Colorado Creatives: Roy Smith

Roy Smith has suffered bigotry and violence, but now settled in the San Luis Valley with friends who look out for him, he collects things and turns them into folk-art assemblages.

Colorado Creatives: Moe Gram

Moe Gram is more than an artist with a hip-hop vibe. She’s a woman of color with a strong arts resume and a stake in community-building, who sits on the board of the Birdseed Collective and collaborates with Odessa Denver on the Creatives at Roundish Tables discussion series, all while teaching at STRIVE Prep Green Valley Ranch and running her own Moe Gram Art & Lifestyle brand, a one-woman community enrichment machine.

Colorado Creatives Redux: Donald Fodness

When we first showcased artist Donald Fodness in 2013, he was finishing a residency at RedLine, teaching at the University of Denver and trying his hand at being a leader in Denver’s art world and conducting experiments in collaboration.

Colorado Creatives: Sarah Bowling

A Denver native, Sarah Bowling returned from school at the Art Institute of Chicago with her BFA and fresh new ideas to re-infiltrate into the Denver art community over the last couple of years.

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.