Eddy Beard is an artist in recovery. Eddy lives in Denver, and utilizes RedLine’s Community Studio.

Eddy had overcome a 12 year period of incarceration in the Texas state prison system he received for engaging in criminal activities. Eddy has overcome drug addiction and homelessness, which occurred following his prison experience—and all of the stigmas associated with prison life and the criminal element.

Art for Eddy is like prayer and helps him focus on what's most important: life, sobriety, and loving others. Eddy works in the recovery field, where his lived experience is helpful to people new into recovery, including recovery from drug abuse/imprisonment and mental health challenges.

Eddys job led him into the doors of the RedLine Community Studio. He’s able to be supported in his art project endeavors with space/supplies to create art.

Eddy wants to open his own recovery agency that uses art therapy has a pathway for recovery for new and healthier lifestyle changes and choices.

Kesiena’s art is multifaceted, ambiguous, confusing, and always left up to interpretation.

Kesiena’s main inspiration for her art comes from her love of all life forms. This includes abstract watercolors depicting colorful microorganisms, multicolored and psychedelic floral paintings, and acrylic paintings that depict the female body in an experimental way. This originates from two things: her college major and her personal life. As a biology major, Kesiena found a passion for all living things along with a feeling of urgency related to the climate crisis. She wants her audience to experience a strong feeling of wanting to protect the beauty and life of the subjects within her pieces. One of her favorite quotes that inspires her artwork is, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

By drawing from real biological life forms, Kesiena attempts to manifest this beauty into her artwork. Her pieces also touch a lot on femininity. Kesiena has been drawing women in all forms since early elementary school. Growing up, she never wanted to acknowledge the reasoning behind her artistic depictions of naked women. These depictions are drawn from personal experiences of living with a feminine body and her attraction to women as a whole in every way.

Being a multimedia artist has allowed me a platform to communicate in various styles to my audience the messages I want to convey. My artistic efforts are influenced by many places, people, senses, and events surrounding me.

My desire is to transcend information through my work and imprint on the mind an experience that will move the viewer to think outside the box of their normal idea of what art is. My abstract collage work is such an example of this experience.

I want to be associated with being passionate, different, ever changing, and presenting daring subject matters and colors to be analyzed.

It's my effort to give intelligent information to the viewer through my artistic efforts. The why, how, and knowledge shown in my work as the world is swiftly changing eagerly allows me variety in my creative process. Also, my personal views of history, changing experiences keeps me with new ideas to bring to the viewing audience with fresh ideas and diversity through my work.

I have enjoyed my journey as a visual artist, ceramic artist and collage work, it has been rewarding. My work has brought healing as well liberating ideas for me as well hopefully the viewing audience.

I am an African American woman about middle age. I am originally from Oxnard, California, but now reside in Denver, Colorado.

I started creating art during the pandemic because it was therapeutic to be away but and around people. I work at home and the RedLine Community Studio.

I have gone through several different hard times, including homelessness, mental, and substance conditions, and family loss.

My creative therapy is to express things in my art. I create all different types of art using painting, sewing, writing, and now clay manipulation. I feel that my writing can tell stories and keep me out of my head. My sewing helps with giving to others and showing a sense of style. My art lets me experiment with different substrates to show how complicated but connected the world is.

These things help me to recover from the experiences that held me down, but now lift me up. I strive to show other people of color, age, and through recovery that it is possible to keep pressing forward no matter what.

Vanessa Starr draws much of her inspiration from growing up in a community of artists in a plantation town in Hawaii. While Starr studied politics instead of art in college, she has found a way to incorporate her passion for social justice with her desire to create. Starr is a visionary artist who invites viewers into a world of captivating imagination and emotion.

Starr’s artistic journey was influenced by Hawaii’s rich history and diverse artistic heritage. She developed an early fascination with color and form, often spending hours observing the interplay of light and shadow both in the wild on land and on the sea. She generally uses materials that are most accessible, learning from her mother who was both an artist and a master of resource management.

Starr describes her process as, "When I paint I often imagine looking through a window framing an item of interest or beauty. I enjoy painting images of faces and flowers because they can hold my attention with their individual uniqueness. I'm endlessly fascinated by the curve of a lip, or by an upturned petal in a blossom”. Her work often explores themes of identity, transformation, and the delicate balance between chaos and harmony.

Starr is a member of Reach, an artist-led studio that offers “an inclusive space for artists to build their creative practice together”. She also has recently had the honor to be represented by Art Lifting, a venerable organization that “Champions Artists Impacted By Disabilities And Housing Insecurity”.

The twin threads of storytelling and creativity have been interwoven throughout Matt’s life. His creative adventures have crossed numerous mediums and subjects, arriving full circle to his true first love of mythical visual art presented with his own surreal flare. His natural existential curiosity finds its lens through his craft, informed by his own personal journeys.

Creativity puts Matt and everyone who shares connection with the art into a state of aliveness, awakening people at the levels of mind, body and spirit – to elevate from the mundane to the mythical. Coming from a religious upbringing, his fascination with the symbolic has propelled him along a personal journey connecting world wisdom traditions through the lens of mythology.

Based in Denver with his wife and son, his two most ardent supporters, he's been blessed to be featured in local galleries, coffee shops and more. Matt seeks to expand the definition of creativity beyond a limited number of activities, as a way of being in the world. Mythic art and creative education form a bridge between the inner and outer worlds.

Robin is a Capricorn and has 3 beautiful children: two boys and one girl. Her favorite color is purple and favorite car is a 73 Super Beatle. She is left handed. She likes to be different and original. The easiest and best way to be original is to produce and create.

She gets pleasure when she creates. From coming up with a new idea or recreating an old idea, to deciding which materials are best to use, to solving problems to make her artwork.

She works constantly. She keeps a notebook for ideas for new projects wherever she goes. She frequents RedLine for work space, supplies, and inspiration. She also works in and on her RV at the park, library, and on the bus.

Tiffany is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of perception, spirituality, and healing. Through an intuitive and experimental approach, she transforms materials such as clay, steel, and papier-mâché into evocative forms that bridge concept and process.

Each work becomes a meditation on transformation—an exploration of how the tactile and the metaphysical meet. Tiffany’s practice reflects a deep commitment to creating spaces for connection, reflection, and restoration, where art becomes both a personal and communal act of healing.

Eckseption is a multidisciplinary artist who comes from a family of talent and has had a passion to create since she was young. She is from Denver, a student at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design studying Fine Arts, and Core artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center.

She creates work based on her personal perceptions, experiences and they are often very representational to her life living in Colorado. She creates art as a form of therapy and to share her practice for a better understanding of self awareness.

Her work is very diverse in illustration and visual arts utilizing acrylics, oil, pyrography, unicorn spit stain and calligraphy ink on canvas and wood.

She is intrigued by the viewers interpretations and aspires to open her own community studio one day to help others find their niche, passion to create and make the necessary exceptions to be the best versions of themselves..