The full Worm Moon sets in the west behind 14,115-foot Pikes Peak Monday morning, March 9, 2020, as the sun begins to rise in the east and a new day begins in the Colorado Springs area. The March full moon is referred to as the Worm Moon because earthworms and grubs tend to emerge from their winter dormancy at this time of year, a sign spring is near. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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A few miles from the permitted street-art frenzy of the RiNo Art District, on a stretch of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway between Commerce City and Denver s Central Park, graffiti artists, activists, vandals and a muralist have been painting walls and signs. In the process, they ve created a display of competing ideologies and emotions as baffling and fraught with contradiction as any cultural space in this country.
Some works beg viewers to fight for justice or pay attention to nature; others express existential angst; one depicts a hooded bigot. Styles range from high art to the kind of dick doodles that enshrine truck-stop toilets.
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The citywide scavenger hunt is back, Historic Denver announced this week, with prizes to boot. Pictured: the train terminus at Lower
Downtown’s Union Station. See below for details. (Provided by Historic Denver)
NEA’s $52 million includes Colorado
The National Endowment for the Arts this month announced more than $52 million in federal funding as part of the first American Rescue Plan awards. Colorado and regional organizations getting funds included Western States Art Federation and Colorado Creative Industries, which will dole out the money statewide.
“These funds are designed to support the arts sector as it recovers from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” NEA officials wrote in a press statement. “Guidelines and application materials for a second phase of American Rescue Plan funding … are expected to be available in June 2021 pending review.”
Ku Klux Klan membership records made public in Denver By The Associated Press, AP
DENVER (AP) History Colorado has debuted an online archive this week of 1,300 pages of original Ku Klux Klan membership records from 1924 through 1926, previously on public display at the History Colorado Center in downtown Denver.
History Colorado digitized the hate group s ledgers, which include about 30,000 entries, to highlight the widespread racism built into the city s political and cultural history, The Denver Post reported. Researchers know some of the entries are repeats of the same people, so the total number of members is unknown, History Colorado spokesperson John Eding said.