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Baker

Baker is one of Denver's oldest and most architecturally intact neighborhoods, its late 19th-century Victorian homes sitting alongside the South Broadway commercial strip that has long been the city's alternative arts corridor. The murals along Broadway and in Baker's residential blocks combine a reverence for the neighborhood's historic character with a DIY energy that keeps the art feeling genuinely community-made rather than curated.

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"South Broadway"
Aaron Kizer
S Broadway near W Alameda · Added Oct 14, 2016
"Denver Dreaming"
Jaime Molina
S Broadway near W Bayaud · Added Mar 22, 2020
"Victorian Block"
Kelly Gale Amen
Acoma St near W 7th Ave · Added Aug 8, 2022

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Aaron Kizer

Music culture muralist · Denver

Denver artist whose work celebrates the alternative music and arts culture of South Broadway. "South Broadway" is a documentary mural — a block-long history of the strip's record stores, music venues, tattoo shops, and dive bars rendered in a style that combines vintage poster art with contemporary mural scale. Kizer spent a year photographing the street before painting, and many of the depicted businesses have since closed.

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Jaime Molina

Figurative muralist · Denver

"Denver Dreaming" is Molina's most intimate Denver work — a single large figure lying in a field of native prairie grass, the Rocky Mountains visible in the background, the city's skyline reflected in the figure's closed eyes. It reads as both aspiration and exhaustion, capturing something true about Denver's relationship to the natural world it both worships and increasingly paves over.

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Kelly Gale Amen

Environmental muralist · Denver

"Victorian Block" documents the specific architectural character of Baker's late 19th-century housing stock — the ornamental woodwork, the front porches, the corner towers — in a mural that makes visible what is usually experienced as background. Amen painted it as a direct response to three demolitions on the same block in 2021, making the mural a monument to what was nearly lost.