Longmont already threw a street festival downtown last weekend, but there’s more to come, including this weekend’s formal Firehouse receptions. It’s that time of year at Firehouse, when Longmont arts organizations team up to celebrate Día de los Muertos in a big way. Opening Reception: Friday, October 14, 6 to 8 p.m.Ĭatrina Ball and Art Auction: Friday, October 28, 7 to 10 p.m., 380 Main Street, downtown Longmont $15 at Eventbrite, $20 at the door Jamie Chihuan and Adriana Paola Palacios Luna, Escúchameįirehouse Art Center, 667 4th Avenue, Longmont Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, will speak before the reception, and Trixie Roth will be in the house.Ĭourtesy of Firehouse Art Center Catrinas on Parade Jann Haworth, a contributor to the cover art for the Beatles’ Sgt. Roth’s lowbrow trove of decorated hot-rods, toilet seats, T-shirts, skateboards and toys makes for hard-core visuals from Rat Fink culture, displayed alongside art by Keith Haring, Takashi Murakami and Andy Warhol, as well as such Colorado artists as Carlos Frésquez, Donald Fodness, Kevin Hennessy and Gregg Deal. To research the show, Lambson and a crew of students traveled in June to the Rat Fink Museum in Manti, Utah, for the annual Rat Fink Reunion, where they met with members of the Rat Fink inner circle, including Roth's widow, Trixie, and were allowed to select items for the exhibition right from the source. Some might say it was a bad influence, but Lambson shows its better side: In all its unruly nastiness, the Rat Fink gave permission to artists to incorporate lowbrow popular culture into works of fine art. But this fall, the Rat Fink character, invented in 1958 by hot-rod gearhead and comic artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in response to Disney’s clean-living Mickey Mouse, is installed in the chapel in multiples, along with works by a host of famous (and not-so-famous) pop, street and graffiti artists influenced by the rise of Roth’s iconic cartoon thug. Like so many cultural events in Denver and everywhere, the Rat Fink show at Emmanuel Gallery, a pet project of gallery director Jeff Lambson, had to be pushed back many months. Opening Reception: Thursday, October 13, 4 to 7 p.m. Courtesy of the Rat Fink Museum Rat Fink Revolution: Started With a T-Shirt, Now We're HereĮmmanuel Gallery, 1205 10th Street Plaza, Auraria CampusĪrtist talk with Jann Haworth: Thursday, October 13, 3 p.m.
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