Tag: Public Art
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Who are those folks immortalized by all the city’s statues? Meet the cowboys, philanthropists, builders, miners and the ‘Pumpkin Man’
Perhaps as you’ve walked downtown or stopped at a red light while you were driving you’ve had that moment to wonder exactly who was that person memorialized with a statue in a median, outside a building, in a park or sculpted just gazing west toward Pikes Peak. What did they do? The people in the…
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PIKES PICK: See favorite local art at the airport
Some of the public art enjoyed throughout downtown can now be seen at the Colorado Springs Airport. Sculptures from previous Art on the Streets will be near airport entrances, and see if you can spot new, rotating indoor terminal exhibits. – Linda Navarro, The Gazette
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‘Liberty’ statue stands 58 feet tall above Aurora, rivaling size of ‘Blucifer’
Standing at almost twice the height of Denver International Airport’s famed Blucifer horse statue, a 58-foot-tall contemporary rendition of the Statue of Liberty now glimmers in the sunlight in east Aurora. The new statue, “Liberty,” rivaling the size of 32-foot-tall Blucifer, went up over the weekend near the future entrance to The Aurora Highlands master…
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Council to consider $80 million in IT support, stainless steel aspen trees
It’s a big day for technology in Denver as the city council will consider 12 resolutions Monday, totaling $80 million to provide “on-call professional information technology staffing services to augment city staff as needed.” The proposed contracts, each with a separate vendor, would provide services for a specified term of five years. Elsewhere on the…
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Denver calls for local artists to participate in World Art Drop Day
City officials are calling for local artists to participate in this year’s annual World Art Drop Day on Tuesday, Denver Arts and Venues announced. Art Drop Day is celebrated on the first Tuesday of September, started by Utah artist Jake Parker. The annual event asks artists to hide art pieces in public spaces and post…
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Denver Arts & Venues announces 3 new works of art to be seen around the city
Denver Arts & Venues announced the addition of three new works of art to its collection on Thursday. Two of the newest pieces of art, “A Life Cycle Story” and “Time is a Friend of the Future, Not an Enemy of the Past” can be found at the Denver Public Library’s Smiley and Byers branch…
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Artists wanted for expansion of Colorado Convention Center
Denver Public Art is seeking to commission artists to create an original public artwork for the Colorado Convention Center Expansion Project. The piece will be added to the convention center’s collection of 31 public artworks including “Indeterminate Line” by Bernar Venet and the iconic “I See What You Mean,” better known as the Big Blue…
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Denver Public Arts searching for artist(s) to work on project at new Montebello police station
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The City of Denver’s Public Art Program is searching for an artist or team of artists to design and produce an original public artwork at the newly renovated Denver District 5 Police Substation and new…
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Denver Public Arts to implement 2 public arts projects
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver is home too many different types of people that vary in race, religion and creed. To highlight some of its members, Denver Public Arts is searching for an artist or team of artists to…
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CU Boulder professor George Rivera designs billboard in Denver to ‘stop hate’
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