March has that exciting reset energy—and this month, RedLine Resident Alumni are starting the new year off with a bang!
From screenings and exhibitions that explore family and lineage to playful, experimental approaches to materials and form, here are our top January art events featuring RedLine Resident Alumni!
Adri Norris - Black Futures in Art - The Excellence Beneath my Feet Lives Within My Bones Group Exhibition
Ouroborus - Acrylic and collage on canvas
Where: The Dairy Art Center 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
When: February 20 - March 29, 2026
Artist Talk: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | 5-8pm
About the exhibition: Five years in, Black Futures in Art stands as a living testament to vision, community, and creative inheritance. What began as an idea has become a gathering—of artists, voices, families, and futures—woven together by joy, intention, and shared imagination.
This moment marks half a decade of presence, growth, and impact in Boulder County, carried forward with clarity and purpose. In this fifth year, we stand rooted in the excellence that carried us here—excellence beneath our feet, living within our bones. Everything we are, and everything we will ever be, we carry with us. It is memory and momentum. It is joy and knowing. It is encoded.
The artists and works in this exhibition are forged from experience, lineage, and lived truth. They rise from inheritance and imagination, shaped by an unstoppable creative force that has always made worlds within and beyond the ones given. What you encounter here is brilliance in motion—color, rhythm, and spirit speaking across time. We honor the shoulders that lift us. We acknowledge the ancestors whose courage carved pathways for our voices, our colors, and our futures. Their strength moves through every line, stroke, and gesture in this space—alive, present, and guiding.
Their wisdom reminds us that greatness was placed within us long before we could name it. Black Futures in Art holds the full spectrum of our becoming: art shaped by joy and transformation, radiance born of resilience, burden transmuted into brilliance. Here, we witness greatness carried and greatness claimed. We have learned to shift, to rise, and to create in the light of our own authority. What lives within us is unmovable, undeniable, and unsilenced—encoded in our very genome. As individual creators, visionaries, and storytellers, we gather in community.
We may arrive as one, but we stand as many—amplified by connection, strengthened by collective vision. This exhibition is a celebration of the people this work has touched, the relationships formed, and the creative ecosystems nurtured along the way. Black Futures in Art is not a moment; it is a continuum—growing, evolving, and reaching outward with intention.
Thank you for the time you spend here—time that cannot be returned. In exchange, we offer vision, care, and energy meant to carry you forward. May what you receive take root, awaken memory, and remind you of who you are becoming. This is given with joy, with gratitude, and with celebration.
About the Artist: At an early age, I knew I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. My life has taken me in many directions from the very beginning. My Caribbean birth gave way to a New York-based childhood, then a New Mexican adolescence. I spent my early adulthood with students from all over the world, only to enter my twenties in the Marine Corps. It was one culture shock after another. Throughout all that time, I maintained my love of Art and worked diligently to improve my skills.
I followed my interests, learning how to draw and paint the human form in ink, acrylic and watercolor. Leading up to and during art school, I learned all kinds of digital media, including Photoshop for digital painting and graphic design, Blender for 3D modeling and animation, and InDesign for book layout, to mention just a few. These are all skills I bring to bear when it comes to creating my artwork. Each tool and technique has influenced my style and my thought processes. As I continue to grow as an artist, I will continue adding more tools to my toolbox.
Website: https://www.afrotriangle.com/
Instagtam: @afrotriangle
Sammy Seung-min Lee Becoming Motherland Group Exhibition
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver 1485 Delgany St, Denver, CO 80202
When: March 5 - July 5, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 2026 | 7:30pm
About the exhibition: Lee’s solo exhibition at MCA Denver, Becoming Motherland probes complex personal dynamics of diaspora, moving and migration through playful and poignant works that explore notions of nostalgia, longing, memory, utopia, and home. In recent years, Lee has used a distinctive paper-casting technique to create skin-like forms that echo everyday objects like luggage and table-ware. Her “paper-skins” are a material that embodies memory, vulnerability, and resilience. They anchor her practice and serve as both shield and porous barrier, mediating between interior and exterior worlds while grounding explorations of migration, identity, and belonging. Read More
About the artist: Sammy Lee is an artist based in Denver, Colorado. Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to Southern California at the age of sixteen. She studied fine art and media art at UCLA and architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Among her many accomplishments is a performative collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma during the Bach project tour in 2018. Lee is a Resident Alumni at RedLine, served as an ambassador for Asian Art at Denver Art Museum, was recently selected as a Fulbright US Scholar, and operates a contemporary art project and residency space, called Collective SML | k in Santa Fe Art District, Denver.
Lee's work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in collections at the Getty Research Institute, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Spanish National Library in Madrid. Read More
Website: https://www.studiosmlk.com
Instagram: @sammy_seungmin_lee
Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand Native Niches: Ecological Identity Group Exhibition
Where:Creative Nations Gallery in the Dairy Arts Center
When: February 9 - April 5, 2026.
About the exhibition: Each of us inhabits a niche in the natural world, each a member of our ecological communities with a responsibility to the landscape around us. This concept is best illustrated by the Traditional Ecological Knowledge that Indigenous people have fostered for millennia.
Native Niches invites both the artist and guest to explore their position in ecological past, present and future. It investigates how Indigenous cultures and experiences have been influenced by flora and fauna, and envisions a future where people are no longer discrete from the web of life.
Denver March Powwow
Where: Denver Coliseum
When: March 20 - 22, 2026
About: The Denver March Powwow is a significant cultural event celebrating Native American traditions, featuring 1,600 dancers from 100 tribes. The 50th Annual Denver March Pow Wow will take place from March 20 to 22, 2026 at the Denver Coliseum.
Attendees can expect a vibrant atmosphere with dancing, singing, crafts, arts, and food. For more details, including ticketing and parking information, you can visit the official event page. Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand will be a vendor, and her family drum group sings the grand entry song every year
About the artist: Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand is a Sicangu Lakota and Cherokee artist that hails from Taos, New Mexico. Her passion for community and social justice has led her to speak on matters of equality and cultural representation in pop culture. She is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic creator, and former co-chair of the Denver American Indian Commission.
She has over 10 years of experience in after-school and summer programs. Most notably for her work with Pop Culture Classroom in their comic-based literacy curriculum; as a community and OBH liaison with the Jeffco Indian Education Program, and as a Think 360 Artist for her SEL lessons through design and pop culture.
She values building connections and maintaining relationships and has strong ties to the Native community of Denver. She is the co-founder and director of áyA Con, and handles most of our community outreach and programming.
Website: www.badhandillustrations.art
Javier Flores The Unsaid Thread: Folklore as Social Commentary Group Exhibition
Where: Front Range Community College Gallery 3645 W. 112th Ave., Westminster, CO, 80031
When: March 12 - April 2, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6 | 5-9pm
About the exhibition: The Unsaid Thread: Folklore As Social Commentary. For the biennial of Mo’Print Laura Grossett will coordinate an exhibition of a print exchange, this exchange invites artists to look at the world we live in through the lens of folklore. Artists are encouraged to connect with the idea of symbolic narrative through their own lens, using metaphor and symbolism to comment on contemporary life.
Print Educators of Colorado Exhibition and Sue Oehme Exhibition
Where: Space Gallery 400 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, CO, 80204
When: March 13 - April 11, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, March 13 | 6-8pm
About the exhibition: This exhibition is to honor print educators for their dedication to inspiring a new generation of printmakers and their contributions to the discipline.
Pressing Matters
Where: Yolia Art Space 901 Englewood Pkwy, Unit 112, Englewood, CO, 80110
When: March 14 - April 18, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14 | 5-8pm
About the exhibition: "Pressing Matters" brings together a dynamic mix of collaborative and individual works that highlight the urgency of our shared cultural moment. Curated by Carlos Frésquez and Grace Gutierrez of Los Fantasmas Artist Collective, the exhibition features works created atop screen-printed images by Carlos Frésquez, inviting artists from all backgrounds and mediums to respond, transform, and build upon his iconic visual language.
Alongside these collaborations, will be a small prints showcase featuring a wide range of makers whose voices reflect the richness of Chicano/a/x, Latino, Indigenous, Queer, and other Denver communities. Rooted in dialogue and the politics of the present, Pressing Matters describes how printmaking becomes both a tool and a testimony, pressing us to see, feel, and act!
About the artist: Born in Denver, Colorado, to Mexican immigrants, Javier Flores is the eldest of 3 kids. Raised in a blue collar, middle to lower income level household in Brighton, Colorado, helped to instill strong work ethic, honesty, and integrity.
At the age of nineteen, Javier was shot in the lower back and subsequently paralyzed. Initially in shock and depression, he became distant and suicidal for a time. He was thankfully saved by family, friends, visual arts, and martial arts. Read more
Website: www.lenguajevulgar.com
Instagram: lenguajevulgar
Lares Feliciano TIERRA FUTURA: Boricua Land Futures Group Exhibition
March Art Events at RedLine
Harmonious Dissonance Closing Party & Catalog Release
Join us on Friday, January 9, 5:30–7:30pm for the closing party of Harmonious Dissonance with an exhibition catalog release & signing by artist Bruce Price, guest curator Dean Sobel, and art critic Michael Paglia—plus an exhibition-inspired DJ set by Resident Artist Nathan Hall! Free for members!
Sewing Club
Meets the Third Sunday of each month from 1 - 3 pm
Unstructured community sewing time. Bring your own sewing needles and/or machine, and fabric.
Free for RedLine members, $10 for non-members.
