Celeste was born and raised in upstate New York where she began her art career living in a community of artists in the Adirondack Mountains. She spent her early years judging the subtle shifts in color between grades of the finest dark maple syrup, on her family’s off-grid maple syrup farm. This love for the play of light and color and the feeling of being at the center of a solitary forest is at the core of her work as an oil painter today. While a largely self taught artist, Celeste studied drawing and painting at the New Mexico Art League and Watts Atelier. She holds a BA in anthropology, mountain geography and linguistics from the University of Montana, and an BSN in nursing from Montana State University.

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).

The love of natural environments that brought me to live in Telluride 50 years ago, along with a desire to recreate or “re-create” myself during retirement. In 2008 I ventured out Plein Air with a friend/painting teacher in Baja California Sur, and have been painting ever since.

Nature’s magnificence in different weather and lighting, excites and inspires me to capture, recreate yet translate, honor and celebrate her and the moods she invokes. A strong painting transports me to another time, place, and emotional state; this is my aim.

I have been blessed with the opportunity to learn from, and am grateful to many master painters, most notably John Comer, Jill Carver, Katherine Galbraith, Rita Pacheco. and Kevin Macpherson.

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Ingrid Oliphant is a savant artist whose creative journey began unexpectedly in 2022, echoing her earlier awakening to the capacity to heal through touch in 2009. Drawing from her work as a shaman, Ingrid channels what she calls the "Language of Creation" into her paintings, offering viewers a deeply mystical and multi-sensory experience.

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.

Joanie has been known in the publishing world for over 25 years, for portraiture as well as fine art. Creating art and clothing that is imbued with unconditional love brings her life meaning. 

Brittany Miller mixed media creations blend fine pencil drawings with three-dimensional objects to craft thought-provoking shadow box displays.