Happy May, Everyone!Appreciating the longer days! Lumonics ImmersedEvery Saturday at 8 pm Hope you can see Sanctum (1992) by Mel Tanner, the “newest” addition at Lumonics Immersed. Teammate Marc Billard recently photographed Sanctum. So happy it is no longer in storage! Light artists Dorothy and Mel Tanner originated this multisensory experience in 1969. Although they …
Category: Denver
Apr 22
Art and Well-Being
The relationship between art and wellness has been important to Lumonics since its inception. Shanna Shelby, the Program Administrator at the McNichols Civic Center Building in Denver, when nominating Dorothy Tanner for the Denver Mayor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts in 2018, wrote about the increasing awareness of how art and mental health are …
Apr 14
Review of the Tanners’ Lumonics Retrospective at MOA by Todd Siler
Todd Siler Luminous Art Inspiring Our Hearts-n-Minds To Dream With Wonder: Experiencing the Art of Mel and Dorothy Tanner Art Review by Todd SilerFebruary, 2017 When I first encountered the art universe of Mel and Dorothy Tanner in the current retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, my mind leaped “back to the future”. …
Apr 13
Our Visitor via the French Embassy
A recent visitor to Lumonics was Tatiana Vilela dos Santos, an artist who lives in Paris, who was taking a workshop in San Francisco. The French Embassy, based in San Francisco, asked her to visit Denver, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale and take photos of some of the art spaces. In Denver, she visited …