A thinking, boundaryless creative in multiple disciplines, Serena Chopra is a published poet and writer, a Fulbright Scholar, a performance artist, a dancer, a teacher and a member of the queer community.

A young artist a few years out of art school at the Rhode Island School of Design, Sierra Montoya Barela is now back in her home town of Denver making waves in local alternative gallery spaces.

Mairead Case is a small-press author and a former birthday-party clown.

Justin Maes can’t seem to do just one thing.

Machado is figuring out life after Melon.

#13: Mai Wyn Schantz As a painter, Wisconsin native and Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design graduate, Mai Wyn Schantz can boast placement of her artwork – woodland landscapes and creatures painted on stainless steel – in numerous collections both corporate and private. But in spite of her own…

Annie Carlson co-founded the alternative house venue Melon Gallery with partner Victor Machado, which went swimmingly until, in a predictable Denver-style turn of events, the couple is being forced out of their space by rising rents.

Jessica Forrestal’s work is about stuff—and what happens to it after we’re done with it.

Printmaker and artist Emi Brady is known for her beautiful album covers with themes from nature, and delicate wall installations comprising printed and handcut birds.

Kaitlyn Tucek’s work is built on a basic foundation of intensive mark-making: lines amassed into loose organic shapes and crossed by swashes of color, sometimes with one thematic foot in the real world – a swatch of land or drawings of the human heart – and sometimes not.