From the beginning of white settlement, Boulder has inspired the book arts. This exhibition, scattered throughout the Boulder Public Library, illustrates some of that tradition with installations of work by selected children's book illustrators, comic book artists, small presses, and artist books ─ books as sculpture. Free and open to the public.     PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Barbara Bash Sarah C. Bell Tree Bernstein Joseph Braun, Craig Collier, and Indigo Deany Hank Brusselback Jack Collom Jane…

Kamini: Translations from the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva. Translated by Andrew Schelling   The world-renowned Jaipur Literature Festival returns to Boulder,  establishing the city as the annual US home of the world’s largest free literature festival and ranks among the three most prestigious. Uniquely multicultural and intercultural, JLF is a festival of ideas, featuring individuals and panels of illustrious authors  in conversation, discussing the ideas in their books, rather than merely reading from their books. In addition to literature from…

Tribute to Karen Ripley Dugan and "A History of the Visual Arts in Boulder: Reminiscences Roundtable" Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater 1001 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO. 80302 “A History of the Visual Arts in Boulder: Reminiscences Roundtable” and tribute to Karen Ripley Dugan. Boulder Chamber CEO John Tayer, an old friend of Karen Ripley Dugan will deliver a tribute to this pillar of the Boulder arts community to whom HOVAB is dedicated. Followed by…

HOVAB @ BMoCA 1750 13th Street, Boulder, CO. 80302 Talk by Laurie Britton Newell, "The Gold Hill Project." "The Gold Hill Project" is a series of site-specific contemporary art installations situated in cabins and gardens in the historic mining town of Gold Hill. Three emerging Colorado artists, Molly Berger, John De Feo and Eric Stewart, have been commissioned to create new artworks that respond to Gold Hill’s rich history and cultural legacy. The commissions explore ideas about mining, migrant communities,…