Bruce Price, "Medium & Large Aggregation," 2012. Acrylic paint and fabric on paper; 30 x 22 in.  Lent by the artist. © the artist; courtesy Plus Gallery, Denver & CuratorialAccessories.com.

#69: Bruce Price

A painter who started out as a musician, Bruce Price learned from his mentor, the pattern painter Clark Richert, at the Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design, and eventually stretched and bent those lessons into something that suited him better. The resulting work, abstractions expressed in a looking-forward way, have morphed into new dimensionalities that challenge the flatness of traditional painting. It looks simple, sometimes rough, but there is a careful structure behind it all.

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- 100 Colorado Creatives: Theresa Anderson
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Donald Fodness
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

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Mare Trevathan in Eve Ensler's "The Good Body," Aurora Fox.

#70: Mare Trevathan

Mare Trevathan gets around. The theatrical jill-of-all-trades works her chosen field from every angle: as an actor, director, teacher, talking-book reader, collaborator and public-relations expert, going from one spotlight to another as the muse moves her. Trevathan is not only a familiar face on some of the city's best stages, from Curious Theatre and the LIDA Project to the Denver Center Theatre Company, but she also finds space on some of its smaller ones, from Off-Center@The Jones to the Denver Children's Theatre at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center.

See also:
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Tony Garcia, Su Teatro
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Garrett Ammon, Wonderbound
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Patrick Mueller, Control Group Productions

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#71: Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

In Denver's close-knit arts community, everyone knows Lauri Lynnxe Murphy. Even when she's gone, as she was for a couple of years while she was earning a graduate degree in Ohio, she remains a force here. Murphy sometimes shrugs it off, asking, "Why me?" But while she's so wholly immersed in her work and her process, Murphy is also equally engaged in the world around her: She's opinionated, enjoys great enthusiasms and is an expert on survival as an artist who is doing exactly what she was born to do. People look up to her -- and they like her, too.

See also:
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Donald Fodness
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Sabin Aell
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Onus Spears

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Matt Scobey, design rough for a quilt collaboration with Rebecca Peebles.

#72: Matt Scobey
Matt Scobey is a practical artist and jack-of-all-trades creative with a jones for graphic design, illustration, hand-lettering, whimsical puzzles and patterns, and grassroots collaborative projects. Some of those collaborations have been with the art collective Bored of Directors, others with underground publications, art museums and film festivals.

See also:
- City Beautiful 2.0: A Modern Interpretation of the Built Environment
- Matt Scobey's Not for Sale: Denver: Art in the most unusual places
- Denverites open an Alley Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach

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Jean Albus, "Magpie," from Into the Within, Hinterland Art Space.

#73: Norman Broomhall and Jean Albus

Norman Broomhall raises chickens, sells vintage objects and mirrors antiqued by hand, plays the guitar and takes photographs; Jean Albus is a photographer, as well. Both are inspired by the call of nature and, together, they've created Into the Within, an installation that's been creating a buzz since it opened at Hinterland Art Space on April 12.

See also:
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Terri Bell, artist/gallerist at tbellphotographic
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Mark McCoin
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Patrick Mueller, Control Group Productions

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David Andrews

Nancy Smith dangling in a sphere.

#74: Nancy Smith
The sky's not the limit for Frequent Flyers founder and director Nancy Smith, who literally hangs around most days at her Boulder aerial-dance studio: teaching, choreographing, visualizing, directing and dancing, sometimes in an upside-down position. It's a rare profession, with one hand reaching clear up into the stratosphere, and if you want to learn more about it here in Colorado, you'll want to fly up and see Smith.

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- It's a circus out there: Frequent Flyers brings Cirque de Minuet to The Dairy
- Ratcracker is back, a high-flying alternative to Nutcracker
- Best Flight School, 2010: Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Studio

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#75: Conrad Kehn

The opening sentence of Conrad Kehn's professional bio kind of says it all: "Conrad Kehn is a composer, improviser, performer, educator, writer and artist." But that's the glib definition of a guy who, under the skin of his basic vita, is hellbent on spreading the joy of making and sharing and being a part of music that is sometimes difficult, all while never assuming that any audience is too dumb -- or immature -- to appreciate it.

See also:
- Soundpaint with Walter Thompson and the Playground tonight at the Auraria campus
- With its Mile High Voltage Festival, the Newman Center makes classical music more accessible to the masses
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Mark McCoin

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#76: Sahar Pazirandeh

Sahar Pazirandeh left Iran with her family in the late '80s, when she was nine years old, in the wake of changes that followed the ancient nation's Islamic revolution. She'd spent her early years in the grip of Iran's new fundamentalist face; her own mother, a former IBM executive, had to leave her job and lost many of the rights she'd previously enjoyed. "What happened to her spilled over on to me," Pazirandeh remembers. The family settled in Denver, but the specter of that dark period still hung over her as she grew into a woman in a freer atmosphere.

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- Adult eyes: Realizing how dirty Dirty Dancing really is, 26 years after my first viewing
- Paninaro Rewind: A Weekend of Fashion and Fun
- 100 Colorado Creatives: Dreamer, doer and Westword Whiteout designer Brandi Shigley

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Mark McCoin, in the heat of a performance.

#77: Mark McCoin
Experimental musician and multimedia artist Mark McCoin has paid his dues many times over, contributing a free-thinking, collaborative style of creativity to the Front Range scene over three decades. He's worked with a who's-who of the local avant-garde, and in the last of those decades, he honed his explorative leanings at the University of Colorado as a grad student and instructor.

See also:
- Save the Tank: Musicians unite to preserve an acoustic marvel
- Best Homemade-Instruments Show, 2013: Gorinto
- See the multimedia of tomorrow in Boulder tonight

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#78: Ken Arkind
Ken Arkind embodies what's important in the slam and performance poetry world: A literary poet, dedicated slam coach and microphone virtuoso both here and abroad, he lives and breathes the poet's life with an educator's focus. As much as he lives it, he's also interested in passing on what he knows to younger versions of himself as the executive director of Minor Disturbance, Denver's youth-slam poetry organization. And though co-coach Mary McDonough is leading the national team this year, he'll be at Su Teatro at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, cheering on those kids as they compete in a final Grand Slam to determine who will represent Minor Disturbance this summer at the 2013 Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival in Chicago. In the meantime, Arkind and fellow poet/artist Charly Fasano have released a collaborative chapbook, Denver, and he promises more poetry-in-print on the way in the near future.

We asked Arkind to answer our 100CC questionnaire; read on to learn what he thinks about life and poetry.

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- Minor Disturbance Grand Slam 2013
- Poet Ken Arkind on his new book and the purpose of poetry in a music-driven world
- Minor Disturbance: 2012 MasterMind award winners

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