Denver style maven Brandi Shigley, who grew up on a steady diet of musicals and variety shows like Hee Haw and The Muppet Show, is still an admitted fan: "So when the opportunity came up to host my own evening at the Meadowlark, I decided to make it be this colorful concoction of talent all in one night," she says. "It just made sense, because so many of my friends are these amazing and talented comedians and filmmakers and musicians and artists."
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Katie Taft won the 2006 MasterMind award in the visual-arts category.
In 2005, Westword introduced its first class of MasterMinds, five aesthetic adventurers working in a variety of mediums, but all changing the cultural landscape of Denver.
Those first awards came as quite a surprise -- both to the recipients and to us here at Westword. Why? We found that most of the winners used their cash prizes to help other people in the arts -- paying their way through classes, giving hands-on advice on
