
Veteran
Former tattoo and graffiti artist, Jesse now completes commissioned murals and beautiful works on canvas with a variety of mediums that incorporate his former graffiti skills with those of fine art.
Veteran
Don Gardner’s photography has been featured, along with other artists, at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, the Veterans Arts Center on Santa Fe, the Curtis Center for the Arts, the online-only 2019 “Y/OUR Denver” photography exhibition, and on Channel 9 news. One of his images won Honorable Mention by Historic Denver in their “Landmarks of Today and Tomorrow” photo contest.
Veteran
Winner of the U.S. Veterans Administration's National Gold Medal for Fine Art and featured artist in over 50 regional and national publications, Jim's art becomes even more amazing when you realize he is legally blind. He is passionately known for his signature portraits on monofilament strings, abstract realism paintings on combined panels and his beautiful works in charcoal and scrimshaw.
Veteran
As a Navy veteran and an artist of numerous trades, Jonhda Starling is versatile in many traditional media, such as oil paint, acrylics, inks and watercolors. Starling gives peculiar attention to the expressions of characters engaged in industrial and science fiction themed environments, or even the environment itself. These visual elements are often used to encourage healing and resolution from struggles originating from varied underlying symptoms of depression. This, in a way, can enable those who have difficulty finding purpose for their lives, as well as her own.
VAC Civilian
I make happy art. I’m pleased when people smile and chuckle after viewing my work. I love when children point and squeal.
Some art teachers will tell you “It isn’t art unless it’s saying something.”
I believe art is anything that makes you feel something.
I want the world to feel happy.