Manga Dreams exhibition opens at Loveland Museum in late June

The Loveland Museum will open Manga Dreams in its Main Gallery beginning June 27, the City of Loveland said in a news release. The exhibition features studio portraits of Asian youth in original, manga-inspired costumes, with the artists combining photography and digital techniques to create imagined settings around each subject.

According to the museum, the show explores identity, media and self-perception through cyberculture and digital technology. The release said the artists invited nonprofessional participants from the street, styled them and encouraged them to invent their own backstories. The characters are original and are not based on existing manga.

The exhibition is by Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low, who have worked together as Anderson & Low since 1990. The city said their photography includes portraiture, architectural studies, abstract images, reportage, nudes and landscape work, and that their projects have been exhibited worldwide.

The museum listed exhibition dates as June 26 through Sept. 12, 2026. Related events include a tour and gallery talk with the artists on June 27, a photography messaging workshop on June 30, a cosplay costume reception that same day, and a kintsugi workshop on July 25.

An anime film festival at the Rialto Theater is also listed, with showings of Spirited Away on July 10, Howl's Moving Castle on July 11 and Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time later that day. The museum said tickets for the films are $5.