Meet 2022-2024 RedLine Resident Artist Raymundo Muñoz!
Raymundo Muñoz was born and raised in El Paso, TX, and has made Colorado his home since 1999. He received education at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and University of Colorado-Denver, where he received a B.S. in Biology.
Art was always more his thing, though, and now devotes his life to making it and promoting it. He’s a self-taught linocut printmaker, musician, writer, and photographer, but does enjoy other drawing-based media and sculpture.
He shows in various spaces around town and is the director/co-founder/co-curator at Alto Gallery. He’s an active board member of Birdseed Collective, a local 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to improving the lives of surrounding communities through arts, education, and food programs.
One of Birdseed's programs is 1 of 1 Magazine, a Denver-based visual arts online magazine (recently relaunched!) that Ray also runs. Dedicated to promoting Denver's visual arts scene through reviews, interviews, Q + A's, and features, look forward to more from 1 of 1 in the near future.
Above all, Raymundo is guided by the simple principle that art is a bridge, and that its greatest function is to connect people across time and space.
Watch the video of Ray in his RedLine studio to learn more about him and his practice!
My name is Ray Muñoz. I am primarily a print maker specializing in linocut. It's a relief-based process that's pretty low-tech, and that you can kind of do anywhere. You could even do it with a spoon, which is kind of why I got started with it. Since then, upgraded a little. I use presses now, but I still like the accessibility of it and affordability of it.
Photography is a big part of my process. There's no shortage of really beautiful things and relationships happening around me all the time, so I draw a lot from that, from just what's happening around me. A lot of the work I've done in the past has been based on documenting the Denver art scene. A lot of times, it's just really going to shows and taking pictures of people interacting with art, or people making art, and then just me finding sort of inspiration in that as well, and then documenting it in this different way. I can kind of elevate it to a different kind of art form through the print process.
I am involved with Birdseed Collective, and have been for quite a few years now, and so Redline was always this institution that we were very much aware of, that a lot of really cool people that we ended up working with came from there.
Becoming a RedLine Resident Artist was really a big dream for me. I didn't really see myself getting to that point, but it happened, so I'm going to make the best of it, and hopefully do a really good job.
Plus, I mean, it is just crazy how much good artists come out of here, or go in, and how much better they are after the residency. So I'm really looking forward to hopefully expanding my own practice in that way.
Meet Resident Artist Agnes Ma
Agnes Ma is currently an Assistant Professor and 3D Studios Coordinator in the Fine Arts + Foundations Department at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.
Her work combines traditional craft and modern methods of fabrication to examine the relationship between humans and their surrounding environment.
Watch the video of Agnes in her RedLine studio to learn more about her and her practice >
