GO THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AT DENVER’S MEOW WOLF
Something is going on out here in the West. From Santa Fe to Las Vegas to Denver, bizarre portals are opening up to worlds you never imagined... and for $35 (with a Colorado driver’s license) and some free time you can explore them.
Denver, meet Meow Wolf at 1338 1st St.
PART ART MEGAPLEX, PART SURREAL PLAYGROUND FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES, THIS MASSIVE COMPLEX DEFIES ANY STRICT COMPARISONS.
You’ll be staggering out of the exit rubbing your eyes and wondering what the fu*k just happened.
And you’ll like it.
Origins of Meow Wolf
It all started in Santa Fe in 2008. At the time, Meow Wolf was an artist collective creating projects that didn’t fit into any well defined market niche. Their goal was to prioritize humans from underrepresented and underserved communities, including emerging artists, DIY makers, women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, seniors, and people with disabilities.
Through collaboration and deep connection to the far out, they built an art empire that now spans a wide range of disciplines, with a staff of more than a dozen full-time artists and a legion of frequent fellow travelers.
Over the course of the last decade, they created multiple art installations around a variety of concepts — from simply “horror” to taking a ride in an advanced spaceship that uses quantum technology to build a planet.
MEOW WOLF’S PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS HAVE BECOME THE STUFF OF LEGEND.
Their Santa Fe location has become a major feature of the local scene and their Omega Mart in Las Vegas showed that they could expand on the idea in other cities.
And then… they showed up on the streets of Denver, looking for a location for their next adventure and the rest is psychedelic history.
Meow Wolf Comes to Denver
Meow Wolf opened up their Denver location in 2021. The kaleidoscopic Colorado outpost (called Convergence Station) is a four-story immersive art exhibition that transports you to a phantasmagoric world where you journey through interactive activities and stunning built environments.
IT’S A PSYCHEDELIC JOURNEY WITH A NARRATIVE, BRINGING YOU THROUGH A TALE OF WORLDS CONVERGING TOGETHER.
The storytelling unites all the bizarre views you’ll take in, and gives you a feeling of arrival once you are through.
That central thread helps integrate the maximalist aesthetic into a coherent whole, and keeps you from getting too stuck drooling over the gorgeous artwork.
For Convergence Station, Meow Wolf brought in more than 300 artists (over 100 from Colorado) and the ambitious scale has paid off. It’s a location that’s as massive as the goal and it makes for a transcendent art experience and some pretty wild dance parties. (See you there?)
Grab tickets online to schedule your next psychedelic journey into the inner depths of the imagination and the outer reaches of the galaxy.
Photos by Jess Bernstein | Courtesy of Meow Wolf.
