Art

Highest Stakes

Artist: Graham Carraway

This mural is a reflection on my decision to work as a professional artist here in Denver. Originally from Mississippi, I’ve always felt a deep connection to western folklore and imagery. Western culture, in many ways, parallels the experience of growing up in the South. Highest Stakes celebrates the professional leap I made to pursue this journey, honoring the spirit of resilience and ambition that drives my work.

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Artist: Graham Carraway

This mural pays homage to the imagery of past decades, drawing inspiration from the artwork and lettering styles found on vintage food labels and advertisements. The design incorporates Colorado’s agricultural heritage, weaving vintage-inspired advertisements tailored to the state’s unique landscape. It’s a celebration of both history and the enduring connection between food, art, and community.

The Quantifiable and The Ineffable

Artist: Andrew Ramiro Tirado

Quality. Craftsmanship. Opportunities to find the unexpected. The dairy block is all about a celebration of “the maker". Thus, in creating a sculpture for the dairy block, Andrew felt it worthwhile to hearken back in spirit to one of the fathers of the American craft movement, the woodworker, architect, and furniture maker George Nakashima, whose work was once described as “quantifiable yet ineffable". Anyone who’s ever beheld or touched Nakashima’s work or read “The Soul of a Tree” will attest that the master woodworker and philosopher’s reverence for the handcrafted was only surpassed by a more intimate connection with the wood itself—not just for the material, solid and beautiful, but for the life within. His suspended piece in the lobby of The Maven, titled The Quantifiable and The Ineffable, similarly upholds a regard for the craft and artistry of the past; the connection, via head, heart, and hand, that can only occur when one is intently present; yet while reaching, both without and within, for the possibility, the opportunity to find the unexpected.

Ladies Fancywork Society

Artist: Ladies Fancywork Society

The Ladies Fancywork Society, a Denver-based collective, has been terrorizing your neighborhood with their crocheted yarn crimes since 2007. What began as a group of crochet-loving friends just chillin’ out, maxin’ relaxin’ all cool, and shooting some b-ball outside of the school has transformed into a fiber arts hydra capable of putting together large-scale projects, international art shows, and installations.

Homage to Maize: the staff of life

Artist Name: Emanuel Martinez

Emanuel’s mural pays homage to the staple food of the indigenous people of the Southwest United States and the Americas.

Dark Matter Gathering

Artist Game: Travis Hetman

In Dark Matter Gathering, an assemblage of over 300 found black-and-white photographs, Travis has offered a seemingly infinite universe that reads like American folklore meets the Twilight Zone. These appropriated antique photographs in one way feel like your family’s long-lost photo album, or when seen in another way, they appear to be an alternate universe that operates parallel to our own. In each photograph, tiny little universes appear, suggesting that the thin veil between our universe and other universes is everywhere around us. Where this dark matter appears, the laws of our known world fade way, causing the images to rearrange in surprising fashion. Through the careful and meticulous placement of each of his tiny dark matter clusters, group photographs and landscapes become a stage where nothing is separate, yet an infinite realm of possibilities exists. In a brilliant stroke of poetry, Travis has installed this massive collection of photographs to begin as nothing and end in a pile of disassembling nothingness on the gallery floor. Travis is a researched artist who is demonstrating the theory of an expanding universe that will eventually collapse on itself, both literally and figuratively.

HERE

Artist Name: Collin Parson

Celebrating The Unexpected

Artist Name: Charlo

This Denver wine bar and tasting room is the urban expansion of Blanchard Family Wines, an award-winning Sonoma based winery created by brothers, James and Mark Blanchard.

Makers

Artist Name: Magik Studios

Founded in 2019 by Meredith Steel and Kristen Fogarty, Magik Studios specializes in hand-painted murals, installations & custom artwork.

Dairy Block Milk Splash

Artist Name: Airworks Studio

In our works, we have created many large-scale commissions that enliven and activate the environment in both interior and exterior spaces. It has always been our wish to make the works have a voice and character that uplifts and reflects the positive aspects of human vision.

Downpour

Artist Name: Davis Partnership Architects

Lisa Bartlett led the Lighting Design team at Davis, developing a lighting concept coined “Downpour,” which features almost 400 programmable color changing spheres thatplayfully imitate a rainfall of colored light.