Julia Ben-Asher, ink.
MURALS
Bud Werner Memorial Library
One Book: Eager — The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter: Mural as Background for an Interactive Exhibit
Winter 2025
Each year, Bud Werner Memorial Library presents a community read in Steamboat Springs. We call it ONE BOOK STEAMBOAT. This winter, the Yampa Valley community is invited to read and discuss the award-winning nonfiction book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, by journalist Ben Goldfarb. In addition, the Library is offering a series of events to enrich your reading experience and a Yampa Valley-wide conversation about resilience in our local environment, culminating with a live talk by author Ben Goldfarb on March 18 at the library.
The Eager Beaver Lodge is a human collaboration between Bud Werner Library, Friends of the Yampa, The Nature Conservancy and Yampatika. This is our collective attempt to mimic the Yampa Valley’s ecosystem engineers: beavers. Along the Yampa River and its tributaries, beavers (Castor canadensis) can live alongside the river in “bank dens,” or in lodges that rise up from the ponds of their own creation. This display is an interactive, simulated beaver lodge, created so our community can see and experience what it might feel like to be warm and dry inside a beaver’s lodge while looking out on surrounding dam, wetlands, and riverscapes. My contribution to this project was the six-panel, 16-by-4' mural backdrop of the beaver lodge.
Find more information about this project and One Book Steamboat here!
Paint-By-Number Community Mural:
Yampa Valley Sustainability Council
Summer 2024
Read the Steamboat Radio article about this mural here.
Paint-By-Number Community Mural:
Friends of the Yampa
Spring 2024
Read the Steamboat Pilot article here.
Fraser Mountain Mural Fest: Sending Love 2.0
August 2023
Private commission: Grand Tetons in Grayscale
Winter 2022
West Routt Library children's room mural
Fall 2022
A fun, fantastical mural for the West Routt Library's children's room.
Steamboat Montessori entryway mural
Fall 2022
Fraser Mountain Mural Festival 2022
August 5 - 7, 2022
The 2022 Fraser Mountain Mural Festival is presented by the Town of Fraser and the Fraser Public Arts Committee (Fraser PAC). August 5 - 7, 2022, 30 artists competed for awards and recognition, by producing their best work on 8ft x 8ft primed panels.
The Fraser Mountain Mural Festival is a platform for local, front range and national artists to compete for cash prizes as well as generating creative energy and raising awareness for The Fraser Center for Creative Arts.
This year’s theme is “Art: A Force of Nature. Earth, wind, water and fire: Embracing the natural things that help shape the world around us and our environment, and challenge our senses.”
Fraser Mountain Mural Festival 2021
August 6 - 8, 2021
The 2021 Fraser Mountain Mural Festival is presented by the Town of Fraser and the Fraser Public Arts Committee (Fraser PAC). August 6 - 8, 2021, 25 artists will compete for awards and recognition, by producing their best work on 8ft x 8ft primed panels.
The Fraser Mountain Mural Festival is a platform for local, front range and national artists to compete for cash prizes as well as generating creative energy and raising awareness for The Fraser Center for Creative Arts.
This year’s theme is “Celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit.”
NAmazing Mini Mural with the Ashland Street Initiative
North Adams, Massachusetts; Fall 2020
This mural was created as part of a five-mural series to beautify downtown North Adams, Massachusetts. Spearheaded by the Ashland Street Initiative, the mini murals aim to represent resilience and hope in viewers. (Photos by The Berkshire Eagle; see more here.)
Zephyr Chairlift Beautification Project
Winter Park, Colorado; Fall 2018
When Winter Park ski resort retired its Zephyr Express Chairlift, it donated the 40 chairlift benches to the towns of Winter Park and Fraser, Colorado, to be painted by local artists and transformed into public benches.
My bench is painted in a Winter Park mountain landscape and can be found in downtown Winter Park, in front of The Pub.
