Camilla Sterne

If Nick Musaelian wants to paint a lizard humping a badger on a corkscrew, he won’t hesitate to do just that. The Armenian-born, Boulder-based software engineer midnights as a painter—a passion that he wryly likens to an ailment. “It’s kind of a curse,” he says. “Art is like a cold. Some people catch it, some don’t.”