The summer heat is turning up, but we have an idea on how to stay cool. It’s peach season, and those long awaited juicy fruits are showing up at farmers markets, roadside stands, orchards, and grocery stores for all to enjoy. Colorado peaches are known for being extra juicy and extra sweet and this year’s […]
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Meet Will Barker, Former NFL Player and Rising Denver Mural Artist
How the onetime professional lineman went from winning games in the trenches to painting contemporary Western art and where he’s planning to put his stamp on Denver this year. Madi Skahill •
May 11, 2021
If you’re wondering what it takes to perfect your craft, any self-help guru might point you to the “10,000-hour rule”: the theory that if you dedicate that much time to deliberate practice, you’ll end up as a professional in that field.
Cliché as that rule may be, it’s front of mind these days for Will Barker, the 33-year-old Pennsylvania native and burgeoning Denver artist, whose playful paintings of cowboys and trippy mountain landscapes could be seen on walls throughout the Mile High City this past year. “It’s one of those things where, if you put in enough hours you know, the ‘10,000 hours’ saying at some point, something will change,” he says. And more than one year removed