Buena Vista Art Walk
Saturday, November 14th
Noon until 5pm - Buena Vista
If you are a local business that is participating in the BV Art Walk, please pay $50 here.
Join us for a Community Art Walk, hosted by Chaffee Arts in collaboration with more than two dozen local artists and businesses. Scroll down to see updates on what’s happening and where!
Below are the participating business locations that correspond to our map and the featured artists each business is hosting! Some are offering live art demonstrations, discounts, and snacks. Check back soon for additional updates!
HWY 24
1.Simple Supply Co - 222 US-24
Simple Supply Co. will have local artists, each working in a different medium, creating live from 12-5pm. Watch them work, ask about their classes, and enjoy 10% off anything in the store that day.
Showcasing work in different mediums from BV Made Makers. They will provide folks with tours of our shop and makers will be there to share their experiences of making at BV Made.
EAST MAIN STREET
Carrigan Grow is a painter from North Carolina who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University. Through vivid color, texture, and portraiture, her work creates stories that express the beauty and complexity of creation and our mysterious place in it. She has been living and working in Buena Vista since May of 2025.
3.Rokt - 209 E Main St (Instagram: rokt_shop)
Moira Forsythe, one of the 8 founding artists of the Salida ArtWalk event, will be showing her latest explorations of color and form on watercolor medium with archival ink sketching. She will have framed originals and prints available as well as smaller cards and bookmarks. Her vibrantly colored artwork has been collected by patrons in LA, Manhattan, San Francisco and Japan
Rokt carries more than the traditional rock shop. Offerings include a large variety of rocks, fossils, crystals, minerals and beads but there are also many other treasures to be found such as textiles, baskets, jewelry, art and books. Custom lapidary work is also an offering as well as bead and cordage work. Rokt is excited to be a part of the Buena Vista art walk!
4.Heirloom - 209 E Main St (Instagram: heirloombv)
Handmade ceramics by Gitte LaWare, Matt Bauerle and Tracy Powell. Photography and handmade prints by Todd Powell.
Featuring Artist Randy Anderson (Touch of Wild Art) - Randy’s medium of choice is graphite with a focus on realism and an emphasis on contrast and detailed textures that allow the observer to have an emotional connection with each piece and relive a moment in time. His drawings capture the personal and realistic beauty of our creator’s handy work, bringing forth memories of life that can only be observed and experienced in the wild.
5.Main Street Tavern - 308 E Main St
Featuring the art of Julie Boucher, who will be offering a live painting demonstration from 12-5.
Julie’s art is highly influenced by her time spent outside. She is drawn to dramatic lighting, rich colors, and emotive moments depicted in an impressionistic style. She loves to capture moments of exploration. The inclusion of figures in her work emphasizes the scale of the landscape and the personal interactions held in beautiful places.
https://www.julieboucherart.com
6.BV Art & Photo - 317 E Main St
Representing over 50 local artists.
November’s Featured Artist is Eva Paul. Eva is a painter who also makes jewelry, journals, hair pins, oracle decks and bookmarks using prints of her paintings. She paints watercolor on canvas, a surface that absorbs nothing and holds everything. The pigment dries on top, waiting, and she can reach back in with water to bring it alive again. Spirals, light, and golden lace rise from the paint the way patterns rise under her hands in a session. Each painting carries what moves through the energy field. The focal point of her show is a large piece that explores tarot and the oracle. "The Fools Journey” led to her Oracle of the Celestial Spheres deck.
Eva will be offering oracle readings during the art walk, starting at 2pm.
7.Deerhammer Distillery - 321 E Main St
8.Peace Love Dirt - 322 E Main St
9.Strange Craft - BV Backyard - 324 E Main St
Featuring Photographers Amy & Caleb Clayton
10.Souled Out T-Shirts - 327 E Main St
Featuring Randy Baker @randybakerart and Soli Deo Gloria Art
Soli Deo Gloria means "glory to God alone." Through her art, Kirsten wishes to bring glory to God in every piece she creates and point people to Him. She loves to take the ordinary and cause people to look deep under the surface and see God's hand moving in ways we all normally miss.
11.The Terrace on Main - 330 E Main St
Showcasing the work of Mary Caraway. Featuring some of her larger works. She primarily paints landscapes.
The Terrace will be hosting in Babettes, their new downstairs location for all things Terrace while their rooftop is closed for the season! It has a cozy, moody, vintage feel with offerings of craft cocktails and locally inspired bites.
12.Rock Paper Scissors - 411 E Main St
Showcasing new paintings by Lee Lester, Cate Whittmore, Holly Walter and Victoria Hock.
Live painting with Holly Walter from 12-2pm.
13.Uniquely Dunne Art - 413 E Main St
“American Made & Artist Supported” where you will find a wide variety of art for everyone’s taste and pocket book.
Come meet the Artists:
Ed Dunne – Ed’s distinct images of Relic and historic landscape photograph capture the beauty of forgotten places, abandoned buildings, old mining towns, historic ruins, vintage cars and landscapes shaped by time. Ed’s style often combines rugged scenery, unique color compositions, and a sense of history.
Karen Moore – Stained Glass Artist. Mountainscapes in Stained Glass
Karen’s art includes leaded, foiled and mosaic glass art. Her specialties include mountain sceneries, nature, southwest flare, and abstract art, or anything distinctive, like art similar to Frank Lloyd Wright. On request she can do company logos, or other inspiration pieces.
14.The Village - 414 E Main St
Paintings by Nora Larimer
Nora Larimer will be in the shop and she will be hosting a watercolor demonstration. Nora was the founder/owner of Rock Run Gallery on South Main in Buena Vista (Open 2008-2024). She paints colorful landscapes, fish and florals in watercolor and oil. Nationally recognized, Nora has won numerous awards at juried shows and competitions across the country.
Featured artist is Jessie Hoialmen, Red Clay Roots Designs
Originally from Georgia, Jessie moved to Colorado nine years ago looking for new adventures and opportunities. Somewhere along the way, Buena Vista became home—and the mountains, colors, and character of this place have become a big influence on the work she creates. Her pieces combine geometric designs with the natural character of wood, using a mix of locally sourced and upcycled materials alongside new lumber. She especially loves giving discarded or leftover wood a second life and allowing its imperfections, grain, and history to become part of the finished piece. Because of that, no two pieces are ever exactly alike.
Custom work and commissions are welcome.
Email: mailto:Jessiehoialmen94@gmail.com
Facebook: Red Clay Roots Designs; Redclay Roots - Instagram
16.Brynn Ronning Art - 430 E Main St (Instagram: brynn_ronning_sandoval)
Pop-up gallery - featuring paintings by Brynn Ronning
Brynn is a painter who has lived in Buena Vista since 2008. Her artistic spirit feels very much at home in the mountains, and her work explores the stories carried by wind and water. She celebrates the wide open spaces that invite you to look closer. Here you will find yucca blossoms in the moonlight, a river that snakes through the Arkansas valley, and the shiny quality of treasures found in this high mountain desert landscape. Brynn’s artwork is ultimately about how she can better align with our natural world and how best to represent the sense of care and love of mystery that has been gifted to her.
17.Cool River - 505 E Main St #110
Featuring the work of Jill Webber-Fredrick - jillwebberfredrickart.com
Instagra @waterpaintink
After teaching and practicing yoga for twenty-five years, a series of injuries led Jill to trade in the yoga studio for a studio of a different kind. In the beginning, that was her kitchen counter—experimenting with pencils, inks and watercolors. Working with subjects and materials from nature comes instinctively for her. Jill’s painting is driven by the feelings she wishes to have about the world. Her hope is that the sincerity of these subjects translates to the community as an offering of harmony, expression, and the courage to explore what is inside each of us. Her art is featured in several private collections and is sold as framable greeting cards in local shops on the Front Range and Western Slope of Colorado.
18.Hi-Lonesome Boutique - 505 E Main St
SOUTH MAIN
19.Forsythe Fine Jewelry - 900 South Main St
20.Sundance & Friends - 1111 River Park Road
Featuring the work of Corey Johnson (Jewelry), Stephen Grundy (Drawings) and Cecelia LaFrance (Turned Wood Vessels).
In addition to the Chaffee County Artists, they feature 26 other artists local to Colorado and 36 more from other states and a couple of international artists as well. They will also be offering refreshments.
21.Joyful Bakery - 801-1B Front Loop
Featuring Artists Jamie Winsand and Anyta Cosel
Jamie Winsand is an abstract artist who works with mostly repurposed materials as her medium. Her work lies somewhere between fiber art, weaving, and sculpture.
Anyta Cosel grew up in New York where she rode the city bus to "Bronx House" for art classes at age 10. Later, it would be "The Art Student's League", Art and Design High School, a college degree in Art History, and graduate degrees in Special Needs and Counseling. Anyta is evolving, exploring new mediums and returning to a place that is familiar and yet, uncertain. She loves playing with color, form, texture and shapes and is totally intrigued with how they can contradict each other and yet, all come together. Her sensual art evokes emotions often through our vulnerabilities and the specific lens from which we view the world. Her paintings have many layers that are an expression of who we are... complicated beings with many stories and experiences. The abstract mystery of her women speak their truths through their passion for life, and at other times, through their silence.