For the Second Annual Booklover's Ball in 1999, the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation commissioned twenty three acclaimed children's book illustrators to design ceramic plates celebrating li

Current American audiences may best know Antonin Artaud as the monk Massieu in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s classic silent film

When our program began not-so-long-ago in 1996-- I doubt very much that those involved could have conceived of the changes-- and new sets of challenges-- that technology would deliver in ten years'

In 1964, Otto Kuhler dedicated a series of twelve paintings to “the broken bodies still lying under the barren hills” of what had been Southeastern Colorado’s mining country.

Retna’s art combines English and Spanish gang letters and the letter forms of Hebrew, Arabic and other alphabets into haunting paintings of calligraphic letters bleeding into one another, los

Helen Chain was an early Denver artist, coming with her husband James to the Colorado Territory in 1870.  James and his partner owned the Chain and Hardy Company, binding and selling books, st

The Western History Department holds a fine collection of western art.

One of the fabulous volunteers working here in WH/G is busy processing a huge collection of bookplates.

While you’re enjoying the tasty food truck cuisine at Civic Center Eats this summer take

 This exhibit will feature numerous paintings from the Drummond family's private collection, as well as works on loan from the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts in Denver and the Fin