Kobolt 30
As I’ve said many times, my parents own an art studio called Kobolt. It has been around for as long as I can remember. On Friday, December 12th, 2025 Mom and Dad hosted a party to celebrate Kobolt’s 30th anniversary!
I picked Paige up at 3:00 pm, we returned home and got ready, (Mom had asked us to dress up), and then we went down to the studio. We arrived at 4:30, and the party started at 5:00. Josh, Luke, Will, and a friend of Dad’s played Christmas songs (Ryan would have, but he was sick), and my job was to be a greeter with my cousin, Maci.
Maci had to leave at 7:00, and during that time over 80 people showed up. Out of those 80 people about 5 of them congratulated Maci and I on our engagement, clearly mistaking Maci for Paige. The funniest part of that was, Maci was wearing nice jeans and a sweater and she felt underdressed compared to me. After one of the people confused her she turned to me and said, “You know if I was your fiancée, I would be very upset that you didn’t tell me the dress code!”
“That’s what you’re offended about,” I laughed.
When it was almost time for Maci to leave, Mom came out and told me that I didn’t have to guard the door anymore and I finally joined the party. I spent the remainder of the night hanging out with family, friends, and Kobolts’ clients past and present.
I spent the first chapter of my first book, setting up Mom‘s family tree and ending it with her dating Dad. The second chapter starts, with Dad quitting his previous job, then I gloss over the bureaucracy of starting a business, then in the next paragraph Mom is pregnant with me. I bring that up because the immediate nature of her pregnancy/my birth in the context of Kobolt is something I have never thought about before.
While I knew that Koblot was only 2 years older than me it always seemed like it was more established than that to me. Like obviously it feels like it’s been around forever from my perspective, because it’s literally been around my whole life, but as an adult thinking about how unstable Koblot had to have been (because all new businesses are) when I was born, is completely unfathomable to me. Because, I think Kobolt is why my brothers and I are where we are today. I don’t mean in a, “It’s how Dad and Mom financially support us,” kinda way. I mean Ryan would not be in Cousin Simple, (or any band), Box Seats probably wouldn’t exist, and I wouldn’t be a writer and autism advocate if Dad hadn’t showed us what dedication and creativity looks like through Kobolt.
Congratulations Dad heres to another Greattastic 30 years
J. Mitchie Ulibarri
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