- Hi, I'm Kate Perdoni.
- And I'm Michael Gadlin.
Welcome to Arts District from Rocky Mountain PBS.
- One thing that is instrumental
to our operations here at Rocky Mountain PBS
and especially on Arts District
is our work with student interns and producers.
- We've connected with an incredible pool of talent
from colleges and universities around the state.
- We offer highly competitive
and actually somewhat rare opportunities
for students to gain broadcast and production skills.
- Students with Arts District conduct interviews,
film stories and they also work on set with us.
- That's right, they run the teleprompter.
Hi Sarah!
They floor direct.
Hi Polina!
- And actually some of our staff
are even former interns themselves.
Hey, Jeffery!
- And today we're going to feature some of the segments
that interns have created during their time with us.
- We'll start at the Denver Art Museum
where Polina Sarana, who you just met,
explored the multimedia light show.
(perky upbeat music)
- The Light Show is one of two exhibitions
that the Denver Art Museum has organized
from it's permanent collection.
We decided to do this because the North Building,
the Gio Ponti building is being completely renovated,
so, it's been emptied of all art.
And we wanted to represent
all nine curatorial departments in an exhibition.
The first exhibition was: Stampede, about animals and art.
And this exhibition is: The Light Show,
which encompasses both the spiritual
and the physical aspects of light.
So, throughout the exhibition we've been trying to juxtapose
unusual contrasts between artworks.
- We tried to represent every section of the museum
and including photography and different media,
works on paper, sculpture, decorative objects,
like, really to create a full landscape
of the collection of the Denver Museum.
The first piece that you will see is a Mexican altar
from the early 1700s.
It has been in a storage for many years, since the 1990s.
And we did a very important conservation campaign
to bring it out for this exhibition.
We are very lucky to have that.
- Yoko Ono donated Keith Haring's Altarpiece.
It is an editioned work, there're nine in the world.
They're bronze, that are covered with gold leaf.
He designed it in 1990.
Our particular version was cast in 1996.
It's about Christ's love for the people
who had contracted AIDS.
- This is a great moment to take out
the masterpieces of a museum,
art that had been in storage for one reason
or other for several decades.
It's this wow moment when you go
and see the Lucas Samaras, when you see the Mexican altar
in front of the Keith Haring altar,
when you see this beautiful Fred Wilson lamp.
- The very large chandelier
that's in the center of the prow is by Fred Wilson,
a contemporary artist and it's called:
The Way the Moon's In Love With the Dark,
which is a phrase from a Pushkin incomplete novel
or poem, we're not quite sure.
And he made this for the Istanbul Biennial
and at a time that he felt it was really important
that we talked about how the east and the west
communicated with each other.
Jim Campbell's sound installation,
I've Never Read the Bible.
And in it or during it
the artist is reading the Bible letter by letter.
(man speaking)
It takes eight days to complete the reading.
- And we have a very good selection of pieces
from this area, from New Mexico and Southern Colorado.
And the Death Card by Jose Inez Herrera
was probably made between 1890 or 1910,
around that time, in El Rito in New Mexico.
It's a reminder of our mortality and our time on Earth.
- The Lucas Samaras tunnel, Untitled Tunnel
was given to the Denver Art Museum
in honor of former Curator, Dianne Vanderlip
at the time that we did a major show with Lucas Samaras.
Quite interestingly, it's not electrified
It is all mirror.
And we shoot beams of light into the two doorways
and they bounce back and forth
to make that infinity effect within the tunnel.
It's a piece that hadn't been out since 2002.
We knew it was a great crowd pleaser.
And the show has offered us opportunities
to conserve and to review artwork,
some of which have not been on view for a very long time.
- So cool!
The producer of that segment, Polina,
came to us as an intern from Metro State University
where she recently graduated.