
16TH STREET BRUSHSTROKES
Experience the vibrant transformation of 16th Street at Glenarm Plaza, Denver Pavilions! On Friday, September 12, from 10 AM to 2 PM, over 15 talented artists will bring the plaza to life with live painting images of downtown Denver, while guests enjoy live music and refreshing beverages from all Denver Pavilions restaurants.
Celebrate creativity, community, and the new energy of Glenarm Plaza at Denver Pavilions — a perfect outing for art lovers, families, and anyone looking to soak up a lively atmosphere. Don’t miss this colorful celebration!
MEET THE ARTISTS
Robert Bowers
Robert Bowers is a 33 year old artist residing in Denver, born and raised in Golden, Colorado. He grew up skateboarding and snowboarding which eventually would lead him to Graffiti and Street art, where he soon began drawing letters and eventually spray painting walls and murals. He has a degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver in Communication Design and has been an active graphic designer for the last five years. He has worked with many clients and has had the opportunity to create packaging for Kroger brands, logos for local businesses, and packaging design for weed companies. All of these things have contributed to his style and help him create art that represents an active lifestyle, celebrating both nature and the artistic expression of life. Using various mediums like spray paint, paint markers and acrylic paint, Robert Bowers is able to capture the colors and the essence of the art, allowing for multiple layers and abstract backgrounds to co exist within a contextual piece.
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Kenneth Brewer
Jack Butler
Mark Cleveland
Mark B. Cleveland is a contemporary oil painter known for his urban and natural landscapes using the plein air technique. Cleveland’s style is influenced by the “Ashcan School” of post-Impressionist American oil painting with its focus on everyday urban life and use of traditional underpainting and glazing techniques. Cleveland is a strong advocate and practitioner of plein air painting (painting outdoors) learning his skillset from eminent painters in Chicago’s Palette & Chisel Academy. He founded the Evanston Plein Air Festival and has been recognized for his plein air work, including being a Top 100 finalist in a Plein Air Salon competition in 2024.


Mark Courage

Barbara Froula
Barbara Froula’s paintings of Colorado and Western landscapes, and her cityscapes including Denver, Vail, Boulder, San Francisco and Prague, capture a sense of place with warmth and detail. Hundreds of commissions for Historic Denver, the Brown Palace Hotel, Historic Boulder, DCPA, Bolder Boulder, History Colorado, Central City Opera, the Anschutz Corporation, and others have created a body of work that reveal her esteem for our treasured places and landmarks.
Barbara attended Auburn University and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, receiving an Architecture degree and the AlA medal.
She divides her time between Denver and a new studio that she designed and built on a mountain ridge overlooking Boulder:


Janyce Jaramillo
Calvin Lee
Calvin Lee started out as an attorney in Carbondale, but was soon drawn to painting. Today, he maintains a studio in Denver. Calvin, having climbed mountains in Colorado, Washington, Nepal, Peru, Ecuador, Japan and Mongolia, painted stunning images of spirit, struggle and pilgrimage in ink, watercolor and oil. Now, Calvin paints landscapes, portraits, figures and — most urgent for our times — social and political commentary. He was named as one of “five artists to see and know” during Denver’s Art Week in both 2016 and 2017 by the Denver Visitor and Convention Bureau.


Evelyn Valdez Martinez
The International Museum of Contemporary Masters selected Evelyn Martinez’s work for their Salons in 2003, 2008, and 2013. Her work has also been shown at Museums of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Arizona State University, and Denver International Airport. Martinez’s work is in collections in India, England, Spain, and Mexico.


Bassant Mahran
Ed Natan
As a lifelong painter, I try to capture the feeling, the energy, on location, as it happens.


Alexander Soukas
Elizabeth Truskin
Elizabeth is an artist from Denver, specializing in acrylic, watercolor, and mixed-media paintings. She instructs a variety of art classes for the Denver Art Museum, the Art Students League of Denver, Denver Parks and Recreation, and Redline Contemporary Arts Center. Truskin hosts public art events throughout the Front Range and loves connecting with her community through art-making.


Bill Wickersham
William retired into the world of art where he found his innate talent. He attended the Denver Art Student League briefly and
joined the Park Hill Artist Group, where He met his Mentor, Evelyn Valdez Martinez. Wickersham’s genre is realism with personal inflection. He has hosted art shows for over a decade and presented in many one-man shows.

Cathleen Windham

Wilhelmina Yu
Music by Jesse Maclaine
Jesse Maclaine is a singer-songwriter pianist who specializes in top 40 pop, jazz, soft rock, and folk music, with a repertoire of over 300 popular songs from 1920-2024! Her new project Jesse Maclaine and the Scotch released their debut EP in October, 2024. She is also releasing solo spontaneous piano compositions as Jesse Maclaine’s Instant Octopus. Her music has delighted audiences at iconic Colorado venues including Mishawaka, Fort Collins Lincoln Center, Denver Zoo, DIA, Denver Botanic Gardens, Taste of Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Boulder’s Chautauqua, and many more.
As a recording artist and songwriter, she’s released 5 full length albums, 2 EPs, and multiple singles. Jesse has toured nationally over a dozen times, performed for prominent non profits, foreign ambassadors, political figures (including Senator Hickenlooper’s 2023 holiday party) and in 2018 she opened for Melissa Etheridge!
Find out more and follow the links to stream Jesse’s music on her website, jessemaclaine.com
