Closing Reception: Shaped by the Land featuring Dara Weyna & Jai Cochran

Date and Time

• Tuesday, Jul 7, 2026  6pm - 9pm

Location

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Details

Please join us for the closing reception for the duo exhibition, Shaped by the Land, featuring Dara Weyna and Jai Cochran.

In addition to exploring the show in person, enjoy celebrating with community members, getting to know the featured artists, and exploring Downtown Fort Collins.

Free and open to the public!

100% of artwork sales will go directly to the exhibiting artists.

Artist bios:

Dara Weyna is an artist who maintains a home studio in northern Colorado. She works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, crochet and collage. Born in Chicago, Dara received her BA in Studio Art with minors in Art History and French in 2005 from Northeastern Illinois University. Post-graduation, Dara worked for prominent art collectors, galleries and museums in Chicago as a picture framer, as well as managing exhibitions for emerging and mid-career artists in Evanston, IL. She developed a thriving studio practice in the historic Cornelia Arts Building before moving to Napa, CA in 2007 where she spent the next 13 years juggling motherhood, art markets, classes and many other collaborations before relocating to Colorado in 2020.

Website: daraweyna.com
Instagram: @daraweyna

Jai Cochran is a painter, photographer and writer living in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been a landscape architect and small town newspaper publisher, and lived in Georgia, Texas and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He has degrees from Texas A&M and Mercer University.

As a landscape architect in San Antonio, Texas he designed the grounds of the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi. While living in Mexico he photographed and produced the travelogue "A Video Postcard from San Miguel de Allende," as well as giving public photography lectures. Jai's novel Speak the Truth and Fear No Man is available on Amazon's Kindle.

A sometime painter, in 2001 he discovered the advantages of painting from his own digital photographs and took up painting in oils full time. He has since expanded to watercolor, acrylics and woodcuts.

Website: jaicochranart.com
Instagram: @jaicochranart

Reach out with questions to gallery@focomasonic.com.

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