CATHERINE V. CARILLI

“Art is a journey to create a visual imprint of self, humanity and nature. “

Catherine began her career studying Psychology at Bates College, in Maine where she received her BA. Catherine’s love for expression through art lead her to the University of Wisconsin where she was awarded an MFA in Painting and Drawing.  She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, and taught Fine Art and Art History at Front Range Community College for many years. Catherine enjoys teaching in her studio and for various organizations and working at Art Events. She is an active member of the Denver Arts Community. The artist run galleries have been a big part of her career. Catherine is an early founder of Next Gallery. At Next Gallery Catherine directed, and curated, Next to the Mic, a poetry and arts event. In Boulder, she participates as a juried artist in the

Annual Open Studios. 

Catherine has an ongoing passion for the importance of Women’s Art. She introduced the National Organization, The Women’s Caucus for Art to Colorado. She also served on the National WCA Board of Directors,1900-1994. She currently holds a position on the board of Directors for the Colorado Women’s Art Center and Museum, CWAM.  Along with the CWAM Exhibition Committee, Catherine curates art to promote the fine artworks of women artists living in Colorado in 

Denver Gallery exhibits. 

Catherine V. Carilli exhibits her artwork nationally and locally. Her work is collected by the Ucross Foundation and others. It is her honor to have a painting in the permanent collection of the Kirkland Museum in Denver.

KATHLEEN J GRAVES

Kathleen is a mixed media photographer and builder of retro character bots and new constructivist landscapes. Her primary work for 15 years has been about Landscape including interventions in the environment and more lately, endangered animals. Graves has shown in NYC, Virginia, Miami, Philadelphia, Colorado, Havana Viejo, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Italy, South Korea and on Long Island. Graves is in the collections of Langone, NYU NY, Parrish Museum NY, Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center NY, Watermill Center NY, Patchogue Arts Council NY, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany and Yesultong - The Street Museum, Seoul, South Korea. Graves was an adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at New York University. She also taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Pratt Manhattan and the International Center of Photography in NYC. Graves was the Director of the Advanced Digital Print Studio at NYU between 2005 - 2012. Graves taught the large format digital print and artists methods using the computer, formulating and devising digital techniques and an expert command of photographic work. In April 2023, Graves moved from New York to Denver, Colorado, where she grew up. Graves has a Studio/Gallery at KJG Artworks, 900 Santa Fe Drive representing her artworks. She has shown in many group exhibitions around Denver since 2024. Graves is a board member of the Colorado Women’s Art Museum and Center, a member of the WCACO, the Women’s Caucus for Art Colorado, CPAC, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and the Denver Art Museum.

LYNN BURNES

Lynn is a Denver abstract and nonobjective artist who has been painting in oils, acrylics, and mixed media for over 20 years.  She is a graduate of the University of Colorado, and her fields of study have included mathematics, philosophy, and science which have inspired her love of space, geometry, and time, revealed in 

many of her works.

She previously worked in the field of philanthropy for 12 years, as both a Program Officer for two foundations, and the Executive Director of a small national foundation. Other interests took her into educational research and working with many nonprofit organizations for over 

30 years.

Art history is one of her passions, and too often little value is placed on women’s art in museums and in galleries, both locally and internationally. Being a board member for the Colorado Women’s Center and Art Museum is both an honor and an opportunity for her to help correct this oversight and change the misperception that women’s art is somehow less-than.

iANOTY

Tonya Shults is a business owner, entrepreneur, and fine art painter with a focus in abstract realism. Tonya studied Photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City, launching her career as a Fashion Photographer for 10 years. Tonya and her husband Bryan are co-owners of an award-winning interior design showroom –

Summit Design Center. 

She markets her fine art under her nickname ‘iANOTY,’ where her original acrylic paintings have been shown across the US, including California, Texas, Wyoming and throughout Colorado, with a permanent exhibition of her work at the iANOTY Gallery at D’art, located in the heart of the 

Santa Fe Arts District.  

In her free time, Tonya enjoys fishing in the mountains of Colorado and on the Gulf of Mexico–or any place suitable for fishing–with her husband and their two dogs–Nikita and Summit. A native of Colorado, she has also owned and shown horses, a consistent theme in her artwork, and is inspired by the beautiful wildlife and 

natural landscapes Colorado has to offer.  

LOIS R. LUPICA

For nearly three decades, artist Lois R. Lupica was a professor of law first and a painter second. But seven years ago, the law professor from the University of Maine moved to Colorado part-time during sabbaticals and summers and rediscovered her passion for encaustic and cold wax painting. Five years ago, she made Colorado her full-time home. Her "day job" is heading up a Legal Innovation Lab where she builds tools to help people who can't afford lawyers. 

Lois' cold wax paintings are expressions of light emerging from the darkness, with imagery subsumed by subtle tones and texture.  Her encaustic work reflects bold color, tonal contrast, relief patterns, and are reflective of a strong physical interaction with materials. Blowtorches, heat guns, scrapers and brushes are used as tools to both add and subtract pigmented wax. Lupica’s fine art pieces are both communicative and aesthetic. She believes being surrounded by beautiful and provocative art makes life better.

Lois is a member of the Sync Gallery in Denver's Art District on Santa Fe.  Her paintings have been in numerous juried shows, including a solo show at the Silverthorne Performing Arts Center, Art on the Green, D'Art Galley, Apis Opis at NKollective, the ASLD Summer Art Market and the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is featured in numerous private collections, businesses and homes across the country. When she's not painting, she and her husband enjoy skiing, biking, and traveling around the world. Lois is also a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu and gives great dinner parties, upkeep, CRM upkeep, and event production.

JOY REDSTONE

I joined the Colorado Women’s Art Museum (CWAM) Board in order to support other women and to make sure our powerful voices are recognized and seen. The best way for us to be seen is for us to be literally seen. This mission of CWAM aligns with my deepest passions and offers me a way to make a meaningful contribution.

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For a variety of personal reasons, I have spent my lifetime trying to find my voice. Becoming a self-taught artist gave me a way to express experiences that I did not have the words to communicate. As I have connected deeply with other female artists, I have found that many of us use art to disclose our deepest selves. In a world that does not always value the female experience or at times offers us oppression, art is a meaningful method of sharing our truths. 

But women’s art is not as highly valued as men’s, and we struggle in this arena to find recognition or even be seen. It is important to find ways to support each other and highlight the valuable contributions of female artists.