Rebecca Vaughan (she/her) was born and raised in Denver, CO and currently resides in Kansas City, MO. She has lived in the Netherlands and Canada. She received a BFA cum laude in sculpture at the University of Colorado, Boulder and completed her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. Vaughan previously served as the artistic director of PlatteForum, a non-profit which hosts artists-in-residence from all over the world and pairs them with under-resourced youth to create artworks addressing topics of social justice and community. Vaughan has also served as the program director for the Art Students League of Denver, and she was the former chair of fine arts and head of sculpture at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. She held a residency as a resource artist at Redline Contemporary Art Center from 2011 to 2013. In 2019, in order to more fully pursue her art career, Vaughan gave up her work in non-profits and moved to Kansas City, where she is a part-time instructor for the Kansas City Art Institute and UMKC. She originally began baking as a hobby, but Vaughan now bakes professionally, supplying sourdough and traditional baguettes to Northwest Missouri restaurants.
Westword Magazine has called composer and artist Nathan Hall (he/him) “a try-anything aural dreamer with the skills and programming genius to mount ideas both intriguing and outrageous.” Nathan uses music as an artistic medium to explore a variety of fields including science, nature, the fine arts, history, and sexuality. There is an emotional resonance present in all of his works, from his traditional classical pieces for chamber ensembles, to experimental electronic pieces, sound sculptures, and multimedia projects. Nathan’s drive for making site-specific work is tied to his passion for travel and cultural exchange, while other works are inspired by his sexuality and experiences as a gay man, creating a special intimacy between performer, place, and audience.
Nathan Hall is a former Fulbright fellow to Iceland and a McKnight visiting composer. He holds his doctorate in musical arts (DMA) from CU Boulder, an MM from Carnegie Mellon, and a BA from Vassar College. His works have been performed and exhibited in 14 countries and 12 US States, by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Buntport Theater, Tenth Intervention, GALA Choruses, Playground Ensemble, the Gay/Lesbian Chorus of San Francisco, Icelandic choirs, pianist Adam Tendler, a convention of roller coaster enthusiasts, and porn star Dirk Caber, among others. Recent residencies have included the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA) and Skaftfell Art Center (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland). Nathan was also the Denver Art Museum’s first creative in residence. He is currently an adjunct faculty member in music composition at the University of Denver.
Brenton Weyi (he/him) uses the power of words to cultivate humanity. He is a writer, thinker, creative polymath, and the son of Congolese immigrants. Informed by travel to nearly seventy nations, his work blends narrative, philosophy, and history to examine questions of ethics and the human social fabric. At Whitman College, he co-founded an award-winning poetry collective and founded an award-winning dance troupe. Currently, Brenton is an inaugural playwright fellow at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and his poem “Multiplicity” is one of the official poems of the City of Denver. His work has appeared in Boulevard Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, INC, Daily Stoic, and Head Room Sessions on RMPBS, among others. He was an inaugural fellow in the Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop Writing-in-Color retreat, and he is a finalist at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Brenton is the former campaign architect of a groundbreaking Congolese presidential campaign that appeared in the BBC, LA Times, and more. He also spent time living at a meditation and martial arts school in Asia before working with disenfranchised populations in the region. He collaborated with Union Hall on their nationally curated exhibits of writers and visual artists, Poems for Our Country and Words for Our Country, he has worked with the NFL, Airbnb, and others, and he serves on the board of Tilt West. Brenton is a Moth story slam champion, a proud member of Playback Theatre West & Storytellers Acapella, and a TEDx speaker and lead organizer. He believes truth can be found at the intersection of disciplines and stories.
Jane Burke (she/her) obtained a bachelor’s in fine art with an emphasis on painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder and received an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Asian art history and Chinese language from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She held curatorial and collections management positions at the Honolulu Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum, and The East West Center Gallery in Honolulu from 2006 to 2013. Burke was the Textile Art & Fashion Curatorial Fellow at the Denver Art Museum and has worked on numerous textile and fashion exhibitions since 2014 including: First Glance—Second Look, Creative Crossroads, Shock Wave: Japanese Fashion Design 1980s-90s, Drawn to Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard, Dior: From Paris to the World, Paris to Hollywood, and Suited: Empowered Feminine Fashion. She has also recently guest curated Colorado Asians at Artworks Center for Contemporary Art in Loveland, Imminent Archive for RULE gallery in Marfa, and Another Angle for the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology.
Allison Parrish (she/her) is a computer programmer, poet, and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Allison was named “Best Maker of Poetry Bots” by the Village Voice in 2016, and her zine of computer-generated poems called “Compasses” received an honorary mention in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica. Allison is the co-creator of the board game Rewordable (Clarkson Potter, 2017) and author of several books, including @Everyword: The Book(Instar, 2015) and Articulations (Counterpath, 2018). Her poetry has recently appeared in BOMB Magazine and Strange Horizons. Allison is originally from West Bountiful, Utah and currently lives in Brooklyn
Chris Coleman (he/him) was born in West Virginia and he received his MFA from SUNY Buffalo in New York. His work includes sculptures, videos, creative coding and interactive installations. Coleman has had his work in exhibitions and festivals in more than 25 countries including Brazil, Argentina, Singapore, Finland, the U.A.E., Italy, Germany, France, China, the UK, Latvia, and across North America. He currently resides in Denver, CO and is a Professor of Emergent Digital Practices and the Director of the Clinic for Open Source Arts at the University of Denver.
Anthony Garcia Sr. (he/him) was born and raised in Denver. He is the co-founder and executive director of Birdseed Collective, a Denver-based nonprofit that makes a positive impact in local communities through programs and projects with innovative arts and humanities offerings. He is a painter and mural artist, a former artist-in-residence at RedLine Contemporary Art, a 2022 Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Fellow, and co-founder/co-curator of Alto Gallery in Denver.
Raymundo Muñoz (he/him) was born and raised in El Paso, TX, but has made Colorado his home since 1999. He received education at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and University of Colorado-Denver, where he received a B.S. in biology. Art was always more his thing, though, and now devotes his life to making it and promoting it. He’s a self-taught linocut printmaker, musician, writer, and photographer, but does enjoy other drawing-based media and sculpture.
Raymundo shows in various spaces around town and is the director/co-founder/co-curator at Alto Gallery. He’s an active board member of Birdseed Collective, a local 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to improving the lives of surrounding communities through arts, education, and food programs. Above all, Raymundo is guided by the simple principle that art is a bridge, and that its greatest function is to connect people across time and space.
Chris Hassig (he/him) is an artist who grew up and currently lives in Carbondale. He holds a B.A. in Architecture and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College and has a passion for sustainable, human-centered design. He is a DJ and Vice President for KDNK, a community radio station serving the Roaring Fork Valley. Chris was recently voted as a city trustee for the city of Carbondale where he aims to respect and protect the environment, help vulnerable members of the community, and create diversity. He shows at Walker Fine Art in Denver, CO.
Anna Kaye (she/her) was born in Detroit, Michigan and now lives in Denver where she works in her studio creating drawings, paintings, videos, and sculptures that are inspired by the natural world. Witnessing the urban decay from de-industrialization as a child enhanced her sense of empathy, compassion, love for diversity and justice, and reverence for the natural world. She earned her B.S. in geology and fine art at Skidmore College, NY. She continued her education at Yale in painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography. She earned her M.F.A. at Washington University in St. Louis where she was awarded the Laura and William Jens Scholarship and a teaching on record position. Kaye’s artwork is a part of international, private, public, corporate, and museum collections including Home & Garden Television’s Green Home. Interviews and reviews include Colorado Matters, Colorado Life Magazine, Westword, and the Denver Post. Kaye donates a percentage of all sales annually to environmental funds. She curates large-scale exhibitions that promote social action and connectivity. Kaye is a former Visiting Assistant Professor and Co-Coordinator of Drawing at Metropolitan State University. She currently teaches at the Denver Art Museum and is represented by the Sandra Phillips Gallery in Denver.