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43 people connected to Colin's work and world
collaborators
Ania Urbanski
Colorado-based photographer; credited on the alphabets CAVE RAVE album (2014).
Anton Krueger
Denver/LA musician; Aquakota Lead Sound Designer. Primary project Bollywood Life; also plays in Floor Freakers (with Luke Thinnes) and StaG.
Ben Donehower
Denver musician; bandmate in Bangplay; Homebody sideman. Performed at the 2/22/22 Aquakota memorial tribute.
David Castillo
Denver musician-producer; friend of Colin's. Performed at the 2/22/22 Aquakota memorial tribute. Released Aim Higher EP and hardly working.
Eriko Tsogo
Mongolian-American visual artist, cultural producer, and DACA recipient based in Denver (later Brooklyn); provided album art for alphabets' BIEBER JERBOA; collaborator on a planned (unrealized) Mongolia film with Colin Ward and Stephan Herrera; Meow Wolf Convergence Station contributor.
Jane Roberts
Member of Snake Feathers with Colin.
Javier Tijuana
Posthumous collaborator on *Hillbilly Noir* (2021).
John Golter
Collaborator on the post-shutdown effort to reopen Rhinoceropolis and Glob. Working with Colin on the reopening at the time of Colin's death.
Kathryn Taylor
Katherine Taylor
Denver visual artist and musician; Aquakota Artist team member. Plays in Earth Control Pill, Future Single Mom, Born Dumb. With Colin in duo Sex Therapy.
Ken Hamblin III
Photographer; credited on Westword's 2018 Rhinoceropolis feature for the image of Colin and friends welcoming people to Rhinoceropolis at Fantasia 2016.
Kim Shively
Denver artist and documentary filmmaker; Colin's girlfriend at the time of his death; Aquakota Artist team member. Director of the feature documentary *Buildings Are Heavy* about Denver DIY spaces and gentrification.
Laura Conway
Denver musician; Bliss Body / Pre-Teen O.D.; organized the Bliss Body tribute at Black Cube (March 2018).
Luke Leavitt
Denver musician; bandmate in Bangplay. Solo project Bildungsroman for Cricket.
Luke Thinnes
Luke Thiness (misspelling)
Denver musician; bandmate in Bangplay; also plays in sleepdial, French Kettle Station, Floor Freakers.
Madeline Johnston
Midwife
Denver musician; Midwife. Album *Forever* (2020) dedicated to Colin.
Mark Sink
Denver photographer; co-founder of Month of Photography Denver. Published the Blurb photo book *killd_by* featuring Colin's iPhone photos of 'fragments of the underground Jurassic Denver 2014.'
Milton Melvin Croissant III
Video collaborator; 2012 'Mel Gibson and hot dogs' collaboration with Colin.
Nick Houde
Member of Snake Feathers with Colin.
Nick Peelor
N. Peelor
Denver musician; early long-term collaborator; co-founder of Tudaloos with Colin.
Peniel "Pepe" Apantenco
Peniel Apantenco · Pepe
Denver artist; member of the Rhinoceropolis collective; Aquakota co-Lead Artist with Colin.
Ryan McRyhew
Entrancer · Thug Entrancer
Denver producer; peer; co-released on Noumenal Loom. Tribute SoundCloud track 'Dedication — For Colin Ward.' Earlier band Hideous Men remixed by alphabets on REMIX09 (2009).
smrtdeath
Electronic/emo-trap music artist; featured on Pictureplane's tribute to Colin Ward.
Stephan Herrera
Stephan Hererra
Colin's co-creator on Tha Mayoreo Show; Aquakota Artist team member. Spelling note: Meow Wolf's credits page has a typo ("Hererra"); Westword and the Aquakota documentary chyron both use "Herrera."
Thug Entrancer
Ryan McRyhew
Alias / stage name of Ryan McRyhew. Canonical entry is [[people/ryan-mcryhew]].
Travis Egedy
Pictureplane
Denver musician (Pictureplane); scene peer from the Rhinoceropolis era. Met Colin when Colin was 15 and Travis was 19. Dedicated "Color Spectrum (Tokyo Drift)" on Degenerate (2018) to Colin.
press
Sam Goldner
Music journalist; author of the 2020 Bandcamp Daily feature on Colin Ward and the posthumous Neotropical compilation.
other
Adreanna Escalante
Nominator of [[people/marcos-garibay]] for the 2023 CRFW Fund cycle.
Arlo White
Hypnotic Turtle
2023 CRFW Fund nominee — described as "in 4th place or so" with "more support — a bit — than the others"; outcome unconfirmed.
Bree Davies
Denver journalist; longtime Colin-adjacent bylines at Westword (2011 street drumming, 2012 alphabets, 2015 100 Colorado Creatives, 2018 death notice). Co-host of the 2021 City Cast Denver podcast episode on Colin.
Colin Ward
Killd By · K!lld By
Denver experimental musician and visual artist; primary projects Killd By and alphabets.
Denise Zubizarreta
2024 CRFW Fund grantee.
Elise Trivers
BIRDY Magazine writer; Oct 2023 Colin-crediting piece.
Isabel Barnes
Janice Schindler
Denver filmmaker/videographer; co-directed the Killd By "No Energy Vamp" music video with Josh Gondrez (Spring 2015).
Jimmy V (James Wilson)
2020 CRFW Fund grantee.
Josh Gondrez
Denver artist; co-owner of Leisure Gallery; co-directed the Killd By "No Energy Vamp" music video (Spring 2015).
Kennedy Cottrell
Meow Wolf staff photographer.
Kyle Harris
Denver Westword journalist; author of the Dec 2018 Rhinoceropolis reopen feature (11 Colin mentions) and the Feb 2022 Meow Wolf Aquakota tribute feature.
Marcos Garibay
2023 CRFW Fund grantee. Filmmaker; founder/director of Tomorrow Maker Films. Former RiNo recording-studio operator.
Noble Hamilton
2023 CRFW Fund nominee (outcome unconfirmed); photographer at nobleonephotos.com.
Raphael Jacobs
2026 CRFW Fund Emergency Grant recipient ($2,000); musician/songwriter building a project at starmilk.org; uses AI voices for vocals; roller skater.
Tom Murphy
Denver writer; Queen City Sounds and Art blog. 2019 CRFW Fund grantee.
Trish Bryant
2020 CRFW Fund grantee.