Carry Love with You mural by Key Detail, Davenport, Iowa
Carry love
with you
Key Detail · “Carry Love with You”, 2026 · 311 E. 2nd Street, Davenport
Photo: Key Detail, as published on World Art Utopia
A long frieze of flowers, eagles, koi, vases and lace-like ornament runs across the blue side wall of Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie in downtown Davenport, Iowa. Key Detail, a muralist from Minsk who lives in New York, painted it in August 2026 for Alternating Currents Mural Fest.
4 things to know
- A wall that wasn’t on the listThe festival’s call for artists named three walls for 2026, in Bettendorf, Davenport and Rock Island, plus “Possible additional walls TBD”. Ragged Records was not among them. By festival week Quad City Arts listed four artists, with Andray Kravtsov at “Trash Can Annie / Ragged Records, 311 E. 2nd St., Davenport”. Each selected artist was offered a $5,000 stipend. Quad City Arts RFQ · Quad City Arts blog
- The title isn’t painted on the wallOur post described ornament “around the words ‘Carry Love With You’”. The photo shows no such words: the only lettering is a small red tag with the artist’s key logo at the far left. The title comes from the Downtown Davenport Partnership’s mural page, which also carries the artist’s statement: “Carry love with you everywhere and let it bloom.” Downtown Davenport Partnership
- An architect by trainingKey Detail studied in Minsk, Belarus: interior decoration at Minsk State Architectural Constructional College (1997–2001), then a Bachelor of Architecture at the Belarusian National Technical University (2001–2006). He lives and works in New York; Hudson Yards wrote in 2020 that he makes his home in that neighbourhood. Arts Center of the Brazos Valley · Flint Public Art Project
- Mural Fest’s fourth yearAlternating Currents, a free festival of music, film, comedy and visual art, was founded in 2017 by the Downtown Davenport Partnership. Its Mural Fest launched in downtown Davenport in 2023, returned in 2024 and spread to Bettendorf and Rock Island in 2025. The 2026 festival ran 13–16 August. KWQC · KWQC
Check-in guide
- 📍
- Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie, 311 E. 2nd Street, Davenport, Iowa, in downtown Davenport (Downtown Davenport Partnership).
- 🧭
- The mural is on the shop’s long blue side wall, which faces a parking lot; the Ragged Records / Trash Can Annie sign hangs at the wall’s left end (Quad City Arts photo). The Maps button uses OpenStreetMap’s address point for 311 E. 2nd Street: close, but not a surveyed point on the wall.
- 👀
- The painting fills a horizontal band across the middle of the wall, with plain blue above and below; step back across the lot to see it end to end.
- 🎨
- Davenport’s other 2026 Mural Fest wall is close by: Atlanta Dawn’s “Once Upon Motor Row” at Klemme Motorsports, 301 E. 3rd Street (Downtown Davenport Partnership).
Sightings
- 20263 Aug
Festival set for 13–16 Aug
- 202612 Aug
Quad City Arts: wall in progress
- 202613 Aug
KWQC names artist and wall
- 20261 Sep
Finished; artist’s Behance
- 202628 Sep
In WAU Vol. 76
Every stamp links to the dated source.
On the record
Alternating Currents Mural Fest 2026
“A reminder that beauty grows wherever we choose to plant it, in the people we meet, the spaces we pass through and the small moments we choose to notice.”
The artist’s statement for “Carry Love with You”, on the festival’s page for the two new Davenport murals, which calls him “national artist Andrey Key Detail”.
Public Art Comes to Life During Alternating Currents
“Instead of only seeing the finished piece, visitors can stop by throughout the week and watch each mural evolve from a blank wall into a lasting work of public art.”
The festival’s mural partner. Antonio Varela’s photos show the artist on a lift and the left part of the frieze painted, with the rest of the wall still blue.
Artists to transform blank walls during Alternating Currents weekend
“Launched in downtown Davenport in 2023, the program returned in 2024 and expanded in 2025 to include murals across Davenport, Bettendorf and Rock Island.”
Debbie McFadden, on the first day of the festival; her list of the four 2026 artists includes Andray Kravtsov at Trash Can Annie / Ragged Records.
Internationally-Known Artists to Paint Greencastle Mural
“Key Detail is made up of husband and wife duo Andrei Krautsou and Julia Yu-Baba.”
Background from seven years earlier, when the name covered a pair. The 2026 Davenport wall is credited to him alone.
The facts
- Artist
- Key Detail, from Minsk, Belarus, based in New York (Arts Center of the Brazos Valley, Flint Public Art Project) Checked
- Real name
- Spelled Andrey (Downtown Davenport Partnership), Andray Kravtsov (Quad City Arts, KWQC), Andrei (Hudson Yards) and Andrei Krautsou (Inside Indiana Business, 2019): transliterations of one name, not a dispute Reported
- Title
- “Carry Love with You” (Downtown Davenport Partnership); the artist’s Behance project is titled “Carry Love With You” mural in Davenport, Iowa Checked
- Dates
- Painted in August 2026 for Alternating Currents (13–16 August); artists were asked to be available 10–16 August. In progress in Quad City Arts’ 12 August post; finished in the artist’s Behance project, published 1 September 2026 Checked
- Finished on
- No source gives the day the wall was completed Unconfirmed
- Place
- Side wall of Ragged Records & Trash Can Annie, 311 E. 2nd Street, Davenport, Iowa Checked
- Organisers
- Alternating Currents with Quad City Arts as project facilitator; presented with the Downtown Davenport Partnership, Downtown Bettendorf Organization and Rock Island Downtown Alliance Checked
- Medium, size
- Not stated by any source. Quad City Arts’ photos show the artist on a lift holding a spray can Unconfirmed
- Photo
- The same shot is the cover image of the project on Key Detail’s Behance profile; no photographer is named Reported
- Status
- Finished in the artist’s photo published 1 September 2026; no later independent dated evidence found Checked
Related
- On World Art Utopia: New Street Art! (20 Photos) — Vol. 76 (28 September 2026), where the photo above appeared.
- Same festival, same city: Atlanta Dawn’s “Once Upon Motor Row” at 301 E. 3rd Street, with vintage Firestone and Mobil Oil advertisements layered like newspaper clippings. Downtown Davenport Partnership
- Another Key Detail project on Behance, published in June 2026: “Speakeasy”, a mural for Main Line Murals in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Behance
- Key Detail’s own neighbourhood: his mural for HYxOffTheWall 2.0 on the Public Square and Gardens at Hudson Yards, New York, which Hudson Yards called the largest he had painted for the city. Hudson Yards
All sources (12)
This wall
- Downtown Davenport Partnership: “Alternating Currents Mural Fest 2026”, undated. Title, artist, location and artist’s statement; presenting partners.
- Quad City Arts: “Public Art Comes to Life During Alternating Currents”, 12 August 2026. The four 2026 artists and walls; in-progress photos by Antonio Varela (AJV Original). Archived copy.
- KWQC: “Artists to transform blank walls during Alternating Currents weekend”, 13 August 2026. By Debbie McFadden.
- Key Detail: Behance profile, the artist’s portfolio. Project “Carry Love With You” mural in Davenport, Iowa, published 1 September 2026, with the photo of the finished wall as its cover.
Festival background
- KWQC: “Free, four‑day Alternating Currents festival set for Aug. 13–16”, 3 August 2026. By Debbie McFadden. Archived copy.
- Quad City Arts: “Alternating Currents Mural Fest Request for Qualifications”, 2026. Walls, stipend, installation dates.
- River Cities’ Reader: “Call for Artists: Alternating Currents Mural Fest Returns with $5,000 Artist Stipends and Five New Downtown Walls”, 6 June 2025. The 2025 expansion to Bettendorf and Rock Island; the festival’s founding by the Downtown Davenport Partnership in 2017.
The artist
- Arts Center of the Brazos Valley: “About the Artist: Key Detail”, 13 December 2023. Education in Minsk, New York base.
- Flint Public Art Project: “Key Detail”, undated artist profile.
- Hudson Yards: “Key Detail is HYxOffTheWall 2.0’s most local artist”, 18 August 2020.
- Inside Indiana Business: “Internationally-Known Artists to Paint Greencastle Mural”, 16 July 2019. Archived copy.
The place
- OpenStreetMap: address point for 311 East 2nd Street, Davenport, in the Davenport Motor Row and Industrial Historic District.
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