“I think about the young kids, the teenagers, and I think being able to see yourself represented in art is so powerful,” says the artist.

Stacy J. Platt
Stacy J. Platt is a Colorado-based writer, artist, and educator. The founder of photobook addict, her writing has appeared in photo-eye, Don’t Take Pictures, the Society for Photography Education’s exposure magazine, and The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography. She teaches photography, art history, and writing at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.
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The Dirty South Comes to Denver
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How One Conservative City Supports Numerous Progressive Artists
Given Colorado Springs’s politics and hyper-conservatism, wouldn’t artists hesitate to make and perform work there?