fall arts invitational at Cheesman Park OCT 4 & 5
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Artists at most of our shows
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New Featured Artists
Artists at most of our shows
New Featured Artists
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Artists at most of our shows
Artists at most of our shows
Artists at most of our shows
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Artists at most of our shows
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Featured artists
Peter Freischlag
Peter Freischlag
“Master Artist” award winner! Peter Freischlag's free-flowing style makes his watercolors unique. Peter is a mood painter creating an impression of his subjet matter through the use of bold and energetic colors.
Gretchen Borgelt
Peter Freischlag
Gretchen creates exciting, modern landscapes by applying an acrylic gel medium with a palette knife to the wrapped canvas. Then she starts layering acrylic colors, sometimes adding a retardant and/or a varnish glaze. She continues the painting on the sides so no need to frame!
You can find her creations at www.modernstrokes.com.
Hong Rubinstein
Potter Hong Rubinstein throws voluptuous and elegant vessels adorned with oceanic sculptural elements and crystalline glazes. With the assistance of her husband Adam, who sculpts and loads the kilns, she creates magnificent one of a kind pieces featuring barnacles, tentacles, and an exquisite surface treatment. Her wares range from eye catching show pieces, to sophisticated sinks and innovative mugs. These complex vessels are made using a combination of throwing and added sculpted elements, and high fired in a gas kiln.
Douglas Wodark
Doug uses traditional oil techniques on linen and focuses on strong contrast lighting in pushing the color envelope.
Linda Backus
Linda creates multi-color blown glass vessel forms which are embellished with designs of lamp worked cane and murrini. The designs are created first, and picked up while the piece is being formed.
Jacqueline Rinehart
Landscape and wildlife photography. With a wide range of signed and numbered prints in sizes from 12" to 60" on Luster paper, Canvas Giclee and metal. Products including coasters to tote bags.
New featured Artists
Abby Crow
Abigail Crow grew up in a family of artists, in Bountiful, UT. This unique upbringing has helped her hone her skills of careful craftsmanship as well as artistic analysis. She studied at BYU in the BFA Illustration program.
“I learned to paint on canvas, but glass has a versatility that lends itself so much freedom. I love painting portraits, whether it be of people, animals, or flowers. With the variety of subject matter, the possibilities are endless.”
Chapin Dimond
Metalsmithing is the process of telling stories through metal. Each piece is brought to life by Chapin's spirit and fire, releasing the inner essence of the metal. Art is not only a product, it is the process of creation - expressing life, capturing moments, and preserving and making memories. Each piece tells a story of blending natural elements together to capture nature's expression.
Chapin is inspired by fun, nature and the magic of metals. According to Chapin, “Metalsmithing is the process of telling stories through metal, and releasing the inner “feeling” of what metal wants to be: express life, capture moments, and make and preserve memories.” He works with metal daily, using ancient and modern techniques, manipulating and experimenting.
www.cdimond.com
Kasia Polkowska
Kasia Polkowska is a multidisciplinary artist living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, who translates her deep love of nature into vivid paintings, intricate glass mosaics, and striking outdoor sculptures. Born in Warsaw, Poland and educated at Pratt Institute (BFA ’06), she draws inspiration from her travels and the ever‑changing landscapes of the American West to evoke mood, color, and pattern in every work. Through her art and her Mystic Valley Sculpture Park, she aims to share a sense of wonder and connection to the outdoors, encouraging viewers to see the beauty in their everyday surroundings.
Matthew Coglianese
Matthew Coglianese, who works under the name ThePigshark, is a Chicago‑based digital artist and photographer whose creations blend surreal architectural forms, science fiction motifs, and digital manipulation. He specializes in dye‑sublimated aluminum sheet metal prints and enjoys exploring the boundaries between reality and imagination through photo‑alteration. Driven by his passion for the impossible, his work seeks to bring the viewer into unexpected visual spaces where technical skill serves artistic vision. hwww.thepigshark.com
Dawn Normali
Dawn Normali
Dawn is a vibrant impressionistic artist, calling Colorado her home for more than 50 years. She is quick to say that her purpose in this world is to bring beauty and joy to others through her passion for painting, something she has had since the early age of 6. Dawn earned degree's in art from UNC and Aims College. She gained a deeper understanding of art from her experience at The Loveland Fine Art Academy and Art Students League of Denver. . Her greatest hope is to continue to paint and teach art throughout her life, sharing her gift with others.
Artists at most of our shows
Tina Hoffer
“Distinguished Excellence“ category award winner! "Elemental Materials"
Tina Hoffer is a unique woodworker by blending two of natures alluring elements; wood and stone. Tina creates functional, culinary accessories with her Cutting Boards, Gathering Boards, Serving Platters and Dipping Trays that will elevate your daily or special occasions.
Tina meticulously searches through arborists’ wood lots looking for the perfectly flawed, cracked and knot filled hardwoods that other woodworkers pass by because of these deficits. She chooses smaller pieces of wood that will be enhanced with Stone like turquoise, lapis, malachite or chrysocolla, and inlays these into the cracks and voids. She follows the Kintsugi method of Japanese art , where broken and fractured pottery is mended with gold or silver dust, there by restoring the fragments to a functional and more beautiful piece.
Dai Salwen
Dai Salwen is an artist and creator guide based in the desert mountain Southwest who, after a childhood exploring art through everything from drawing to melting colored wax on rocks, developed a practice rooted in honoring wildness and the natural world. Trained at institutions like the School of Visual Arts in NYC, UNSW in Sydney, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Dai integrates teaching, wilderness guiding, and art to encourage seeing the world and oneself with deeper gratitude, presence, and connection.
Deidre Sappington
Deidre Sappington is a progressive custom stained glass artist, specializing is stained glass pet portraits.
She has been creating stained glass windows and panels since 2015. Her inspiration comes from the transference of light and the emotion that it evokes through Stained Glass. Her love of animals led to specializing in stained glass pet portraits and memorials, where she expertly captures the essence of our adopted family members. Deidre also enjoys creating custom works for her clients, including up-cycling old items with stained glass to give them new life through art.
Holly Olive
Holly Olive is a Colorado-based painter. She was born in North Dakota, but has lived in a wide range of landscapes from the Mojave Desert to New England. This variety of landscapes is evident in the paintings she creates today. Inspired by dreams of altered worlds, her paintings embody the movement and color of an altered universe. Using acrylic and alcohol ink, she creates abstract landscapes of a world that is just outside her reach. She casts out her brush as if it were a wizard’s wand in unpredictable strokes to inflict a visual experience that stimulates the mind to ask “What world is this?” She uses a palette knife with an intentional splat to cleave into the fabric of time and space. She works back and forth, layer to layer, until she verges on falling from the precipice to a new and precious universe.
For purchasing Holly's work, go to www.villainhatter.com
$1000 ART FESTIVAL SHOPPING SPRee DRAwiNG
1 Chance To Win!
At 12pm on Sunday, October 5th, we will be drawing for a $1000 Art Festival Shopping Spree!
How do you get a ticket?
Come to the festival and simply ask any artist for a free drawing ticket.
What do I do with the ticket?
Put your ticket "Stub in the tub!" at the ColoradoArtWeekend.com tent.
What then?
Be present at 12 pm for the drawing.
A few things to remember.
1. You must be present to win
2. You must be 18 years or older
3. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY .. You must have your "stub in the tub" before our drawing at 12pm on Sunday!
Fine Art & Music All Weekend
NATIVE FLUTE PERFORMANCE BY VIBHAS
NATIVE FLUTE PERFORMANCE BY VIBHAS
NATIVE FLUTE PERFORMANCE BY VIBHAS
Saturday, Oct 4 from 10-5 PM
Sunday Oct 5 from 10-4 PM
Vibhas is a versatile multi-instrumentalist whose performances blend the soulful tones of Native American, East Indian, and classical flutes with piano and saxophone. Trained in Germany with roots in classical, world, and meditative music.
AUTHENTIC REGGAE BY LINK&CHAIN
NATIVE FLUTE PERFORMANCE BY VIBHAS
NATIVE FLUTE PERFORMANCE BY VIBHAS
Sunday, Oct 5 from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Link&Chain is a band of brothers that have been harmonizing together and co-writing their songs for decades, since their early days in Jamaica!
KIDS ART CONTEST
NATIVE FLUTE PERFORMANCE BY VIBHAS
KIDS ART CONTEST
Saturday, Oct 4 from 2:30 - 4:30!
Bring the family and join us to for this free creative experience brought to you by the Crafty Chassis! Each child can hand craft their own one of a kind art project and enter it in a contest for a chance to win.
$100 Art Festival Shopping Spree! The winner will be announced at 4:30!
Gourmet Alley-2025
KB Candies
Pennywhistle Soap
Pennywhistle Soap
Crafting sweet moments with innovative freeze dried candies and gourmet toffee. At KB Candies, we create a fun and unique snacking experience, marrying nostalgia with modern innovation.
Pennywhistle Soap
Pennywhistle Soap
Pennywhistle Soap
My name is Rebecca, and I am the soap artist behind Pennywhistle. I have “been around” soap for years, taking classes from other soapers, reading books about soapmaking, always admiring other makers at craft fairs and farmers’ markets. After years of hanging on the sidelines, and a deep longing to know this art form, I finally gathered th
My name is Rebecca, and I am the soap artist behind Pennywhistle. I have “been around” soap for years, taking classes from other soapers, reading books about soapmaking, always admiring other makers at craft fairs and farmers’ markets. After years of hanging on the sidelines, and a deep longing to know this art form, I finally gathered the courage to start making my own soap.
303 Sobar
Pennywhistle Soap
Akira Skin
303Sobar specializes in providing the veery best in alternative alcohol-free drinks. Thier Mobile Sober Bar provide NA Beer, Wine, Specialty Mocktails, NA spirits and a variety of other alternative Beverages. www.303Sobar.com
Akira Skin
Pennywhistle Soap
Akira Skin
All ACIRA SKIN products are made by a Master Esthetician. Our products are non-comedogenic, naturally derived, and formulated without the usage of harmful chemicals.
Food truck list-2025
Blessed BBQ
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream
We offer a True Texas BBQ. Brisket, pulled pork, chicken and cheddar jalapeño sausages are our meats. Our selection includes USDA Prime certified beef for a premium dining experience.
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream is a small, Colorado-based company proud to stay true to our roots. The technique of using liquid nitrogen, rather than ice cream machines, gives us the ability to make a smaller ice crystal, resulting in a creamier (and better-tasting) ice cream. Using Colorado’s best ingredients and cutting edge techniques,
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream is a small, Colorado-based company proud to stay true to our roots. The technique of using liquid nitrogen, rather than ice cream machines, gives us the ability to make a smaller ice crystal, resulting in a creamier (and better-tasting) ice cream. Using Colorado’s best ingredients and cutting edge techniques, we create and serve the highest quality super-premium ice cream.
Cupbop
Polar Bros. Nitro Ice Cream
Simply the Best Coffee
The Cupbop menu is our own delicious take on Korean cuisine. Exotically flavorful, naturally healthy dishes you've never had a chance to try— and we make them all affordable, fresh, and lightning fast. Junghun Song always had a strong belief that Korean food has all the necessary ingredients to appeal to the world. He started the fir
The Cupbop menu is our own delicious take on Korean cuisine. Exotically flavorful, naturally healthy dishes you've never had a chance to try— and we make them all affordable, fresh, and lightning fast. Junghun Song always had a strong belief that Korean food has all the necessary ingredients to appeal to the world. He started the first Cupbop food truck in 2013, four main dishes, and a variety of special sauces spiced #1 sweet to #10 heat. www.cupbop.com
Simply the Best Coffee
Toby's New Orleans Po'Boys
Simply the Best Coffee
Quench your thirst with some deliciously brewed coffee. This will also be a great booth to stop at for further refreshment as they will have more that just coffee!
Toby's New Orleans Po'Boys
Toby's New Orleans Po'Boys
Toby's New Orleans Po'Boys
Toby's New Orleans Po'boys , brings the corner store po'boys from New Orleans to Denver. We cater!!!
SUNDAY Wong Way Veg
Toby's New Orleans Po'Boys
Toby's New Orleans Po'Boys
Fueled by their love for animals and street food, founders Lisa Wong and Natalie Gilbert bring globally inspired, plant-based twists to seasonal, locally sourced ingredients. Known for their vibrant orange food truck and heartfelt approach to hospitality, this women-run duo crafts cozy, imaginative meals- think jackfruit quesadillas, bar
Fueled by their love for animals and street food, founders Lisa Wong and Natalie Gilbert bring globally inspired, plant-based twists to seasonal, locally sourced ingredients. Known for their vibrant orange food truck and heartfelt approach to hospitality, this women-run duo crafts cozy, imaginative meals- think jackfruit quesadillas, barbecue black bean quinoa burgers, and the ever-popular Baja “fish” tacos that delight vegans and meat-lovers alike