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Welcome to the City of Denver’s Public Art Program website. Please navigate to the Public Art Opportunities page for a current list of new projects. Fill out the E-Form below to join our mailing list and receive notification on upcoming public art opportunities. Download the PDF version of our popular Public Art Guide to Downtown Denver.
Please visit the recent installation page for a more in-depth view of the newest additions to the collection, including a short video of Lawrence Argent’s, I See What You Mean (The Big Blue Bear) installation.
Mustang, a 32-foot tall cast fiberglass sculpture by New Mexico artist Luis Jiménez, made its long-awaited debut at Denver International Airport. Mustang was one of the original public art commissions for DIA from 1993. The 9,000-pound sculpture was his masterpiece—by far the largest sculpture of the artists’ career. Tragically, Jiménez died while working on the sculpture, so the final painting Mustang was completed posthumously by his studio staff and family, along with professional lowrider painters Richard LaVato and Camillo Nuñez. Once the painting was complete, the sculpture was shipped in three pieces to Kreysler and Associates in California. There, Mustang was finally assembled, reinforced and wrapped for shipment to its final home atop a windswept knoll between the inbound and outbound lanes of Peña Boulevard at DIA. The bright blue rearing mustang with gleaming red eyes was installed permanently on a windy morning, February 11, 2008.
Click on link to hear an interview with Stephen Fleming, director of the Artist in Residence program in Roswell, NW on the life and artworks of Luis Jimenez.
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is pleased to announce the dedication of new public artwork The New Worlds of the Globeville Pool by Your Name in Graffiti (YNIG), a group of aerosol artists, at Globeville Pool/Argo Park, Logan St. and E. 47th Ave. The dedication will take place on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend this dedication. A demonstration will follow the dedication.
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The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is delighted to present a special exhibition of work entitled Heart Land by artist Chandler Romeo at the Buell Theatre. A public viewing and reception will take place on June 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. After June 9, the artwork can be viewed only as a ticketed patron of an event at the Buell Theatre or by contacting the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs to schedule a visit. The exhibition will run through September.
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is offering free public art tours of the Colorado Convention Center, the Denver Performing Arts Complex and the artwork in the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. For times and sign up information please click link.
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