Ware had kept a sketchbook with her for many years, having been deeply passionate about art as a child in Boulder, where the mountains, animals and foliage inspired her. I ended up going to a month-long meditation retreat at Dharma Ocean in Crestone because I was just so freaked out and had no idea what to do. I was maybe 24, and I just totally had an existential-crisis-slash-paradigm-collapse. I didn’t have a job, and his career was just starting to take off. “All of a sudden there was just this space, and I had also just broken up with my boyfriend of a few years. “It was the first time in my life that there wasn’t a next step,” she explains. When the newspaper folded in 2009, she was at a crossroads. Ware-the daughter of a nuclear physicist father and a translator/teacher mother-went to Fairview High School and studied aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder before switching to journalism and working at the Rocky Mountain News after graduation. Ware certainly got to where she is by refusing to cave in to anyone’s expectations, especially her own. I was, like, ‘I’m just going to do what I do, and I’m not going to try to make it any different.’” “I was really stressed about that, and then I had this sudden realization that I was not going to change my work at all to try to make it more appealing. I think the other artists’ work better fit those categories.”
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The other thing was ‘Don’t make miniatures, because this is for TV.’ Knowing that, I was kind of trying to figure out how to integrate color and how to do something bigger. “They had told us some of the things we’d be judged on, and one of them was color. “I was not expecting to even make it past the first round,” Ware recalls.
Every episode of Meet Your Makers focuses on a different medium, and for the one Ware was chosen for, artists who work with paper were pushed to quickly produce original gems under very difficult time constraints. The whole competition was in one day.”įrom the moment the four artists arrived at the Meet Your Makers set, a 20-minute lunch break was the only pause in their 15-hour day. They picked us up from the hotel at 6:30 in the morning and we didn’t get dropped off until 9:30 that night. We had to fly out, quarantine for a couple days, and there was one day of filming interviews and then the day of the competition. “A week or two later, they contacted me and said, ‘Actually, we want you to be on the show.’ There was only a week before I had to fly out. I applied and they told me I didn’t get selected.” “The producer of the show emailed me, and they wanted me to apply,” she explained recently during a conversation in her basement studio in South Boulder. A unique and brilliant artist who delves into numerous mediums from extraordinarily intricate paper sculpture to commercial illustration, concert posters and even children’s books, Ware was initially told she didn’t even make the cut to fly to Los Angeles and compete. Boulder’s Marisa Aragón Ware didn’t know what to expect when she was chosen as a contestant on the Discovery Channel’s Meet Your Makers earlier this year after the show found her work on Instagram.
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