Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s (BMoCA) 13th street building wasn’t designed to be a museum. Larger pieces can’t fit through the doors and the floors won’t support the weight of heftier works, like marble sculptures. That’s going to change when BMoCA moves into a new space in north Boulder (NoBo) where it will be part of a “creative campus” set to include housing and retail space.
Jessie Mathew, left, and Jenny Wright. All images by Kenneth Wajda for Yellow Scene Magazine
COVID may have hit everyone hard, but check out how these two Boulder born women flipped this tragic pandemic to a safe space for people to express themselves in their community. Two (kinda) former hairdressers, Jenny Wright and Jessie Matthews are co-founders and co-owners – as well as partners – of the hottest new art and production studio in the North Boulder Arts District, New Magik.
New Magik was created after Matthews and Wright’s jobs were impacted by COVID. They were brainstorming about what some of their passions were and what they could do to put these passions out and create a community. They wanted to create a space for people to come together to work on what they love and make new connections, to be a bridge and a conduit for creativity in their community. They wanted to provide something that is COVID safe and reliable to lean on while the world is forced to be online