Teague McDaniel and Fawn Atencio
Through Nikki Pike’s BARTter Collective, we created over 100 small pieces of art as gifts to be gifted at Adams County Pride. June 2026
Kimberly Ritchie and Fawn Atencio
A long distance collaborative effort in observing the environmental changes in both New Hampshire and Colorado deltas and water shrinkage. We are recording changes we see after the symposium we collaborated in 6 years ago, called, Forecasting: Climate Change and Water Impact.
Using collographs to print images of disappearing bodies of water, we hand cut the delta like images and install them as objects, further abstracting the disappearing evaporating shapes that impact the east and the west landscapes.
Exhibition at Plymouth State University, Fall 2025
Kimberly Ritchie and Fawn Atencio
A long distance collaborative effort in observing environmental changes we observe after 5 years after the symposium, Forecasting: Climate Change and Water Impact. This was our response. Exhibition at Plymouth State University
Kimberly Ritchie and Fawn Atencio
A long distance collaborative effort in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.
Collective Whereabouts
A collaborative effort asking gallery viewers to take a strand of printed material and mark a place that they have experienced. This pulled in the community to discuss various geographies and experiences each person remembered. This effort was originally in tandem with the exhibition Place: A Travel Memoir.
That exhibition led to “Collective Whereabouts”, an ongoing art project which engages viewers to discuss place, travel and their experiences along their own journey. This project is ongoing, and has been extraordinarily rewarding. This began in 2011 and was revived at the Denver art Museum in 2019. I hope it is further revived as the subject matter is more important than ever.
Collective Whereabouts
(Sketch for presentation to DAM).
A collaborative effort asking gallery viewers to take a strand of printed material and attach to my mountain shaped piece. The prompt was: What brings you to Colorado? Observers become makers by attaching cut pieces of hand pulled prints to a larger handmade mountain shaped structure. Layers of stories build texture, colors, and a newfound composition. In the addition of paper, stories, and interactions with others, we construct a collective whereabouts.
*This project is ongoing, and has been extraordinarily rewarding. This began in 2011 and was revived at the Denver art Museum in 2019.
Collective Whereabouts
This project is ongoing, and has been extraordinarily rewarding. This began in 2011 and was revived at the Denver art Museum in 2019.
Collective Whereabouts is collaborative effort which asks viewers at the Denver Art Museum to participate in the making of an art piece. Each person was asked, “What brought you to Colorado?” Observers become makers by attaching cut pieces of hand pulled prints to a larger handmade mountain shaped structure. Layers of stories build texture, colors, and a newfound composition. In the addition of paper, stories, and interactions with others, we construct a collective whereabouts.
Collective Whereabouts
sketches
Another sketch for Denver Art Museum proposal for “Collective Whereabouts”
Collective Whereabouts
ideas and sketches
A collaborative effort asking gallery viewers to take a strand of prints made from imagery on my own travels to India, China, Hong Kong and Macau. Participants are asked to place an inked strip of paper on a map ( or on my art piece) that they have experienced. This is an ongoing art project which engages viewers to discuss place, travel and their experiences along their own journey. This project is ongoing, and has been extraordinarily rewarding. This began in 2011 and was revived at the Denver art Museum in 2019.
Pink Progression
Honored to Collaborate with Sarah Wallace Scott, and Bonnie Stolzman.
Cosaint
Dimensions Variable
500 paper butterflies, Handmade paper Plant, Drawing and Painting
Arvada Center, March, 2020
Pink Progression
Honored to Collaborate with Sarah Wallace Scott, and Bonnie Stolzman.
Cosaint
Dimensions Variable
500 paper butterflies, Handmade paper Plant, Drawing and Painting
Arvada Center, 2020
Where water and land meet
Where land and water meet are about interpretations of affected public lands and altered bodies of water. Using Colorado as a point of departure, these landscapes appear carved or diminished, but carry a visual beauty and an insistent content beyond the edges of the paper. This is the first collaboration of two professional printmakers who live and work in Denver, Colorado.
Each artist has been addressing landscapes through a contemporary lens: Chauvin, looking at man’s land use, manipulations ranging from logging, to preservation and paths through spaces. Atencio, looks at how water behaves as it creates paths, patterns, and connections to the land it intercedes. The prints are significant in that each artist uses a combination of low tech (monotype, relief) and high tech (lithography, digital) print processes, which convey a curiosity and concern for land and water issues in a unique and thoughtful manner. The artists' subjects of land and water become abstracted through their choices: hand drawing meets printed and digital processes, and textures of ink meet close observation and trace monotypes. A real environment interpreted through printmaking becomes surreal while maintaining something tangible.
The Average Path Length
Small world experiments designed by Stanley Milgram and other researchers in the 1960's examined the size and connectedness of social networks of people in the United States. The research was revolutionary; it offered that human relationships can be represented as paths connecting nodes (individuals). The distance between individuals can be measured by the number of paths (or relationships) they are from one another. Thus we have the idea of six degrees of separation; the average path length between any two people in the world is six relationships from each other.
Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci overlapped lives by 48 years, yet they never met in person. But what if they had? Their mutual interest in mathematics and art could have had immeasurable collaborative potential. Today, I would never know of many great and talented printmakers had I not been invited and exposed to portfolio exchanges. Now, with the click of a mouse we can contact, introduce, interface, share technical information, propose ideas, and create new relationships with other artists, thus enriching each printmaker's studio practice, and collaborative potential. Anyone who has ever worked in a studio with another person knows that each person affects the others' work even if only subconsciously. What we make and how we construct are affected by our relationships and proximity to one another.
20 Invited Artists Respond to “Average Path Length” Please see colophon for details.
Slowness
Curated by Mary Hood
The prints for Slowness have a human made element that interrupts a landscape.
For Chauvin, Slowness, became about process, and the evolution of a collaborative relationship.
The net layer had to be a hand drawn stone lithograph. The drawing had its own evolution, starting with climbing net knot instructions, screen printed onto fabric, because what makes a better drawing subject, than a layered image to draw?
For Atencio, what makes a better slowness project, than several layers of dye, screenprint ink washes and handwork in combination with a lithograph?
The wonderful, sympatico moment came when Fawn walked into the printmaking studio at the University of Denver and we layered our separate efforts. The previous two years of work and struggle coalesced into an image that said “YES”. This is it.
From that moment, we did each return to separate spaces – but the work and trust of our collaboration is significant for each.
The prints are a varied edition of 15, incorporating stone lithography, screenprint and hand work with watercolor on Rives BFK.
Route 66: Westbound to Paradise
Route 66, also known as the road to opportunity, linked Chicago to Los Angeles between 1926 and the mid 1950's. The road functions as a metaphorical bridge, connecting the country socially and culturally, bringing people to paradisaical California. The road enabled over 200,000 people to migrate to California, escaping the Dust Bowl. After World War II, thousands of soldiers and sailors sought the perfect climate and plentiful jobs on the West Coast. Once again Route 66 facilitated their relocation. As people migrated along the route, it served as a cultural conduit, transporting ideas, progressive thinking, and diversity westward. The road to opportunity led to California, a place for a better life and where paradise could be found.
Portfolio exchange participants were asked to provide their own take on Route 66 Westbound to Paradise, taking into consideration Route 66, the road to opportunity as a catalyst for social change. The portfolio will travel with special collections announced after portfolio is home in Denver.Please see colophon for details.
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The Butterfly Affect
The Butterfly Effect
In 1961 MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz began contributing to a branch of mathematics known as chaos theory in an attempt to predict weather patterns. Chaos theory is the study of systems in which small changes to initial conditions, yield large differences in outcomes. Consider releasing a bowling ball down a lane. A wide variety of outcomes are dependent on slight differences in the ball's initial position, speed, and spin (among other things). Lorenz coined the phrase “the butterfly effect” to describe his work on chaos theory. He suggested that the flapping of a butterfly's wings might precipitate a hurricane on the far side of the world. That is, a small change to the existing meteorological conditions might have a large effect on the state of the weather system.
For my edition of prints for the exchange, I chose to discuss the glare of light we now have in our backyard after losing two 100 year old black maples. After losing them to disease - due to climate change- all plants in our yard died. They were used to shade. It changed an oasis to a glaring hot dessert.
A Portfolio exchange of 20 educators and artists. As the curator, I asked 20 artists to respond to the prompt. This portfolio will travel and be placed in special collections. Please see colophon for details.
