Futures: 528.0 – MSU Denver

Cecily Cullen is a creative professional and an advocate for artists. As director and curator of the Metropolitan State University of Denver Center for Visual Art, she develops exhibitions and programs to engage the public in examination of global issues. She collaborates with artists in activating dialogue in an environment that encourages learning for both visitors and the student staff. Cecily has curated or organized over 125 contemporary exhibitions that give voice to artists from diverse perspectives and backgrounds. She has been guest juror for numerous exhibitions and public art projects, is an advisor for the Colorado Attorneys for the Arts and has recently served as chair of the Colorado Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is a recipient of the Cultural Leadership Award from the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts.

Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, letterpress printer, collagist, writer, and optimist futurist. Based in Denver, Colorado. A juror for the Smithsonian National Design Awards, 2-time programming chair for the AIGA National Conference. His works can be found in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum, The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum, Columbia University’s Butler Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, The Poster House Museum, NY, The Letterform Archive, and The Tweed Museum at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

He is a founder and partner with Debra Johnson of the ambidextrous graphic design consultancy MATTER, the designer behind the Black Astronaut Research Project, The Pledge for Spaces, and the Introductory Ethic for Designers and Other Thinking Persons. He DJs a live Internet Radio show Design To Kill Tuesdays at 4 pm Mountain Time. Playing Punk, Post Punk, and other non-conforming music.

Chinn Wang (pronunciation: Cheen Wong) is a printmedia artist exploring themes of erasure, lineage, and superstition, in addition to complex transitions in desire, chance, and mortality. She earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a dual BA in Art Practice and Art History from the University of California, Berkeley. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Print Center, Philadelphia, The Denver Art Museum, and The Korean Cultural Center in Beijing, China, and in cities including Chicago, San Francisco, and Berlin among others. Wang is a Teaching Professor and Foundations Coordinator in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Denver and lives in Boulder, Colorado.