Cookie Factory
Art gallery
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Cookie Factory is a privately funded contemporary art space located in the Baker neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States. Opened to the public in May 2025, the 5,000-square-foot public art space is housed in a former fortune cookie factory.[1]
- Denver, Colorado, United States
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| Formation | 2025 |
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| Location |
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Founder and Executive Director | Amanda J. Precourt |
Director of Exhibitions | Andrew Jensdotter |
Artistic Director | Jérôme Sans |
| Website | Official website |
History
The art space was founded by real estate developer, philanthropist, and art collector Amanda J. Precourt,[1] who acquired an abandoned fortune cookie factory in the Baker neighborhood of Denver in 2016. The building at 425 W. 4th Ave., originally built in 1941, was first a paper mill[2] before housing Sunrise Food Products Inc. for more than six decades.[3] It took nine years to renovate the space into art galleries on the first level and a private apartment on the second level.[4] The space opened to the public in May of 2025; Jérôme Sans serves as artistic director and curator.[5][6]
Mission and programming
The art space hosts rotating exhibitions and contains gallery space, an outdoor sculpture garden, and video-screening rooms. All work shown at the Cookie Factory is site-specific and created in Colorado.[5] Cookie Factory invites artists to create site-specific projects inspired by the landscapes and culture of Denver and Colorado at large.[1] Cookie Factory is non-commercial, privately funded, and free and open to the public, established to facilitate community and collaboration in Denver.[7]
In addition to art exhibitions, Cookie Factory produces public programs designed to amplify the themes of the exhibitions on view.[8]
Exhibitions
The inaugural exhibition was Nothing Without Nature, a solo exhibition by Sam Falls, which ran May through September 2025 and featured new paintings, photography, and video work.[7] Fall's work explores humankind's relationship with the environment, and much of the work exhibited in Nothing Without Nature was created on-site in Colorado's Yampa River Valley.[8][6]
In November 2025, Cookie Factory opened Rush, a solo exhibition by American artist Gary Simmons. The installation features work from Simmons' erasure series, and includes large-scale wall drawings, new paintings, a wheatpaste installation on the building's facade, and a participatory reading room.[9][10]
Reception
Writing in Axios in May 2025 about the space's opening, Alayna Alvarez said, "Cookie Factory isn't just another private collection dressed up as a museum. It's a fresh model that's intimate, immersive and rooted in Colorado."[11] Zoe Stockwell of 303 Magazine described Cookie Factory as "a gift to Denver, introducing new artists to the community who haven't had the opportunity to let their work shine."[4]
Writing for The Colorado Sun, Parker Yamasaki said "it's an unusual model, one that merges Precourt's aesthetic sensibilities with her philanthropic tendencies with her upbringing in Denver."[2] Interviewing Sans for Frieze, Terence Trouillot praised the space as "a very human-scale institution" and "a paradigm shift."[6]