The Illustrated: March 5th at Illiterate
Illiterate Presents "The Illustrated" collaborative and individual illustrations and animations by John Grigsby and Kristopher Hutson. The show runs from March 05 - March 26. The Opening Reception is on March 5 at 6PM at Illiterate. About The ArtistsChildhood friends and creative collaborators, John Grigsby and Kristophor Hutson met at the age of twelve. Both captivated by stop motion animations using clay models, drawing became the necessary language by which they exchanged visual ideas. As their individual abilities with illustrating increased so did their abilities to realize more and more complex animations. The two continued to develop their mutual interest in moving images alo...Read more
Art Opening: "SUPER RELATIVE" tonight at Lisa Kowalski Gallery
Lisa Kowalski Gallery opens tonight with "SUPER-RELATIVE," featuring work of prolific gatherers Samuel Schimek and Andrew Novick. After last years impressively overwhelming collection of collections show, "The Astounding Problem of Andrew Novick," Novick releases yet another example of fascination and depth in numbers. Tonight Novick teams up with Schimek to display work in patterns, something overtly present in any and all collections, especially that of his own. This time Novick releases a stash of consumption memories, all celebratory cakes which he helped eat in the past 20 years. I heard about how many of these cake photos were included but I think it will be best to witness the abundan...Read more
Naropa Supports Haiti
Who: Everyone's InvitedWhat: Naropa Supports Haiti Benefit ShowWhen: Friday, February 5th from 7-10Where: 2130 Arapahoe Ave, BoulderWhy: Support relief efforts in Haitip.s.I'll be reading some stuff here on Friday, along with a whole bunch of insanely talented musicians/dancers/writers. It's going to be a fun night, for a really good cause. Show up and hang out, support your local artists, and support Haiti: all at the same time!more info pasted below from the Naropa Supports Haiti Facebook page.until next time, iloveyou,Rob Friday, February 5th from 7-10, come out and listen/watch lots of talented artists and musicians from the Naropa community and beyond. We are g...Read more
Get Down Science Live! at The Draft House
Where will I be on Friday night, in this great big world without Helen, when I could be anywhere (anywhere ='ing the Boulder and/or Denver area)? I'll be at The Draft House. GPS coordinates 2027 13th st Boulder. I will be there at 9:05 p.m., when the show starts. Or I may also show up a bit earlier. Either way, aka regardless of time specifics: on Friday night, this is where I'm going. I'll be at the Draft HouseWhy will I be there? Because that's where Daniel Mills new band will be headlining what promises to be a truely great and also historically mighty show. The band is called Get Down Science. I've also heard something about Jessie Thayer performing some tunes with Allison Lotterhos, whi...Read more
I Miss Mystery - Mario Zoots at Illiterate
How Mario Zoots' speaks about his images, how he looks and speaks about others' work, is painstakingly important. In not only aesthetics, but also in the all-out war he's staging against our new ventures of pop culture. What people mean to one another, what an image can and of course will become, what obsessions and means to wholeness the art world must go to to achieve a satisfaction of absolutes. These are philosophies Mario accomplishes with 'Zine etiquette, video swagger, and racked-off-the-shelf magazine rearrangements. There's a modern mystery to the internet. Facelessness, identity obscured by text and syntax, re-appropriation & distribution of images and video. In the su...Read more
2010 PBR Art Show at Illiterate
Why do creative people like PBR so much? Because it's smooth and refreshing? Because of that nostalgic blue ribbon won at the 1893 World Fair? Because it's as cheap as we are? Questions for the ages. However, now there's another reason for the thirsty artist in you to appreciate that classic red, white and blue can -- it could pay you.Pabst is giving away a grand prize of $1893, plus a year's worth of beer to 4 artists across the nation who create masterpieces inspired by it's most famous brew- Pabst Blue Ribbon.Come support Denver's artists as they display their submissions for this year's PBR Art contest at Illiterate and Indy Ink.Music:Josephine & the Mouse PeopleJonathan + BproLIve A...Read more
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tags: PBR Art Indy Ink Josephine and the Mouse People Jonathan + Bpro Chris Huth Sam Turner
Speakeasy Open Mic Start Jan 19th!
Who: see flyer What: see flyer When: see flyer Where: see flyer Why: see flyer iloveyou,Rob...Read more
Over the Weekend: Delirium Wave 2 Opening Photos and Video
On Friday night, things got steamy inside Illiterate for the opening of Delirium: Wave 2. The reinstallation of photographer Mark Sink's personal collection included ten new artists and nearly double the amount of art from Wave 1. For this second round Mark built further on the sense of the show's ecstactic confusion not only by increasing the quantity and variety of work, but also by displaying it in a salon style stacked manner, like a refrigerator door covered in high concept photography and painting. Before the crowd arrived, Marak's Dog Utah gave the room one last inspection. Mark's sole choice of street photographs in the exhibit came from this nefarious fel...Read more
Last Poetry/Open Mic of 2009!
See poster above for details. Dress up as your favorite Christmas ornament and win a prize! Baobob Tree Press and Illiterate Magazine present:The Last Poetry/Open Mic Event of 2009 at the Burnt Toast! We will return 3 weeks later, at which time we'll be celebrating The First Poetry/Open Mic Event of 2010.But before that happens, swing by Wed Night (on the Hill in Boulder, right across the street from The Sink) and catch what promises to be a really great Dean Martin meets Santa Clause meets a paper bag full of Jonathan's puppets meets two bottles of Jameson and several packs of Camel Lights.Sign up at 8. Show starts at 8:30. See you there.I'll be the guy in the black skull tie and t...Read more
Better Late Than Never: Where The Wild Things Are:
A friend of mine who directs films once told me, "no matter what you do on a shoot, feed your workers". I didn't know exactly what was so important about providing snacks to actors until I found myself filming with a five year old for this Where The Wild Things Art . We kept Max happy and pliable with a constant supply of his favorite food: pushpops. If you're wondering who the Illiterate Max. His name is Armani and the little boy that plays Max. If you're wandering who the little boy is, his name is Armani, the son of artist and illiterate's drywall expert, Stephen Alerid. He hung out with us on a late November Sunday chasing and being chased by me, Joe and Sander, as the...Read more
