CHIT CHAT

“Costume Silhouette and Storytelling”

By Pheobe H. Boynton 

Pheobe H. Boynton is a costume designer originally from Ithaca, NY and currently based out of the Theatreworks costume shop in Colorado Springs, CO. She has her bachelors in art history from Cornell University, and an MFA in theater design and technology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 

“Art in Nature and the Nature of Art ”

By Nikki Pike

Coloradan artist Nikki Pike will share her wide-ranging arts practice from building large scale forest sculptures to printmaking in the studio. 

Nikki grew up in Black Forest Colorado where she learned to ride bikes and climb trees in between flashlight tag, midnight soccer, and competitive sledding. The adopted daughter of a nurse and an engineer, and one of six siblings, Nikki learned to work in groups and negotiate early on-- fighting over the measuring cups in the bathtub and wooden spoons in the garden, The Pike family children grew wild imaginations.  

Nikki Pike is an Artist and Activist. She uses universally positive human experiences such as curiosity, music, surprise, and gifting to spread values of empowerment, vulnerability and connection in the form of experience as opposed to product. Nikki sees herself as a Culture Agent working together with local communities promoting activity and creativity. Nikki's expansive practice straddles Public Arts, Social Sculpture, and Service Art. Her has been featured at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and Art Basel Miami to name a few. Most recently, Nikki’s work has been collected by The Museum of Art of Wyoming; The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and CSU SPUR Campus. Currently Nikki studio and home are in Denver, Colorado. She holds a principal professorship at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.