Our 17th annual Masks Exhibition and Fundraiser featured 219 masks for sale, created and designed by the Northern Colorado community to raise funds for exhibitions and educational programs at the museum.

The annual exhibition is a crowd favorite that over the years has raised more than $1.7 million dollars to support the museum’s mission. During that time, Masks artists, most of whom live in Northern Colorado, have designed and donated more than 2,750 masks. Each year brings new perspectives as the unadorned ceramic forms leave the museum and return as a creative collection of unique masks. 

Professional artists, whose creativity is their economic mainstay, and recreational artists, who respond to their need to express their creativeness with ingenious styles and materials, have created 219 masks for the 2021 Masks Exhibition and Auction. These unique masks take you on a journey through landscape, portraiture, current events, COVID, animals, abstraction, and glorious textures, colors and personal expression.