Reception and Artists Talks | 6-8pm, November 1, 2024

Exhibition Location: Center for Creativity

200 Mathews St, Fort Collins, CO 80524

Please join Center for Fine Art Photography for the in person reception and artists talks at the Center for Creativity in Fort Collins, Colorado! This joint reception for our two shows, A Thousand Beautiful Lies and Center Forward 2024, will be held on Friday, November 1st, during First Friday Art Walk. Join us for refreshments, view some of the best in contemporary photography and hear the artists speak about their work.

A Thousand Beautiful Lies

This exhibition will feature artwork by acclaimed artists Shayla Blatchford, Abbey Hepner, Bootsy Holler, Kei Ito, Patrick Nagatani, and Will Wilson.

This exhibition investigates the nuclear environmental and humanitarian legacy by exploring the agency and place of those directly affected by lasting impacts. Each artist explores issues of atomic legacy through lived experience and personal biographies affected by atomic legacies.

Center Forward 2024

Katherine Ware's Juror’s Award: Brooks Dierdorff
Katherine Ware's Juror’s Honorable Mentions: Ryan Mitchell, Judyta Grudzien, Kevin Hoth, Elliott Peacock
Hamidah Glasgow's Juror's Award: Ryan Mitchell
Hamidah Glasgow's Juror's Honorable Mentions: Cristina Burns, Levi Christiansen, Stephan Jahanshahi, Mehrdad Marzaie

Selected Artists: Debra Achen, Mark Armbruster, Karen Baker, Jennifer Baumann, Jake Benzinger, Brenda Biondo, Barbara Boissevain, Cristina Burns, Shawn Bush, Jo Ann Chaus, Diana Cheren Nygren, Chuang Chih-Hao, Levi Christiansen, Ally Christmas, Brooks Dierdorff, Jesse Egner, Teri Figliuzzi, Patricia Fortlage, Susan Goldstein, Judyta Grudzien, Frank Hamrick, Carlton Henkes, Jamie Ho, Kevin Hoth, Pengkuei Ben Huang, Charles Ingham, Stephan Jahanshahi, Dave Jordano, Michael Joseph, Dawn Kowalewski, Rob Lantz, Chrissy Lush, Andy Mattern, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Ryan Mitchell, Allen Myers, David Ondrik & Becky Holtzman, Eliott Peacock, Allison Plass, Walter Plotnick, Oriana Poindexter, Jennifer Ray, Kathryn Rodrigues, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Forrest Simmons, Ian Stoufer, Bahar Tusi, Joshua White, Tako Young