A new art center debuts in an old Denver fortune cookie factory

Don’t call it a gallery. Yes, there is art hung on mostly white walls, and yes, it’s open to the public for viewing from 4-7 p.m. on Wednesdays and by appointment. But what Amanda Precourt is creating at the Cookie Factory, which opens May 24 in Denver’s Baker neighborhood, is harder to put into words.

“We call it an art space,” Precourt offered on a recent tour.

Part of the reason it’s hard to describe is that it’s an unusual model, one that merges Precourt’s aesthetic sensibilities with her philanthropic tendencies with her upbringing in Denver.