Alison Cline

Can’t turn a Badger into a house cat
Alison Cline was born into an artist family in Boulder, Colorado. Her artistic parents and older brother nurtured her natural inclination to creative expression in drawing and painting from a very young age. She devoted her free time to this passion throughout her childhood and adolescence. She took her first (and admittedly very low-paying) commissions as a high schooler.

After high school, her fascination with animals veered her into studying Wildlife Biology at Colorado State University. After spending three months in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador on a mission to learn Spanish in a biological hotspot, she developed a fascination with new lands and different cultures. This led her to eventually earn a Master’s in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education and a three-year stint teaching science in Denver Public Schools. Realizing this structured existence wasn’t compatible with her skills and personality, she returned to the more flexible life of bartending to fund world travel and return to a life saturated in creative thought and expression.

Alison has extensively explored and occasionally resided in, 30 different countries spanning six continents. By avoiding the typical tourist...

B.S. Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

M.A. Culturally Diverse Instruction and Curriculum Design, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado

“Life, Death, and Hedonism,” at Jared Steinberg Studio in the RiNO Art District of Denver, Colorado.

June 3rd, 2022