dRE Williams

Owner / Executive Director, Solid Art Collective, LLC

Between organizing art exhibits and art fundraisers for non-profit organizations, dRE started her own graphic design company, MonkeyRing Media in 2004.  With 10+ years under her belt as a Visual Artist, dRE finetuned her business skills and began a private art collective of 8 Colorado Artists, Solid Art Collective.   They exhibited as a group from June 2006 to February 2007 in the Fort Collins and Denver, Colorado area including a long-running slideshow of their works on local television. 

In August 2006, dRE merged her two businesses and became Solid Art Collective, LLC, a multimedia production company.  dRE teamed up with Femme Fatale Art Collective's Mariah Baretta and Solid Art Collective's own Jen Beshore to organize her first multimedia event - the Femme Fatale 2 Show in April 2007 at the Oriental Theater in Denver, Colorado.  FF2 was a hit and inspired dRE to continue organizing multimedia events with art exhibits, musicians, DJs, fashion shows and local stage acts.  With her own Event Staff and blossoming relationships with Visual Artists locally and nationally, dRE has progressed with her events to include August 2007's Divine Intervention, February 15th 2008's Birds of a Feather, and April 12th 2008's Absolute.

 
dRE lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her Husband Paul and their cat-hater cat, Automatic.

 

 

Solid Art Collective's Event Staff includes:

 
 
Jen Beshore
Assistant Director - Femme Fatale 2 Show, Divine Intervention, Birds of a Feather
Stage Manager - Femme Fatale 2 Show; Assistant - Absolute
 
Best of friends for over 10 years, Jen & dRE have exhibited together for most their art careers and worked at the same bar for 5 of those.  It was a natural progression from decorating the bar and dressing everyone for theme nights that they would have a career doing great things in the future.  Jen is the Art curator for the Oriental Theater, has interviewed great bands like Electric 6 and is expecting her first prodigal son, Lucien Grey Petri-Beshore in June 2008.  Her affections for Art & Music prove invaluable to the organization of these events and she is greatly appreciated & loved by everyone.
 
"We met in her living room at the Remington house.  She was so funny in her blue Cookie Monster coat with the computer chip on her shoulder.  I did a Drive by Jesus that Easter, painted dog poop pink and  knew we would be friends for life."  - dRE
 
 
 
Sugardeluxe
Video Invitations & Event Visuals
 
Resident Artist of Solid Art Collective, Steven Wilson is our Sugardeluxe.  He is a Comic Book Genius, uber-intelligent Liberal and incomparable Artist.  Steven creates the video invitations for Solid's events as well as compiles and produces their event visuals and helps with web design questions.  Insatiable when it comes to pop culture, he is also the heart of the Geeks Who Drink Trivia at CooperSmith's (self-professed) champion team of 2007,
Legion of Doom.
 
"Steven & I have been friends since I first moved to Colorado 15 years ago.  We went through our adult adolescence together and I'll leave it at that - you don't want me to type out the whole story. 
He's my Sista in Crime" <Griselda Eye Roll> -dRE
 
 
 
Berri Moffett
Stage Manager - Divine Intervention, Birds of a Feather
 
Berri is a professional seamstress, helping with the Alve Beretta Clothing line for the Femme Fatale 2 Show in April 2007.  Her many other hobbies besides being a Mother of  two teenage boys with her wife Kelley include knitting, Italian charm bracelets, FAC organizing, helping out at the only gay bar left in Fort Collins, Shots, painting murals at any possible minute; she's also a team member in Geeks Who Drink's Legion of Doom with Steven & dRE; knows every detail that goes into making a UtiliKilt; and has a personal penchant for all things Pirate.
 
 
 
Sydney Parks
Stage Manager - Femme Fatale 2 Show
Emcee - Divine Intervention, Birds of a Feather
 
Local Actress & Director for OpenStage Theater and OpenStage Etc is Our Miss Parks.  She is the red-headed Spitfire Emcee of Solid events.  When she's not with us she is everywhere - teaching elementary school drama, directing or acting or both in the next local play...
 
 
"Side-splitting hilarity is fully abundant in the presence of Miss Sydney.  She would never turn down the opportunity for a monologue." - dRE
 
 
 
 
Case Reifschneider
Assistant Art Director - Absolute
 
 Visual Artist Case Reifschneider, has exhibited with dRE since 2004 including Solid events: Femme Fatale 2 Show, Divine Intervention, Birds of a Feather, and Absolute Art Exhibits.  Her fantastic work ethic prompted dRE to bring her on as Assistant Art Director of Absolute, handling the Denver Artists as well as the installation and takedown of the Absolute Art Exhibit.
 
 
Dakota Brown
Stage Manager - Absolute
 
Dakota is the husband of Case Reifschneider.  He debuted his first post with Solid Art Collective as
Stage Manager Extraordinaire for Absolute.  When he says it will happen, it does.