Maggie Donahue

Arts and Culture Reporter

Maggie covers all things arts and culture for Denverite. She’s interested in stories about art that reflects and engages with issues Denverites care about, as well as off-beat stories about things like death and pogs. Before landing in Denver, she lived in metro Chicago, Baltimore, Dublin, a tiny island off the coast of Alaska and New York City, and has written for Hot Press Magazine andThe A.V. Club. She spends her time off paddling, hiking, exploring the city and picking up and quickly dropping new hobbies — most recently, knitting.

The Curious Theatre Company on Acoma Street near 11th Avenue, Feb. 2, 2017.

Curious Theatre will reopen this fall!

The gutsy Denver theatre company has announced its 2021-2022 lineup.

A cryptic billboard above Brighton Boulevard. July 29, 2021.

Things are happening at Meow Wolf Denver, and fans are working to decode the installation’s cryptic marketing

A sign, some shrimp, and a date to remember.

A controversial billboard designed by artist Maia Ruth Lee, as seen on For Freedoms' Instagram.

A Denver billboard was supposed to show solidarity with the Asian American community. It ended up hurting instead.

Some local artists are now grappling with what it means to responsibly display art in public.

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Gita Cornell and Ryan Phillips marvel at a glowing room in Novo Ita, the new immersive show at Spectra Art Space. June 30, 2021.

Immersive van Gogh not for you? Here are some alternative Denver arts experiences

From Shiki Dreams to Museum for Black Girls!

Michelle Tijerina is the Voz y Corazón Program coordinator. Photographed in the art room at the Denver Broncos Boys & Girls Club in Montbello on Monday, June 28, 2021.

Voz y Corazón, a Mental Health Center of Denver mentorship program, aims to combat youth suicide through art and community

"They created something that is just theirs. Nobody else created this. And maybe it didn’t even come out how they wanted it. That’s part of life, too, where you put in all your efforts, and it wasn’t quite what you wanted, or you messed up somewhere along the way. But at the end, you still had something that you were proud of.”

"Aborning New Light" on the Daniels and Fisher Tower. The film is a Night Lights Denver projection created by Kei Ito in collaboration with The Center for Fine Art Photography.

On the anniversary of the first nuclear test, an artist and third-generation Hiroshima victim imagines a nuclear-free world

A projection of a nuclear testing played in reverse will play on the Daniels and Fisher Tower ... exactly 76 years after the first atomic bomb exploded in the U.S.