Art Store
“When we make, we invoke the abundance of God’s world into the reality of scarcity all about us.”
The local art store is a sacred place. It is in the business of creating beauty. It is a place of inspiration and imagination. The local art store is an intersection of artists of all ages and stages. It’s physical presence in the neighborhood is an invitation to make something. Make something meaningful, memorable, and beautiful.
Meininger Art Supply was opened in 1881 by Emil Meininger. He moved to Denver from Chicago after his bookbinding business was destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871.
As artists came west to paint the Rocky Mountains, Meininger’s would provide the tools needed to capture the rugged beauty of the West. Acclaimed western artists Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell became friends with Emil Meininger from buying supplies at his store. Before Dwight D. Eisenhower became president, he would shop for supplies at Meininger’s. Eisenhower would continue to buy art supplies there through his aides in his presidency.
Meininger’s has had only four locations in its’ 141 years. In 1990, Meininger Art Supply moved to South Broadway under the direction of the fourth generation of the Meininger family. Today the fifth generation is learning to lead the family business.
The local art store provides the tools to craft something, the materials to make something. We are invited to create and reflect the Creator. The art store is a sacred place.
Read about the relationship between art and faith in Mako Fujimura’s book,
Art + Faith, A Theology of Making.
