Public Art
Water Friends
At Play and Water Friends are a group of amusing murals at the Congress Park pool. They depict children enjoying water and field sports. Water Friends is 8 feet by 6 feet and is painted onto a brick structure near the pool. At Play is 13.5 feet x 14 feet and is found within the pool house. It is …
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Family and Community Fun
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Berkeley Park: Past and Present
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Children of the World Dream of Peace
“Children of the World Dream of Peace” is a powerful mural expressing the artist’s desire to abolish violence in society. One section of the piece speaks to the tragedy and devastation of war and its impact on humanity. The mural then moves on to images of smiling children, dressed in traditional folk costumes from around …
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Continuum
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Confluent People
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La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra
The 10 foot by 50 foot mural tells the Hispano-Mexicano history of the Southwest with specific emphasis on the Four-Corners area of the United States and Northern Mexico. The mural illustrates the migration of Mexicans through the Juarez-El Paso border region towards the north, a migration taken by Baca’s grandparents who settled in La Junta, …
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Mile High and Rising
This is a Cultural Perspective project administered by the African American arts organization, ULOZI (Swahili word for “black art”). “Mile High and Rising,” in the artist’s words, “depicts the spirit of adventure, optimism and triumph that African Americans brought to Colorado and the old West. Despite the tumultuous Middle Passage and the decades of their …
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Bird House, Light House and Tree House
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The New Worlds of the Globeville Pool