Artist and designer Jackson Aldern is Half Snake Art Collective's founding member and organizer. Since receiving his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in painting and graphic design from Colorado State University, he has been working as a designer and artist in various capacities. He is a proud member of a mixed family. Passions of Jackson’s include backpacking, punk rock, and reading. One day he will finish that graphic novel…
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Exhibitions and Orders
Jackson
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Mixed media artist Maiya Hannon joined Half Snake at the beginning of 2020 while working on her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State University. Maiya is interested in using traditional drawing tools and methods in untraditional ways, creating large mixed media pieces that challenge the viewer to see and examine rather than look. Her interest in challenging audiences and pushing artistic boundaries extends outside of her work and into her daily life through political activism and using her voice as a way to raise awareness about pressing issues that are present throughout today’s world.
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How to Get Involved
Maiya
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Self-taught digital artist Gabriel Hostetter joined Half Snake in 2021 as the studio and website manager. Gabriel has always had a passion for both retro and modern technology and his work expresses a conglomeration of both organic and artificial material. Gabriel has been vegan since 2018 and is always happy to tinker around with electronic instruments and synthesizers.
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The Half Snake Website and Studio Space
Gabriel
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Isabel Heiland is a mixed media artist focusing on the field of Environmental Art. She is in her first year of the Confluence MFA at the University of New Mexico, and graduated from Colorado State University in 2021 with a BFA in Visual Arts (Drawing) and a minor in Botany. Isabel is driven to create works of art that evoke empathy and grief for the natural world as it is faced with the climate crisis. Some prominent topics in her work include wildfire, Ponderosa Pine trees, and symbiotic/parasitic relationships within the natural world or between nature and humans. Other than the environment, she is also artistically inspired by sci-fi, the Uncanny, and Surrealism.
Isabel is a proud dog and cat mother and likes to spend her time tending to her plants/beginner's garden, hiking, pressing plants for her ever-growing collection, or watching cartoons.
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Exhibits, Product Information, and General Queries
Isabel
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Artist and roller skater Emily Crennen had submitted work to almost every Half Snake show before finally joining the team in 2022. Emily’s love of reuse and “finding treasure” brought on a life long addiction to mixed media collage and foraging. Themes like restoration and regeneration are seen in their interest and efforts at fiber arts, especially visible mending.
Emily is passionate about building a loving community and does so in their art and roller skating cooperative, Skate or DIY Collective with co-creator, Maya Youcef-Toumi. Emily wants to use this platform to create radical, colorful, visually interesting art that allows them to engage with their community by creating conversation around nature, politics, and gender.
Emily
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