West Colfax Creative Venue Directory
40 West Gallery
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Core Art Space
CORE Art Space is a co-op gallery featuring contemporary art and competitive juried open-entry exhibitions four times a year. CORE has a larger exhibition space, which will include a permanent place for members to display affordable art, and their trademark Annex, a rental space set aside for artists seeking a solo or group show alongside the main gallery, including inclusion in regular receptions and free publicity.
Brynmor Coffee
Brynmor Coffee has a mission to offer a place where community can gather and enjoy something quality and delicious. They are proud to offer products that are either made in-house or that very intentionally support other small businesses and organizations with missions we believe in.
Creativity Lab of Colorado
The Creativity Lab of Colorado is a collection of collaborative capabilities centered around creativity, innovation, and the entrepreneurial spirit. The Lab serves students, start-ups, emerging entrepreneurs, existing businesses, creatives, and community leaders through three focus areas: the Creative Business Incubator, the Community Design Studio, and the Institute for Creative Community Leadership.
Chicano Humanities Art Council
The Chicano Humanities Arts Council is an inclusive community of creatives who endeavor to showcase, preserve, and educate the Rocky Mountain regional arts community through educational outreach, exhibitions, special events, and artistic mentoring about the diverse Latinx, Chicana/o, and other multi-cultural communities who call Colorado home.
Edge Gallery
EDGE is a contemporary, non-profit, co-op art gallery dedicated to artists outside the domain of commercial art venues. Because of their business model, they have the freedom to pursue more experimental and conceptual modes of expression. Their primary objectives are to celebrate individuality and uniqueness, to encourage our shared vision, and to maintain intensity and integrity in addressing the often contradictory messages occurring in contemporary art.
Flamboyán Theatre
Flamboyán seeks to make Lakewood a home for Boricua storytelling that crosses genres and multimedia platforms and pushes artists to tell stories that defy expectations, taking risks in terms of style and themes and creating new narratives. Their home at The Three Leaches Theater hosts an art gallery, lounge, and 70-seat black box theatre that they envision as a home to the Denver Metro area’s diverse communities and a hub for cultural celebration and exchange.
Glazed Ceramics Studio
Glazed is a ceramics studio that works to diversify the communities it serves. With open studio times and a versatile learning agenda, Glazed can teach you the skills to get there. They welcome all levels of potters and offer 6-week classes as well as one-night workshops. Memberships are open to experienced potters, and they host private classes for you and your friends.
Kanon Collective
Kanon Collective is an artist-owned and operated gallery located in The Hub at 40 West Arts, featuring the work of a dynamic group of local artists. Each month features new works by different member artists in mediums ranging from oil painting and sculpture to mixed-media, photography, and watercolor. While each artist differs in their own personal style, the gallery is unified along colorful and contemporary lines. Kanon embraces artistically diverse perspectives and supports innovative and experimental styles, allowing each artist to choose what they display.
Lakewood Arts Gallery
Founded in 1988, the Lakewood Arts Council is Lakewood's oldest art organization, dedicated to cultivating and celebrating community arts. We invite you to join us in enriching community life by supporting our vision to grow Lakewood into a vibrant art district and provide creative outlets for all. By supporting us, you help bring the power of art to those who need an outlet, ensuring silent voices are heard and community life is enriched.
Memento Mori Gallery
Memento Mori Gallery is a lowbrow contemporary art gallery & private tattoo studio owned by artist Jesse Neumann. We showcase artwork from talented local and national artists, hosting both group and solo shows. We are located in the heart of Lakewood's 40West Arts District. Join us for First Friday openings and Sunday figure drawing.
Next Gallery
Next Gallery is owned and operated by 28 working artists. Next Gallery’s mission is to support and encourage one another, to promote art appreciation and education through community outreach, to commit to artistic growth, and to strive for excellence at all times. Next Gallery accepts new member applications on a monthly basis. Visit our membership page
for application information.
40 West Studios
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All It’s Own
All Its Own has moved to 1385 Carr Street and is open for business. You can purchase All Its Own products at the Mint and Serif’s checkout when William is not in.
Big C Barnwood & More
Big C Barnwood is a veteran-owned,
wholesale and retail reclaimed-wood distributor, offering repurposed materials sourced from around the Front Range and Rocky Mountain regions and beyond.
Creature Arcade Tattoo
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Danny The Comic Shop
Danny the Comic Shop is a welcoming and inclusive, community-focused space where you will find a wide variety of comic books in all formats and genres; new and classic. Their goal is to provide a unique buying experience that is ultimately more enjoyable than purchasing from a musty old comic shop or a big-box bookstore. While online sales are welcome, they thrive on personal recommendations and community building for those able to visit the shop.
FireBrand Forge
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Lakewood UMC Church
At Lakewood United Methodist Church, we're committed to finding out. We are a neighborhood church focused more on where we are going than on where we have been. We believe that Christian friendship requires a non-judgmental embrace, in the image of Jesus, and our commitment is to offer that embrace to you, your family and your neighbors.
Mint & Serif Coffee
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Pirate: Contemporary Art
Pirate: Contemporary Art is a member-run co-operative art space dedicated to showing the latest in contemporary art. Our goal is to display the current trends in art, focusing on showing the best of local artists. Pirate provides a place for artists to show their work and to experiment with new ideas and concepts. It is an environment designed to foster and encourage growth and development in the artists. As a non-profit, Pirate fills the gaps left by the commercial and public sectors to advocate issues such as art education, art activism, and the promotion of unrepresented artists.
RMCAD Galleries
RMCAD is home to multiple galleries, both virtually and on campus, featuring dynamic and innovative work from contemporary artists and designers, RMCAD alumni, current students and faculty. Open to the public, these galleries serve as a place to foster critical discourse around art and design for RMCAD and the broader community, by presenting exhibitions of challenging, educational and significant work and projects.
Prismajic
For over a decade, Prismajic has been on a mission to empower people to explore themselves and the world around them using the power of immersive art. Using traditional art forms and cutting-edge technology, we create beautiful, elegant experiences that surround our guests, engage their senses, and transport them to new worlds, all while encouraging them to consider new ways of thinking.
R Design LLC
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Sweet Bloom Coffee
Discover your new favorite brew at WestFax Brewing Company, nestled in the heart of Lakewood, Colorado, bordering West Denver! Westfax crafts exceptional beer and cocktails for every palate. Inside their taproom, explore a diverse selection of twelve unique, on-site brewed beers, from hop-forward IPAs to refreshing lagers. Step onto their vibrant, dog-friendly patio and savor delicious food from our rotating cast of food trucks. Located in the 40 West Arts District, WestFax Brewing Company offers a lively atmosphere with live music and events, making it the ideal place to relax and enjoy.
Red Herring Art & Supply
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The Furnace Gallery
The Furnace, with over 20 years of glass blowing experience, relocated their hot shop to a publicly-accessible space just west of Wadsworth on Colfax Avenue in 2022. Here, they continue to create blown glass and teach workshops. Their new 1000 sq ft gallery showcases diverse glass art—from their resident artists and other Colorado/US artists—including wall art, functional pieces, and jewelry.
The Three Leaces Theatre
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The Painted Pixel
The Painted Pixel is the Denver area's premier fine art print studio, specializing in high-quality artwork capture, color-accurate reproduction, and archival inkjet (giclée) printing. We help artists and photographers create stunning, museum-quality prints with expert attention to detail. Schedule an appointment today!
Th!s Art, Print & Design
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Wolf Luv Studios
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Westfax Brewery Co.
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