Fort Collins, CO
Fort Collins punches above its weight in public art. Colorado State University sustains a constant pipeline of emerging muralists, and the city's Utilities Mural Program has been commissioning work on infrastructure since 2001. Old Town's brick storefronts and the Cache la Poudre River District provide the primary canvases for a scene that blends craft beer culture with serious outdoor painting.
Featured Artists
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The world's foremost marine life muralist, Wyland has painted more than 100 "Whaling Walls" on buildings around the globe. His River District commission "Cache la Poudre" focuses inland — depicting the brown trout, river otters, and great blue herons of the Poudre River in luminous underwater hues that animate the concrete retaining wall of the Riverside Water Treatment Plant.
Maya Hayuk
Brooklyn-based painter whose symmetrical, kaleidoscopic compositions in candy-bright palettes have graced buildings in cities from Brooklyn to Brussels. "Old Town Heritage" wraps the west wall of an 1890s mercantile building in a radiating sunburst pattern that pulls the terracotta and sandstone tones of Fort Collins' historic architecture into a psychedelic conversation with the present.
Aryz
Barcelona-born muralist Joan Aguiló, known as Aryz, paints monumental figurative work that distills the human form into geometric essentials — parts of figures cropped, rotated, or multiplied at building scale. "Foothills Spirit" on Linden Street pairs a massive portrait fragment with sketched deer silhouettes, the two subjects sharing the same earthy palette as the sandstone bluffs visible at the edge of town.