SEX DRUGS ROCK & ROLL

Staged inside a delivery truck, Sex Drugs Rock & Roll featured original artwork by exceptional local artists at affordable prices (at or under $200). Themed specifically for an urban, gritty vibe, Sex Drugs Rock & Roll takes an engaging, insightful, and sometimes humorous look at the music scene, drug culture, and sexuality.

Past Pop-Ups:

• July 27-29, 2018 at Underground Music Showcase, W 2nd Ave & Broadway, Denver, CO 80203

• August 3, 2018 at Center for Visual Art - MSU Denver, 965 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204 

• September 1-2, 2018 at Temple Tantrum Fest, 2400 Curtis St, Denver, CO 80205

WEEDED

As the first state in the union to legalize recreational marijuana, Colorado knows a thing or two about pot. Hey Hue has brought back some of our favorite artists from our inaugural Sex Drugs Rock & Roll pop-up along with a few new voices for an artful celebration of the herb that’s hot boxed our square state.

Past Pop-Ups:

• October 13, 2018 at Far Out Factory, Denver Rock Drill, 1798 E 40th Ave, Denver, CO 80205

• November 29, 2018 at CBCA’s Arts & Cannabis Forum, The Source Hotel, 3350 Brighton Blvd, Denver, CO 80216

• April 18-21, 2019 at Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut, Boulder, CO 80302

home/maker

Home/Maker, an exhibition benefitting Mercy Housing, explores the complex notions of home from a female perspective. Featuring works by local, up-and-coming and established women or queer artists along with works by Mercy Housing resident artists, Home/Maker addresses the myriad and at times conflicting mental, emotional, and physical labor required to maintain a home. A play on words for the term commonly given to housewives, Home/Maker draws attention to the acts of creating a home and making art about the home. Proceeds from art sales benefit Mercy Housing’s resident programs that support health and wellness, financial and housing stability, after-school care, and community building activities.

Hey Hue, in collaboration with DoubleSpace, presents Blot, a duo exhibition featuring Drew Austin and Angela Craven. The word “blot” is both an action and a noun. It has both negative and positive connotations. It’s shifty, amorphous, a trickster. Blot pairs Austin’s loose, mixed media abstractions with Craven’s Rorschach-inspired resin/mixed media on wood pieces. This exhibition explores conceptions of fluidity, the organic movement of liquid material across a plane, while highlighting humanity’s need to identify and interpret—our desire to assign meaning and/or a story—to the abstract, the ambiguous, the unknowable, the urge to say “this is that” and tie it up neat and tidy.

Polished mud

Hey Hue and Polished Mud present an interactive, handmade porcelain jewelry event outside Matter. Polished Mud, created by Mary Beth Polce, specializes in geometric, colorful jewelry made from lightweight porcelain. The event will feature an interactive jewelry bar as well as bento box capsule collections for endless mix-and-match combinations plus banana-, sky-, coffee- and sunburn-meters. Hand shaped, hand carved and hand glazed right here in Denver, CO.

Text me

Text Me features text-based artworks as well as pieces by artists who write and writers who make art throughout the historic Milheim House during Lighthouse’s annual two-week literary festival, Lit Fest. Proceeds raised from art sales will benefit Lighthouse's Fellowships for free or partial tuition to workshops, master classes, and extended programs for talented writers experiencing financial hardships like veterans, writers of color and single parents. Participating artists include: Chloé Besson, Cory Feder, Brian Fouhy, Greg Gandy, Caleb Hahne (courtesy of Rule Gallery), Abigail Lahnert, Kimberly McClintock, Roberta Payne, Valarie Savarie, Frankie Toan and Joshua Ware.

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

As part of Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2019 Big Read, a project of the National Endowment for the Arts, Hey Hue presents Butterfly Effect, an exhibition exploring the ways political resistance ripples through a family, a community, and a nation as inspired by Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies. The exhibition features six current or former Denver-based artists whose work speaks to various aspects of the novel’s themes. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of displayed artworks will benefit Lighthouse’s Fellowships for free or partial tuition to workshops, master classes, and extended programs for talented writers experiencing financial hardship. Past recipients include veterans, writers of color, and single parents. Featuring work by Tya Anthony, Carol Gomlemboski, Suchitra Mattai, Tony Ortega, Daisy Patton, and George P. Perez.

HOME/MAKER 2020

A VIRTUAL BENEFIT EXHIBITION FOR MERCY HOUSING

This iteration of Home/Maker pays homage to Mother Nature’s homemakers, the original architects, general contractors, and interior designers, who create not just their own shelter but a place to call home. Additionally, these works serve as a reminder of the universal element that is home, reminding us that the earth is home to every species no matter how small.

The exhibition is set up similarly to a gallery model whereby the artists and Mercy Housing split the retail sales of artworks. This model creates more equity for artists while supporting Mercy Housing’s mission to transform lives through affordable housing and supportive services.