Colorado Creatives: Eriko Tsogo

Born in Ulaanbaatar, artist Eriko Tsogo is forever a traveler in thought and actions, and though she eventually settled with her family among metro Denver’s large Mongolian community, Tsogo still longs to bridge the opposing cultures with which she’s grown up.

Colorado Creatives: Tracy Weil

Artist, tomato farmer, community organizer and 2008 Westword MasterMind Tracy Weil pioneered RiNo before it was RiNo, or even an an art district, putting down roots not far from the Platte River among quiet warehouses and industrial streets where artists had only recently begun to infiltrate.

Colorado Creatives Redux: Sabin Aell

We first showcased artist, mover and shaker Sabin Aell as a Colorado Creative in March of 2011, when the series was still an experiment and she was one of our first guinea pigs. Now she’s helping us test the waters again for the redux series, with good reason.

Colorado Creatives: Clay Hawkley

Boulder artist Clay Hawkley mixes mediums and materials with conceptual ideas and the hands of a craftsman, engendering new intellectual life for found objects.

Colorado Creatives: Michael David King

Michael David King’s main gig as the visionary graphic designer is interconnected without boundaries with myriad Denver creative and entrepreneurial scenes, from Illegal Pete’s and the High Plains Comedy Festival to Birdy Magazine.

Sauti Gives Voice and Handycams to Refugee Women in Uganda

When humanitarian, teacher and filmmaker Gayle Nosal first ventured into the Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Uganda, she found herself drawn to the stories of young women in transition who had arrived there as children, looking for safety from conflicts in Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

Colorado Creatives Redux: Tara Rynders

When we first showcased Tara Rynders as a Colorado Creative in the spring of 2014, she was pioneering the realm of immersive performance with You & Me, the most intimate of micro-experiences in which audience members moved alone among stations to meet one-on-one with a multidisciplinary stable of artists, healers and performers

Colorado Creatives: Marsha Mack

A relative newcomer to Denver, Marsha Mack, an artist who widely crosses mediums, wasted no time embedding herself into the city’s creative community and underground, as a professional and a participant.

Colorado Creatives: Lin Wen-Ben

Born in Taiwan and a graduate of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Lin Wen-Ben grew into a practice with roots in the performative sway and mark-making motions of brush calligraphy.