Interview: Artist Grow Love

I met Grow Love at the Acoma House in Denver Colorado. I was reviewing the art hotel. As chance would have it, the first night that I arrived, an opening art party was held for the artists. We love to spotlight artists on ETG. See below for links for more review of the hotel.

Grow Love, in addition to being an artist/muralist, is also an educator. She founded organization Grow Love International whose mission is to support female and female identifying creatives with mentorship based career building and mural arts training. Grow Love is a founding artist of Babe Walls a non-profit that supports and celebrates women and non-binary artists worldwide.

The artist is also a member of  the Medusa Collective, an art studio, gallery, and educational space, which founded a youth lead program to support young artists in the community.

Grow Love

Q: How old where you when you were first drawn to art?
A: I started painting when I was very young probably around eight years old. I knew then that I wanted to be a painter. A neighbor had passed away and happened to be an oil painter, so I bought my first set of oil paints from an estate sale and tried to teach myself. I didn’t go very well, but as I got older in school, they provided easier kinds of paint to learn with. I was a strange driven kind of person, even very young.

Q: Where did you go to art school?
A: I attended the University of Denver and was able to receive some very nice scholarships because of my high school art portfolio. I graduated with my bachelor of fine arts in 2007.

Q: When did you start doing murals?
A: I began to teach myself how to spray paint ten years ago, but became fully immersed in learning the medium in 2017.

Q: How did you meet Christina and Michael Eisenstein, owners of the Acoma House
A: I first met Christina when Alexandrea (Pangburn) was beginning to coordinate our first Babe Walls festival in 2019. I was one of the first artists to sign a lease with a Medusa Collective. I actually still have my studio within that building and rent it directly from Christina.

Collaborating with the Owners of the Acoma House

Q: What has your experience been like working with Christina?
A: Collaborating with Christina over the years has been extraordinary. She’s one of those rare purveyors of art who truly wants to see artists succeed.

Q: Can you tell me more about your room at the Acoma House?
A: I did install murals in room 103 at the Acoma House, as well as three murals in the basement hallway. The Grow Love suite at the Acoma House is an ode to Colorado wildflowers. 

Q: How long did it take to finish all the murals?
A: That installation took me about three weeks. I believe all of the suites at The Acoma House are either one bedroom or studio.

Find out more about this talented artist on her website – https://growlovewalls.wordpress.com/

CLICK HERE to read a review of the Acoma House Suite where Kaitlin created all the art. Find out about all the other talented artists such as  Kaitlin Ziesmer, Alexandrea Pangburn, as well as the owners of the Acoma House and longtime supporters of art –  Christina and Michael Eisenstein.