Press Release Archive - Clyfford Still Museum

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October 8, 2025 – Clyfford Still Museum to host reflective conversation about the development of “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’” exhibition
September 3, 2025 – “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes opens on September 19 at the Clyfford Still Museum
July 30, 2025 – Clyfford Still Museum launches Clyfford Still Online
May 27, 2025 – Clyfford Still Museum announces lineup for its free Summer Music: Picnic Series
April 1, 2025 – Committee selects six Fellows for 2025 Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program
January 16, 2025 – Clyfford Still Museum explores competing desires in the new guest-curated exhibition, Held Impermanence, opening on January 25
December 2, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum opens applications for 2025 Institute Residential Fellowship Program
October 9, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum to host a talk and discussion about the Still and community
September 23, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum Board of Directors welcomes three new members
August 22, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum expands inStill School Experiences to include pre-kindergarten through 12th grade
July 31, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellows to participate in roundtable event on August 8
July 2, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum to host free outdoor events this month, including the Summer Lawn Concert on July 19 and Disability Pride Celebration on July 28
May 1, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum explores the artist’s community in a new guest-curated exhibition, Dialogue and Defiance: Clyfford Still and the Abstract Expressionists
April 29, 2024 – Committee selects first round of fellows for new Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program
April 1, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum to close conservation-themed exhibition on April 28 and open brief Interlude show on April 30
March 18, 2024 – Clyfford Still Museum names Molly Warnock Director of the Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné Project
March 11, 2024 – Conservator Susan F. Lake to her research on Clyfford Still’s art collection during a talk at the Clyfford Still Museum
August 28, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum features collections care and conservation in a new exhibition opening on September 15
August 23, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum celebrates tenth anniversary of free inStill School Programs and opens registration for K-12 class experiences
August 21, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum receives IMLS award to expand access to Art Crawl infant program
July 10, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum to host a summer lawn concert on July 21 and an ADA anniversary celebration on July 23
June 14, 2023 – Curator and scholar Bridget R. Cooks to discuss “feeling” in Big Ideas Series Talk at Clyfford Still Museum
April 10, 2023 – Abstract Expressions sound and garden installation will open on Clyfford Still Museum terraces in May
March 29, 2023 – Artist Odili Odita to discuss abstraction during conversation at the Clyfford Still Museum
March 6, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum seeks short films from young filmmakers to complement Awful Bigness exhibition
February 1, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum celebrates the artist’s largest works in Awful Bigness, opening on February 17
January 12, 2023 – Clyfford Still Museum to Host Panel Discussion “Critique as Radical Love”
November 2, 2022 – Clyfford Still Museum to Host Panel Discussion “Critical Communities: Colville Confederated Tribes and the Museum”
October 17, 2022 – Clyfford Still Museum commissions children’s book about Still written by Jason Gruhl and illustrated by Jonathan Saiz
August 22, 2022 – Clyfford Still Museum’s inStill school program will offer free in-person and virtual experiences for grades K-12 this fall
August 17, 2022 – Jen Korte and the Loss to headline the last summer lawn concert of 2022 at the Clyfford Still Museum
August 1, 2022 – You Select: A Community-Curated Exhibition opens on August 19 at the Clyfford Still Museum
July 7, 2022 – Clyfford Still Museum’s “Young Mind” exhibition closes on August 7, and Museum’s largest and most famous painting will go off view
June 14, 2022 – Pink Hawks to headline the first free summer lawn concert of 2022 at the Clyfford Still Museum
February 28, 2022 – Clyfford Still, Art, and the Young Mind exhibition co-curated with young children opens on March 11
February 23, 2022 – Clyfford Still Museum to close “A Decade of Discovery” exhibition with panel discussion celebrating the Museum’s architecture
December 13, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum to close voting for community-curated exhibition on December 31
November 1, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum celebrates tenth anniversary with community events
September 27, 2021 – A Decade of Discovery: Clyfford Still in Denver exhibition kicks off Clyfford Still Museum’s tenth anniversary
August 31, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum’s free inStill Live school program will offer virtual options for grades K-12 this fall
July 7, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum moves two July events from virtual to in-person
May 28, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum announces Joyce Tsai as next director
May 13, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum announces three community-focused exhibitions during 10th anniversary year
March 22, 2021 – Clyfford Still Archives team digitally releases to public Clyfford Still’s diary notes from 1944-1951
March 3, 2021 – Stories We Tell: The Collection Two Ways exhibition presents the Clyfford Still Museum Art Collection in two complementary but alternate ways
February 24, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum and Denver Month of Photography present Into the Archives: Photography from the Colville Reservation
February 11, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum presents virtual keynote with MoMA curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
February 3, 2021 – Museum of the Invisible Woman, an ongoing project with artist Adam Milner, culminates in publication
February 1, 2021 – Clyfford Still Museum Revamps Display Cases
December 17, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum to reopen on January 5 after temporary closure
November 19, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum announces temporary closure
November 16, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum partners with local organizations and schools on community-wide collaborative exhibition created by early learners
September 14, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum’s free inStill school program will offer two virtual options this fall
September 9, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum to open The Late Works: Clyfford Still in Maryland exhibition on September 18
September 1, 2020 – Clyfford Still: The Late Works catalog investigates the artist’s late works in painting and drawing
August 17, 2020 – This is the last week to see “The Early Years” exhibition before it closes
July 20, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum to host first SCFD Free Day since reopening and virtual 30th anniversary celebration of the ADA on July 26
June 26, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum to reopen to members July 1 and to the public on July 7
April 23, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum announces departure of director Dean Sobel
March 13, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum to temporarily close to limit spread of COVID-19
January 17, 2020 – Clyfford Still Museum features Still’s earliest works in new exhibition The Early Years: Clyfford Still in Canada, 1920–33
November 6, 2019 – Clyfford Still Museum awarded accreditation from American Alliance of Museums
October 23, 2019 – Clyfford Still Museum hosts special evening concert during Denver Arts Week
October 15, 2019 – Smell This Show tours challenge visitors to experience a variety of scents at new Clyfford Still Museum
September 19, 2019 – Clyfford Still Museum opens new exhibition Still: Elemental on September 27
September 6, 2019 – Clyfford Still Museum kicks off new season of Music in the Galleries this Sunday
January 29, 2019 – Photographic Memory: Clyfford Still & Photography Now On View
April 26, 2018 – Summer Re/Treat: A Light of His Own: Clyfford Still at Yaddo Opens May 4
September 28, 2017 – Hyperactive Vision: Still & Art Opens September 29
September 20, 2017 – Hidden No More: CSM Launches Online Collection and Research Database
September 20, 2016 – Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition Featuring Works from Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum Debuts to Five-Star Reviews in London
September 15, 2016 – Three Major Artists Set to Curate at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum
June 8, 2016 – In Celebration of its Fifth Anniversary Year, CSM to Open its Largest Exhibition to Date
May 26, 2016 – Contemporary Works and Ab Ex Masterpieces Converge in “Shade: Clyfford Still / Mark Bradford”
April 12, 2016 – Major New Exhibitions and Unprecedented Loan in Celebration of Fifth Anniversary Year
August 12, 2015 – Exhibition Exploring the Sculptures and Drawings of Allied Works Architecture is the Latest Collaboration between Denver Art Museum and Clyfford Still Museum
June 5, 2015 – Over a Dozen Loans to Fall Exhibition Unite Clyfford Still’s “Replicas”
March 17, 2015 – Influential Early Years with Native People on View This Summer at Clyfford Still Museum
January 23, 2015 – Mark Mothersbaugh Is First Artist to Curate at CSM
December 4, 2014 – First Exhibition of 2015 Explores Clyfford Still’s Enduring Mysteries
August 12, 2014 – Clyfford Still Museum Reveals Artist’s Breakthrough to Abstraction During War Years
March 31, 2014 – Clyfford Still Museum Announces Debut of inStill Gallery Experience
October 9, 2013 – Clyfford Still Museum Announces Drawing/Painting/Process
August 8, 2013 – CSM and DAM Partner on 1959 and Picasso to Pollock
April 11, 2013 – Color Exhibition Extended
November 8, 2012 – Still as Colorist
August 7, 2012 – Vincent/Clyfford Exhibition to Open September 14
November 15, 2011 – Clyfford Still Museum Opens November 18, 2011
May 3, 2011 – Clyfford Still Museum to Open in Denver November 2011
July 26, 2010 – Clyfford Still Museum Unveils Final Design
December 14, 2009 – Clyfford Still Museum Breaks Ground on Future Home Designed by Allied Works Architecture
November 4, 2009 – Clyfford Still Museum to Break Ground December 2009
March 3, 2008 – Museum Unveils Design for Future Home
January 17, 2008 – Still Museum announces major fundraising support for new building, endowment, and operations
May 21, 2007 – Clyfford Still Unveiled: Selections from the Estate
November 27, 2006 – Architect selected to design Clyfford Still Museum
July 26, 2006 – Museum Announces “Short-List” of Architects
March 1, 2006 – Denver Selects Site for Clyfford Still Museum
October 6, 2005 – Clyfford Still Archives & Additional 400 Artworks Bequeathed to City of Denver
February 3, 2005 – Mayor Announces Project Director for Clyfford Still Museum
August 9, 2004 – The Clyfford Still Art Collection is Bequeathed to the City of Denver