Love is Love is a temporal sculpture created for Denver PrideFest in 2023. Produced by The Center on Colfax- LGBTQ Colorado & Sponsored by Credit Union of Colorado
Recycled food totes, fiberglass, vinyl & silk.
Love is Love, 2023
Camp Christmas, 2022
With a classic carousel, hot cocoa, visits with Santa, and sweet treats on hand every night, kids from one to 92 are guaranteed to have a jolly old time. Campers will find themselves wandering through the elaborate campgrounds complete with craft cocktails at one (or all) of our three themed bars, shimmering light displays, and immersive exhibits that will fill your head with visions of Christmases past.
Handcrafted by Camp Director Lonnie Hanzon and his band of local magic makers, Camp Christmas is a dazzling dreamscape made just for you. It’s an invitation to leave your worries behind and lean in to the joy of the season. It’s an opportunity to remember, reconnect, and recharge. It’s fun, fleeting, and just a little bit weird. It’s everything you love about the holidays all wrapped up into one enchanting experience!
Camp Christmas, 2021-2022
Camp Christmas moves to Lakewood Heritage Belmar Park in 2021. “An over-the-top, outdoor extravaganza as big as big as the season it celebrates!” Hanzon Studios and DCPA Off-Center Present. Created By Lonnie Hanzon by Lonnie Hanzon
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Camp Christmas, 2020
2020 brought changes to the whole world due to the Covid pandemic. Camp Christmas became an immersive, virtual experience that people could participate in from home,
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Nov 21, 2019 through January 5, 2020 – Stanley Market Place
Not for the faint of festivity, this over-the-top indoor immersive installation turns the holiday spirit all the way up with mesmerizing displays of decorations that shift time and reality. Come in from the cold with your whole family and get wrapped in the ooey-gooey, odd and sweet rituals that have brought light to the darkness of winter for thousands of years.
This was the very first Camp Christmas immersive event.
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Temporal, monumental public sculpture about the last 50 years of the civil rights movement that was sparked by the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
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The Hanzon Studios installation for Denver PrideFest 2018 was a colorful collection of open doors and warm, welcoming phrases. Inside the structure, part of the Equality Cake and contemplation benches from Shrine to Humanity were included. Quotes about love and openness plastered the inside walls. Chalk was provided for PrideFest participants to self-express.
Continue reading “Equal Threshold, 2018”Trash Fashion Show 2018
Denver’s first annual Trash Fashion Show was designed to bring awareness to fashion industry waste and the artistry of DIY-ing and upcycling. Proceeds benefited the GLBT Community Center of Colorado and prizes were awarded to local designers.
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The Hanzon Shrine to Humanity featured five temples built and designed by Paulo Wellman, then hand-painted and embellished with artistic symbols of the chakra system, as well as steel bells with ornate mallets for festival goers to chime. Over 200 hand-sewn and dyed silk flags, invoking prayer flags, adorned the sanctum, while four proud hand-dyed rainbow flags crowned the perimeter. There were also four hand-painted ‘contemplation benches’ pointed toward the beautiful shrine for festival go-ers to sit a moment and reflect upon what Gay Pride really means to us as individuals, communities, and nations. The lavish colors were not only eye-catching and upbeat, but also paid tribute to Gilbert Baker, the artist and gay rights activist who first designed the rainbow flag, and who passed away in March of this year.
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