I was stopped in the street wearing this shirt because people loved it so much and wanted to know where it was from!
Reno Artist Page 2026
🎨 ArtFair Apparel Artist
Meet Reno!
Retired Navy Commander, retired professor, and an artist who has been drawing since kindergarten! Now that Reno's retired, he's all-in on art... and so excited!
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Reno's chosen nonprofit: Lakewood Arts Council and Gallery
Each artist we collaborate with selects a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to receive 10% of our company's profits from their designs at the end of each year. Reno has chosen the Lakewood Arts Council and Gallery... the place that welcomed him when he walked in that first day!
✦ About Reno
Reno Unger is a retired professor from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and a retired Navy Commander. He and his wife Nancy moved to Mountain View, Colorado in 2019 to be near their children and grandchildren, and have fallen in love with the Western lifestyle and the beautiful scenery, much of which shows up in his artwork.
He has been drawn to art all his life, starting in kindergarten with a work entitled "Two Peanuts in a Red Sack." Life intervened in the form of the Navy, family, and fifteen more years in the Navy Reserve — but he managed to squeeze out artwork through all of it.
Shortly after retirement, Reno wandered into the Lakewood Art Gallery as was his habit, ended up joining, and received a lot of encouragement about his work. Since then, art has been a favorite focus of his free time. He has won several awards for his work in pen and ink, woodblock prints, and watercolor, and his work can be seen at the Lakewood, Artcentric, and VFW galleries as well as several local businesses.
See more of Reno's work at reno-unger.com ↗
✦ Some of Reno's Work
Reno's art, Colorado, and world 💛
✦ Message from Reno
✦ Shop Reno's Tees
Reno's Weeds Tee
Reno's watercolor botanicals... the plants most people walk past without a second look. But not from Reno! He sees them :,)
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The T-Rex Tee
Reno's t.rex design, a classic in the ArtFair lineup! And would you believe it... Reno's FIRST TIME EVER drawing a dinosaur. Mindblowing! It's so good.
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✦ More from Reno
Reno moved to Colorado and fell in love with it, and that love shows up in his work. The mountains, the plants, the wildlife, the Western scenery that drew him and his wife Nancy here in the first place. Now that life has slowed down to the right speed, art gets the time it always deserved.
We are so glad Reno is part of the ArtFair family. His eye for the things people overlook is something we never want to stop celebrating!