Directors + Advisors
Matthew Hill (Board Chair)
Matthew is an executive advisor to Fortune 500 companies, specializing in operational and technology transformations. Originally from Denver, he brings a deep passion for the arts, including photography, choral music, and theater. He earned his B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Over the course of his career, Matthew has worked in Minneapolis, MN, and Washington, D.C. Outside of work, he enjoys engaging with his local community—whether discovering new coffee shops, exploring hiking trails, or attending concerts.
Grace Weihs (Vice-Chair)
Grace Weihs is originally from Littleton, Colorado. She briefly left the state but returned in 2023 and enjoys being back! Grace has almost a decade of experience working in museums and galleries. She holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art History from the University of Nebraska, where she developed a deep appreciation for fine art in its many forms. Grace was the inaugural Curator for the MaMO Gallery, a mobile art gallery under the direction of BFF Omaha, and later served as a Curator and Art Consultant at Gallery 1516 in Omaha, Nebraska. Currently, Grace is the Western Art Manager for Coors Western Art of the National Western Stock Show. In addition to her curatorial work, she was previously an appraiser of fine art and is a practicing contemporary photographer, adding a creative edge to her expertise in the art world.
Julian Korber (Treasurer)
Julian is a fourth-generation Denver native. Following his graduation from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1996, he moved to the East Coast to work at Legg Mason Wood Walker in Baltimore and New York City. After three years on the East Coast he returned home to work at Wedbush Morgan Securities. After several years of working in management and building client relationships at Wedbush, Julian joined RBC Wealth Management. While at RBC, Julian continued to build his business using his own discretionary portfolio management and financial planning processes. Ultimately, it was his desire to build his own brand of investment management and financial planning that led him to leave RBC and start The Cirque Financial Group in 2021. Julian lives in Denver with his wife and two sons. He has been an avid fly fisherman, skier and outdoorsman all of his life. Along with staying active outside, Julian enjoys cooking, history and collecting 1st edition books.
Matt Lancaster (Secretary)
Matt Lancaster brings more than 30 years of experience as a photographer, writer, landscape architect, land conservation activist, and exhibiting fine artist as well as a passion for the arts and the natural world to his service on CPAC’s board. His education includes a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon and an MS in geology from Portland State University. As a licensed landscape architect and land planner with broad experience on land development projects across the United States, Matt brings a record of collaboration to achieving goals and managing complex projects and resources. His experience as a photographer has always skewed toward creative and expressive ends, with solo and group exhibitions providing opportunities for sharing his personal work and meeting interesting people. Since becoming a member of CPAC in 2022, he has held it in high regard as a top tier photography organization and feels honored to help shape the future of CPAC.
Tai Bickham
Tai is the Community Outreach & Partnerships Manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. She graduated from the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs with a B.A. in Communications & Marketing, and received her Associates Degree in Photography from the Art Institute of Colorado. Born and raised in Colorado, she enjoys exploring the outdoors with her dog, seeing as many concerts as possible, and finding time to create through photography, painting, and crafting.
Marie Bush
Marie Bush is a Lafayette, Colorado–based fine art photographer whose work explores themes of resilience, transformation, and light. She is a retired emergency and urgent care physician with 36 years of experience, including over two decades in a leadership role at Longmont Clinic, where she developed a strong foundation in leadership, collaboration, and organizational strategy—experience she brings to her service on the CPAC Board. While practicing medicine, Marie maintained an active photography practice for over 30 years, and in the past five years has devoted increasing focus to the development of her artistic work. Using in-camera multiple exposure and expressive tonal processes, she creates images that invite viewers into contemplative spaces between realism and abstraction. Her work has been exhibited nationally and recognized in numerous juried exhibitions, including both solo and group shows. She served as a Month of Photography Ambassador for Boulder County in 2025 and is honored to support CPAC’s mission and contribute to its creative community. Outside of photography, she is an avid swimmer with Boulder Masters, enjoys hiking and ballroom dancing, and finds inspiration through travel.
Manny Ladis
Originally from Buffalo, New York, Manny studied at Michigan State University before moving to Colorado and building a career in the state’s tech and startup community. He’s been involved in launching and growing several companies, including Dizzion and ViaWest, and now focuses much of his time on mentoring early-stage entrepreneurs and advising rural innovation through organizations like the High Country Accelerator, Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado, and Pledge 1% Colorado. Manny splits his time between Denver and Steamboat Springs, where he’s developed a growing passion for photography, especially capturing the outdoor beauty of Routt County. A longtime snowboarder and gravel biker, he loves spending time in the mountains with his wife and their college-age kids. He’s excited to support CPAC’s mission and connect more deeply with Colorado’s creative and photographic communities.
Tyler J. Owen
Tyler is an Associate Attorney at Womble Bond Dickinson (US). Originally from Michigan, he grew up in Boulder, Colorado and attended law school at the University of Colorado. Tyler’s practice primarily focuses on general and complex commercial litigation matters, and he also dedicates a substantial amount of his time to providing pro bono legal representation for underserved communities. Tyler is a 2023 graduate of the Downtown Denver Leadership Program. In his free time, Tyler enjoys cooking, reading, and watching movies with his wife, Morgan, and their dog, Wallace.
Kris McCleary
Kris is an enthusiastic photographer and volunteer with a background in corporate development. She has been a photographer since the days of film cameras including processing black & white film in a darkroom. At 21 she left a Wyoming ranch lifestyle and began traveling, providing her an opportunity to photograph on six continents. She graduated with a BA in Human Services from Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has volunteered with the Denver Woman’s Foundation, Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard Port of Spain Trinidad, and coordinated building a home for Anchorage Habitat for Humanity. She volunteered for charities in Azerbaijan and for various schools their children attended. Kris served on the Alaska Photographic Center Board, Anchorage AK, collaborating with other APC Board Members to source jurors for their annual juried exhibitions. She participated in the APC Juried and Members’ shows, assisted with workshops and logistics for traveling exhibitions. Recently, she assisted with the Phlorographers Unite 2024 Denver Conference. Whether it is attending a concert, visiting the Denver Botanical Gardens or Denver Art Museum, traveling, skiing or fishing, Kris and her husband enjoy engaging with the local community and spending time with their family.
Sandy Nixon
Sandy is a Client Advisor at Caprock focused on high-net-worth families around the country. Originally from Louisville, KY, he made the move to Driggs, ID in 2024. He holds a BE from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Louisville. He enjoys spending time with family and friends, exploring all the Teton Valley and Mountain West have to offer, as well as the peace that comes with scuba diving and taking underwater pictures.
Jason Paul Roberts
Jason has built a career at the intersection of photography, storytelling, and community engagement. His photography focuses on portrait and documentary work and reflects a commitment to authentic representation and the power of visual storytelling. Jason studied abroad under several Magnum photographers and went on to graduate from Metropolitan State University of Denver with a degree in Multimedia Journalism and Contemporary Social Issues, where his studies focused on how media impacts marginalized communities. Additionally, Jason brings more than 20 years of marketing and communications experience, including leading marketing and communications for several education-focused nonprofits. He currently serves on the leadership team at Wings Over the Rockies, where he oversees strategic marketing and content development for the museum.
Rebecca (REB) Sawyer Smith
Rebecca has worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs since graduate school at George Washington University. She moved from Washington D.C. to St. Paul, Minnesota, to San Francisco; then landed in Denver where she stayed and raised a family. Reb has worked for Veterans Affairs for over 30 years as an Analyst, Outreach Specialist, and Public Affairs Officer. Currently she is the supervisor of the Public Contact Team for the Denver VA Regional Office, with offices across Colorado. Her work has brought together her love for serving the Veteran community and her photography, showing her work at the Veterans Arts Council Gallery at the VFW Post 1 in Denver. Reb is also a member of the Roxborough Art Council. In addition to running her own photography business, Memories by Reb, she enjoys spending time with her two children and pets.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Tya Alisa Anthony
Tya is an Interdisciplinary Artist + Curator who explores the intersections of Ecology, Ritual, and Storytelling through sculpture, photography, collage and reliquary. She is the Executive Director and Founder of Mahogany Vu Contemporary Art, an online thriving gallery for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). She is currently a TANK Studios artist, 2018 Redline Residency Alumni and serves on the Advisory Board for Leon Gallery, a non-profit gallery and creative space dedicated to mentoring emerging artists across multiple disciplines, along with the Board of Tilt West, a non-profit dedicated to fostering critical dialog in art and culture in Denver. She holds a BFA with high honors from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Presently, she lives and works in Denver, producing performance, photography, and installations, including the exhibit, FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, to be shown at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Spring of 2021.
Ann Corrigan
Ann has lived in Denver for 27 years. She has a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from University of Colorado Denver. She has worked at a large trade association, a college, an investment banking firm and has sold residential real estate. Ann is also a certified (TEFL) teacher of English as a foreign language. She taught English to business executives and students for several years. Ann and her husband have a small but cherished collection of photos and photogravures, including pieces by Hal Gould and Wendi Schneider. She was a long-time board member of Curious Theatre and has been a supporter of the Civic Center Conservancy, Opera Colorado, Clyfford Still Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Bainbridge Island Art Museum. Ann has a passion for travel, gardening and film and loves going to Seattle with her husband to visit family.
Mark Sink
Mark is founder of MoP (Month of Photography) in Denver, Colorado, where he coordinated over 180 regional galleries, museums and art spaces biannually to celebrate photography. In addition to curating extensively for MoP projects, Mark regularly curates exhibitions at RedLine. Mark is also an internationally-recognized photographer in his own right. In 1991, he co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art / Denver and opened his own gallery space, Gallery Sink. He is a regular portfolio reviewer for the Houston FotoFest Meeting Place, SPE, and Photolucida. He is always looking for unique talent for his many ongoing curatorial exhibitions, projects and collection placements, and regularly places the artists he reviews with various gallery and museum exhibitions.
Wendi Schneider
Wendi Schneider is a visual artist whose hand-gilded photographs illuminate impressions of grace in the natural world. With a background in painting and art history, she began hand-painting photographs in the early 1980s, later evolving this approach into her ongoing States of Grace series (2012–). These works are realized as pigment prints on translucent vellum or Japanese kozo, hand-gilded on the verso with precious metals, forming luminous surfaces that echo the shifting light at capture. Her work has been exhibited, honored, and published internationally, and is held in permanent collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Center for Creative Photography, the Royal Photographic Society, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Asheville Art Museum, and Auburn University Libraries Special Collections. She is represented by A Gallery for Fine Photography (New Orleans), Arnika Dawkins Gallery (Atlanta), Catherine Couturier Gallery (Houston), Etherton Gallery (Tucson), PhotoGraphic (San Miguel de Allende), Rick Wester Fine Art (New York), Vision Gallery (Jerusalem), and Wach Gallery (Cleveland).
Stewart Tucker Lundy
Stewart Tucker Lundy is a consultant based out of Denver, at Stewart T Lundy and Associates, LLC. Stewart, a native of Maryland, has lived in Colorado since 1995, holding positions over the years that have focused on systems advocacy, continuing such work on various Mayor-appointed boards and commissions in the City. A quadriplegic since 1982, (diving accident) Stewart has lived his life following in the footsteps of his namesake, one of the first Black principals in Miami, Frances Stewart Tucker; focusing on leadership, making a difference, and highlighting the fact that persons with disabilities (#PWD) are important assets in society.