The Mischief Makers, Kevin Sloan, 2019
SERVICES PROVIDED: Design coordination, Materials research, Budget management, Engineering coordination and oversight, Artist selection process, Fabrication oversight, Lighting design development, Scheduling, Project close-out.
In 2018 we began working with Continuum Partners to develop a vision for the art programming for their redevelopment project at 9th Ave & Colorado Blvd in Denver, CO. This redevelopment project reintegrates the former 26-acre University of Colorado School of Medicine campus into the surrounding neighborhood fabric by blending apartments and townhomes with retail, offices and new public green spaces.
For Block 7 Denver-based painter Kevin Sloan was commissioned to create an original composition for the facade of the parking structure adjacent to the Theo Apartments on an exterior wall that angles towards northbound traffic on Colorado Blvd. The mural entitled The Mischief Makers was completed in February of 2019 by father and son muralist team Chris and Will Krieg who enlarged Kevin Sloan’s original painting to a massive 65’ x 65’ mural. Sloan’s work explores the relationship between the natural and human-made world. His paintings, often symbolic, deal with recurring paired themes such as fragility and strength, wonder and sorrow, and loss and resiliency.
We completed two additional exterior art projects for this campus, for Block 7 with former Denver-based artist Daisy Patton entitled Untitled (Picnic with Flowers) and for Block 4 with Denver-based painter Andrew Huffman entitled Modulated 32 (#1) and Modulated 32 (#2).
Digital rendering and site plan courtesy of Continuum Partners. Select image courtesy of Werk Creative.
