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EVENTS
Purse as a Portal First Friday Exhibit Opening
Fri, Mar 06
|CHAC - Chicano Humanities & Arts Council
Time & Location
Mar 06, 2026, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
CHAC - Chicano Humanities & Arts Council, 834 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204, USA
About The Event
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC Gallery) and the Women’s Caucus for Art - Colorado Chapter (WCACO) proudly present Purse as a Portal, a one-of-a-kind and exploratory art exhibition opening March 6 2026, from 5:00–9:00 p.m. at CHAC Gallery, located at 834 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204. This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Purse as a Portal is a collaborative exhibition that explores what women carry—physically, emotionally, socially, and ancestrally. Using the purse as both a literal object and a powerful metaphor, participating artists reveal the often-invisible treasures women hold every day: memory, identity, resilience, responsibility, magic, and survival. The purse becomes a portal through which personal histories, cultural narratives, and inner worlds are accessed and shared.
“We’re portraying symbolically the expectations of dress and the feeling of beauty—what is extraordinary about us, the pain, the beauty and the…