FINE ART & ILLUSTRATION · BRAND IDENTITY · BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS

I make things

that take root.

Maple Key Studio is Andrew Steger — an artist, illustrator, and designer in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sixteen years of work across fine art, illustration, and brand identity, all from the same pair of hands.

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  • Onyx Coffee Lab - Voyager

    Chosen for Onyx Coffee Lab's first-ever artist collaboration — original illustrations for their apparel line. Onyx is a Northwest Arkansas institution built on a genuine reverence for craft and origin, which is exactly why the fit was right. This is the work I'm after: mission-aligned brands, rooted in place, that treat illustration as part of the story rather than decoration.

  • Corpus Animosum - CTK Artist Guild Show: Fall 2025

    Corpus Animosum translates loosely from Latin as “The Spirited Body.” The word animosum stems from animus—meaning soul, spirit, or life-force—but it also carries connotations of struggle, pride, and even hostility (it’s also the root word of Animosity). That duality is intentional. The title holds both vitality and tension, suggesting that what gives us life can also set us at odds with ourselves. In this work, Corpus Animosum becomes a meditation on that conflict—the ongoing wrestle between the physical and spiritual, the earthly and the eternal, the flesh that grounds us and the spirit that pulls us beyond.

  • New Belgium Brewing - Mountain Time

    A hometown dream, back when Fort Collins was home. New Belgium chose my artwork for their Mountain Time Premium Lager — my design on a can from a brewery I'd loved for years. This is the work I chase: place-rooted brands, made for people and communities that matter to me.

  • Fellow Citizens Denver - Mission & Vision

    Fellow Citizens, a church in Denver, brought me in to give visual form to their mission and vision. Translating a community's shared values into something they can see is about as meaningful as this work gets for me — the kind of purpose-driven work I take on across all kinds of organizations.

  • St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Space Peacock

    An official gig poster for St. Paul and the Broken Bones' Fort Collins show — a limited-run screenprint I got to design and illustrate end to end, built around a cosmic peacock whose feathers open into a whole universe of planets, comets, and stranger things. Music work like this is some of my favorite: a band and an audience who show up for craft, room to actually cut loose visually, and a finished piece people want to hang on a wall rather than scroll past. It's illustration doing what I love most — carrying a mood, rewarding a second look, and living on as an object someone keeps.

  • Peter and I Deny Christ CTK Artist Guild Show: Stations of the Cross 2025

    Laser Cut Baltic Birch and Acrylic Paint

One Practice

I've never been able to keep

the categories straight.

Art, design, illustration, faith, doubt, a coffee bag, a pride shirt, a Station of the Cross — people keep asking me to pick a lane, and I keep finding the same person underneath all of it.

The through-line isn't a style or a subject. It's an attention: the same care given to a gallery piece, a commissioned work for someone's home or sanctuary, and a product label — and a stubborn belief that something made with real thought outlasts the thing made to move units this quarter. Whether you're a band, a nonprofit, a brand that gets it, someone who wants custom work made for a home or a sacred space, or just here to see the work — I’m glad you’re here.

Commissions

Some of my favorite work never hangs in a gallery — it's made for one wall, one room, one sacred space. A piece for over the mantel. A set of panels for a sanctuary. Something for an office that's tired of stock prints. If you've got a space and a feeling you want it to hold, I'd love to hear about it. We'll talk through the idea, the scale, and the budget before anything's committed — no pressure, just a conversation about what could live there.

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CRAFT PROVEN AT SCALE

The same hand has shipped work at national scale.

Before the studio narrowed its focus to mission-driven work and partners, that craft went out the door for some of the largest brands in the country — retail, packaging, and campaign illustration produced through SaatchiX and ThinkMotive.

Mountain Dew ✦ Tide ✦ Downy ✦ Pepsi ✦ Walmart 

Spinmaster ✦ Gillette ✦ Costa Sunglasses ✦ Always