Multimedia artist Jeff Page’s aesthetic is queer and DIY, charged by collaboration and expressed on video, in physical installations, as performance, as noise, as text — and whatever else works.

Howie Movshovitz is the brains behind the Denver Silent Film Festival, and so much more.

She’s organized the fourth annual ArtSpeak on April 6, 2018.

Molina Speaks works in the trenches, giving voice to a community rooted in mestizo culture through poetry and performance, as well as rap and hip-hop music – all tools that help empower others to follow in his positive path.

Mackenzie Browning, a Canadian artist now living in Denver, bridges technique-heavy practices in printmaking, the book arts and a distinctive brand of architectural installation-building in his work.

Artist and monotype master Joe Higgins, a Denver stalwart with roots in the deep-seated local co-op community, paid his dues over more than thirty years here as a printmaker and mentor at Open Press and the Art Students League of Denver, where he teaches workshops.

It takes a lot of guts and an iron sense of commitment to produce the women-centric Athena Project Arts Festival each year, but Angela Astle shrugs off her role in the enormous undertaking by simply saying she’s grateful for the opportunity and the team that gives its all to make her dream come true year after year.

Susan Hover Oehme has been making artful things happen in Steamboat Springs for years, first as director of the print studio Riverhouse Editions, and since 2010, at her own state-of-the-art printmaking facility Oehme Graphics.

A medical worker and artist from Nagano, Japan, Taiko Chandler discovered printmaking as her second calling and flew with it, never looking back.