Kevin Beaty

Visual journalist

kbeaty@denverite.com @kevinjbeaty @kevinjbeaty

Staunch creative and engineer of .gifs, photos, video, illustrations and sometimes words. Find him on Twitter and Instagram at @kevinjbeaty.

"Fugly" artwork by Brad K. Evans. (Courtesy of the artist)

Why is the “fugly” guy painting architecture that he hates?

Brad Evans has transformed his hatred of Denver's modern architecture into artistic muse.

David Millis and Robbie Hobein outside their Curtis Park home (left) and Maggie Thompson with the mutual aid box in front of her Clayton home. March 17, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Neighbors are jumping into action to help neighbors

Let us know if you're doing things to help.

Julian Rai runs Grubhub orders on a Friday evening. March 13, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Food delivery gigs abound in COVID-era Denver

It's not so great if you're a waiter or if you're driving for Lyft.

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Discovery Link supervisor Jennifer Piel teaches kids at Carson Elementary how to wash their hands. March 13, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Greetings from Carson Elementary, where we’re sweetly sending kids off to COVID vacation

Teachers know how to share important information without sounding too scary.

A solar-powered bus shelter is illuminated in candy-apple red. West Colfax Avenue, March 12, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

West Colfax’s fancy bus shelters are now solar powered, making the neighborhood more sustainable than ever

The neighborhood BID wants to light the way to sustainability and cold hard cash.

GEO's Tooley Hall halfway house, Aug. 13, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

David Lane sues GEO Group for sexual assault inside Denver halfway house

The attorney alleges employees "laughed" when an inmate told them he was repeatedly forced to perform sexual acts on a counselor.

The Suncor oil refinery, Commerce City. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Colorado air regulators announce massive settlement with Suncor, a major Denver polluter

The payment, probably the largest air quality settlement in the state's history, comes with strings attached.

Monmay Baniya sits in a cirle of singing ladies during the Hindu Durga Puja celebration, held in Aurora's Lowry Park pavilion by the local community of Bhutanese/Nepali refugees. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Aurora, Colorado’s most diverse city, is ready to distribute COVID-19 info to a community with 160 languages

Thanks to a program set up in 2017, the city has over 130 "Natural Helpers" ready to translate important messages and take them back to their communities.

A look through a peephole into a room of mirrors, part of Devon Dikeou's "Mid-Career Smear" exhibition at her downtown art space. Feb. 20, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Devon Dikeou’s sort-of secret art space has re-opened downtown

She's replaced her art collection with art she made herself. She calls the yearlong exhibition her "Mid-Career Smear."

The Rocky Mountain News, May, 10, 2005. (Denver Public Library/Western History Collection/Clippings Files)

Surprise, surprise. Denver’s pit bull ban has always been controversial.

We dug into the archives to find how time can really be a flat circle in this town.

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