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Four Corners Mutual Aid Network Steps In to Help Local Communities

Four Corners Mutual Aid Network Steps In to Help Local Communities

by Padideh Aghanoury | Sep 6, 2020 | News

//Volunteers involved with the Four Corners Mutual Aid Network cheer at a Black Lives Matter protest. Photo provided by Bati Alon. The novel coronavirus has hit every corner of Colorado, even stretching into the far reaches of the Four Corners region. COVID-19 has...
Chess tournament assembles artists, activists and entrepreneurs for community strategizing

Chess tournament assembles artists, activists and entrepreneurs for community strategizing

by Kieran Purce | Feb 25, 2021 | Arts/Entertainment, Equity, Features

//Photographer and artist Yvens Alex Saintil, left, speaks to a visitor about his artwork that explores his experience as a U.S. Army veteran at ILA Art Gallery on Feb. 19. Photo by Kieran Purce | [email protected] Last summer, while battling through clouds of...
Queer haunted house reveals our internal fears can be scarier than ghosts and goblins

Queer haunted house reveals our internal fears can be scarier than ghosts and goblins

by Esteban Fernandez | Nov 6, 2020 | Arts/Entertainment, Features

//Steven Frost portrayed Liberace in Hell inside his art installation for No Place to Go on Oct. 30. Photos by Esteban Fernandez | [email protected] Another “Spooktober” has come and gone and yet the terror and anxiety continue into November for many. Fitting...
Woman-run tattoo shop has long put safety first

Woman-run tattoo shop has long put safety first

by Annie Burky | May 26, 2020 | Features, Local Business

//Ana Reed and Meredith Cross-Dorsey discuss a tattoo design behind the desk at Smokey Banana tattoo shop on May 22. Photos by Annie Burky | [email protected] Tattoo shops are working to find a safe way to reopen within the state’s requirements, but parlors like...
Akiala I is fighting gentrification one block at a time

Akiala I is fighting gentrification one block at a time

by Doug Hrdlicka | Nov 17, 2020 | Features

//Akiala I, the face behind the Buy Back the Block fundraiser on GoFundMe. Photo by Doug Hrdlicka | [email protected] Art is at the vanguard of revolution. Similarly, it is at the vanguard of gentrification. The two are fated to dance for eternity, weaving and...
Gina Ilczyszyn dominates the tattoo scene. Now she’s tackling mural walls.

Gina Ilczyszyn dominates the tattoo scene. Now she’s tackling mural walls.

by Erica Buehler | Sep 17, 2020 | Arts/Entertainment, Badass Women, Features

//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...
Jessica Christie empowers couples to own destination elopements, inspiring other women along the way

Jessica Christie empowers couples to own destination elopements, inspiring other women along the way

by Lexi Reich | Jan 26, 2021 | Badass Women, Features, Lifestyle/Culture, Local Business

//Jessica Christie photographing a couple on a snowy road. Photo provided by Christie. Jessica Christie was 15 feet off the ground photographing a newlywed couple scaling a mountain when she thought to herself, this is it. As the bride and groom were intertwined in...
Nadiya Jackson is an artistic visionary of the intimate and the interdimensional

Nadiya Jackson is an artistic visionary of the intimate and the interdimensional

by Toluwanimi Obiwole | Dec 29, 2020 | Arts/Entertainment, Badass Women, Features

//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...
Women are left out of vital leadership roles in the arts scene

Women are left out of vital leadership roles in the arts scene

by Lexi Reich | Apr 20, 2021 | Arts/Entertainment, Equity, Features

//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...
Hope Tank kicks off year of window murals with piece by artist Cindy Loya

Hope Tank kicks off year of window murals with piece by artist Cindy Loya

by Esteban Fernandez | Mar 17, 2021 | Arts/Entertainment, Features

//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...
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