativity from artists across Colorado, the Arvada Center asked for submissions of artwork created during the state’s response to the pandemic

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Viral Influence: Collective Conscious Salon Installation

All across Colorado, artists of every media and level infused their work with the imagery and emotions of the pandemic. This outpouring of communal creativity is on display through a mass collection of  works presented in this salon-style installation. 

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Brady Smith: (Don't be embarrassed by) your trouble with living

Brady Smith’s thoughtful collection of works exploring struggles with suicide from individual and societal perspectives aims to make a space where healthy dialogue can happen. 

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Melody Epperson: 100 Years + 1: Women and the Vote

This show is a celebration of American women, their vision, and their persistence.

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