Ventures

Caroline Davenport, Jared Lovejoy, and Alex Calderwood founded Neverstop in 1996 as one of the first bespoke experiential agencies — working with clients to take two-dimensional campaigns into the three-dimensional world through curated installations, happenings, events, custom tours, and collaborations with musicians, designers, and artists of all kinds.

For nearly three decades, Neverstop shaped how brands and cultural institutions thought about presence, participation, and the power of shared experiences of all kinds. That work never stopped. It evolved.

Caroline and Jared are now building The Light Years — a multidisciplinary studio carrying that same DNA forward. The Light Years collaborates with values-driven people, companies, and institutions who want to make a genuine difference: in their communities, in the culture, in the world. Digital plays a supporting role. The real work happens in the real world.

Founded in the fertile underground of 1990s Seattle — an era when the city was affordable and radiating with experimental energy. Queer and straight scenes collided, drag queens and DJs shared stages, and dance floors became living art. Tasty Shows produced over a thousand concerts and happenings across more than a decade — spanning every genre imaginable.

The Art of Parties, a forthcoming book, documents the poster and flyer art from this era — a visual archive of the late '80s through the early aughts.

Founded in 1993, Sweet Mother Records emerged from Seattle's abstract hip-hop and downtempo scene. The label has released compilations and original recordings distributed by SUB POP, BEAMS Records, and others — bringing Pacific Northwest electronic and experimental music to audiences in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

Artists include Dragonfly, Strange Voices, T.S.R., Plastiq Phantom, The Verbrilli Sound, Tripoli, High Fidelity, 3xInfinity, and Mystic.

The label also produces custom playlists and compilations for hospitality and retail clients including Ace Hotel, The Standard Hotels, Raleigh Hotel, Sunset Beach, Armani, Armani Casa, A/X, Emporio Armani, Banana Republic, Gap, Nordstrom, and Hear Music for Starbucks — including a compilation to raise funds and awareness for the Groundworks concert series in support of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Launched in 2013. Designed and built a bespoke cocktail bar in the heart of Orcas Island, Jared’s home base, because every little town needs a good spot to bring people together.

Formed in 2014 with the mission to take on upgrading Seattle’s oldest hotel. The scope, intended to celebrate and energize this historic gem, included a 76-room refresh, a lobby renovation, installation of a new garden dining in the courtyard and a full rebrand of the hotel and its food and beverage service.

The Art & Revolution Organization's 800-person venue in Seattle, open from 1997 to 2001. Part nightclub, part gallery, part laboratory — ARO.space hosted hundreds of concerts, legendary club nights serving Seattle's diverse scenes, and gallery openings for artists including KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Erik Brunetti, PERKS, Kinsey, and Justin Hampton.

The space also held ID Magazine's Family installation, photographs from Details Magazine, long-exposure light paintings by Dean Chamberlain, talks on the origins of psychedelic medicine with Terence McKenna, and the Warlord of Drag series — whose winners were flown to Sydney's Gay Pride to represent.

Four years of experiments in art, music, and media. Mythical for a reason.

Founded in collaboration with Lisa Chacon and David Greenspan. A hybrid creative agency and sustainability consultancy, built to bring strategic messaging and sustainable innovation under the same roof. We worked with progressive companies and startups to identify opportunities within global challenges — then told their stories through campaigns that connected and created culture.

Clients included Ace Hotel, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, University of Texas at Austin, Equitable Origin, Sustainable Global Sourcing, and Tomorrow Partners.

A passion project for Jared and his twin brother. They developed, designed, and programmed an in-room spa concept that was sold to André Balazs Hotels — leading to the pair taking on the role of Director of Health & Wellness for all HotelsAB properties. They designed programs for The Chateau Marmont and the West Hollywood and Downtown Standard Hotels, which led to the design and development of the first hammam and adult hydrotherapy playground in the USA — still in business today The Standard Spa Hotel, Miami.

The project was the first large-scale application of Integral Theory into a real-world hospitality concept, integrating mind, body, and spirit into the planning and programming. It became the home of the first Center for Integral Living, which curated experiences at the crossroads of art, music, health and wellness, mindfulness, and personal development.

Winner of the Condé Nast Traveler "Best Spa in the Americas" readers' poll, 2009.

Opened 2005 and still going strong today.

Founded in 2012, in collaboration with SIFF. We founded and developed an international film festival on Orcas Island. Stewarding the festival as its Executive Director until 2022, Jared Lovejoy developed the branding, marketing, communications strategy, curated films and created the global and regional partnerships that have led to the festival being recognized as one of the top ten festivals in the United States in USA Today in 2024. Now in its 12th season the festival takes place over five days with an impressive lineup of over 40 brand new international films directly from their premiers in Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, NYFF and Sundance