2026 Festival Artists
Shannon Mack
The longstanding assumption has remained that the artist's job is to represent the appearance of things, while Shannon believes the deeper task is to extract what is unseen, revealing a more honest snapshot of what it means to be human. As the world accelerates, it is up to artists to spend time observing and gathering impressions that reflect a unique viewpoint. Through intentional fragmentation, repetition, and abstraction, Shannon constructs scenes that weave specific motifs together to reflect our collective human experience.
Shannon is based in Fort Collins, CO.
Samuel O. Dong Saul
As a problem-based artist, Sam’s work shifts with different mediums and materials. Originally trained as an industrial designer, his primary focus examines how art objects communicate on different cultural and emotional levels. As Sam has grown more into the field of graphic design and illustration, he has become interested in how color, typography, shapes, and cultural semiotics communicate specific meanings with an overly embedded language imposition on culture. His work invites the audience to reimagine how messages are interpreted and how these interpretations can change their meaning through new, genuine interactions.
Sam is based in Greeley, CO.
Birdcap
Birdcap is a myth-making muralist and comic artist whose work drifts between folklore and the fridge. With roots in street art culture and a mind full of ghosts, he creates poetic narratives about impermanence, rebellion, and the strange joy of continuing on.
Birdcap is based in Memphis, TN.
Casey Kawaguchi
Casey Kawaguchi is a Japanese American artist, based in Denver, Colorado. Born and raised in Utah, Kawaguchi’s practice began in graffiti, where his passion for precision met the chaos of the spray-can. Drawing from his earliest inspirations of comic books, illustration, and his Japanese heritage, his works convey a simplicity and balance, where contemporary meets traditional in a powerful display.
Carson the Artist
Carson Skinner, A.K.A Carson The Artist, is a muralist and visual artist currently based in Wapiti, WY.
His work is a blend of many influences, resulting in pieces that have a mix of familiarity and discovery. His process driven approach has an emphasis on graphic abstraction and bold use of color. It is the belief that art should be visible and accessible to all that brought him to the world of muraling. Through collaboration with local masters of the craft, he has carved a name for himself in Northern Colorado, and now plans to expand his visual storytelling to the rest of the world.
Lares Feliciano
Lares Feliciano is an artist, cultural worker, tarot reader, and witch based in the sacred San Luis Valley, Colorado. A Bay Area born, Southern raised, mixed-race Puerto Rican, Lares believes in the power of telling our layered stories to both empower and incite change. Lares’ process manifests as a ritual of gathering found materials (archives, ephemera, primary sources), deconstructing their original intention, and finally piecing them together to build new meaning. Recently she completed the Frontier Fellowship with Epicenter in Green River, Utah. Lares Feliciano lives and works in Alamosa, CO with her partner and three cats.
Macey Boren
2026 Emerging Artist
Macey Boren is an emerging artist who has been exhibiting artwork throughout Colorado since 2017. In May of 2024, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Art & Design from the University of Northern Colorado. Her multidisciplinary approach to art is marked by sculpture, murals, installations, and traditional paintings designed to captivate the senses. Inspired by history, much of her work investigates the nexus between traditional mediums and digital fabrication technologies. Macey’s work often explores socio-cultural critiques that span subject matter involving queer visibility, feminist commentary, and environmental issues. In addition to her career as an artist, Macey is also a museum professional with over six years of industry experience specializing in exhibitions; she currently works as a preparator at the Denver Art Museum.
Cora Eastman
2026 UNC Student Artist
Cora Eastman is a painter and multidisciplinary artist raised in Longmont, Colorado. She recently graduated from UNC with a BA in K-12 Visual Arts Education. Her personal art practice focuses on environmental protection and the oddness of the human condition, intertwined with personal narrative and humor.
