About the Artist

Nina Shope is a fiber artist and fiction writer living in Denver, CO. Her work is strongly influenced by her passion for folk art—Mexican, Haitian, Native American, Middle Eastern, and others—and by the long line of feminist artists who have powerfully expressed their most personal visions. She is particularly drawn to the evocative paintings and persona of Frida Kahlo. Shope and her work will be included in Trisha Ziff’s upcoming documentary Frida’s Gaze, and her embroidered hoop art “Frida Kahlo Embroidery Hoop (Homage to Self-Portrait as Tehuana)” will be included in the Fridamania section of the 2026 exhibit Frida: The Making of an Icon, which opens at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in January 2026 and then travels to the Tate Modern in London. The fiber art piece will also appear in the major catalogue for the exhibit, and it has been acquired by the MFAH. Under the name Snapdragon, Shope has presented her work at galleries, including the “Finely Crafted” show at Core Gallery in Denver, stores such as 5 Green Boxes, Nomad, Blue Cloud Gallery, and INK Jewelry, and craft fairs, including Horseshoe, Firefly, and the Botanic Gardens, in Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts. One of her large Frida dolls was included in an exhibit at the Evenson Museum in Syracuse, NY. She was one of four artists selected by a juried panel for a gallery exhibition sponsored by the Madelife Gallery in Boulder. Her work was featured three times in the Brown Alumni Gift Guide, has appeared in Time Out NYC, Westword, Boulder Daily Camera, and Voyage Denver.