Urban Arts Fund
Bicycle Traffic
Urban Arts Fund
Two mice on suspended wire
Urban Arts Fund
Untitled (broken bedroom furniture)
About the artists: Claudio Ethos (ETHOS) Ethos was born in São Paulo in 1982 and currently lives and works there. He began putting in work around the age of 15 with spray paint as well as ballpoint pen, which, to this day, serve as his primary tools. Highly influenced by many of the usual suspects …
Urban Arts Fund
Paramount
The "Paramount" murals on Cherry Creek revisit the history of humanity in America and its relationship with nature. For the two murals framing both sides of the Broadway bridge, Alexander Orion, an internationally recognized artist from Brazil, used a forced perspective technique that distorts paintwork to create an optical illusion when viewed diagonally from the …
Urban Arts Fund
Untitled (abstract flowing waves in blue, white and yellow)
This mural is situated on either side of a staircase leading to the Cherry Creek Bike Trail at 11th Avenue and Speer Boulevard. Artist’s Statement: The mural features a cosmic landscape with a handful of stardust patterns flowing from one end of the design to the other, with several dragon characters flying through the environment. …
Urban Arts Fund
Denver rules everything around me
Public Art
Feature Fountain
A depiction of the Rocky Mountain landscape, “Feature Fountain” is located in the Denver Botanic Gardens. It can be found in the south end of the park near the Scripture Gardens. The fifteen foot tall fountain was created with four plyons. Each pylon has a fountain which spills over 1000 gallons of water per minute …
Public Art
Town Where the West Went Wild
Town Where the West Went Wild is an acrylic mural by Colorado artist Stephen Morath, commissioned by the Public Art Program in 1989. In the mural, Morath explored Denver’s development, industry and way of life in the 1980s. This urban portrait reminds us of a specific time and place in Denver’s history, though some of …
Public Art
Reflections
This sculptural work by Frank Swanson features three carved stone elements and was commissioned as a eulogy for Sophia and Morris Strear.
Public Art
At the Library
In Barry Rose’s words: “At the Library” was created with students at Cole Junior High School. Each student sculpted a library book. I filled in with enough to make the rest we needed. I made molds of each and glazed them uniquely, and that was the original project.