True Colors: Denver Artists Have Painted This Shut-Down Town

By Kyle Harris

Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 8:39 a.m.

Kyle Harris A new mural at 30 and 32 South Broadway. 1/14

Kyle Harris Poems and inspirational phrases are tacked over a new mural by Jacky Vee at Hope Tank. 2/14

Kyle Harris Mutiny Information Cafe is boarded up, but it's still one of the hottest spots for emerging art around town. 3/14

Kyle Harris Poems outside Hope Tank. 4/14

Kyle Harris Grow Love's mural on the boarded-up windows of Awakening. 5/14

Kyle Harris The outside of Mutiny Information Cafe has become a gallery showcasing Denver muralists. 6/14

Kyle Harris May the force be with you. 7/14

Kyle Harris Mar Williams's mural outside Mutiny Information Cafe. 8/14

Jonathan Goldie Colorful murals from Plywood Projects outside the Pour House. 9/14

Jonathan Goldie Plywood Projects' murals outside the Pour House and Gaslamp. 10/14

Jonathan Goldie Jonathan Goldie's mural outside Gaslamp depicts two of the owners' obsessions: snowboarding and ping-pong. 11/14

Kyle Harris Hope Tank keeps bringing hope to Denver. 12/14

Patrick Kane McGregor Patrick Kane McGregor is selling prints and painting boarded-up windows to support the Denver businesses that have boosted his career. 13/14

Patrick Kane McGregor Patrick Kane McGregor is ponying up. 14/14

True Colors: Denver Artists Have Painted This Shut-Down Town

With hundreds of businesses closed down and boarded up, Denver artists have turned a bleak time into something beautiful and hopeful. Mar Williams, Patrick Kane McGregor, Jonathan Goldie, Grow Love and many more are showing up to paint the boards protecting businesses that have supported this city's arts and music scene.

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