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We stumbled across Blanche Guernsey at a Denver art festival just a couple weeks before we planned to launch ARTSTINKS™. At the time, we already had our debut lineup locked in and ready to send to print. But then we...

WARNING: Don't look directly into those legs or you'll go blind. I'm Duke Harten, cartoonist and co-founder of ARTSTINKS™ Candle Co. Plaid Accents is the pseudonym I've used since I was a teenager for all things creative. The name comes...

Maranda Ryser is a Denver-based artist, art director, and brand designer. In our opinion, her work is everything ARTSTINKS™ has wanted to be since day one. Colorful, funny, and beautiful without taking itself too seriously. From the moment we found...

In the very early days of ARTSTINKS™ — before we had a logo, a website, or a single dollar in our bank account — we went to the First Friday Art Walk in Denver's Santa Fe Arts District. It was...

We found André's work at First Friday Santa Fe Art Walk about a year before ARTSTINKS™ was conceived and thought his stuff was just so f*ckin cool. Denver landmarks, PB&Js, strange and wonderful surrealist portraits. The breadth of subjects and...

We first met Katie when we wandered into her studio in Salida, Colorado. ARTSTINKS™ was nothing but a vague idea at the time, and we had no clue whether artists would be into the idea of letting us put their...