The entrance to Carbondale just received a colorful makeover. Carbondale Arts commissioned 5 Colorado-based artists to paint murals on the Central Storage development near the intersection of Highways 82 and 133. Later this year three sculptures will be installed by 3 Roaring Fork Valley artists. Read more about the Gateway Public Art Project here.

Thank you to this amazing team of artists working to keep Carbondale colorful! This exciting new mural will decorate the side of the CenturyLink building on 4th & Main. The best part? The community has been involved since the beginning- over a year ago survey respondents selected themes they thought best represent Carbondale. And now the community is invited to help paint! The panels have already been sketched out and installed.
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The Carbondale Creative District and Carbondale Arts are partnering with Loge Properties, LLC, to produce 2 new murals at 1201 Main Street by the roundabout at Highway 133. Muralist Jonny Alexander of San Diego, CA was chosen for the project which will commence in late September. Read More

June 4th is First Friday in Carbondale and it will be filled with art for everyone. Carbondale Arts presents a new exhibition curated by Gayle Embrey and Vanessa Porras at R2 Gallery called “Identidad y Libertad,” on display June 4th through 25th. In addition, the talented mural artist Armando Silva will be revealing a new community mural on the side of the Stepping Stones building (1154 CO-133) at 4 pm on First Friday as an extension of the exhibition.
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As we are still living in the unknown, in terms of returning back to business as we knew it before the pandemic, we are working hard to make the most out of this situation. Implementing some tactical urbanism, we’ve enlisted the help of two of our well known and well loved local artists, Chris Erickson and Stanley Bell. They will each design and paint a side of Main Street on the expanded block between 3rd and 4th street, a collaboration we’re beyond delighted to see. As the mural is painted on the actual street it’s considered to be temporary, but we hope something like this can happen again in the future.
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Carbondale’s new City Market, a Kroger Co. store slated to open this fall, has selected two local artists, Andrew Roberts-Gray and Reina Katzenberger, to create a mural inside the new store. “Andrew and Reina’s submission was selected because of its beautiful layering of local imagery that spoke to the character of the community,” said Bo Wachendorf, Art Project Manager for The Kroger Co. Read More

This mural was completed in 2019 as part of the “Latinx Folk Art Garden,” a community garden along the Rio Grande ARTway. Senior art student Tansy Zacharias and her mentor, Valerie Rose created this piece to represent Latin cultures and asked the community to help them paint the final product. (Touch ups done years later by Gabriela Mejia).

The project is designed by the coming together of the Latinx + Anglo communities. The purpose of this project is to call attention to the importance of Latinx culture in our valley. Read More

Completed in October 2019, Bunnie Reiss was among 35 international artists who submitted applications to paint a mural commissioned by Carbondale Arts. Reiss, who grew up in Denver but now lives in the Korea Town district of Los Angeles, had previously been to Carbondale before and looked forward to returning for what would be a busy week. Read More