The New CPAC: Colorado Photographic Arts Center

2012 At CPAC: January 10 – February 11 At Denver Central Library: January 10 – March 25 iWorld Jurors: Chuck Mobley (SF Camerawork, CA) + Brian Paul Clamp (ClampArt, NYC) January 19 – March 16 Borderlines: Shaul Schwarz, Dana Romanoff, and Mike Kane. Off-site show at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. A second [...]

Exhibition Dates: May 25th – July 7th, 2012 Public Reception: Friday, June 15th, 6-9 pm Closing reception: July 7th, 3-5.30 pm Gallery Tour with exhibiting artists 4 – 5.30 pm during closing reception CPAC’s goals are to nurture talent and to benefit our existing photographic culture by expanding concepts and generating interest in the medium. [...]

  Punk Passage: California and Beyond, 1977-1981 – Photographs by Ruby Ray + Mining Denver’s Rock Photography. Artists: Trip@PUNKassPHOTOS.com, John Schoenwalter, Jason Bye, Brenda LaBier, Spike, Matt Mondragon. Curated by Cinthea Fiss. Exhibition Dates: March 29–May 12, 2012 Members’ Preview Reception: Thursday, March 29, 5-6 pm Public Reception:  6-9 pm. Featuring live music by Fritz [...]

At: Denver Central Library, 5th Floor, Western History Gallery Closing reception Sunday, March 25, 3-5 pm Features a Gallery Tour with exhibiting artists starting at 3.30. Free This is a last chance to see iWorld at the Denver Central Library – a juried show of images by Colorado-based artists responding to the “i-zation” of our [...]

Music Scene: Presentations by Ruby Ray, Richard Peterson, and Cinthea Fiss Saturday March 31, 1 pm followed by portfolio critiques (limit 12 photographers) Cost: $10/5 members, presentations only; $25/15 with portfolio critique Place: CPAC. Punk Passage photographer Ruby Ray joins curator/photographer Richard Peterson and curator/media artist Cinthea Fiss for an afternoon of presentations related to [...]

In the Main Gallery: February 17 – March 23, 2012 Pictures of people reacting to the camera are often discarded as uncomfortable reminders that the photojournalist’s camera can be an intrusion into the world it observes. These previously unseen images pulled from photojournalist Ed Kashi’s outtakes reveal the world looking right back at him, directly [...]

BorderLines, curated by Erin McCarley, is now on show at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology through March 15, 2012. A series of scheduled events scheduled is posted below. BorderLines was the first exhibition presented by the New CPAC in Lakewood (September 22 – October 29, 2011 ). The show brings together three photo-essays [...]

Charles Ludeke Exhibition runs at two venues: CPAC, through February 11, 2012 Denver Central Library, 5th Floor, Western History Gallery through March 25, 2012. Closing reception Sunday, March 25, 3-5 pm Gallery Tour with exhibiting artists during the closing reception. Free Jurors: Chuck Mobley (Associate Director, San Francisco Camerawork); Brian Paul Clamp (Gallery owner and [...]

Danae Falliers, Richard van Pelt, and Willy Sutton will join curator Rupert Jenkins in the gallery this coming Saturday, November 19, at 3 pm. The four will talk about the “Situating Robert Adams” exhibition in general and specifically their own works included in the show. The event is free. Patti Hallock will present “Along Some [...]

Robert Adams – one of the most celebrated chroniclers of Denver and the American West – influenced a generation of landscape photographers following his 1975 “New Topographics” exhibition in Rochester, NY. “Situating Robert Adams,” opening at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center November 4, 2011, uses the occasion of his current retrospective at the Denver Art [...]

Reading Robert Adams with Patti Hallock Wednesday, November 30, 7 pm Admission: $5 general public/$3 CPAC/DAM members/Free to UC Denver students The third evening in our Reading Robert Adams book series is “Along Some Rivers,” inspired by Robert Adams’ book of the same name. The event takes place in the gallery. Patti Hallock is a [...]

Rachael Roark Extremity CPAC Studio Gallery Opening Reception September 2nd   Extremity can be defined as the furthest point or limit from a starting point. Applying this definition to this work, I wanted to push my boundaries and perceptions as an artist as well as to expand my personal definition of photography by staging, constructing, [...]

BorderLines Curated by Erin McCarley Runs September 22 – October 29, 2011 BorderLines, curated by Erin McCarley, is the first exhibition to be presented by the new Colorado Photographic Arts Center (formerly Working With Artists), located in Lakewood’s Belmar district. The show brings together three photo-essays that examine life on the US/Mexico border and approaches [...]

MERGE: WWA/CPAC Members’ ExhibitionJuror, Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO As the name implies, Merge is a very significant exhibition for WWA/CPAC because it announces a major development in our respective 12 and 48 year histories—the merger of Working with Artists and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Merge [...]

“ENERGY TRACES” SOLO EXHIBITION BY JESUS JIMENEZ AUGUST 5TH-SEPTEMBER 17TH ARTIST RECEPTION AUGUST 12TH, 6-9P, STUDIO B GALLERY We are pleased to present multimedia artist Jesus Jimenez’s solo exhibition “Energy Traces.” This show comprises a set of large-scale wall and floor photographs. It was previously seen at the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins. [...]

BYSTANDER JUROR: Kyle MacMillan, Art Critic, Denver Post Exhibition ran April 29- June 11th, 2011          

Juried by Adam Lerner, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Exhibition ran June 17 – July 30, 2011 image above ©Jenna Noelle, Scrolls, 20×30 framed

CPAC, in partnership with Colorado Creative Industries (CCI), is pleased to announce a call to Colorado artists to participate in the Creative Capitol exhibition “Our Town, Colorado” – an exhibit of documentary photography illustrating what makes your community unique. QUICK DETAILS: TITLE: “Our Town, Colorado” – May 14 through December 3, 2012 LOCATION: Colorado State [...]