This year’s Art Show will feature work from the Artists below
Storm Avalon
Biography: Storm Avalon is a local CO artist whose love of fantasy, science fiction and horror inspire his work. He runs Avalon Studios alongside his wife and produce photo shoots, music videos, and other types of collaborative and conceptual projects, including pop culture fan works.
Bret Bertholf
Biography: Bret Bertholf is an artist who lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
Michael W Carroll
Biography: Journalist, lecturer and space artist Michael Carroll has over thirty books in print. He has written for dozens of magazines worldwide. His fourth science fiction novel is Plato’s Labyrinth: Dinosaurs, Ancient Greeks and Time Travelers. His most recent non-fiction books include Planet Earth: Past and Present (Springer), and Envisioning Exoplanets (Smithsonian).
Carroll has done work for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His art has appeared in several hundred magazines throughout the world. In the 2015/16 season, he explored Antarctica’s active volcano, Mt Erebus, to study analogs of ice moons there. One of his original paintings is on the surface of Mars—in digital form—aboard the Phoenix spacecraft. He is the recipient of the Lucien Rudaux award for lifetime achievement in the astronomical arts, and he voluntarily eats orange marshmallow circus peanuts, which may or may not be actual food.
Website: carrollspaceart.com
Peri Charlifu
Biography: Peri is a local artist who has been showing in convention art shows for many years.
Website: aegeangoods.com
Teagan Clark
Biography: I am a new artist based here in CO, and this is my first time doing works for sale. Grew up doing this sort of thing for fun, and I thought that others would appreciate this sort of work. In the future, I plan to do mostly commission works, and if I get a good reception, I plan to do more art for future cons.
Sarah Clemens
Biography: Sarah is best known for her award winning paintings of Magnus & Loki, the cat and dragon companions, which have been the most fun to paint of all her fantastic creations. She also paints fantastic creatures on stone slabs. Sarah works in a photo-real style, in oils and acrylics. Sarah and her husband and cats and terrariums and carnivorous plants live in Mesa, Arizona.
Creative Good Leather
Biography: Since 2016 Creative Good Leather has been selling custom leather craft
Kyle Crutcher
Biography: Kyle Crutcher is a local Colorado Springs artist who has been making pottery since high school. Kyle earned his BFA in Studio Arts with an Emphasis in Ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work runs the gamut from pieces inspired by English folk pottery with Celtic decoration to Retro Futuristic rocket ships. His work can be found in galleries and various shows throughout the year. When not making pottery in his studio, Kyle also teaches Ceramics at Pikes Peak State College.
Robert Daniels
Dillman & Long
Brenna Deutchman
Biography: Brenna Deutchman of Whimsical Whiskers creates unique snuggly, cuddly, friendly, adorable plush stuffed animals. Each animal is a certified Dream Guardian — defender from nightmares, keeper of secrets, soother of anxiety, and reminder of self worth. The dragons, dragon foxes and dragon bunnies are here to remind you how special and wonderful you are.
These cuddle companions are always ready to play and dress up. Some are just the right size to travel in your pocket on a keychain, and some are bigger, for hugs, cuddles and love.
Website: www.whimsiwhiskers.com
Christy Grandjean ‘Goldenwolf’
Biography: My artwork is a fairly eclectic mix of animal people, shape-shifters, fantasy creatures, visionary images, and whimsical scenes. I am most known for my werewolves, wolf people, and other anthropomorphics. I hope my art evokes in you wonder, enchantment, joy, wildness, hunger, and longing for what could be.
Website: https://www.goldenwolfen.com/
Kat Hall
Biography: Scientist and fiber artist.
Sally Hamilton
Biography: Sally Hamilton is a lifelong artist with a special fascination with cats and mythology. She gets a lot of inspiration from vintage story books and her collection of colorful kitchenware!
Website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SallyHamiltonArt
Daniel Holmes
Biography: Primarily I enjoy painting (landscapes, still lifes, and space art mostly), science fiction focused scale modeling, my family, drawing, astronomy, amateur radio, and 3D printing. I also enjoy reading, writing, food, video games, computing, model rocketry, and photography.
Yes, it’s a large list. I’m interested in a lot of things, and continually find new things to fascinate me. The passage in Robert A Heinlein’s “Time Enough for Love” has guided my life: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”. I may not be able to do all of those things, but I’ve never been afraid of trying something new. I don’t think of it as ADHD but a lust for life, and enjoying every minute of it.
Debra Horst
Jim Humble
Biography: Since childhood I have drawn or sculpted anything that I could imagine or see. Wildlife and Mythology more than anything else shape my art, most of my characters are at least partially based on some basic reality mixed with a healthy dose of imagination. Add in monster movies, Conan, Tolkien, Lovecraft, the great Frank Frazetta, and 3 years in Germany and Europe (where my love of art was really intensified) and in my case, you end up with fierce dragons, twisted gargoyles, fuzzy kittens and Lovecraftian horrors. Sometimes all at once!
Early in my career I did Renaissance Fairs and outdoor art shows. Those shows really helped my skills, as I had to sculpt and paint constantly to keep the booth full. I have since moved on from those venues and now focus mainly on art shows at Science Fiction/Fantasy Conventions and private commissions and I have won numerous awards for both sculpture and paintings over the years both nationally and internationally. I’ve been pursuing my vision and passion to create professionally now for more than 30 years. I’m constantly striving to adapt new and unexpected techniques and media into my art.
Website: www.humblestudios.com
KC Lancaster
Biography: KC is a long time Colorado Artist who has attended and shown at MileHiCon for many years. She has created fantasy artwork for the gaming community as well as for many publications over the years, and currently creates commission pet portraits.
William Llewellin
Biography: Bill is a retired mechanical engineer, and one of the founders of the Denver Mad Scientists Club. Socially irresponsible engineering, disguised as performance art.
Website: Facebook: Bill Llewellin
Reynold Mackey
Biography: Reynold Mackey is a Kansas born Artist though living in Colorado Springs Colorado for the past 25 years. Reynold is a Sculptor of the Earth in various mediums, from wood to bronze castings which house all of the topographical detail and bathymetry of the ocean floor! Some of the original wood pieces take years to arrive at a detailed representation of our planet. The objective of such pains taking endeavors, is to lead the observer in a visual tour reestablishing the visceral connection we all possess when it comes to our home. You see the Earth, stripped of the lines and names that humans have applied to her, in an effort to show the unity and stewardship that we all must possess to foster not only a healthy planet but a healthy community that thrives upon it!
Theresa Mather
Biography: Working in acrylic and sometimes colored pencil, Theresa is a fantasy artists who specializes in painting fantastical creatures both real and imagined on traditional and non traditional surfaces.
Website: https://rockfeatherscissors.com/
Patricia McCracken
Biography: Patricia is an accomplished Fantasy artist working in watercolor. Her style is clearly influenced by the Japanese wood block prints from the Edo period called, Ukiyo-e, which translates to “pictures of the floating world.” Keeping her paintings light and delicate, but with the bold colors and patterns typical of the latter end of that period. She received her BFA at the University at Buffalo and a MA at Syracuse University. In 2002 she began exhibiting in art shows all across the country and has won numerous of awards for her Japanese style fantasy work. Patricia continues to show at convention art shows and lives in New York City with her family.
Website: http://patriciamccrackenart.com
Laura McKeal
Aaron McKissen
Biography: Aaron is an illustrator, who also creates Acrylic paintings of sci-fi and fantasy subjects and sci-fi landscapes.
Website: https://aaronmstudios.com/
Reed Mingault
Biography: Reed Mingault is the daughter of a Marine and hasn’t spent more than a few years in one place in her life. Her formative years, when not moving cross country and across oceans, were spent on horseback and handling birds of prey, and she’ll happily tell you more than you wanted to know about either. She draws, paints, dabbles in illuminated calligraphy, and is fascinated by pre-industrial handicrafts. Reed lives with her geneticist husband, precocious daughter, and a small menagerie of furred, scaled, and exoskeleton-ed critters.
Website: https://reedmingault.com/
Tracy Monette
Biography: Mixed media artist who enjoys learning new techniques and creating unusual pieces. Going from fun and flirty to dark and sultry.
Pamela Moore
Biography: A Colorado native creating purposeful pottery with a whimsical flair. My passion is to create the pieces you love.
Betsy Mott
Biography: After nine years of college and two Master’s degrees (English Literature and Theatre)
Betsy Mott decided to be a professional artist. For over 40 years her techno drawings, cosmic, mystic & fantasy paintings have been seen in science fiction art shows all over the country. Her work can be seen on the Landmark , Great Warrior, and Great Space Ships series of published note cards, on CDs, Web zines, books, websites, and in personal collections around the world. She has been featured in a PBS Northwest Profiles segment. She is a fourth generation native of Spokane, a Mensan, and a lifetime member of the Mayflower Society.
As part owner she helps her brother run The Corner Door Fountain and Books in Historic downtown Millwood, WA, Her hobbies include Role Playing Games, kayaking, researching obscure subjects, and playing trumpet in local wind ensembles.
Beverly Pfeifer
Biography: In love with the science and mathematics of my art forms.
Robert Pfeifer
Biography: Just trying to do something with the Rock Shop I call my yard.\
A L Raden
Biography: A L Raden (she/her) is a multidisciplinary storyteller (artist, writer, designer) who loves exploring layered, character-driven storytelling, especially with an emphasis on magic, myth, and nature. Her art primarily features joyful fantasy and science fiction original charcoal drawings and pointillism-style paintings. She’s also contributed to multiple comic, essay, and prose fiction anthologies and stories as a writer, inker, and letterer.
Website: www.radenstudios.com
Ralph J Ryan
Biography: I am primarily a self-taught artist and have pursued artistic endeavors most of my life. My art is an exploration of landscapes, both real and imagined. Working in acrylics and watercolors, my paintings reflect the influences of impressionist painting, a long-time interest in architecture, and the dramatic lighting of the theatre.
Website: https://bit.ly/3ZtdAPN
Sandra SanTara
Biography: Eclectic blend of visionary, fantasy, deities, erotica and realistic wildlife artwork. Traditional painting using mostly acrylic. Some digital painting for print and productions pieces. No A.I. http://www.windwolf.com
Original creator of ESSAs “Emotional Support Stuffed Animals” Cute plushies with ES harnesses and gear. https://escrittersthatcare.etsy.com
Website: http://www.windwolf.com
Lucy A. Synk
Biography: Graduating from Siena Heights College, MI., with a BFA in painting, drawing, and photography, Lucy moved to Kansas City, MO., to work for Hallmark Cards, before embarking on a career as a freelance fantasy artist.
Lucy has exhibited at galleries, science fiction conventions, Renaissance Festivals, and art fairs. She published illustrations and book covers in the U.S. and Europe, including the cover for Andre Norton’s book Wizard’s Worlds. She also continued to hone her various skills in painting and portraiture.
Then she discovered the Natural History exhibit industry. Working first for Chase Studio in southern MO and then for Taylor Studios in Rantoul IL, Lucy painted murals and illustrations for over a decade. She considers her Cretaceous mural, installed at the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, IL, the high point of that career.
Lucy’s creative energy is not all spent on her art. She has completed a master’s degree in theology from Loyola University in New Orleans, using it to explore her interests in science and faith, feminine spirituality, and fantasy/SF as modern myth.
Lucy went on to work in Chicago as an educational children’s illustrator for T.S.Shure before returning to Michigan. Lucy is now exploring new avenues of creativity, including acrylic pour/mixed media spacescapes. Some she adapted to create illustrations for the Warren Norwood Windhover books being reissued by Weird Sisters Publishing end of 2025. In the art show you will see some of her newest Spacescapes, with 3D elements and iridescent paint.
Website: www.lucysynkfantasyart.com
Thrifty Gryphon
Biography: Thrifty Gryphon is the creator of upcycled boxes and art exhibiting Steampunk, Fantasy, and Geek themes.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/thriftygryphon/
Tomi V Welch
Biography: A Lord of the Rings nerd, Tomi has been quilting for decades and displaying in con art shows for 20 years. She has received multiple art show awards including best of show at Detcon NASFiC. Tomi earned a BFA in studio art, but rather than be a starving artist, she found a place at the local community college. Now retired, Tomi and her human and animal family reside in Austin, Texas.