Past Exhibitions: Lieutenant Governor's Office
Creative Capitol Exhibit Celebrates American West
June 28, 2011 through December 8, 2011 
History Colorado and Colorado Creative Industries host the exhibit, "Tribal Pathways," which highlights how Colorado's American Indians have sustained traditions, beliefs and a true record of their past through ceremony, song, dance and oral histories passed down from generation to generation for five hundred years. The exhibit is located in the basement of the Capitol rotunda.
The Denver Public Library and Colorado Creative Industries host the exhibit, "Painting the West" in the Lt. Governor’s Office. This exhibit includes paintings by George Catlin, an American painter who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West and Karl Bodmer, a Swiss painter whose images are recognized as among the most accurate images of Native Americans and the scenery of the Old West.
Creative Capitol Exhibit Celebrates Artists of Metro Denver & Boulder
February 2011 through June 2011
The Creative Capitol exhibit highlights 40 artists from Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. The works range from photography and graphic works to oil paintings, pastel, small scale sculpture and watercolor.
Creative Capitol brings permanent and rotating art exhibitions to the state capitol building. Staff and visitors are welcomed into the Lt. Governor’s office and the basement of the rotunda to view the rotating exhibitions and to the lobby of the Governor’s office to view a permanent collection. This program of the Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado’s creativity and shares this abundant resource with the citizens of Colorado.
Creative Capitol Exhibit Celebrates the Art Student League of Denver Connections: Threads of Influence
November 2010 through February 2011
Connections: Threads of Influence features works by 36 artists from the Art Student League of Denver. The Exhibition highlights the connection between the master artists who teach at the Art Student League and the artists who study with them.
Creative Capitol brings permanent and rotating art exhibitions to the state capitol building. Staff and visitors are welcomed into the Lt. Governor’s office and the basement of the rotunda to view the rotating exhibitions and to the lobby of the Governor’s office to view a permanent collection. This program of the Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado’s creativity and shares this abundant resource with the citizens of Colorado.
Creative Capitol Exhibit Celebrates the Artists of Eastern Colorado
July through October, 2010
33 artists from Baca, El Paso, Elbert, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Otero, Phillips, Prowers, Weld and Yuma counties are featured in the exhibit.
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Creative Capitol brings permanent and rotating art exhibitions to the state capitol building. Staff and visitors are welcomed into the Lt. Governor’s office and the basement of the rotunda to view the rotating exhibitions and to the lobby of the Governor’s office to view a permanent collection. This program of the Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado’s creativity and shares this abundant resource with the citizens of Colorado.
Creative Capitol Exhibit Practice What You Teach
March 3 2010 through June 30, 2010
Landscapes by Colorado's Community College Art Faculty is the new temporary art exhibition currently on display at the Colorado State Capitol, and features landscape paintings and drawings by sixteen professional artists teaching in Colorado's community college system. Curated by Kathryn Charles for the Creative Capitol program of the Colorado Council for the Arts, the exhibition runs from March 3 thru June 30, 2010, and is located in the Lt. Governor's office and the basement rotunda.
Creative Capitol Exhibit Celebrates the Artists of Southwestern Colorado
December 2009 through February, 2010
37 artists from Alamosa, Custer, Fremont, Gunnison, La Plata,Lake, Las Animas, Mesa, Mineral, Montezuma, Ouray, Pitkin, Rio Grande, Saguache,San Juan and Teller counties are featured in the exhibit.
Creative Capitol brings permanent and rotating art exhibitions to the state capitol building. Staff and visitors are welcomed into the Lt. Governor’s office and the basement of the rotunda to view the rotating exhibitions and to the lobby of the Governor’s office to view a permanent collection. This program of the Colorado Creative Industries celebrates Colorado’s creativity and shares this abundant resource with the citizens of Colorado.
Public Art Collection of Colorado
June 1 – November 30, 2009
The current exhibition highlights the public art installations, around the state of Colorado by Colorado Creative Industries in the last three years. In 1977 the Art in Public Places Program was created by the
Colorado Legislature to create a more humane environment of distinction, enjoyment, and pride for all of its citizens. Colorado’s public art statute sets aside one percent of construction costs of eligible state capital projects for the acquisition of artwork. Public art works are selected by a committee and are located in publicly accessible spaces inside and outside of state buildings.
Colorado’s public art at a glance
• 58 state agencies have participated in the program
• 192 Colorado artists and 32 out-of-state artists represented
• 435 artworks purchased or commissioned by the state since 1977
• $7.2 million invested in the state’s public art collection in 32 years
Northwestern Colorado Regional Show
Exhibition Dates:
DIA: February 20 - May 27, 2009
State Capitol: June 1 - August 28, 2009
Colorado Regional Shows
The Colorado Creative Industries and Denver International Airport present a four-part rotating series of exhibitions featuring the diverse talents of artists from the Northwest, Southwest, Eastern, and Metro Denver areas of our state.
This first exhibit highlights artists from Northwestern Colorado. The thirty-six works in the exhibit showcase thirty artists from Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Larimer, Routt, and Summit counties. The works range from landscape photography, graphic works, oil paintings, pastel, and watercolor.
Southwest Colorado exhibition fall of 2009
Eastern Colorado exhibition spring of 2010
Metro Denver exhibition fall of 2010
Curated by the Colorado Creative Industries and the Denver International Airport
Joellyn Duesberry: A Covenant of Seasons- Selected Works
Exhibition Dates:
March 4 thru May 27, 2009
About the artist...
Joellyn Duesberry is nationally recognized for her landscape paintings. She began exhibiting in New York City in 1979, and has since had more than 50 solo exhibitions in the U.S. with recent surveys at the Century Association in New York, the Denver Art Museum, and the Museum of Outdoor Arts in Englewood, Colorado. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center will feature a retrospective on Joellyn Duesberry in 2010. In 1986 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant which enabled her to work with Richard Diebenkorn, who encouraged her to try monotype printmaking. Duesberry’s work is featured in many public and private collections nationally and is represented by 7 galleries coast to coast. She has twice been an artist – in – residence at the Ucross Foundation. Duesberry lives in Colorado and divides her time between studios in Denver and Millbrook, New York.
Curated by Rose Fredrick
Pictured: Truck Yard
Fiber Art from the State Public Art Collection
Exhibition Dates:
December 5, 2008 thru
February 27, 2009
Fiber Art from the State Public Art Collection is an exhibition created for Creative Capitol which includes significant pieces of fiber art from the Colorado State Public Art Collection. Works by Eppie Archuleta, Roxana Bartlett, Claire Haberfield, Susan Hoover, Judith Trager, Joan Wolfer and Charlotte Ziebarth are featured in the exhibition.
Fiber Art
Fiber art uses textiles and focuses on both the materials and the manual labor involved as part of its significance. Basketry, knitting, needlework, papermaking, quilting, weaving, felting, braiding or braiding, macramé and lace making are all considered fiber art. The work can be beaded, spun, dyed, woven, felted, braided or flocked. Fiber art is not limited to natural or synthetic fibers, but can be made with other materials such as steel, plastic bags, rocks, paper or photographs. Fiber art is commonly tied to cultural groups. Weaving, for example, has been done for thousands of years in many cultures. Many of the tools, patterns and dyes used are unique to a particular culture. This is true of many styles of fiber art.
State Public Art Collection
In 1977, the Colorado General Assembly passed the Art in Public Places Act requiring that 1% of the construction costs of new or renovated state-owned buildings be used to acquire works of art for permanent installation at the project site. Upon installation, all purchased or commissioned works of art become the property of the state and form the state public art collection, developed and administered by the Colorado Creative Industries. This program has successfully commissioned or purchased over 400 works of art for the enhancement of state buildings and the enjoyment of the citizens of Colorado.
Curated by the Colorado Creative Industries
Stephen Collector: Law of the Range
Exhibition Dates:
September 22 thru December 3, 2008
Artist Statement
.....In 1980, I began making portraits in black and white with a view camera of the last of the older Brand Inspectors in the Rocky Mountain region. Initially, seeking a single portrait of two old stock detectives in southern Wyoming for a magazine assignment, I stumbled into a project that, after a few sessions, became an obsession. Eleven years later the project was completed, resulting in the publication of the book, Law of the Range: Portraits of Old-Time Brand Inspectors, Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana, which was chosen runner-up Best Art Book of 1992 by the Rocky Mountain Book Publishers Association.
In the beginning, I knew little about Brand Inspectors, but I was told they functioned as stock detectives in cases involving cattle and horse rustling. In addition to this detective work, they serve as regulatory agents in the transactions of livestock; by checking brands they determine ownership. I was particularly interested in older stock detectives and inspectors who were an integral part of the transition period between the frontier and modern day. These men carry the direct words and traditions of their frontier parents and embody values of the Old West. Years of duty and experience are etched in their faces, as time and weather have etched the mountains and plains they love. When viewed as a body of work, I began to detect a similarity of spirit also seen in portraits of American Indians: these men share the same heart.
Born in Virginia in 1951, Stephen Collector attended George Washington University, then the University of Colorado where he received a degree in English literature in 1973. He has resided in Colorado since 1971 and, primarily self-taught, began a career as a freelance photographer in 1975. Collector undertook the Brand Inspector project in 1980 in the documentary large format style of pioneer photographers, E.S. Curtis and L. A. Huffman. The exhibition, Law of the Range, which is on display here in the Lieutenant Governor’s office, has been shown at numerous museums to include the Wichita Art Museum, Wyoming State Museum, Roswell Museum, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Arvada Center, Boulder Center for the Arts, John Connor Museum, and has toured through the state of Montana.
Curated by Rose Fredrick
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