This May, we’re celebrating the momentum of our vibrant arts community in Colorado!

As the days grow longer, so does the list of incredible accomplishments from RedLine Resident Artists and Alumni. From captivating exhibitions and dynamic performances to prestigious residencies and awards, their work continues to inspire this spring.

This month marks the return of RedLine’s annual Youth Art Exhibition, showcasing the powerful voices and fresh perspectives of emerging young artists. This exhibition is a culmination of months of mentorship, creativity, and exploration.

Join us on Friday, May 16, 5-8pm for the opening reception. Reserve your spot here >

Here are our top 9 art events this May, featuring RedLine Resident Alumni!

Max Maddox - MULTIVERSE Solo Exhibition

What: Solo exhibition
Where: Leon Gallery, 1112 E 17th Ave, Denver
When: April 19-May 31, 2025

About the exhibition: Multiverse is the result of the close collaboration between artist and machine. Uniting photography, painting, and assemblage with naval engineering schematics from the early 20th century, these laser engravings are tangible, topographical iterations of the virtual, myriad, energized worlds that seem to have emerged from technological cataclysm. They are dreamscapes where rebirth is tooled or radical change is sparked, portals into several possible futures or multiple worlds.

About the artist: Max Maddox is an interdisciplinary artist whose work ranges from public performance to abstract painting, a compass he has used to approach subjects such as class struggle, public hysteria, marginalization, and phenomenology.

Maddox is an award winning artist and writer and was most recently a 2023 recipient of the Greene Fellowship. He is a career advocate and he is currently lead developer for the arts and mental health program, “Troupe Therapy.” He has exhibited his work in galleries that include the Redline Contemporary Art Center (Denver), where he was resident artist from 2020-2022, The Art Gym (Denver), Hillyer Art Space (Washington D.C), Locallective (Chicago), the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), the Print Center of Philadelphia, The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum (Philadelphia), and Abecedarian Gallery (Denver).

Website: www.maxmaddox.net
Instagram: earthtomaxmaddox

Laura Merage - 2025 Contemporary Art Survey Group Exhibition

What: Group exhibition
Where: 417 W Magnolia St Fort Collins, CO, 80521
When: April 18-June 13, 2025

About the exhibition: This exhibit features the representational, abstract, and conceptual work of 26 artists in various media as a survey of contemporary art in America. Selected from a national call for artists, Guest Juror Steven Yazzie chose artwork that reflect the artists’ capacity to consider the wide world of issues, objects, imagery, and ideas to tell stories through art. The opening reception is Saturday, April 26, from 4-6pm. The exhibit will be open to the public Wednesdays and Fridays from 1-6 pm, and before most performances.

Laura Merage - Compartmentalize Group Exhibition

What: Performance
Where: Lakewood Cultural Center - 470 S Allison Pkwy, Lakewood, CO, 80226
When: May 30-August 16, 2025
Opening Reception: May 30, 2025, 5-7pm

About the exhibition: Com-Part-Mental-Ize: the verb suggests many possible visual and conceptual interpretations. The cognitive processes of sorting, separating, categorizing, shifting between diverse roles or tasks with efficiency and problem-solving to adjust to the situation are not exclusive to women. However, the often contradictory expectations faced by women serve as training for managing multiple human functions simultaneously, i.e., career, family, social, and personal needs.

Compartmentalization is a skill to create mental and emotional boundaries between actions and feelings, thoughts and decisions, personal views, and societal pressures. Mental and physical boundaries may be seen as sharing (compartir, Spanish), while separating, two opposing perspectives. This show explores how we arrange time, space, energy, pleasure, and pain. How do you express this tension/balance in a work of art?

Ben Coleman - between dog and wolf Production Residency

What: Performance
Where: Performing Arts Studio - 1804 North Decatur Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322

About the performance: Ben Coleman is composer in residence for staibdance, an Atlanta-based dance company that uses the transformative art of contemporary dance to explore universal aspects of the human experience that inspire, engage, and build community. For their new project together 'between dog and wolf', they will converge in Atlanta for a week long production residency, followed by a series of sneak-peek performances of the work in progress, which will debut in October 2025. The work will explore the idea that two opposing truths can and do exist simultaneously, and will feature Coleman live in performance alongside the company.

About the artist: Ben Coleman is a British multi-disciplinary artist residing in Denver, CO. His practice is rooted in sound and performance making, but often plays with other media, including music, text, video and installation. His practice embraces curatorial projects, and frequent collaboration with choreographers, visual artists, and theater practitioners.

His work has been presented by institutions including the High Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, MCA Denver, Understudy, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Contemporary, Redline Contemporary Art Centre, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Gibney Dance, Dashboard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Flux Projects, Zuckerman Museum of Art and Emory University. Coleman’s work has been featured by Hyperallergic, Wire Magazine, Vice, Pitchfork, The Denver Post, Southwest Contemporary, Arts ATL, Burnaway and WABE Atlanta. He is a resident alumnus and board member at Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, and resident composer and sound designer for staibdance.

Website: www.bencolemansounds.com
Instagram: isthisbencoleman

Sandra Fettingis- Mural Fest 2025 Group Show

What: Mural Festival
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
When: May 10, 2025, 4-8pm

About the festival: South Salt Lake’s Creative Industries Zone is home to the largest collection of street art in Utah. Dozens of artists from Utah and across the country have left their mark on the funky and post-industrial buildings in the area. Inside these buildings, you’ll find local innovators, artists, makers and those who celebrate their unique neighborhood.

Each year, this open-air gallery grows as new artists are selected to bring unique creations to the area.

About the artist: Known for her iconic, abstract geometric style, Sandra Fettingis specializes in crafting timeless, site-specific patterns for national public art projects.

Blending art with both built and natural environments in her murals and sculptural installations, Sandra carefully examines locations and project goals to achieve a harmonious and purposeful integration.

Inspired by the harmonies of plant life and architecture, her practice conveys themes of personal and community growth, emphasizing connection through dynamic yet meditative patterns, with sensitive attention to detail.

Website: www.sfettingis.com
Instagram: sandrafettingis

Tony Ortega - The Art of Us Group Exhibition

*"Dreamers." Monotype on paper, 22" x 30"*

What: Group exhibition
Where: Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis - 7130 W 16th Ave, Lakewood, CO, 80214
When: April 25-May 11, 2025

About the exhibition: “The Art of Us,” an exhibition organized by Craig Robb that explores art making by artist’s who are related to each other. Comprised of works from six different families ranging from generational to siblings working at their craft.

“My wife Sylvia Montero and our son Cipriano Ortega will also have work included in this exhibition. The concept of this show stems from my curiosity and my ponderings about how we become artists. What drives us to create art as an individual let alone when whole families turn to it. For the most part, we become artists because of a fundamental instinct to express ourselves, the desire to communicate emotions, ideas and experiences. Or simply, it is a need to create.”

About the artist: Tony Ortega is a Denver-based visual artist, and educator. His work has been exhibited in over 30 solo shows and featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado Spring Fine Art Center, Harwood Museum, Taos NM, Redline Art Center, Denver and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM. Tony Ortega holds an MFA in drawing and painting from the University of Colorado Boulder and is currently a professor for Regis University.

His work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Latin America, and other parts of the world. His work is represented by the William Havu Gallery, in Denver, CO.

Website: www.tonyortega.net
Instagram: tortegaartist

Adri Norris - Warren Village Opening

What: New Building Opening
Where: 1390 W. Alameda Avenue, Denver
When: Saturday, May 3, 2025

About the opening: Celebrate with us as we open the doors to Warren Village at Alameda, our new, two-building facility designed to support families overcoming homelessness or facing housing instability.

With 89 new units and on-site childcare and supportive services, this space nearly doubles Warren Village’s ability to help families thrive and achieve economic independence.

Community members will have a chance to explore our new campus with tours, a scavenger hunt, and carnival games and activities. Our Early Learning Center staff will offer an opportunity to learn more about the resources available to families in the community. Local supporters and elected officials will be in attendance and will share remarks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Adri painted the largest of the three murals on the new building.

About the artist: Adrienne (Adri) Norris was born in Barbados and moved to the United States at the age of 5. She has lived in New York, New Mexico, attended a boarding school in Italy, joined the Marines and finally settled down in Denver. Not exactly the path one expects, but Norris has made it work. Being a Black, queer, immigrant woman has shaped the way she views and interacts with the world, and it is this experience that she uses in her art.

In 2016, Norris experienced a shift from painting pretty pictures to using her artwork to share the stories of the marginalized, providing background information about the things we use, the policies that help and hurt us and the reasons our lives are the way they are.

Website: www.afrotriangle.com
Instagram: afrotriangle

Lares Feliciano - Divine Rest Nests: An Invitation Group Exhibition

What: Group exhibition
Where: BMoCA - 1750 13th Street, Boulder, CO, 80302
When: May 22-September 1, 2025

About the Exhibition: This immersive and liberatory exhibition offers the invitation to experience the powerful concept of rest as resistance and reclamation of imagination and dreams. Through ethereal artist activations and installations, the viewer will be transported to sacred and healing rest nests where they can surrender, release, and restore from the cacophony of noise beyond the museum walls. Guest curated by Cristina Aguilar.

Lares Feliciano
Reinos Radicales-Radical Realms
Group Exhibition

What: Group Exhibition
Where: Yolia Art Space by Los Fantasmas Artist Collective, Englewood Pkwy Suite 109, Englewood, CO, 80110
When: May 17-June 21, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, May, 17, 6-9pm

About the exhibition: Ursula K. Le Guin Fantasy offers a way to escape, but even more, it is a tool for empowerment. This exhibition examines how the genre of fantasy, with its boundless capacity for reimagining realities, can be used to reclaim power and rewrite cultural narratives.

By weaving myth, folklore, nostalgia and speculative futures, the works challenge oppressive structures and celebrate marginalized identities. They transform what is often dismissed as "unrealistic" into a radical space for possibility, where new worlds emerge, and the power to shape them belongs to those historically silenced.

About the artist: Lares Feliciano is an artist, cultural worker, tarot reader, and witch based in the sacred San Luis Valley, Colorado. Feliciano uses animation, installation, and collage to create worlds where diverse stories are front and center and all of time exists at once. Her work explores the in-between, layers of diaspora, and the complexity of memory. She has completed residencies with RedLine Contemporary Art Center and Grand Canyon National Park. Currently she is a Frontier Fellow with Epicenter in Green River, Utah.

Website: laresfeliciano.com
Instagram: lareslovesyou