2021 MURAL PROJECT ARTISTS:
DEVIN "SPEAKS" URIOSTE
Speaks is born and raised in Denver CO. His mission is to build community, knowledge, and culture.
Painting @ 246 Pine St
HANNAH CIRCENIS
Hannah enjoys life/art. As she’s discovered a love for mountains, water, travel, God, flowers, people, disc golf, coffee, and many other things… creating has become an outlet for making connections, drawing out what is lovely, and sharing this enjoyment with others. While the rendering and medium of her work changes seasonally, she focuses on depicting the profoundly simple in all the glory of everyday life.
Painting @ 317 Remington St
CARMEN RICHARDS
Carmen began painting at an early age and has continued exploring facets of herself through a range of expressions - mostly with paint, and always making use of existing materials. Whether portraits or abstracts, large scale or small, her ever evolving body of work remains a means of preservation for the transient moments of beauty, clarity and insight.
Painting @ 4032 S College Ave.
SHAUNIE B
Hi, I go by the name Shaunie. Long time positive light and rolling stone, I am an artist residing in Denver, Colorado. My mission within my art is to spread the joy of how I see the world through my eyes: ethereal realities consisting of colorful energetic figures, the aliveness of nature; bright, saturated dream-like realities that invoke you to see the beauty in small things. I believe life should be a celebration of spirit and the divine, and many of my pieces reflect these sentiments. My art depicts gratitude and contemplation within this chaotic world, hopefully adding some stillness and appreciation to our narratives. If you look at my work and feel happy, excited, calm or your heart feels content- I have fulfilled my destiny in this world.
Painting @ 246 Pine St
YAZZ ATMORE
Yazz Atmore is just a scattered brain barefoot babe who likes to dance with words, play in the spirit world & dabble in art magic. Having created her own degree from Metropolitan State University, Yazz obtains a BA in Supporting High Risk through the Arts. Yazz is currently an Art teacher in Denver, Colorado where she continues to mentor and create with young artists as they explore their lives, stories, and passions through the beauty of art. Constantly, inspired by the youth she works with, Yazz continues to develop & deepened her own artistry as an analog collagist and muralist. Her work is heavily influenced by her spiritual journey as she loves exploring the spirit world with God, Ancestors & her Spirit Team. As an expressionist intuitive mixed media artist she creates breathtaking hand cut collage works, with the use of bright bold colors, metallic paints and gold leaf.
Wheatpasting @ Taco Stop, 6324 S College Ave
JULIO “Jwlç “ MENDOZA
Julio Mendoza or Jwlç (pronounced like “Jewels”) as he is artistically and affectionately known, is a Denver-based International Artist and Muralist whose style is defined greatly by his Mexican Heritage and Latino culture. It is of utmost importance to him to incorporate his roots from la Madre Patria of Mexico into his art. His goal is to keep his culture’s traditions alive for generations to come through the celebration and preservation of them. Much of his work celebrates the colors of and venerates the iconic and mythical figures of his youth spent in Mexico. Julio Mendoza was born in El Paso, Texas , and was raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico until he was 11 years old. At the age of 11, his family moved to Denver, Colorado. He has spent the majority of his years living in the Westwood area of Denver since then. It was in his neighborhood of Westwood, where he painted his first mural. Julio feels a tremendous sense of gratitude toward his roots in Westwood and has grown artistically thanks to the support of the community there.
Painting @ 215 S Collage Ave
SOFIA RAMIREZ
My name is Sofia Ramirez. My art alias is Sofi Rami. I am a 24-year-old first-generation Colombian American multi-disciplinary artist. I have practiced studio painting using oil and acrylic paint as my main discipline for five years. I also practice 3D design, digital art, illustration, and public art. I graduated from Towson University receiving my Bachelors in Fine Arts with a concentration in Digital Art and Design in December of 2019. Through all those mediums I tend to practice abstractions and illustrative portraiture with inspirations from movements like graffuturism, minimalism, and art nouveau. My strengths as an artist include doing intricate line work, patterning, geometry, use of bold color, symmetry, and movement in my compositions. I believe in the ability art has to transform spaces, guide emotions, conversations, or even give the viewers a moment of clarity in an often confusing world. Representing marginalized people in my work is an important way I am able to build the world I wish to see, with the gifts I am given. This belief is what drives my passion for making beautiful and thought-provoking work.
Painting @ 246 Pine St
CASSANDRA BARTLETT / OOSHI
Cassandra’s personal style expresses vibrant, contrasting, bold compositions, which some are connected to geometry and patterns. With a focus on acrylics, she is also new to the world of digital art. As her art career is flourishing she hopes to share her passion for art and inspire others to create.
Painting @ 119 West Oak
LEAH PANTEA
Leah Pantea’s abstract landscapes are a celebration of process and movement, allowing the viewer’s eye to travel along sweeping lines, get tangled in topographic-like grids, glide along imagined constellations and bounced around in billowing clouds. Pantea pulls inspiration from skyscapes paired with a variety of philosophies, in particular Rothenberg’s “Janusian Thinking,” and the writings of Carl Jung. Each work, whether depicted in mural, oil, embroidery or illustration grapples with the desire to know and understand the complexities of the universe that seem just out of reach.
Painting @ 4032 S College Ave
JULIE KITZES
Julie has loved drawing and creating since the time she could hold a pencil, and would often take inspiration from observing the natural world around her. She originally set out to study veterinary medicine, but when a neurological condition left her too ill for the physical demands that entailed, she decided to pursue art seriously. After enduring six brain surgeries, Julie graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in December of 2017. Currently residing in northern Colorado, she uses her personal work to examine the connections between life, death, growth, and decay, as well as the various plights faced by our natural world.
Paiting @ 317 Remington St
“VISUAL GOODIES”
AARON SUTTON
I am Afro cosmic mutli dimensional artist working on the other side of time . Every piece has a story energy and movement to capture a moment allowing the mind to create its past present and future.
Painting @ 215 S College Ave.
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LEVON MESERLIAN
Levon Meserlian (b. 1984 Fort Collins Co) is an artist who’s work has developed from large scale commercial sign painting while living in NYC. With a background in freight graffiti he draws inspiration from psychedelic visions that he found while living in the desert in slab city.
Painting @ 246 Pine St
JAHNA CHURCH
Much of my artwork is inspired by feminism, social justice, poetry, music, nature, and diversity. I am not a public figure or an influencer, but I've found I still have a voice and people who are willing to listen, or in this case, "see". To express my values, experiences, and emotions on these topics, I put a pen to paper and draw what I'm thinking. While art is a great method for self-expression and self-awareness, it also crosses all divides; social, cultural, and political. I hope my work brings a positive and understanding change to whoever sees it.
Painting @ 215 S College Ave
CHELSEA GILMORE
Chelsea Gilmore is an installation and mural artist based in Northern Colorado. With a deep reverence for the wild and natural world, Chelsea finds inspiration in the smallest of spaces and expresses these moments in a macrocosmic perspective. Through microbiological studies, herbal studies, and outdoor adventure, the work created always stirs memories to rise and reminds us of where we came from. Find Chelsea making art around town, walking by the river, or slinging drinks at Wolverine Farm Publick House, where she manages the arts and event space.
Painting @ 317 Remington
RAMON TRUJILLO//RAM JILLIO
A Colorado native with a Bachelor’s degree in fine painting. Great on canvas and growing with murals.
Painting @ 121 W. Laporte Ave.
DECAY RENEW
Decay Renew is an artist whose work is mostly inspired from his experiences in the graffiti and freight culture scene in South Florida where he grew up. His love for bold colorful work evolved after moving to Colorado where he started incorporating landscape and abstract themes into his artwork. Regardless the medium he strives to step out of his comfort zones and push himself creatively.
Painting @ 4032 S College Ave
SAMANTHA PASCAVIS
Born and raised in Northern Colorado, Samantha’s work focuses on the connections that she has made between her own existence and that of animals and the natural world. Animals both wild and domesticated were often a strong source of comfort, protection, friendship, inspiration, and joy, while the natural spaces surrounding her home were places of safety and escape. Experiences in the daily lives of humans are often reflected in the cycles of nature, as well as the strength and adaptability of the fauna and flora who struggle for survival alongside us. Creativity became a way to honor the natural world and the important role it played in childhood, and continues to serve in her adult years. Using a variety of media, such as pencil, ink, digital painting, colored pencils and markers, Samantha uses predominately natural imagery to investigate themes that pervade the human experience: change, intention, symbols and tales, personal power and will, duality, beauty, wonder, life and death.
Painting @ 317 Remington St
DOMINIQUE MONTANO
Dominique Montano is a wildlife artist from Fort Collins, Colorado. She focuses on highlighting animals and nature in an attempt to illuminate the dangers threatening the world around us. A master’s graduate at Colorado State University focusing on zoology and comparative physiology, Dominique has always been fascinated with the incredible diversity of animals and how they operate in the world around them. Many of her subjects feature dripping or fading areas, alluding to the pressures of human-wildlife conflict that deteriorate the ability of nature to thrive in their environments, as the subjects mix into the background.
An interest in animals and comic books at a young age led to a convergence in interests. Illustrating the wildlife she is enthralled by is an opportunity to bring a small amount of that same fascination to the viewer. Focusing on animal movement and the duality of nature allows her passions to coalesce, utilizing an academic career in zoology to strengthen her visual prowess in art. With an eye towards conservation of these animals, Dominique focuses on highlighting the plight of her subjects, and subsequently donates portions of proceeds to animal conservation organizations.
Painting @ 4032 S College Ave
