Sarah Darlene (she/her) (b. 1989, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a multidisciplinary artist, meditation teacher, energy healer, and tarot reader based in Denver, Colorado. Through painting, fiber, installation, and ritual-based practices, her work bridges contemporary abstraction, contemplative practice, embodiment and healing, and community care. Themes of femininity, queer identity, and cyclical transformation recur through the use of worn garments and domestic materials, which operate as both personal artifacts and shared cultural matter.

Rooted in yogic philosophy and mindfulness training, Darlene approaches abstraction as a somatic language centered on the nervous system rather than the intellect. Repetitive gestures like stitching, braiding, and mark-making function as both aesthetic strategies and regulating practices. Alongside her studio work, she develops socially engaged programs and installations focused on arts access and creative wellness, collaborating with institutions including the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Darlene holds a BFA from Louisiana State University and trained in mindfulness with rev. angel Kyodo williams.

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Allegra Giddings (she/her) is an artist and curator based in Denver, Colorado. She holds a BFA in Fashion Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, an Art Business Certificate from Online Biz Academy and a 200-Hour RYT Certificate from The River Yoga.

Working across textiles, photography, painting, and relational aesthetics, her practice centers an ongoing inquiry into “Truth” and “Light.” Giddings begins each piece with meditation, moving beyond thinking into stillness. From this place of clarity, she explores challenging themes such as sustainability and social healing. Her work seeks to illuminate truths within communities and the self, moving toward greater presence and peace.

She has held roles in event planning, gallery curation, public programming, and fashion design education. Giddings has exhibited work at Denver Art Museum, Biennial of the Americas, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She loves exploring the unknown through travel, research, and collaboration.

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Elle Hong (she/her) is an antidisciplinary artist currently based in Cheyenne/Ute/Arapaho Territories (Denver, CO). A current resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center (2024-26), her work spans dance, media arts, text, sound, and pedagogy, often employing collaging techniques for creating performances that reenvision history and form. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including the Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival, SPEKTRUM Berlin, Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia, PA), ODC Theater (San Francisco, CA), BMoCA (Boulder, CO), among others. Elle's creative research works to uncover the embedded politics and power structures inherent to viewing and being viewed. She is invested in exposing the complex dialectic between interiority and exteriority, paving way towards new methods of being that actively resist and transcend categorization. Her work uses dance as a primary text for transcending the (representational) limitations of the body.

Paloma Jimenez (she/her) is an artist and writer currently based in Denver, Colorado. She received a BA in Studio Art from Vassar College and a MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and featured in international publications. Paloma Jimenez's work represents and reconfigures the poetry, humor, and degradation of the physical world that surrounds us.

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Allison Sheldon (they/them) is an artist and educator living in Denver, Colorado.  Their work often explores themes of grief, slowness, and building relationships with the natural world. Allison’s work draws from the rich history, traditions, and metaphors imbued in textiles and uses their reverence as a foundation for work in many mediums including printmaking, video, music, and social practice.  They received their Master’s of Fine Art with a concentration in Textiles in 2019 from the University of Kansas and a part of their heart is still in the prairie.

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Flora Wilds (she/her) is a conceptual artist with a BA in Art History and Philosophy from Suffolk University and an MFA in Visual Arts (New Genres) from the San Francisco Art Institute. Wilds has shown sculpture and performance work all over the United States, including with Shelter Gallery (Manhattan, NY), the NARS Foundation Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Space__Space Gallery (Boulder, CO), and the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design. Wilds taught undergraduate art students at SFAI, has held various guest lecturer positions, and she independently teaches workshops on Astrology for Artists. Recently, Wilds was a 2024 resident at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal, and held her first retrospective solo exhibition, You Can Maintain A Constant State Of Longing If You Try, at Colorado Mesa University (2025). Wilds lives in Los Angeles, CA.   

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CURATOR

Felicity Wong (she/her) is a writer/researcher focused on modern and contemporary art as it intersects with histories of race and labor in transnational and Afro Asian contexts. Her current research takes a particular interest in fashion- and textile-based practices that probe questions of decay, reuse, and counterfeiting. 

Felicity received a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame and an MA in Art History from the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she has contributed to exhibitions and collections research at the Museum of Modern Art, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, and the Uganda Museum. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Dress (The Journal of the Costume Society of America), DARIA Magazine, and IMPULSE Magazine.

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