This September, REACH and Resident Artists & Alumni are making their mark near and far with exhibitions and performances that highlight the many ways art can connect us.
From a playful chicken-inspired show in Lakewood to a powerful performance in Alabama, their work spans places and perspectives, but carries the same spirit of creativity and intention.
Here at RedLine, High Walls: Artists Navigate Structures of Confinement is on view through October 12th. We’re hosting two events tied to the exhibition: High Walls: Volunteering in the Carceral System on September 25th, a roundtable discussion about the emotional weight and purpose of prison arts work, and Unchained Voices: Artist Panel & Reception on September 28th. Both invite honest conversation about art, justice, and community.
This Saturday, we’re celebrating the Greene Fellowship with an annual exhibition opening on September 6th, which will feature two solo shows by Resident Artists & 2025 Greene Fellows Alex Branch and Phillip David Stearns. Guest curated by George Bolster, this is a show you don’t want to miss!
Finally, on September 16th, we’re teaming up with Denver Digerati to open space for dialogue through Intersect Presents: a documentary, which features current Resident Artists Elle Hong and Phillip David Stearns. You can learn more and RSVP here >
Scroll down to see what RedLine artists are up to this month, and find an event (or two) to add to your calendar!
Resident Alumni Sarah Darlene, Lares Feliciano, Yazmin (Yazz) Atmore, Mario Zoots, Libby Barbee & Resident Artist Nathan Hall - COllage! Group Exhibition
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Where: Arvada Center for the Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO, 80003
When: September 11 - November 9, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 6-9pm
About the exhibition: The dynamic world of collage and assemblage comes to life in this exhibition through bold patterns, unexpected materials, and striking visual narratives. Far from random layering, each work reveals a careful design of elements—scraps, textures, sounds, and objects—brought together with deliberate intention.
These artists use the act of layering to explore memory, identity, passion, and place, transforming everyday materials into powerful statements. Whether stitched, glued, painted, or constructed, each piece invites you to look closer, to uncover hidden meanings, and to rethink what collage can be.
Sarah Darlene - Lifelines Group Exhibition
Where: CU Experience Gallery
When: On display through September 7, 2025
Last Look: Sunday, September 7, 5-7pm
About the exhibition: The Lifelines in this exhibition carry many meanings—they connect us as viewers through the artwork to ideas, experiences, and each other. A lifeline can be a rope used to rescue someone at sea, a safety line preventing a climber from falling, or--in Palmistry--a line running the palm of the hand revealing insights into health, energy, and life events. A lifeline during war can provide lifesaving communication and a friend in difficult times.
The art of James-Allan Holmes and Sarah Darlene intertwines visually and conceptually, drawing from life events, spirituality, hope, art history, and relationships. Though Darlene and Holmes have been friends for many years, the paths that led them to this shared exhibition were quite different.
Visual artist Sarah Darlene explores the functionality of abstraction through a feminine, queer and contemporary perspective.
While she primarily identifies as a painter, Darlene often uses different tools that serve as a substitute for paint, ranging from fabrics like bedsheets and clothing to more organic objects like wood, seeds, and sand.
Darlene’s body of work explores the intersections of painting, social practice, and meditation and their collective ability to promote self-reflection, cathartic healing, and true social change.
Myra Nagy - Drumstick Group Exhibition
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Where: 40W Gallery, 6501 W Colfax Ave, Lakewood, CO 80214
When: September 5-28, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5-9pm
About the exhibition: Chickens, feathers, farms, food, and anything else that is inspired by Americana's favorite bird.
The Denver Drumstick restaurant opened in 1967, which then became a bingo hall before eventually sitting vacant for many years. In 2022, the Drumstick entered its current incarnation as The HUB—home to artist-owned galleries, creative businesses, and 40 West Arts. Though the building has been transformed, reminders of the Denver Drumstick can still be seen in etchings on the doors to the 40 West Arts gallery.
To honor the Drumstick building and its history and back by popular demand, 40 West Gallery is hosting “Drumstick,” an exhibition featuring all interpretations of the Drumstick’s history and, of course, chickens.
About the artist: Myra Nagy aka Chacalit I am an African American woman about middle age. I have gone through several different hard times, including homelessness, mental & substance conditions, and family loss. My creative therapy is to express things in my art. I create all different types of art using painting, sewing, writing, and now clay manipulation. I feel that my writing can tell stories and keep me out of my head.
My sewing helps with giving to others and showing a sense of style. My art lets me experiment with different substrates to show how complicated but connected the world is. These things help me to recover from the experiences that held me down but now lift me up. I strive to show other people of color, age, and through recovery that it is possible to keep pressing forward, no matter what.
Ben Coleman - ARARAT Performance
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Where: The Historic Bama Theatre, 600 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35401
When: Friday, September 12, 7:30pm
About the performance: Created by acclaimed choreographer George Staib, ARARAT considers the history and resilience of the Armenian people following a genocide that claimed 1.5 million lives. Rooted in survivor stories and parallel investigations toward newness, the work illuminates the countenance of the human spirit. Audiences are invited to journey into the matter of becoming, as the piece asks: When all things are new, how important is the old?
About the artist: Ben Coleman is a British multi-disciplinary artist residing in Denver, CO. His practice is multidisciplinary, grounded in sound and performance, and often encompassing other media, including music, dance, video and installation.
Coleman grew up in theatre and music, and formed his first bands in London while simultaneously studying performance art. At that time, the city’s live art, nightclubs and experimental music scenes were exploding with innovation and risk, and he engaged passionately as a listener, performer, writer and maker. His performance and installation work retain the playful, participatory approach and scrappy DIY aesthetic that distinguished these scenes.
His practice has grown through collaboration to encompass diverse projects with choreographers, visual artists, and theater practitioners, and an increasing range of curatorial projects.
September Art Events at RedLine
The Greene Fellowship Annual Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 6-8pm
In celebration of the year-long Greene Fellowship program, RedLine is delighted to announce two solo exhibitions featuring the 2025 Greene Fellows
Intersect Presents: a documentary: Elle Hong & Phillip David Stearns
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Join us for a screening of the second and third installment of the Intersect documentary series, featuring current RedLine Resident Artists Elle Hong and Phillip David Stearns, followed by a Q&A with the artists, moderated by Digerati Executive Director & Curator: Sharfia Lafon.
Unchained Voices: Artist Panel & Reception
Sunday, September 28, 2-5 pm
Join Unchained Voices and RedLine for an intimate artist panel and reception, part of the High Walls: Artists Navigate Structures of Confinement exhibition.
