Public Art

White Mirror

Denver Arts & Venues’ Public Art Program commissioned “White Mirror,” an original site-specific public dance performance for Babi Yar Park, by internationally renowned choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl of Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet. The performance was October 4, 2015 at Babi Yar Park in Denver, marking the first time Denver Public Art had commissioned dance as …

Public Art

Playing Apart

On Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011, over one square mile area of downtown Denver, artists Jon Rubin and Lee Walton worked with the Bear Creek High School Marching Band to present “Playing Apart,” a one-of-a-kind musical event that dismantled an entire 90-piece marching band into single performers who collectively use the whole city as a playing …

Public Art

Virga: the Sound Performance

“Virga: the Sound Performance” was envisioned from a novel approach to some remaining percent-for-art project dollars: “Virga” (the sculpture) was created by Patrick Marold and dedicated in the fall of 2011; a project with a $88,000 budget consisting of over 300 stainless steel tubes suspended in the upper infrastructure of the Delgany Pedestrian Bridge. This …