While a hint of an accent reveals Maryland roots, Colorado has been Brazee’s home since 2001. Returning to college as a “late-bloomer,” she now holds two graduate degrees, one in environmental science with an emphasis in ecosystems and the other in visual art with an emphasis in painting. This unusual combination of interests has profoundly influenced her work, keeping it suspended somewhere between recognizable reality and imaginary narrative. Brazee’s primary love is painting; through it, she investigates human relationships with the natural world, its creatures, others, and themselves. She gathers photographs that she has taken and those from public archives, creating collages as references for her paintings. Through this process, she makes social commentary with a sprinkling of humor, a nip of nonsense, a dash of self-deprecation, and a dose of deeper meaning.

Nestled in the quiet rhythm of a mountain town, Kristen captures life through a lens—both film and digital. With photography as both passion and practice, her work is rooted in the textures of everyday moments and the raw beauty of the natural world that surrounds her. Kristen’s film photography brings a nostalgic, tactile quality to otherwise fleeting scenes, while digital work allows for an immediacy and versatility that complements her eye for composition and light.

Micheline Klagsbrun is a visual artist whose multi-media work focuses on transformation and displacement. She studied in Paris with Alfredo Echeverria and at the Corcoran with William Newman and Gene Davis. She has exhibited widely, and is in private collections nationally as well as in Europe and the Middle East. Solo and group exhibits in Washington D.C. include the Katzen Museum at American University, Arena Stage, gallery plan b, Studio Gallery, Exhibit9 Gallery, Goldman Gallery, the Embassies of Finland and Venezuela, Smith Center for the Healing Arts, Covington and Burling, Adah Rose Gallery, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art; elsewhere, Macy Gallery (New York City), William Ris Gallery (Cape May NJ), MiXX Projects and Gallery 81435 (Telluride CO), Aswan, Egypt and Delhi, India. Her work is represented by William Ris Gallery (Jamesport NY) and Studio Gallery (DC).

Karen Kokjer has been passionate about drawing and painting since childhood, where early exposure to art included classes at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and inspiring art teachers throughout her education. While minoring in painting and graphics in college, she also majored in Chemistry, balancing her artistic creativity with technical expertise.

Rev. Justin Criado is an award-winning journalist, editor and indie author. His work has been featured in the Denver Post, Westword, Boulder Weekly, New Noise Magazine, Salt Lake City Weekly, Phoenix New Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He currently writes and resides in Telluride, Colorado.

Brandon Berkel is a Telluride based artist who uses collage and surrealism, blending reality and imagination.