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By Patricia Calhoun | Westword:

The Wheelz performing at 7th Circle Music Collective in Denver, Colorado

Meow Wolf just broke ground on its giant complex planned for the arty heart of Denver. Now it’s breaking news of another massive project: a permanent installation in Washington, D.C.

That’s in addition to Meow Wolf Las Vegas@AREA15, a 50,000-square-foot installation that may be finished even before Meow Wolf Denver opens in 2020. The explosive growth seems to surprise even Meow Wolf, which refers to itself as the “former fringe DIY collective” in the announcement of the D.C. development.

That project, a partnership with the Cafritz Foundation, will put a three-level, 75,000-square-foot structure in the Fort Totten community. “Washington, D.C., is an international cultural powerhouse and an ideal setting for the evolving Meow Wolf story universe that began with House Of Eternal Return,” said CEO Vince Kadlubek in announcing this third spinoff of the Santa Fe powerhouse. “Our intergalactic, transmedia story is rooted in a community of underdogs who overcome ‘The Powers That Be,’ and we will have something really special for all the fellow underdogs who seek a transformative experience when we unveil the D.C. chapter.”

Meow Wolf got its start a decade ago as a small, definitely DIY collective in Santa Fe. It moved from the fringes to the center of the action with the House Of Eternal Return, an immersive experience that opened in March 2016 in an old bowling alley in that city, with a major assist from George R.R. Martin. Denver’s Meow Wolf will be three times as large, with an estimated 60,000 feet of exhibition space in a five-story, 90,000-square-foot building going up in the shadow of the Colfax viaduct, right by Interstate 25.

Read the whole article at:
https://www.westword.com/arts/meow-wolf-breaking-ground-in-denver-breaking-news-with-dc-location-11056669

Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

https://meowwolf.com/

[Thank you to Alex Teitz, http://www.femmusic.com, for contributing this article.]

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