Meet the Team
Zach Custer
Zach started his framing career over 20 years ago when he first moved to Denver. He has a love of all things “art”. As an artist, he has a passion for creating beautiful ways to professionally display art with an emphasis on art conservation and customer service.
Zach grew up in a small town in western Colorado and developed his work ethic at a young age. Every perfect corner that comes out of Anthology is the result of Zach’s dedication to the highest quality standard. Zach also has a passion for learning new techniques to improve the finished products we create. He loves knowing that the items leaving Anthology will maintain or increase their value after many years of enjoyment.
Kendra Custer
Kendra entered the custom framing industry through her love of photography. While shopping for a mat at a Denver Frame Shop in 2002, she was offered an unexpected job. While working at that same shop in south Denver, the unexpected happened again. The new guy turned out to be pretty interesting and after several attempts, Kendra and Zach had their first date.
They were married in 2006 and welcomed Gunnison in 2007. After the birth of their son, Kendra took a hiatus from the frame shop but found herself missing it. Her dream had always been to own a business and after marrying Zach, the choice was obvious. In 2008, as financial calamity loomed, she began working with the SBA and SCORE to write a business plan for a framing and portrait studio. In early 2010 during the worst financial climate they’d ever experienced, the Custers were approved for a small business loan.
Two decades after entering the framing industry, Kendra still loves nothing more than combining her passions of photography and framing. The gallery wall of treasured family photos in her home inspires her to create the same heirlooms for her clients.
Laura Hughes
While Laura’s framing career has just begun, she combines over 10 years of working in museum collections with a master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Denver to inform her approach to caring for your fine art and family heirlooms. Throughout her career in museums she’s handled artifacts as large as mammoth skulls to as small as a piece of debitage, and she’s built custom mounts for them all! Her expertise lies in evaluating how to best support fragile artifacts for long term storage and preservation, in addition to creating custom mounts for objects going on exhibition. This experience in object handling, preservation, and conservation has made her the perfect fit for Anthology!
As much as she loves seeing 3D objects walk in the door, she’s just as excited to see your live music posters to get them out of the tube and up on the wall for you. She’s spent two decades seeing and chasing live music around the country and loves to hear your show stories just as much as she loves to look at the art – bonus points if you’re a Widespread Panic fan! Every day at the shop is inspired by her love of people, and the stories both they and their objects can tell. She looks forward to a long career of combining her preservation expertise with creative design to craft beautiful, meaningful framing packages for your most cherished pieces.
