303 Magazine | 06/19/2020
The most recent mural painted by Veiga and Detour is on the side of Leon Gallery on 17th Avenue and depicts a local woman who was murdered in broad daylight just last week while out with her boyfriend and dog.
Month: June 2020
A Detour mural at Leon Gallery honors Isabella Thallas, who was murdered June 10 while walking her dog
Denverite | 06/18/2020
Evans had approached Leon’s directors several weeks ago about painting a mural. His original plan had been to fill the wall with a portrait of a teacher he knows. After the shooting, he decided to paint Thallas’s portrait instead.
Photo by Donna Bryson/Denverite
Mural being created for Denver woman who was fatally shot while walking dog
KCVR – Fox 31 | 6/16/2020
Thomas Evans, a popular artist who goes by the name “Detour,” is painting the mural in Isabella Thallas’ honor.
“I wanted to use street art as a way to give a gift to the family and sort of help the healing process and grieving process,” Detour said.
The mural is going up on the side of the Leon Gallery at 17th Street and Park Avenue in Denver’s Uptown district.
Thomas “Detour” Evans Remembers Isabella Thallas in a Mural
Westword | 06/16/2020
The mural is going up on the wall of Leon Gallery, at East 17th Avenue and Park Avenue West. Friends and family of Thallas came to Leon to watch the artist at work today, June 16.
Photo by Eric Dallimore
Leon Gallery grapples with representation among its artists and board
Denverite | 06/11/2020
Photographer Narkita Gold has been chronicling what it means to be Black in Denver in images and words in a project that went online in late 2018.
As protests against racism that are sweeping the country make her feel her work is even more important, Gold was asked to turn her Black in Denver photographs into banners to fly over Leon gallery. They will declare, she said, that “there are Black people here and we are amazing.
Photo by Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite