Teen Blog

Opening Friday, January 13, 2023, is Shattered, an exhibition created by MCA Denver Failure Lab teen interns who worked under the guidance of Maria Sheets, a fellow senior conservator of Foothill Arts Conservation and widely exhibited and collected stained glass artist.

The Anti-Hero Short Film Festival, creates a space for teens to share and celebrate perspectives, narratives, and experiences that have been left out of history by highlighting the voices of women, BIPOC, and LGBTQI+communities returned for a second year - this time at MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Failure Award Scholarship awards over $25,000 in college scholarships to a Colorado high school senior who demonstrates and embraces the spirit of creative risk-taking in the pursuit of something new.

The Anti-Hero Short Film Festival returns this year and in-person at MCA at the Holiday Theater on Friday, April 22nd. The teen film festival is organized by Clarise Reichley and Soah Blake, former cohorts of MCA Denver teen leadership programs and last year's organizers.

MCA Denver loves teens and celebrates their amazingness, their willingness to take risks, and of course, the cool and unique ways they express themselves creatively. We like to feature creative works submitted by teens in our community on this blog.

MCA Denver loves teens! We like to celebrate their amazingness, their willingness to take risks, and of course, the cool and unique ways they express themselves creatively. We like to feature creative works submitted by teens in our community on this blog.

MCA Denver loves teens and celebrates their amazingness, their willingness to take risks, and of course, the cool and unique ways they express themselves creatively. Periodically we like to feature creative works submitted by teens in our community on this blog.

MCA Denver loves teens and celebrates their amazingness, their willingness to take risks, and of course, the cool and unique ways they express themselves creatively. Periodically we like to feature creative works submitted by teens in our community on this blog.

MCA Denver loves teens and celebrates their amazingness, their willingness to take risks, and of course, the cool and unique ways they express themselves creatively. Periodically we like to feature creative works submitted by teens in our community on this blog.

MCA Denver loves teens and celebrates their amazingness, their willingness to take risks, and of course, the cool and unique ways they express themselves creatively. Periodically we like to feature creative works submitted by teens in our community on this blog.

In this feature, we’re sharing the work of Lydia Donahue. In Lydia’s series of photographs, she examines human connection through eye contact.

We wanted to share teen Melody Elizalde’s film titled, Waves. This short animation might just transport you to a different time or place.

The following poems explore the possibilities of poetry, and how the medium is able to work in ways that even the most generous prose may not be able to.