Butcher is also a video artist and filmmaker, working primarily with new media, video and photography. Inspired by the passing of time, repetition and the human attention span, she uses theatrical conventions to create and celebrate work that unites viewers in small, timeless moments. Her work has been exhibited at Lane Meyer Projects, Bell Projects, the Dairy Arts Center, BRDG Projects, Collective Misnomer at the Rainbow Dome, and most recently on the 16th Street IKE kiosks through the Denver Theatre District.
Living and working in the Colorado arts community continues to influence her practice as not only a professional but an artist. Butcher serves on the Denver Digerati Board, and in 2026 joins the Tilt West Board.
Evan F. Peter (They/Them) is a visual and content designer who’s worked across CPG, events & experiences, e-commerce retailers, startups, non-profits, and design services. Evan specializes in bringing experiences to life through thoughtful, strategic design. At Tilt West, they help out with general design initiatives, web design/dev, and general operations where needed. In their own practice, Evan is inspired by the intersection of immersive design and digital art.
Instagram: @unofficialevanpeter
Portfolio: evanfrancispeter.com
Leilani Lynch is Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. There, she has organized numerous museum exhibitions, including Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face (2025) Movements Toward Freedom (2024), Gala Porras-Kim: A hand in nature (2024); Steven Yazzie: Meandered (2024); Ken Gun Min: The Lost Paradise (2024); and Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities (2023). From 2015-2022, Leilani held several curatorial positions at The Bass, Miami Beach where she curated exhibitions with artists including Jamilah Sabur (2022), Cara Despain (2022), Naama Tsabar (2021), Mika Rottenberg (2017) in addition to co-organizing exhibitions by Adrián Villar Rojas (2022), Haegue Yang (2019), and Paola Pivi (2018). In 2024-25, Lynch participated in the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Propel Fellowship. She has spoken on panels and lectures for STPI – Creative Workshop, Singapore, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ArtTable, and ICOM, and served on juries for Artadia, the Association of Art Museum Curators, Creative Capital, Headlands Center for the Arts, Bemis Art Center, Oolite Arts, and others. She holds a BA in Art History from University of California, Berkeley and an MAS in Curating from Zurich University of the Arts.
Jess Diaz (she/her) is a visual designer, content curator, and arts marketer who has worked with nearly a dozen small businesses and nonprofits across the Southwest. Jess received a BFA in Digital Design from the University of Colorado in Denver. In addition to her board position with Tilt West, Jess is the Gallery & Marketing Manager at Union Hall, a black-box art and event space that supports emerging artists and curators.
Matthew Shaw (he/him) is a co-founder of ReCreative Denver, where he manages its community workshop. He is a craftsman, woodworker and the owner of Artzer Shaw Creative Woodworks. He also produced and directed Head Room Sessions, the live music recording series and PBS program.
Tricia Waddell (she/her) is the textile artist behind Studio Blkbird, based in Denver, Colorado at Tank Studios. Inspired by her degree in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology and a variety of surface design workshops, her work combines painting and screen-printing with reactive dyes and resists to create visual textures inspired by abstract art, ceramics, and graphic design. She creates soft sculptures and artworks that explore the visceral combination of form, color, pattern, and texture to evoke personal narratives and mental health themes. In addition to exhibiting her work in galleries, she’s a member of the Surface Design Association and an artist member of the Colorado Art Therapy Association. When she’s not in the studio, she works as an editor, writer, and storyteller creating content for artists, makers, and non-profits.
Anna Ghublikian (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist and documentary filmmaker. Their background is in Art History and Public Humanities, with a focus on engaging communities through collaborative curation and programming. They’ve done industry work as a development producer for streaming video content on fine art, and are involved in local activism and community organizing, serving on the Board of Directors for the Chinook Fund, and as a member of Mountain Media Arts Collective (MMAC).
Mary Grace Bernard (MG, she/they/ugh) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, advocate, & crip witch. Her practice finds itself at the intersection of performance art, transmedia installation art, art scholarship, art writing, curation, & activism. Exploring seemingly separate fields like the material & immaterial realities of disability, the living dead, queerness, cyborgism, crip time, post-humanness, spirituality, madness, care, dependency, & the boundaries between the personal & political spheres of existence, they seek to dissolve binary thinking while converging otherwise invisible communities & their stories.
Mindy Bray (she/her) is a painter and muralist based in Denver, CO. Her work investigates the intersection of natural and built environments through pattern, reduction, and physical space. Mindy earned her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Iowa in 2005 and has taught drawing and foundations at the University of Denver and Metropolitan State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally at galleries including Goodwin Fine Art, Rule Gallery, Ironton, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art. She has been featured in New American Paintings, The Denver Post, Modern in Denver magazine, art ltd., and Luxe Interiors and Design. Mindy’s public commissions include permanent works at the Westin Hotel at Denver International Airport and the Colorado Convention Center, and her private commissions can be found in commercial and residential spaces throughout Denver. Mindy is a current member of Tank Studios, a board member of Tilt West, and an instructor for the Denver Art Museum’s Creative Classes.
Ilan Gutin (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator originally from the Washington, D.C. area. He earned his BA in Studio Arts with a focus in Printmaking from the University of Maryland in 2008 and his MFA in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. An avid world traveler, Gutin draws inspiration from his experiences abroad, which continue to inform a studio practice rooted in formalism, the ephemerality of light and place, and the wonder of looking.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in cities including Chicago, Reykjavík, and Denver. Before moving to Denver in 2020, he taught in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at SAIC and was the Founder and Co-Director of Fernwey Gallery in Chicago, an artist-run space dedicated to supporting emerging and mid-career artists.
Since relocating to Denver, Gutin has served as Gallery Curator and Membership & Program Director at Art Gym Denver, and later as Curator and Engagement Director at PlatteForum and Gallery Director at Visions West Contemporary. He is currently the Gallery Manager at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD), Co-Director and Co-Curator of Friend of a Friend Gallery, an independent curator, and a board member of Tilt West.