http://www.collinparson.com/blog-3 daily 0.75 2013-10-05 http://www.collinparson.com/blog-2 daily 0.75 2013-10-05 http://www.collinparson.com/work daily 1.0 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1517529559183-UUFJRGV76E7SN4EZ6875/DSC_0236.JPG Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1515958991596-VNUBHA5SOLD5UCZ04P55/Amsterdam+Mockup+side+1.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1467396484892-GVVQ4MWW22RI8MFYE50H/DIVIDED+an+installation%2C+200+feet+of+computer+programmed+LEDs.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1632626185388-QEUAYSURVQTMMB1YYUZG/IMG_20210831_201757_694.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1467999132472-NVD8AEJ3KRJI8240ZIFS/parson+small+web.jpg Art Photo by Tiffany Clendenin @ SISU Art Retreat, Southern Colorado. 100' long, phosphorescent paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1651718509516-Q5259A434IB2W52HU6CZ/PXL_20210925_013802100.jpg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1651718739969-VAV3U0ED1UP4YBXGODZQ/processed_IMG_20191008_125155.jpeg Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1424924527040-ZA7I8T2SMC3JC211QS7Z/87.jpg Art Photo by Wes Magyar @ Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 2014/2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1423455683887-566AMI6NTNRGUJW4S449/DSC09455.JPG Art Photo by Blake Milteer @ Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's Continuance Exhibition 16' diameter color-changing piece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1660317934706-MQ8G8C3S0655HA1FUURO/PXL_20220812_152347197.jpg Art http://www.collinparson.com/blog daily 0.75 2013-10-05 http://www.collinparson.com/curation daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1468617709976-FVH7QLUEH39605ELG5WP/22.jpg Curation - Art of the State: 2016 January 21 - March 27, 2016 The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is proud to present Art of the State 2016. This juried exhibition will showcase the quality, depth, and diversity of Colorado artists. Art of the State 2016 is the follow up to the critically acclaimed Art of the State: A Juried Exhibition of Colorado held in 2013. In its second iteration, Art of the State 2016 garnered 1,434 entries from 511 artists. Jurors Gwen Chanzit, Michael Chavez, and Collin Parson selected 148 works by 124 artists to represent art in Colorado being created by both emerging and established artists. The call for entry was open to all Colorado artists in all media. All three of the Arvada Center’s galleries, over 10,000 square feet, will be devoted to this celebration of art in Colorado. Awards will be presented at the opening reception for Best in Show, 2nd and 3rd place, five Artistic Excellence Awards, as well as special awards from arts institutions throughout the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1500411890125-20UWTNP63R0BVZVTL8CZ/01_June+09%2C+2017.jpg Curation - Paper.Works June 1 - August 20, 2017 Paper.Works includes the works of twenty artists who use paper as their artistic medium. From cast paper to cut paper, folded paper to handmade paper, this exhibition will feature a wide range of works that explore the versatitility of the medium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1517528037781-4ZDFA144YPOHEWNX46MI/51_January+22%2C+2018.jpg Curation - Victory by Brian Sartor and Stephen Farland January 18 - April 1, 2018 As part of in SITu, the Victory sculptures are made from chairs and chair parts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1631763197538-SNCL4X3AJR0LUEKA43Z0/49585039608_7e7bfa31c9_k.jpg Curation - 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition January 16 - March 29, 2020 The 528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition was open to artists residing within a 528.0-mile radius of Denver, Colorado. The number 528.0 refers to Denver’s altitude and status as the Mile High City (5,280 feet). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1660262284897-6YGO91S94QOZZKRVMKQ9/processed_IMG_20190328_210529_258.jpg Curation - Art of the State 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1706131792911-MLXNNZW1DSV8IRMDX9LM/52646643596_8cae4d8ff4_c.jpg Curation - Art + Science January 19 - March 26, 2023 The intersection between science and creative experimentation. Explore the ways that fourteen contemporary artists use scientific concepts, datasets, research, and developments to inform their creative work. Art + Science portrays artistic practice and scientific discovery in new ways, broadening the understanding of both as visitors experience concepts in science through the unique voice of regional artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1754672425243-SJZSF75X42OKSM5E0SBQ/53483016044_1a2df874f5_c.jpg Curation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1755807379296-MQE2CNPVNCI0R87JT93M/ra_016.jpg Curation - Uncommon Ground: Impact and Influence September 15 - November 13, 2011 A Juried Exhibition of ceramic artists west of the Mississippi River. Held at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado. In partnership with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1755807759377-1L6X49ZRRFDZJTDC5HVK/526be5f0e7e18c0e2255910edb25ce83.jpg Curation - Robert Mangold: Time, Space, and Motion Retrospective January 12 - April 1, 2012 "Time, Space and Motion: Robert Mangold Retrospective, Works from 1955 to Presen"t on exhibition in the Main Gallery, in outdoor area’s surrounding the Arvada Center and on the grounds at the Arvada City Hall, is an impressive retrospective spanning Robert Mangold’s career from 1955 to present day. Pieces on loan from The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, University of Denver, The Museum of Outdoor Art, and many private collections will be featured in this stunning exhibition of work. For more than 50 years, sculptor Robert Mangold has remained devoted to creating large indoor and outdoor pieces that can be seen not only across Denver but also throughout the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1651714928633-7QOQC0K1LUCN5MDYS74M/51842742101_31eb658ba0_c.jpg Curation - Art of the State 2022 January 20 - March 27, 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. After its start in 2013 and iterations in 2016 and 2019, Art of the State 2022 continues the legacy as a juried exhibition showing off the powerful scope of contemporary art from across the state. This open call open to all Colorado artists garnered 2,067 submissions by 734 artists. The jurors worked diligently to select a comprehensive overview of work that strives to capture a wide scope of art from across the state. From those entries, 149 artworks by 142 artists were selected. Jurors: Louise Martorano, Executive Director, RedLine Contemporary Art Center Ellamaria Ray, Artist/Anthropologist, Professor of Africana Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver Collin Parson, Director of Galleries and Curator, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1632278144370-B7KM6PBK57O0HC194O1P/50860562341_fa54052c89_k.jpg Curation - Wood.Works January 21 - April 25, 2021 CUT. CARVED. ASSEMBLED. GLUED. LAYERED. PAINTED. STAINED. BURNED. PEELED. EXPLORING THE MATERIALITY OF WOOD This material-based exhibition involves everything WOOD. Following up 2017’s Paper.Works, Wood.Works features 24 regional artists using wood as their primary medium. Through massive installations, elegant sculptures, and two-dimensional reliefs, Wood.Works showcases the vast creativity of artists working in the same natural material. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1755808144975-8HJOK35WLOC32MK7D7CY/Dave+Yust.jpg Curation - DAVE YUST: LOOKING BACK/LOOKING FORWARD 1970’s – 2008 Explorations in Symmetry and Inclusion Series Circles and Ellipses September 18 - November 16, 2008 For more than 40 years, Dave Yust has been a distinguished artist and professor of art at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. He is best known for large circular format canvasses featuring both geometric and biomorphic abstract images. Over his long and distinguished career, he has participated in more than 50 prestigious group and invitational exhibitions and had over 20 one-person shows at recognized galleries and museums. His work is in numerous museum permanent collections, including the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Wichita Art Museum, Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1758060671405-HT66M7YVOH4TYPIL4ICJ/120_September+09%2C+2025.jpg Curation - Deborah Jang: The Sum of the Parts More images Her largest solo exhibition to date, Deborah Jang’s assemblage sculptures breathe new life into discarded objects, transforming junk and cast-off materials into dynamic compositions where each element interacts and energizes the next. Her work evokes a sense of visual poetry—an unexpected harmony born from the union of unrelated, often overlooked parts. Rooted in the spirit of radical inclusion, the pieces embrace “everything, everywhere, all at once,” celebrating abundance and diversity. The worn and weathered surfaces of some components echo the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and decay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1760374138881-1TGNMPR4MEKYM4K45KEB/1760122580188-bfa5f20e-46b3-4634-b03a-c56172113385_1.jpg Curation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1423456498774-60D3FIW8G0R8RK3H3L26/rePOPulated.jpg Curation - rePOPulated: contemporary perspectives on pop art Curator: Collin Parson ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES January 22 - March 29, 2015 Mass media, culture and production, as seen through the lens of Pop Art is the focus of the Arvada Center’s first exhibition series of 2015. Fun, bold and rebellious, the Pop movement was a major departure from the prior artistic endeavors of the mid-twentieth century. rePOPulated: contemporary perspectives on pop art will showcase the evolution of the movement from the beginning to now. From the collection of the CU Art Museum in Boulder, pioneers of the American Pop Art movement such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Rosenquist will be featured, while the rest of the exhibition will highlight regional contemporary artists and their perspectives on Pop Art today. Participating artists: Roland Bernier Scott Blake Kym Bloom Craig Cleveland Evan Colbert Scott Dye Carlos Fresquez Margaret Kasahara Colin Livingston Michael Mew Tony Ortega Mark Penner-Howell Louis Recchia Floyd D. Tunson Chinn Wang Included Pop pioneers, from the collection of the CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder: Roy Lichtenstein James Rosenquist Robert Rauschenberg Robert Clark Indiana Claes Oldenburg Edward Ruscha Wayne Thiebaud Andy Warhol https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1423621178402-KUB6UIG4UENY5UJ2UEZ5/image-asset.jpeg Curation - Unbound: Five Installations Curator Collin Parson ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES June 5 - August 31, 2014 Taking advantage of the Main Gallery's unique architecture and expansive space, the Center invited five artists who work in varying media, size and scope to create one-of-a-kind, site-specific art installations that will become individual micro-environments and encourage viewers to experience the space in a new way.   Participating artists/installations: Nicole Banowetz - Erupture: My Microscopic Life-cycle Katie Caron - Drosscapes Sophia Dixon Dillo - Forming Light Installation Rian Kerrane - Knitting Wallpaper Laleh Mehran - Entropic Order https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d8236be4b0b30d947652c9/1424922848949-MFLH5NTKPELRZPDNDTHA/NCECA.jpg Curation - Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design Sept 12 – Nov 10, 2013 In partnership with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Curators Collin Parson, Bebe Alexander and Linda Ganstrom ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES Artist Image: Dylan Beck In 2009, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) collaborated on the idea of a biannual ceramics exhibition not associated with their annual conference. The intent of the project reflected NCECA’s mission of introducing and educating the public on the vibrancy and diverse paths of contemporary ceramics, as well as the mission of the Arvada Center to make the arts an integral part of people’s lives and encouraging learning, innovation and creativity through high-quality arts experiences. In their third collaboration, the Arvada Center and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts are producing Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design , which sought out dynamic, contemporary ceramic works addressing creative responses to current shifts in the artist’s world and work. The exhibition features 8 invited artists and 42 juried artists from all over the United States who explore their shifting world of ceramics by examining new technology, trends and societal change. Our world is in flux, constantly moving and changing faster than ever. 3D Printers, Computer Numerical Controlled Machines, Oxygen probes and computer-controlled kilns affect concept and process, while commercially designed stains, decals and glazes reflect the latest trends in color and pattern sensibility. Less obvious, yet equally significant shifts occur as artists use the internet and social media in innovative ways to teach, market and connect with different audiences, as the information age affects both how and why an artist makes and shares their work. From trends influencing the domestic scene in the modern home to societal changes influencing the role of ceramics; the worlds of craft, fine arts, industry, design and education are intersecting with the world of ceramics. Purchase an exhibition catalog here! To Purchase an enhanced e-book, click here! 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