Cassandra Vagher
Photo & Film

Throughout most of college, I was envious of my classmates who new with the utmost certainty what they wanted to do with their life. I'm talking about the vocational degrees, like nurses, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and that sort of thing. While all admirable, none of that ever called to me. As much as I love people I couldn't see myself caring for the ill as well as a nurse. I couldn't see myself getting through long math classes. I couldn't see myself in a trade that clear

“We try to remind ourselves that we are artists first and foremost; second we are teachers, even though that’s what we’re doing 9-5.” Saturday I joined artist, Angel Estrada, for coffee and Oreos in his snug printmaking studio that he shares with two other artists, residing inside the Globeville Riverfront Art Center (GRACe) in Denver, Colorado. Angel, 25, is a high school art and jewelry teacher. His love for educating others is apparent by how fondly he speaks of his studen

Amanda Filipi lined the walls of her bedroom in our new apartment with pictures of shoes that she had saved out of old calendars. She packed the majority of her large closet with thousands of pairs of size seven heels, flats, boots, and other shoes. Clearly, Amanda liked shoes. It wasn’t until we had parted ways and over a year later that I had come to realize the true depth of her love for shoes. I knew she had taken a hiatus from studying accounting here in Denver and studi