Telluride Film Festival 2023: Announcing Poster Artist Luke Dorman of Meow Wolf!

21 Jul Telluride Film Festival 2023: Announcing Poster Artist Luke Dorman of Meow Wolf!

The Telluride Film Festival  (TFF) – August 31 – September 4, 2023 – presents its 2023 Festival poster, designed by Meow Wolf’s Luke Dorman. 

50th Telluride Film Festival posters are available for purchase now on the TFF website at www.telluridefilmfestival.org.

Go here  and here for much more on the Telluride Film Festival.

Luke Dorman is the Principal Graphic Designer at Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company that creates immersive, interactive experiences. In his time with Meow Wolf, Luke has served as the lead designer for Meow Wolf Denver, Meow Wolf’s 2022 SXSW activation, and is currently co-leading design for Meow Wolf’s Houston exhibition, slated to open in 2024.

Over the past 15 years, Luke has maintained a creative practice that straddles fine art, graphic design, and illustration. His contemporary and experimental approach to design work has led him to be recognized by Print, Communication Arts, the Society for Typographic Arts, GDUSA, among others. Prior to joining Meow Wolf, Luke worked in design education and carries his passion for teaching, mentorship, and community-building into his work today.

For Telluride Film Festival’s 50th Anniversary poster, Luke Dorman looked to the history of the event. As a way of honoring the festival’s history, he redrew a single moment from each of the festival’s previous 49 posters and integrated them all into an entirely new design.

Dorman said: “50 years is a momentous milestone. It’s an incredible honor to be asked to return as the poster artist for such a monumental anniversary and to be able to contribute to such a special festival.”

Meow Wolf, more:

Recognized in Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies (2022 and 2020), Meow Wolf is a Santa Fe-based arts and entertainment company that creates immersive, interactive experiences to transport audiences of all ages into fantastic realms of story and exploration. The company’s first location in Santa Fe opened in 2016 and showcases the THEA Award-winning, international sensation, House Of Eternal Return, where two million visitors have now discovered a multidimensional mystery house with secret passages, portals to magical worlds, and surreal, maximalist and mesmerizing art exhibits.

In 2019, Meow Wolf expanded beyond Santa Fe and opened Kaleidoscape, the world’s first artist-driven ride at Elitch Gardens in Denver.

Meow Wolf opened their second permanent installation, Omega Mart, at AREA15 in Las Vegas and their third permanent installation in the Denver Convergence Station in 2021.

Meow Wolf’s fourth exhibition, The Real Unreal, opened July 14th in the Grapevine Mills mall in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, with another Texas exhibition opening in Houston in 2024.

Meow Wolf is proud to be the first certified B-Corporation in the themed entertainment industry, with a team dedicated to social impact building a more inclusive and sustainable economy.

“One of the most joyful posters we’ve had was Luke’s first rendition from 2021, just after the dark year of 2020,” reflects Telluride Film Festival director Julie Huntsinger. “It provided the extra lift we needed. It reminded us that so much of what we do is about the love and passion for cinema, and to be exuberant. As we were approaching our big year, the Festival’s 50th birthday, we decided to ask him to conjure more of that joy again, and Lukw has surpassed our expectations by a mile. We hope that everyone will join us in celebrating the SHOW, as well as all the creative and brilliant people who make this medium what it is – a spectacular, world-uniting art form that we’re fighting hard to ensure carries on for many, many years to come!”

Posters are an annual tradition of the Festival, and Luke Dorman again joins a prestigious list of artists who have been selected by, and who have shared their talents with Telluride Film Festival.

Past poster artists include Frederic Amat, Laurie Anderson, Dottie Attie, John Canemaker, Seymour Chwast, Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Laurent Durieux, Dave Eggers, Ralph Eggleston, David Lance Goines, Chuck Jones, Maira Kalman, Chip Kidd, Gary Larson, Yann Legendre, John Mansfield, Christian Marclay, Dave McKean, Ed Ruscha, Lance Rutter, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Leanne Shapton, Alexis Smith, Doug and Mike Starn, Mark Stock, Dean Tavoularis, William Wegman, and Edwina White.

About Telluride Film Festival:

The prestigious Telluride Film Festival ranks among the world’s best film festivals and is an annual gathering for film industry insiders, cinema enthusiasts, filmmakers, and critics.

TFF is considered a major launching ground for the fall season’s most talked-about films. Founded in 1974, Telluride Film Festival, presented in the beautiful mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, is a four-day international educational event celebrating the art of film.

Telluride Film Festival’s long-standing commitment is to join filmmakers and film connoisseurs together to experience great cinema. The exciting schedule, kept secret until just before Opening Day, consists of over three dozen filmmakers presenting their newest works; special Guest Director programs; major Tributes to guest artists; special events; and remarkable treasures from the past.

Telluride Film Festival is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit educational program with headquarters are in Berkeley, CA.

About TFF’s sponsors: 

Telluride Film Festival is supported by Signature Sponsors: Amazon MGM Studios, Galerie, Lucid Motors, Meyer Sound, National Geographic Documentary Films, Netflix; Major Sponsors: ARRI, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, MUBI, Participant, Turner Classic Movies; Festival Sponsors: American Film Institute, The Criterion Collection, Deadline, Dolby, Dell Technologies, Samsung, Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association, Telluride Ski & Golf; Hospitality Partners: New Sheridan Hotel; plus Goodr, Novo Coffee, Pine Ridge Vineyards, Ratio Beerworks, Ski.com, Spectrum, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, United Sodas of America, and Vimeo among others. The organization is supported by grants from Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Community Council for Arts and Special Events, Golden Globes, and the Telluride Foundation.