2019-2020 ArtCorps Mentoring Artists
If the artist’s name is in red, you can click on it to learn more about them and their practice!
Theresa Anderson
Theresa Anderson (b. 1967, St. Paul, MN) lives and works in Denver, CO. Developing interdisciplinary work through performance art, sculpture, drawing and painting she explores concepts dealing with conflict, and/ or, oppositional categories, and recitations on agency and inadequacy. She is alum of artist residencies at Redline Denver, PlatteForum, and Vermont Studio Center where she received fellowship funding for her sculpture. Anderson has received multiple commissions and stipends through organizations such as the Biennial of the Americas, Black Cube Nomadic Museum with the curator Cortney Lane Stell, as well as the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the presentation of a master artist demonstration on drawing at the Denver Art Museum. Recent solo and notable exhibitions include everything squiggles at 808 Projects, curated by Mardee Goff, every length of a drawing at Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis curated by Nicole Soukup, Performativity at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, curated by Michol Hebron, Thief Among Thieves at Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Adam Lerner and Nora Abrams and some kind of cuddle at Gray Contemporary, Houston, where she is represented.
Hannah Bean
Hannah Bean is a writer, artist, and Denver native who recently graduated from MSU with a bachelor's of English. She enjoys collaging, drawing, painting, crocheting, and trying her hands at just about any craft you can think of. Hannah loves to travel and finds inspiration all over the world, but can't stay away from the mountains and the people of Denver too long.
Connor Cilley
Home will always be Maine, but I currently live in Denver Colorado. I recently finished my baccalaureate in Emergent Digital Practices at the University of Denver, I am just starting my adventure.
Be it digital, traditional, or experimental I am content to be trying all I can at the moment and discovering where that takes me.
If you would like to reach me, the best way is through my email: connorcilley@gmail.com.
Alisha Francis
Alisha is a Denver fashion designer and DJ. She’s been in the program for the past three years.
Narkita Gold
Narkita Gold is a Denver-based contemporary photographer, interpretive artist, and creative behind the portrait and interview series Black in Denver exploring the question “What does it mean to you to be black in Denver?” Narkita’s own personal transformation sparked the vision for the colorful, thought-provoking visual ode to the black community, highlighting the complexity and depth of the black experience in the Mile High City.
Casey Kawaguchi
Marsha Mack
Marsha Mack (San Rafael, CA) holds an MFA in Ceramics and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women's and Gender Studies from Syracuse University, and a BFA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University. With materials ranging from glazed porcelain to melted sugar, Mack's texturally rich, process-intensive sculptures and installations honor playfulness and introspection as equals. Her ongoing interest in cultural consumption and the formation of identity serves as wellspring for visual and associative cues, giving rise to questions of personal vs universal symbol, mixed race identity, and the emotional potential of confection. Mack has presented projects and exhibitions with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Denver, CO), Black Cube Nomadic Museum (Englewood, CO), Lane Meyer Projects (Denver, CO), PØST Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), The Yard (Colorado Springs, CO), and the Galleries of Contemporary Art (Colorado Springs, CO). Marsha is currently the Associate Director of David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), a ceramic instructor at Foothills Park and Recreation District (Littleton, CO) and an artist in residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center (Denver, CO).
Destaniee Merworth
Destaniee Merworth is a conceptual and experimental artist working in Denver, Colorado, and is a recipient of a Bachelors in Fine Arts at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (RMCAD). She has exhibited work in galleries across the Denver metro area, including Juicebox gallery, Recreative Denver, and the Land Yacht. Merworth is a member of the New Genres Collective, a collaborative coalescence of artists who work with improvisation, performance, and installation to navigate new modes of creation. She is a founding member of the Unseen Collective, a group of female artists who exhibit together responding to various unseen forces. These works are often intimate and shifting through each artist's perspective.
Merworth is enchanted with the occult, voidspace, and the ritual of dreams. In between the folds of tangible experience and the aether exists a purgatory realm in which the mind, body, and spirit are allowed to meet. This convergence is often unclear, protected, and held in a sacred crevice within. Merworth explores these meeting points through prophetic imagery, visual metaphor, and descriptive colorful allegory. Her large-scale surrealist dreamscapes are explored through light, shadow, color, and texture. Merworth often utilizes daily rituals which enrich her practice and over time craft new narratives. Her work is very influenced by North African and Middle Eastern architecture, Islamic miniaturists, dream sequences, and prophetic visions.
Addie Kae Mingilton
My paintings are based on photographs of my mixed race family. My skin tone gives the impression that I don’t struggle fitting into the majority, which is untrue. I use photographs of my father’s side of the family because I feel there was so much beauty in their lives, even as they struggled to live up to white standards. I see the abstraction of my figures as symbolic of imperfection, as is all creation through human hands. By attempting to fit into either category of black or white I find myself as a grey paint stroke overlapping the two, not completely blending into one color or the other. Acrylic paint can be moved and maneuvered smoothly; it doesn’t mix easily and dries quickly allowing me to create unblended shapes. The thick unblended strokes I make represent my experiences as a mixed race individual, my lack of acceptance in modern and political society, and my struggle to fit into one race or the other. When starting a painting, I usually feel anger or sadness for my family members and what they have had to live through. I demonstrate these emotions through my color choice. The purple in my work is the most consistent throughout my pieces, to represent my blended ethnicity. I use a lot of pink in my artwork to symbolize the universal love of one’s self and others. I add the ghostly blue to suggest the idea that these are memories from the past. My paintings explore the complicated and controversial relationship our country has developed between blacks and whites; although much time has passed, there has been little progress in mending the relationship between the two. I believe in education and creativity, and through my imagery I aim to educate others on the minority figure as beautiful, relatable, powerful, and belonging in art just a much as the white figure. I struggle with my light skin, and that I am considered passing. I struggle to find my place between my own two cultures and within my current mixed relationship.
Michelle Nichols
Michelle is a local painter and avid gardener. She’s been with the mentoring program for 4 years and has mentored the same student, Alichia, during that time.
Markus Puskar
Markus Puskar is a Denver based visual artist and a mentor in RedLine’s ArtCorps Mentoring Program at Whittier School. Markus often invites the public to contribute to his pieces and you can click on his name to learn about his Coloring Book Mural Project he created last summer.
Carmen Richards
Carmen Richards was born and raised in the Carolinas and began her creative career as a textile designer. Upon moving to Denver in 2011, she began working with Project Worthmore - a local npo that provides programs which foster self-sufficiency for refugees - founding their annual art show and fundraiser, Our Neighbors Ourselves. Her personal artwork has since aimed to bring more awareness to various issues, and inspired her to become part of other artist communities with similar visions such as ZEEL and RedLine. When not hustling around with her dog and two teenagers, Carmen can be found working in her Five Points art studio or out exploring nature and painting murals
Mike Roderique
Mike Roderique is a Denver artist, educator, and activist who works full-time at a local college doing work in equity, diversity, and inclusion. He has been with RedLine and the Artcorps Mentoring Program for six years and misses everyone very much. During shelter-in-place, he has been working on paintings, playing video games with his partner, and snuggling with his dog. You can see more of his art at mikerodderiquemakes.com or Instagram @mikeroderiquemakes
Regan Rosburg
Regan Rosburg's work intersects the themes of biology, ecopsychology, and environmental stewardship. Working in a variety of materials, Rosburg explores the everchanging relationship of humans and nature. Rosburg lives and works in Denver, CO and teaches at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Josh Schmidt
Josh is a local mixed media artist. He’s been with the same student, Angelo, for two years.
Katie Vuletich
Mimicking the work of artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, I juxtapose text and images to re-contextualize. I examine the seemingly mundane by isolating and re-framing unnoticed details of everyday life. Incorporating trash and found objects, I aim to re-purpose and create somethings beautiful and compelling from something that would otherwise be unwanted. In carefully constructed layers of mixed media material I distort, abstract, and exaggerate features for visual appeal and, moreover, to challenge our relationship with our stuff and that which we subjectively deem “good art”.
