//Photo provided by Gina Ilczyszyn. We—the women, the alternative, the proud non-binary and beyond—are lucky to live in an artistic, open-minded, and flourishing city. The constant motion of city streets, flashes of colorful, painted walls, the buzzing of tattoo...
//Still of Nadiya Jackson from the short film Planning a Wedding During Quarantine. Photo provided by Jackson. Nadiya Jackson’s work, ranging from theater to photography, to even her personal fashion, interrogates if and to what depth we engage with our...
//Artist Amy Lummus sits beneath a portrait of her daughter, Penny, at the Electric Cherry Shop + Studio in Olde Town Arvada on April 16. Photo by Esteban Fernandez | [email protected] With arched backs and mouths slightly agape, Amy Lummus’ pin-up portraits of...
//Bree Davies, host of City Cast Denver, at her Denver home on Apr. 3. Davies records the daily podcast remotely. Photo by Ali Mai | [email protected] The name Bree Davies is as well-known to her fellow journalists as it is with DIY artists and political activists....
//Creative Director Von Ross (left) and Founder Charmaine “Charlie” Billingsley (right) at the Museum for Black Girls in Denver on March 31. Photo by Karson Hallaway | [email protected] As a Black female photographer, Charlie Billingsley struggled...
//Casey Stelter, owner of SheWolf Studios, holds one of her art pieces, a ceramic vase sculpted out of doll faces. Lafayette on May 10. Photo by Polina Saran | [email protected] SheWolf Studios’ inventory is literally eye-popping. A commonplace macrame plant...
//Moe Gram, Denver-based artist, educator and public speaker, sits in her home studio in Denver on Jan. 11. Gram’s work is a blend of her passion for social justice and art. Photo by Polina Saran | [email protected] When Denver artist Moe Gram was growing up, she...
//Cindy Loya, Denver artist, paints a portrait of Ynés Mexía on the window of Hope Tank gift shop in Denver on March 6. Photo by Polina Saran | [email protected] As lockdown orders went into effect last year, Erika Righter of Hope Tank gift shop on Broadway was...
//A visitor walks past a self-portrait of the artist and activist Zanele Muholi at the Center for Visual Art, MSU Denver on Feb. 18. Their work is on display at CVA until March 20. Photo by Polina Saran | [email protected] Zanele Muholi is not exactly an...
//Artist Moe Gram stands in front of her mural in Denver’s Civic Center Park on June 16. Photo by Polina Saran | [email protected] The Black Love Mural Festival in Denver’s Civic Center Park was originally slotted to end on June 30 but has been...
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