Assistant Manager

Alexis moved to Boulder after living overseas and traveling the world. She has a passion for the environment and is always finding creative ways to repurpose materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill. She enjoys painting, drawing, and crafting of all kinds.

Assistant Manager

Born and raised in Southern New Jersey, Amanda relocated to Colorado to pursue her passion for environmental conservation. She brings a strong sense of organization and creativity in addition to her experience in sustainability, zookeeping, and a wide variety of crafting. You can find Amanda adventuring in nature and spending time with her fiance, dog, and four frogs.

Reuse Specialist (Donations)

Dani is a vibrant designer and artist who was born and raised in Colorado. They studied Creative Technology and Design at the University of Colorado, Boulder where they focused on using graphic and game design, and telling engaging stories through these mediums. An avid curator of collage supplies, you can find them doing fiber arts with their cat, Sourdough, making earrings to match their next outfit, or digging through retro media and ephemera for their next source of inspiration.

Reuse Specialist (Register) & Made with Art Parts Wall Coordinator

Demry received both her BS in Environmental Design and Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Colorado. She co-developed an elementary school art program and both taught and volunteered in the classroom. Over the past 15 years, Demry’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in the Boulder Denver area.

demry@artpartsboulder.org

Reuse Specialist (Donations)

Eb moved to Boulder from New Orleans in 2025. She has a background in fiber art and painting and drawing. Along with weaving and quilting, Eb loves to create weird and creative costumes and has recently taken up ceramics classes. Eb spent the last seven years as an art teacher and loves finding creative uses for recycled materials.

Reuse Specialist (Register) & Partnership Builder

Kai is an artist that’s tried just about everything except settling down. He received a BS in Creative Technology and Design from the University of Colorado, where he focused on accessibility and outreach in ancient astronomy. While most of his works are digital art and 3D models, he’s well versed in all sorts of weird and fun mediums. Outside of art, he loves video games, ice skating, and coding.

kai@artpartsboulder.org

Reuse Specialist (Register)

Kira has been drawing since she learned to hold a pencil and telling stories since she learned to speak. When not dual-wielding her creative and organizational skills for Art Parts, Kira builds websites, illustrates books, and leads development of Tales from The Floating Vagabond, the cult classic comedy roleplaying game she helped rescue from an orphaned Kickstarter.

Reuse Specialist (Pricing)

With degrees in Studio Art and Museum Studies from CU, Kristen mixes her time between bookmaking, teaching, museum collections, and sorting stuff at Art Parts. Upcycling, repurposing, and reducing waste are key interests in her studio practice. She is enamored with material objects (modifying their past significance to construct a relevance for them today) and is grateful for the eco responsibility, camaraderie, and abundant inspiration found at Art Parts.

Reuse Specialist (Register, Intake & Pricing)

Lani is a Boulder native who recently moved back after living in Austin and San Francisco. She received a BFA in sculpture from CU where her focus was on large metal and installation work. Since then her passion has been creating jewelry using the lost wax casting technique and most recently wood burning jewelry and ceramics. She loves creating unique pieces of jewelry and art using recycled materials and finds Art Parts to be the perfect place to find materials and inspiration.

Reuse Specialist (Donations)

Maggie is a Boulder County native who's working at Art Parts and has an animal care business. She is specialized in card making, jewelry crafting, and mixed media projects. Her passion for art and animals is what drives her.

Reuse Specialist (Pricing)

Marilyn completed a BFA in Surface Pattern Design at Syracuse University and spent her career designing textiles and print materials. As a freelancer, she designed and created screen printed materials, wedding invitations, greeting cards, and signs. Now retired, she is focused on photography and fiber arts.

Executive Director

Megan joined the Art Parts team after serving as Deputy Director at the Museum of Boulder. Previously, she supported artists and makers in Silver Spring, MD as the owner of the Fenton Street Market and co-created networks of mutual support in diverse rental neighborhoods with IMPACT Silver Spring. She enjoys fly fishing, crafting with her nieces, and playing Pokemon with her nephews.

megan@artpartsboulder.org

Reuse Specialist (Register)

Nadeen studied Education at CU Boulder and spent her career teaching learners of all ages in Boulder County. A dedicated environmental advocate, she volunteers with EcoCycle and Longmont’s Zero Waste Team to reduce plastic waste and protect local ecosystems. When she isn't gardening or crafting things, she especially likes to paint in her nature journal and explore Colorado’s open spaces, guided by a desire to pass on a healthier planet to future generations.

Reuse Specialist (Donations)

Sondy enjoys solving problems and reusing interesting materials, often at the same time. She’s observed asteroids on the world’s largest radio telescope and fixed the tension units on secondhand sewing machines. They enjoy quilting, herding cats, reading queer science fiction and fantasy, hanging out at the Boulder Public Library makerspaces, and exploring neighborhoods on foot.

Chaos Coordinator

Velifer’s background is in Zoology and Ecology, but they're happiest when creating something, and has always felt inspired and at home amongst the creative supplies at Art Parts. From sewing to painting to welding and anything in between, Velifer tends to collect hobbies, and will jump at the chance to learn a new creative skill.

velifer@artpartsboulder.org

Reuse Specialist (Pricing)

After working for the Boulder Public Library for many years, Wendy has refocused her interests to her art roots. She loves working with all kinds of fiber including quilting, sewing, weaving, crochet, and spinning, but mostly raw edge quilting.

Member

A sustainability program manager for the city of Boulder, Ellen is excited to support Art Part’s creative reuse community. Ellen is also an author and artist, creating assemblages featuring lost, found, and fractured objects. (Also, small plastic animals.) Ellen has taught writing and nature journaling in schools, libraries, and along hiking trails. She believes in confluence, internally and in community.

Member

Jenny moved to Colorado in 2019 and found Art Parts soon after. There are few art mediums and crafts she hasn’t tried, so she is both a frequent customer and donor. With a background in engineering and a corporate career in the energy sector, she enjoys creative hobbies to unwind and connect with others. Currently she is enjoying scrap journaling, quilting, and watercolor.

Chair

Katie first came to Boulder to work a summer at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in 2008 and fell in love. While her most common mediums are art painting and fiber arts, her favorite thing is trying new a craft or medium. She splits her time between making collages under the name Katie Esler and teaching sewing lessons at SewBo. The first day she walked into Arts Parts she came back twice more in the same week.

Treasurer

Kirsten is a CPA with six years of experience in public accounting. After moving to Colorado in 2024, she transitioned from the corporate world into accounting education. She has loved arts and crafts since she could first hold crafting tools and currently enjoys knitting, sewing, and oil painting, occasionally yapping about her creative pursuits on her blog.

Secretary

Kylee’s strong passion for sustainable living and a lifelong love of art brought her to Art Parts. She began volunteering in the spring of 2019 and joined the Board of Directors in 2020. Currently, she works as a business analyst in the book industry, but also has previous experience with environmental education and teaching jewelry classes. In her spare time, she enjoys making found object assemblage art, as well as hiking and trail running.