ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Beckham is a photographer from Denver and Chairman of the Visual Arts Department at St. Mary's Academy in nearby Englewood. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, MacArthur Foundation, Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art at St. Louis University, Portland Art Museum in Oregon, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others, and his artist's books are in the special collections of the University of Denver's Penrose Library and the University of Colorado's Norlin Library. A Fulbright Fellow in Photography, Beckham has also been an invited artist-in-residence at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Center for the Study of Place, and Rocky Mountain National Park. His first book, The Lost Christmas Gift, was published to widespread critical acclaim by Princeton Architectural Press in 2012.

ABOUT THE ESSAYIST

Blake L. Milteer is Museum Director and Curator of American Art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where he oversees the museum's American art collection. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including, in 2012, a major installation of the work of James Turrell.