Inside The Artist Studio
Sixth Annual Park Hill Multimedia Tour Is Oct. 13-14
By Joyce Nielsen
Special to the GPHN
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Many of the better-known artistic enclaves in the Denver metro area – Santa Fe, RiNo, Golden Triangle – are in business districts of the city. Park Hill artists, by contrast, have created a sense of community that is decidedly neighborly. Sixteen or more of these artists will open their studio doors to the public on Oct. 13 and 14.
This year’s tour features artists with expertise in a wide variety of mediums, including encaustic, woodwork, acrylics, oils, papier-mache, ceramics, glass blowing, glass fusing, collage, watercolor, soda firing, clay, jewelry, and of course mixed media (including pastel, pen & ink, graphite, colored pencil, crayon).
The Park Hill Open Studio Tour began five years ago as a fundraising event for The Art Garage at 23rd & Krameria, a community art education program that provides art classes taught by local artists. The Art Garage is involved this year as the site location of two artists on this year’s tour, but the 2018 event is sponsored and organized by the artists themselves, who have adopted the same format. Visitors are invited to stroll, bike, or drive to 10 different locations in and around Park Hill, where they will meet and see the work of 16-plus artists. There will be refreshments available throughout the tour.
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Tour hours both days is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The following guideline is roughly from south to north, but please visit the studios in any order that is convenient for you.
1. The Art Gym, at 1450 Leyden, is a shared membership-based creative environment where many local artists have their studios.
2. Nearby is Frances Mackey Studio at 1430 Birch, where potter Frances Mackey makes platters, plates, bowls and small houses in stoneware or porcelain, and painter Alane Holsteen expresses the beauty (and sometimes the pain) of this life in encaustic, which she calls her artistic collaborator.
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3. Heading northward to 4857 E. 17th Ave., you’ll meet two artists: Jean Smith, whose clay work and jewelry are beautifully decorative; and retired art teacher Cheryl Bankes, who makes lovely and functional containers and vessels.
4. Continuing northward to 2075 Ash, multimedia artist Joyce Nielsen will have on display mostly abstract paintings in a variety of sizes and mediums and a selection of notecards.
5. Artist Cheryl Jelm is at 2339 Birch. Cheryl uses her own photographs as inspiration for oil paintings that are mostly realistic but sometimes abstract.
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6. A bit further north is 2630 Ash, where painter Andrea Gordon works in both acrylic and oils, doing mainly vibrant and intricate abstracts. More recently she is making large papier-mache sculptures and ceramics.
7. Barbara Hoffman and Glenne Stoll are at 4933 East 22nd Ave. Barbara is a potter who creates useful, aesthetically pleasing ceramics. Glenne makes colorful, artful and fun felted wool and hand painted canvas pieces.
8. At the Alley entrance of 2044 Elm Street you will find four artists at Gaia Glass, LLC: Karrie McBryde demonstrates glass blowing; Suzie White displays colorful fused glass creations that are functional and fun; Cecilia Coats works with paper, and Heidi West creates abstracted landscapes.
9. The Art Garage at 6100 East 23rd Ave. hosts well-known watercolorist Patricia Barr Clarke, who has recently done plein-air work in Spain, Chile, and Curacao; and multimedia artist, Benjamin Sheriff Clarke, who uses watercolor, oil pastel, pen and ink, and graphite in his paintings and drawings.
10. A few blocks north at 2690 Krameria is David Haas Howard’s Park Hill Studio. David designs and builds unique wooden products, specializing in reclaimed hardwoods for cutting boards, tables and other interesting creations.