Old Colorado City
Old Colorado City was the territorial capital before Denver, and its Colorado Avenue corridor retains the funkiest, most artist-populated stretch in the Springs metro. The neighborhood's mix of galleries, studios, and small businesses has made it a natural home for murals that respond to Colorado's mining history, the red-rock landscape of Garden of the Gods nearby, and the multicultural communities that have made this strip their own.
Featured Artists
All artists →Tristan Eaton
"Pikes Peak Forever" presents the 14,115-foot peak as a comic-book panel, the mountain cross-sectioned to show the geology beneath the granite summit — a work that has become Old Colorado City's most-photographed wall.
Faith47
"Territorial Capital" on Colorado Avenue meditates on what it means to be a capital city that lost its capital status — the buildings that remain from the territorial period, the ambitions they encoded, and the communities those ambitions displaced. Faith47's characteristic monochrome figure rises from the architectural rubble of history.
Ricardo Cavolo
"Red Rocks Revival" populates the Precambrian sandstone formations of Garden of the Gods with Cavolo's folk-art menagerie — creatures outlined in bold black against the terracotta and cinnabar palette of the Fountain Formation, the 300-million-year-old red rocks that define the Springs' visual identity.