Exhibitions
Portal of Remembrance + Ancestor Arch by Artists Cal Duran and Val Ponce Najera
This installation honoring our great ancestors illuminates many community memories. A giant archway full of rich marigolds, combined with a giant skeleton head, arms and hands greets visitors to the land of the ones before us.
About the Artists
CAL DURAN
Cal Duran is a Queer, Two Spirit, Indigenous, mixed blood, Latine, Manito, Mestizo, Chicane, Indian artist and arts educator from Colorado. He has roots that bridge India, Mexico, and sovereign Indigenous nations and explores his hybrid identities through parallels found in myth, religion, and ritual. For Duran, art is a portal to his Indigenous ancestors—the artisans, craft-makers, star-makers and dream-weavers who paved the way.
Duran has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the Denver Metro area and beyond. Recently, he created a room at Meow Wolf Denver, honoring his ancestors and the Indigenous tribes of Colorado and the Americas. Duran is currently an artist member and on the Board of Directors for the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC). Cal’s installations for Día de los Muertos are featured at the Colorado History Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Denver Botanic Gardens.
CAL DURAN
Cal Duran es un artista y educador artístico queer, dos espíritus, indígena, mestizo, latino, manito, chicano e indio de Colorado. Tiene raíces que unen la India, México y naciones indígenas soberanas, y explora sus identidades híbridas a través de paralelismos que encuentra en los mitos, la religión y los rituales. Para Durán, el arte es un portal hacia sus antepasados indígenas: los artesanos, los creadores de estrellas y los tejedores de sueños que allanaron el camino.
Durán ha expuesto en museos y galerías de toda el área metropolitana de Denver y más allá. Recientemente, ha creado una sala en Meow Wolf Denver en honor a sus antepasados y a las tribus indígenas de Colorado y América. Actualmente, Durán está trabajando en instalaciones para el “Día de Muertos” en el Museo de Historia de Colorado, el Museo de Arte de Denver y los Jardines Botánicos de Denver.
Val Ponce Najera
Bio coming soon!
Dia De Muertos Celebration
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Dia De Los Muertos Ceremony
Sat, 10/17 5:30pm