When Golden Girls Fleeced Black Sheep Fridays

Even though this season's series of Black Sheep Fridays has just begun, we thought we'd wax nostalgic on a moment from last year's "Art Basel Miami Denver" event. Black Sheep Fridays put out an open call for Golden Girls-inspired art by MCA Denver staff and volunteers, and museum visitors were given a coloring book of the best submissions. Here's a sample of some of our favorite results. We've also provided two blank sheets for your coloring pleasure. See you this Friday for Sommelier Pirates. 

Around Denver This Fall: Dana Schutz

In July, New American Paintings blog ran a poll with the question: "Who is the most significant painter to emerge since 2000?" Of the twelve painters included in the poll, Dana Schutz has so far received an overwhelming 30% of the vote. For anyone who has missed her trajectory thus far, Schutz is collaborating in full force with three Denver art institutions this fall. 

MCA Goes Everywhere: Awards, Adam & Filthy Bunnies

• Ellen Bruss Design, the Denver design firm who creates MCA Denver's flyers and ephemera, wins an American Graphic Design award for their work on the Feminism & Co. flyer.

• Michael Paglia, of Westword writes a review of Continental Drift, the exhibition at MCA Denver which features the work of seven Colorado artists who each are exploring ideas of space.

• Sandra Fettingis, gifts buyer at MCA Denver, starts a new program highlighting the excellent local designers featured in the museum shop. As this Westword article points out, Design Within Denver showcases a new designer on the second and fourth Friday of every month.

• Looking for something to do on Friday night? The Denver Post suggests you visit MCA Denver's zany program Black Sheep Friday, which this season will feature Cosby Con – a drop-in Friday event featuring pudding pops, jello shots and a sweater contest.

• Just Vote. Art Prize Grand Rapids doesn't care about Barack or Mittens, they want you to Vote Art 2012. Michigan visitors can register to pick the ten winners of the 19 day exhibition. And while you are checking out the art, be sure to drop in on Saturday, Sept. 15 to hear MCA Denver Director Adam Lerner speak about Art Fitness Training. I'll be there too, to answer the questions you are too shy to ask Adam.

• MCA Denver installation and facilities manager Nick Silici takes home second prize in the Westword's twenty raddest costumes at the 2012 Tour de Fat. Nick, please, use your victory winnings to send that filthy bunny suit to the cleaners.

Richard Peterson Photos: Opening Party for Frohawk Two Feathers

Photographer Richard Peterson was on-site for the Frohawk Two Feathers opening on June 13, documenting the evening in his usual unparalleled style. MCA Denver's Frohawk Two Feathers exhibition closes this Sunday, September 9. An exhibition of his newest work opens September 8 at Taylor de Cordoba gallery in Los Angeles. We'll miss you Frohawk. 

Black Sheep Fridays: Sassier Than Ever

Our Graphic Designer made a snazzy flier for Black Sheep Fridays. The evenings run 7-9 pm. 

Art Fitness Training comes to Art Prize Grand Rapids

Why I Love This Art – Adam Milner's Beds

Why I Love This Art features museum employees, volunteers, and interns talking about art they love from the exhibitions at MCA Denver. Here Director of Programming Sarah Kate Baie writes about Adam Milner's Beds series, on view as part of the exhibition Continental Drift from July 13 – Sept 23, 2012.

Adam Milner takes a photo of his bed, or wherever it was he slept, every morning when he wakes up. A series of these photographs appears in the exhibition Continental Drift (on view from July 13 – September 23, 2012). The photos show sixteen of his, err, sleeping arrangements. Adam’s disheveled single bed appears in several of the photos, pushed up against the wall, bedclothes assembled with an