Urban Arts Fund
BuCu West Benches and Trash Cans
Various trash cans and benches along the Morrison corridor were painted with colorful murals.
Urban Arts Fund
Denver Public Library Summer of Reading and Graffiti Prevention Program
YNIG hosted workshops with students in the Denver Public Library Summer of Reading Program.
Urban Arts Fund
Valdez Elementary School
Local artist Jeremy Ulibarri (JOLT) worked with Valdez Elementary School students in the creation of this mural.
Urban Arts Fund
Lake Middle School
Barth Quenzer, Denver Public School teacher, and local artist Jeremy Ulibarri (JOLT) created a mural program with students at Lake Middle School.
Public Art
Crossroads / Encrucijada
“Crossroads / Encrucijada” marks the intersection of 6th Avenue and Federal Boulevard with four brightly colored monuments, one at each corner. With patterns reminiscent of serapes, each piece also bears bronze sconces with cutout chevron designs lit with solar powered LED lights. The title of the artwork was deliberate, as was the serape theme. “This …
Urban Arts Fund
Brown Elementary School (flowers, blue design)
Barth Quenzer, Denver Public School teacher, and local artist Jeremy Ulibarri (JOLT) created a mural program with students at Brown Elementary School.
Public Art
Aegis
Architecturally integrated artwork on the facade of the Carla Madison Recreation Center.
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 …
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
Sing and Glide
“Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.” John Muir Artist’s Statement: “Confluence park brings together two rivers, the South Platte and Cherry Creek. It is also an urban park, a place where nature and city life are married; Fifteenth Street …