
Experience
Projects & Exhibitions
Denver AAPI Culture Fest
McNichol’s building • Denver, CO March 2024
“Tiny Art Big Ideas” • Spectra Art Space
Denver, CO December 2022 — January 2023
“Ruptured Time”
Convergence Station, Meow Wolf Denver • Opened September 2021
Art Parts Holiday Bazaar
Boulder, CO November 2020
Chaircuterie • AIGA 100th Anniversary Celebration
McNichol’s Building • Denver, CO 2015
Art of Winter • Copper Mountain
Copper, CO March 2014
Art of Winter • Denver International Airport
Denver, CO January 2014
Art of Winter • Euclid Hall
Denver, CO January 2013
Stifel Center Group Show
Wheeling, WV August 2012
Art of Winter • Larimer Square
Denver, CO January 2012
Bordo Bello • AIGA Skateboard Art Fundraiser
Denver, CO July 2012
Bordo Bello • AIGA Skateboard Art Fundraiser
Denver, CO August 2011
Create Denver • Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Denver, CO May 2011
Bordo Bello • AIGA Skateboard Art Fundraiser
Denver, CO September 2010
Cotton Blend • T-Shirt Fundraiser
Denver, CO 2014
Cotton Blend • T-Shirt Fundraiser
Denver, CO 2017
Cotton Blend • T-Shirt Fundraiser
Denver, CO 2015
Cotton Blend • T-Shirt Fundraiser
Denver, CO 2021
University of Denver BFA Senior Show • Vicki Myhren Gallery
Denver, CO May - June 2004
Denver Art Museum • Palettes Cafe
Denver, CO April - May 2004
“Women in the Arts” • Woman’s City Club
Little Rock, AR May 1999
Grants & Awards
Creative Exchange Fund • Spectra Series
The Medium • Springdale, AR • Coming 2026
Finalist, Art Collide Summer Exhibition 2025
art-collide.com, 2025
Finalist, Emerald City Public Art Initiative, Broadway Marquee
Boulder, CO June 2024
Athena Project's 3rd Annual “Women in their Infinite Forms”
Milk Market • Denver, CO March 2024
Athena Project's 2nd Annual “Women in their Infinite Forms”
Milk Market • Denver, CO March 2023
Art Students League of Denver Flag Project
Denver, CO October — December 2022
Finalist, Byers Library Art Project
Denver, CO • April 2020
Lectures & Presentations
Guest Speaker, The Human Library • Fayetteville Public Library
January 2025
Guest Speaker, Morning Brew • AIGA
Septmenber 2021
Judge, Grades K-2 Reflections Contest • Vanderhoof Elementary
October 2019
Guest Speaker, Freelance / Entrepreneur Series • AIGA
August 2018
Guest Illustrator • Picture This!
May 2015
Articles & Press
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Fayetteville Flyer · Jun 18, 2025
Thirty-seven artists, performers and cultural organizers from across the region have been selected to receive funding and space at The Medium through the 2025-26 Creative Exchange Fund.
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The Arkansas Traveler · Jan 15, 2025
Another one of the books featured at the event was “On the Margin: Being Bi-Racial” where Elsa, a half-Chinese and half-white woman, shared her journey of identity and how she found peace within herself.
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Fayetteville Public Library · Jan 11, 2025
The Human Library is a library of people and th Instead of papeeir experiences with prejudice.rbacks, actual people are on loan for conversations.
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The Free Weekly · Jan 10, 2025
Elsa Carenbauer, an artist, and Alaynna Littlefeather, a museum store manager, both have very personal stories to tell. Carenbauer, who is Asian-American, and Littlefeather, who is Navajo, both walk between two worlds.
“For most of my life I’ve been told that I’m not Asian enough, not white enough, that I’m different, that I don’t belong,” Carenbauer said. -
Co & Co featured a segment about the Athena Project's gallery show for Women's History Month, including a feature interview with artist Elsa Carenbauer aka No Bones Left.
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, Dairy Block and Denver Milk Market have partnered with The Athena Project for another year to bring the unique art exhibit, Women in Their Infinite Forms, back to the Block. This month-long exhibit features ten Colorado artists, each embracing the theme of what it feels like to be a woman, with pieces on display throughout the Block.
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Art Students League of Denver · Mar 8, 2022
The Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) invites you to get territorial with us by joining a creative conversation on the history of flags, their use, and the controversy that can sometimes surround them. Explore the history of Denver’s soil and pay homage to the lived experiences beneath its rapidly changing landscape.
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Art in the West by Joanne Galko. Can people over 50 appreciate Meow Wolf Denver? You bet they can! Meow Wolf’s third location opened in Denver, Colorado in September 2021 catering to children ...
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Your friendly neighborhood Wanderer recently had an opportunity to chop it with some of the artists involved in the creation of Convergence Station, and we’re stoked to share the exclusive inside scoop.
We are privileged to be joined today by Andrea Thurber and Elsa Carenbauer, of the Denver artist collective The Church of Many. These hyper-talented young women designed and built a room within the new mega-installation.by John Andreula
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The Denver Post · May 20, 2021
Visitors can see it at Meow Wolf Denver when it opens in fall 2021. ... The Church of Many: Andrea Thurber, Elsa Carenbauer, Anna Goss, ...
By TINEY RICCIARDI
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Announcing the Collaborating Artists for Meow Wolf Denver! Our 3rd permanent installation in Denver will feature 110 collaborating Colorado artists across multiple disciplines.
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The Biennial of the Americas (BOTA) is the only festival in the world focused on the Americas as a unified entity, and the celebration happens every two years right here in Denver.
Early on we decided to look at our allotted two weeks as a creative constraint rather than a time constraint.
The formidable designer, Elsa Carenbauer, went above and beyond evolving BOTA’s branding and delivering stunning artboards that would later influence the event’s overall branding and print materials. Devon Walton, Zsun’s technical editor and animation guru, kicked it into overdrive generating a fresh-to-death paint splash logo animation.