'These spaces are important. The artists get to express themselves and the public gets to enjoy the art, and we want to keep it that way.'
"These spaces are important. The artists get to express themselves and the public gets to enjoy the art, and we want to keep it that way."
But many local artists weren't given a chance to take part in their creation, since Arts & Venues held a public call for national and international artists, taking a"gallerist" approach to commissioning pieces around Denver that involved interviews and applications."When they did those first original calls, you know, a lot of artists that were from Denver didn't get accepted, and a lot of out-of-state artists got it," Haven recalls.
The city gave Haven and his crew a small stretch of the Cherry Creek Trail between Champa and Arapahoe streets, but it was more than enough space for them to flex their mural muscles."For us, it's always been like, 'What an amazing place to paint,'" Haven says."So it was an honor to be able to paint down there and have something there for the city and for the place I grew up in.
According to Haven, he did an initial round of murals in March with six artists, and talk around the street-art water cooler prompted others to show interest."A bunch of people were hitting me up, trying to paint down there," he recalls.
Haven hopes people in the street-art community will be more respectful of these new murals. But if they do get tagged, he and the other artists plan to come out and fix them as soon as possible."These spaces are important," he says."The artists get to express themselves and the public gets to enjoy the art, and we want to keep it that way.""I got into art originally when I was really little, through my grandma," he recalls.
"They asked me to curate some artists," he remembers."There wasn't any funding available by the city, so everything would be out of the artists' pockets, and they also donated their time and supplies to paint."
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