You Are Here: WeldWalls Mural Festival Celebrates Local Culture Through Art

For artist Armando Silva and musician and art manager Briana Harris, bringing a mural festival to Greeley was a no-brainer. The city has a decades-long history of investment in public art. Large-scale works are splashed across walls around the city, with a particular concentration of murals downtown. Spend five minutes on the 8th Avenue corridor, […]

Armando Silva and Briana Harris Spark a Mural Revolution with WeldWalls Mural Festival

Many people, even fellow artists, told Armando Silva he’d have to leave Greeley to be successful. Instead, he found his own success with projects such as the Einstein mural in downtown Greeley. The mural not only boosted his career but also helped usher in a vibrant art scene. Nowadays, it’s hard to walk around downtown […]

Aaron David Best

Over the last few years, a culture of muralists and visual artists have emerged in Northern Colorado. These artists, embraced by the local community and business owners, brought vibrancy to many of the empty walls the residents have known for so long.

Artist Profile: Wesley Sam-Bruce

The best part of Greeley-based visual artist Wesley Sam-Bruce’s work is it’s clear he goes all the way with an idea. When he conceptualizes a piece, no matter how intense or bizarre the idea is, he makes it happen. Recently, the BandWagon got the chance to speak with Sam-Bruce about his work after his return from San Diego, California where he recently wrapped up a massive project with the New Children’s Museum. Listening to Sam-Bruce describe his projects, for the most part his ideas seem weird and far-fetched. He paints a very large picture for very large ideas and approaches his projects only limited by his own imagination. The grandioseness of it could easily be brushed off by sceptics… But then he delivers. Not only does he deliver, but he makes a living doing it.

Album Review: Joe Lee Parker— Daiji

For the last few years, one of the local artists I’ve personally supported was musician/photographer/former BandWagon staff member Joe Lee Parker, who has been one of the mainstays of the Greeley music scene for the last few years due to his Sound Art Live shows. In January, Joe released Daiji, a collection of his experimental snyth/electronic music, on Bandcamp and on CD, but due to the hustle-and-bustle of the new year I completely missed it until I attended one of Parker’s shows in March, where he gave me the CD himself. Since then, I’ve gotten to listen to it a couple times, and it’s great.

Local Artist Profile: Rick Destree Wants You to ‘Drink Decaf’

If you have been visiting the Cranford Cove Tea Tavern over on 10th Street in January, you’ve probably noticed some of the artwork of Rick Destree up on the walls. For 32-year-old Destree, this is his third art showing in Greeley, but that doesn’t mean he’s an amateur.