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Susan Froyd

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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the “Thrills” editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Josiah Hesse

By Susan FroydMay 4, 2017

Author, pop-culturist, freelance journalist, editor-in-chief of the quarterly Denver lit zine Suspect Press and former Westword contributor, Josiah Hesse is a habitué of the city’s underground whose first novel, Carnality: Dancing on Red Lake (a Suspect Press imprint), hit the shelves two years ago.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Stuart Sanks

By Susan FroydApril 27, 2017

Stuart Sanks, known professionally as Shirley Delta Blow, is a schoolteacher by day and a drag queen by night, but as far as his performance style goes, he does a lot more than strut around in women’s clothing.

Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos Is Painting Trees Blue in the Denver Theatre District

By Susan FroydApril 24, 2017

Denver gets ribbed for its fixation on blue public art — the curious blue bear that welcome visitors at the convention center and the demonic rearing horse at the airport both evoke controversy, each in its own way. But for Konstantin Dimopoulos, who arrived in Denver last week to begin painting trees blue in the Denver Theatre District, blue public art is no joke.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Nicole Banowetz

By Susan FroydApril 24, 2017

A traveler whose monumental inflatable sculptures have taken her around the world, Nicole Banowetz blows up microscopic rotifers and radiolaria into larger-than-life airborne monsters and forms, sharing them through residencies as close to home as the Children’s Museum of Denver and as far away as Ustka, Poland.

Derrick Velasquez’s The Stacks Takes on Race and Rhinoceropolis at the MCA

By Susan FroydApril 21, 2017

The cornerstone of any library is in its stacks, where living records in the form of books and media sit, waiting to impart knowledge and share stories. When tasked with curating a show for the shelves of MCA Denver’s Open Shelf Library space, artist Derrick Velasquez began by deconstructing the library aesthetic and finding parallels in life, bringing together what might seem like a scattered group of collections in repose.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Esther Hernandez

By Susan FroydApril 20, 2017

Performance artist and RedLine resident Esther Hernandez calls her work a “living collage” or “social sculpture,” but these descriptions only address the performance experience in real-time, an interaction between artist and audience.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Peter Illig

By Susan FroydApril 17, 2017

Painter Peter Illig’s retro sensibility and deep affinity for all things mid-century modern drive his work, which combines realistically rendered found snapshots brimming with emotional life and an unsettled state of near-nostalgia for the lost values of a vanished era.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Jeffrey Keith

By Susan FroydApril 10, 2017

A longtime member of the Denver art community, Jeffrey Keith is a painter with an astute ability to assimilate free brushstrokes into tightly constructed, color-conscious compositions. A teacher at the University of Denver, he’s curated the Storm Warning, which is the focus of an April 13 symposium.

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Ayla Sullivan

By Susan FroydApril 6, 2017

Performance is in Ayla Sullivan’s blood, along with her black and Vietnamese roots. Denver’s newest Youth Poet Laureate performed with the Minor Disturbance youth poetry slam team at the Brave New Voices national finals and is now a sophomore at the University of Colorado Boulder.