Wolverine Farm Publishing and Wolverine Farm Publick House strive to be valuable resources for local makers of all kinds. In order to better serve the maker and artist community and to encourage individual artists and makers to interact with one another and build a strong network, we present the Maker in Residence (MIR) program. Every three months we select a local maker who agrees to be present and in good maker form at the Publick House throughout the term, and to perform a free, public, in-house event or workshop.
2026 Makers In Residence
SUMMER (July-September) Bethany Chambers
Bethany Chambers is an artist, a graphic designer (BC Design Co), and a Fort Collins native. Spending a lot of time in digital spaces as a graphic designer by day, she balances that by creating art in various physical mediums including watercolor/gouache and acrylic paint, marker, relief printing, and mixed media collage. Her art explores and magnifies small objects, animals, nature, or anything else she finds exciting at the moment. By choosing to focus on art that she finds funny or joyful she hopes to bring the same warmth to those who may see her work.
@bethanychambers @bcdesignco
Find Bethany at the Publick House throughout the season.
SPRING (April-June) Lee Valley
Lee Valley is a queer multidisciplinary storyteller and circus freak. They use art as a way to explore complex themes of childhood, memory, systemic injustice against the LGBTQ community and global ecosystems, and how play and joy can be transfused into moments of horror. Their work stands on a foundation of filmmaking, soundscape, experimental written narrative and stop motion animation. Plus whatever else they can find in a basement or yard sale. Lee lives in Fort Collins, CO with their wife and tiny dog, Pesci (Funny how? Like a clown?). When they aren’t in therapy, they are laying in the sun like a lizard. Check out their website at theartistleevalley.com.
Find Lee at the Publick House throughout the season.
WINTER (January-March) Malory Graham
Malory Graham is a multimedia collage artist, filmmaker, and educator who recently landed in Fort Collins and immediately started sniffing out good creative trouble—which, unsurprisingly, led her to Wolverine. Her work in analog collage, handmade journals, and storytelling explores transformation, memory, and finding everyday awe in the ordinary.
She studied filmmaking at Hampshire College and went on to found Reel Grrls, a radical all-girl film school in Seattle that has supported and mentored young filmmakers for over two decades. Elevating untold stories and fanning creative confidence are through-lines in everything she does.
When she’s not tearing paper, making a film or covered in paint, you can find her at the dojo, where she is also a sixth-degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido– a movement practice she relies on to keep her rooted and sane.
A focus of Malory’s residency at Wolverine is completing her current project, Wonderland, a psychedelic integration journal—an art-forward, guided journal designed to help people creatively process big, strange, beautiful inner experiences (psychedelic or otherwise). Equal parts structure and play, the journal invites reflection through collage prompts, writing exercises, and visual whimsy.
As a newcomer to Fort Collins, Malory is excited to connect with others during her residency. Please stop by and ask her about: collage as a contemplative practice, teaching trauma-informed yoga in prison, her little red Swedish fire truck, or her favorite Prohibition-era cocktails.
Find Malory at the Publick House throughout the season.
2025 Makers In Residence
AUTUMN (October-December) Haley Takahashi
Haley Takahashi is a Japanese American artist based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. She received an MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2023 and a BFA in printmaking and minor in art history from the university of Colorado, in 2019.
Her focus is contemporary printmaking methods combined with sculpture, ceramics, and fibers. Within the context of Japanese art aesthetics, she explores fear, longing, and grief as it relates to identity, family history, and current events. Takahashi is an advocate of interdisciplinary art practices and supports the expansive creativity of her students in both printmaking and foundations at Colorado State University. Her work has been shown nationally across the US and internationally in Poland and the UAE.
Find Haley at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase in January.
SUMMER (July-September) Grace Hoag
Grace Hoag is an artist working in Fort Collins. They earned their BA in from the University of Northern Colorado in painting with studies in business administration and arts entrepreneurship. Grace was selected for Art Gym Denver’s Create Award Residency, which culminated in the exhibition, In Absentia (2021). Her work was exhibited in Boulder at the Dairy Arts Center for Prismatic (2023), and in Denver at Friend-of-a-Friend gallery for BACK2SCHOOL (2022). Her paintings are featured in the documentary Anxious Nation (2022) directed by Laura Morton and Vanessa Roth. In 2025, Grace curated an exhibition, Embodied, at the Museum of Art Fort Collins (May 21-June 8). Her first solo exhibition, Somatic Memory, is in October at Petrichor Collective in Fort Collins.
Website: https://www.gracehoag.com
Find Grace at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase in October.
SPRING (April-June) Johnny Vinton
Johnny Vinton is a multidisciplinary artist with a career spanning over four decades. Beginning as a professional dancer at 16. Johnny spent 10 years performing in New York City. He later studied photography at The School of Visual Arts. During that time, he worked at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art archiving works from LGBTQ artists. Johnny has exhibited his works in galleries in SoHo, LA and Venice, and was the recipient of three American Art Awards.
In recent years, Johnny has expanded his work to include ceramics and fiber arts, with a focus on needle felting.
He is excited to share his artistic journey and connect with fellow creatives in the Fort Collins community.
Find Johnny at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase in June.
WINTER (January-March) Christine Hogg
Christine is an artist and designer based in Fort Collins. Through experiences in the visual arts, language learning, travel, and a career in education, she developed a commitment to create spaces for open dialogue and honest communication.
Art is a means for her to confront and process experiences and to document individual perspectives and nuance. She shares her stories to contribute to a conversation about (re)humanization, vulnerability, and reconnection and seeks spaces where others want to share their own.
https://www.christinehogg.design/
Find Christine at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase in April.
2024 Makers in Residence:
AUTUMN (October-December) Kayla Moore
Kayla Moore is a non-binary artist who lives and creates in Fort Collins Colorado. Having received a degree in Fine Arts (BFA) from Colorado State University. Kayla is a multidisciplinary artist who does Lino Printing, Bookbinding, Illustration, and Painting.
In their art, they strive to achieve fine technical skills, form, whimsy, and a dash of the macabre. Their work is particularly focused on themes of History, Naturalism, Surrealism, Community, and Queer identity. During their residency they will be offering an intro to Bookbinding workshop. You can find them there, as well as periodically working on art in the shop.
Instagram – @peskycarp
Find Kayla at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase sometime early 2025.
SUMMER (July-September) Jared Kaser
Hi! I’m an artist and maker living in Fort Collins, CO. To me there are no firm boundaries between the arts and sciences – my background in engineering is essential to my art practice, the inverse being just as true too. I’m interested in far too many mediums – drawing, songwriting, product design, screenprinting, sculpting… – but the core of it all is a high volume of sketchbooks, if I’m not moving at a fast pace I’m liable to just stop altogether.
Instagram – @jaredontheinternet
Find Jared at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase sometime late September.
SPRING (April-June) Liz Ortiz
Liz Ortiz is a Fort Collins-based multidisciplinary artist who specializes in various printmaking methods and techniques. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) with concentrations in Photo Image Making and Printmaking from Colorado State University. Daughter of a Mexican native, Liz was the first in her family to attend and graduate from a university.
During her academic career, Liz focused on intaglio, lithography, and woodcut printmaking methods, as well as analog black-and-white photography. She currently focuses on relief block printing and is exploring other accessible methods which mimic traditional techniques such as intaglio and lithography.
Liz’s imagery focuses on graceful and bold line work to create impactful figures and nature-inspired compositions. She is inspired by the infinite gestural line work of nature and aims to embody this natural occurrence in her work.
As the founder of Mad Hare Press LLC, a Latina-owned local small business dedicated to the world of printmaking, Liz combines traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques to produce unique and captivating artwork. Mad Hare Press offers a two-fold experience, centered around printing and selling hand-carved fine art prints as well as educating individuals through printmaking and multi-media workshops.Liz’s journey as a Latina artist and small business owner is a testament to her dedication and passion for the art of printmaking.
Find Liz at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase sometime around the solstice.
WINTER (January-March) Sonya Richards
“I am Sonya Richards, and I am a Dutch artist currently living in Fort Collins, CO. Prior to CO I spent fourteen years in Portland, OR, where I worked at a print shop, and ran an art supply store and teaching space. With a love for traditional craft skills, my work embraces color and texture with a contemporary twist. I work in many different mediums: book arts, as well as fiber arts, print, and illustration.
With over fifteen years of teaching experience I am most passionate about making connections, sharing ideas, and ways to create, both old and new.”
Sonya Richards has a degree in Studio Arts from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and teaches creative workshops around town.
Find Sonya at the Publick House throughout the season and at the Residency Showcase sometime around the equinox.
2023 Makers in Residence
NOVEMBER + DECEMBER Sarah Neubert
SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER Kristy Beachy-Quick
JULY + AUGUST Brie Kole
MAY + JUNE Jessica MacMaster
MARCH + APRIL Ayelet Golz
JANUARY + FEBRUARY Em Daugherty
2022 MAKERS IN RESIDENCE
DECEMBER Hannah Ruth Miner
NOVEMBER Izze Babb
OCTOBER Rorey King
SEPTEMBER Anna Schneider
AUGUST Travis Varra
JULY Julia Goolsby
JUNE Adam Martin
MAY Fulvia Serra
APRIL Shirley Man-Kin Leung
MARCH Cristyn Hypnar
FEBRUARY Jakob Mueller
JANUARY Beeta Vafaee
2021 MAKERS IN RESIDENCE
DECEMBER Zach Leonard
OCTOBER Elizabeth Fuller
SEPTEMBER Lauren Smith of Cosmic Heart Arts
AUGUST Jeff Chelf
JULY Joey Miranda
2020 MAKERS IN RESIDENCE
MARCH Willow Sedam
FEBRUARY Chris Jones / Sweet Malarky
JANUARY Chad Seidel / The Open and Closed Institute