Support Hot Sweat: Celebrate Art and Community

Hot Sweat Statement:

Hot Sweat is an exhibition idea that formed when Holly Nordeck and Cherish Marquez were at a gallery drinking two gallery sanctioned beers, and started joking about the seriousness of the art world, hot dogs, and sex toys. Imagine walking down the street on a summer day, you’re trying to wear the least amount of clothes because it's hot and you’re sweaty, there is the smell of baking garbage in the air, and you're on your way to a sexy BBQ party, that's Hot Sweat!.

Hot Sweat explores absurdity, playfulness, camp, and the erotism that often is encapsulated through popular notions and interpretations of the word “sweat”. Additionally, the show aims to combat the serious nature of the institution by highlighting artists and art who tow the line between high and low art. Through multi-disciplinary work, this show is an amalgamation of artists challenged to interpret the phrase “Hot Sweat”.

About the event:

Last year in August 2024 Hot Sweat hosted an event at the Evans School that featured 12 artists from the Denver art community. We provided free hot dogs, beverages, a curated DJ, and costume contest. Our event was featured in Westword and had 50+ attendees.

This year we plan on doing something BIG! Bell Projects will be hosting the next iteration of Hot Sweat, Hot Sweat 2.0. This will be a three day event from August 8th 2025 to August 10th 2025.

Hot Sweat is passionate about connecting and supporting the Colorado creative community through unconventional yet intentional curation. We do this because we see the value in saturating Denver’s art market with new and diverse artists and understand the need to fill the gaps in programming and curation in Colorado.

EVENT DETAILS:

Who: Organized by Cherish Marquez

https://cherishmarquez.com/about-1 and Holly Nordeck https://www.holly-nordeck.com/ including 7-14 local multi-media artists

What: An experimental art show

Where: Bell Projects https://www.bell-projects.com/

When: August 8th-10th 2025

Why support Hot Sweat?

Promoting Local Arts and Culture: By supporting Hot Sweat you are supporting local artists and creativity. Your support helps cultivate cultural, creativity, and a space for artists to showcase their work in a dynamic way. Your donation also directly supports the organizers Cherish and Holly's passion for curation, programming, and community work.

Promote Local Galleries: Hot Sweat aims to partner with local galleries, your support highlights, promotes, and circulates local galleries we partner with to the forefront

Economic Growth: Your support helps stimulate the economy by paying creatives, giving them space to sell their work, as well as allowing our collaborators like non-profits, the food and beverage industry an opportunity to sell and showcase their offerings.

Programming: Hot Sweat goal is to provide unique yet educational programming in alignment with our art opening. Your support allows us to collaborate with nonprofits to provide free, accessible, and engaging programming for all.

Safe Space for community: Hot Sweats mission is to create a safe space for community and artists to express themselves in their most authentic way. Hot Sweat believes that during a time that threatens diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility it is vital to create spaces where all feels welcome and safe.

Nonprofit Future: Hot Sweat next step is to be a non-profit! Your support directly funds our goals to apply as a non-profit in 2026. All funds will support logistics, application fees, and other needs for Hot Sweat 2026. Help us reach our goal of being bigger and better.

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