(he/him) (b.1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator living and working in Denver, CO. He grew up in Great Falls, Montana, and attended the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, in Denver, which he graduated from in 2017 with his BFA as Valedictorian. Austin is the Curator of Visual Arts at The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO, where he exhibits the work of artists from all across the country (and sometimes the world) in their four rotating gallery spaces. He previously worked as the Exhibitions Curator for ReCreative Denver as well as put together independent curatorial projects in spaces such as Redline Denver, The Temple Artist Studios, The Digital Armory, and Alto Gallery. Portrayed primarily through drawing, sculpture, and light-based installation, Austin’s work functions as a conduit for understanding and comprehension of everyday things—mundane situations, domestic space, slow growth, and light—both large and small in a human-dominated world.

(she/her) Robin Gammons is a painter and large-scale ceramic sculptor from Butte, Montana. She is currently living in New York and pursuing an MFA at New York University. She received her BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2019.

(she/her) lives and works in Greenville, SC. A multidisciplinary artist, she frequently utilizes objects found or inherited from family–beads, vessels, and figurines–and explores connections with those common objects to preserve relationships with family and depict the intergenerational lineage of inherited traits like trauma, mental illness, beliefs in social institutions, cultural constructs, and norms. Reproductions of specific moments, vague memories, or stories infuse them with meaning by challenging the division between memory and immediate experience. Gustave was awarded a Master's in Art History and received a BFA with Honors, both from the University of Denver. She has exhibited work in Berlin, Denver, Greenville, and Washington state. She is currently serving as an adjunct professor at Furman University and is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville.

(she/her) is an Illinois native who relocated to Colorado in 2016 and is currently an Assistant Professor in Foundations + Fine Arts at RMCAD. She received her MFA in Metalwork, Jewelry Design, and Digital Fabrication as well as a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Northern Illinois University, and has a BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work combines traditional craft and modern methods of fabrication to examine the relationship between humans and their surrounding environment.

(she/her) Bouncing between classical references and personal allegory, the paintings and found objects in Daphne Sweet’s work reanimate historical motifs with bold color, heavy patterning, and playful mark making. By co-opting familiar feminine tropes of antiquity, her work reimagines the narratives and symbolism of art history with personal interpretations. These myths are often recontextualized by examining the interplay of ambiguity and awareness within female sensuality working with symbolism of self reflection and digital vanity. A visual vocabulary of personal allegory (vase, flames, fruit, cows, cell phones, arrows, dropplets, columns, halos, etc.) are repeated throughout the work to create the dialogue between these figures. Color and line work are continuously informing the creation of these figurative landscapes by pushing and pulling between the various mediums on the surface. Using red as a foundational point allowed Sweet to play with the visual tension on the surface between the mediums: E.g pencil line quality atop airbrush, or thick acrylic next to a soft pastel. The high contrast between the deep black/blue, the bright red/orange and the highlights of soft butter yellow create a graphic chiaroscuro. Poppy red, crimson, and vermillion, these vibrant hues and seductive figures reinforce their agency with symbolism of self reflection and vanity by use of a modern rectangular mirror: the phone.

(he/him) AIFD, EMC, CFD, CPF is known for his floral headdresses and the use of natural tension in his work. With a background in gardening, sculpture, and photography, he entered the floral industry in 1996, and opened his own business, Babylon Floral Design, Inc., in 2004. One of the first seven people in Colorado to become a Certified Professional Florist, he is also a Certified Floral Designer at the national level. Arthur was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Designers in 2015 and just completed EMC, the European Master Certification program Cycle 3 in 2016.

Arthur has been featured in the 2012-13, 2014-15, 2016-17, and 2018-19 editions of International Floral Art. His work made the Spring 2013 cover of the French floral art magazine Nacre and was also featured in the winter 2016 edition. Arthur’s work has been in many Colorado publications, he has contributed to Florists’ Review magazine and was profiled in the book 50-Mile Bouquet by author Debra Prinzing. In 2018, Arthur took home a Bronze Medal for his work for the annual World Flower and Garden Show in Japan. He is a past Creative in Residence at the Denver Art Museum and is currently on the selection committee for the program. Arthur is the author of Babylon: Decade and co-author of the book Impermanent.

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(she/her) is a Denver based artist and curator. At the core of her ethos is the belief that art is a communal conversation, a dialogue that bridges differences and nurtures understanding. In this sanctuary of expression, she strives to create a space where the queer narrative and femininity are celebrated, not just as a facet of identity, but as a cornerstone of human experience. By interlacing the vibrancy of queerness and femininity with the richness of folklore and the depth of historical insight, her exhibitions become more than just displays; they are immersive experiences that invite reflection and challenge perceptions.