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.
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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
Everything I internalize, the experiences I have, the people in my life, my hopes and dreams, my faith are all reflected from heart, mind, and soul through the prism of my intuitive lenses resulting in artistic expressions. I attracted to my life a muse and divine inspiration to create vivid abstract expressions that tell a story, define my journey, and inspire me to embrace all that is good in my life.
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Also known as That5280Lady, Adelina is best known for her innovative and creative approach using recycled materials. Her unique combinations of recycled drum heads, vinyl records, lighting gel, and LED lights have created never before seen concepts in the art world.
Veteran
My name is Jonathan Roberts and I'm a Veteran and local artist. Currently I'm working with acrylics and gouache after a 5 year pause in painting. With an itch that needed to be scratched I began painting my favorite TV and movie actors. I currently have 27 pieces for sale at the VFW.
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.
VAC Civilian
Drawing has been a visual tool for me to express and understand thoughts, emotions, and the complexity of human experience since I was a kid. My art gives me an outlet to communicate a concept or feeling by taking out the constructs of language and personal bias. Growing up in the mid-’80s and ‘90s I surrounded myself with comics, graffiti, anime, DJ music culture, Sci-Fi, and fantasy. My art is a hybrid of these influences infused with social commentary.
Veteran Artist
Since picking up a film camera over twenty years ago, Chuck has continually pushed himself to learn new techniques and advance his understanding of the art of capturing light. Upon moving to Colorado in 2008, he was introduced to an entirely new environment that has provided endless opportunities to capture the beauty of nature. Experiencing the grandness of the landscapes and the vastness of the Milky Way skies above, Chuck is always looking for new opportunities to showcase the two together, and create images that many people only see in their imagination.
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