Urban Arts Fund
Morrison Road Mosaic Benches
Kempner Middle School art teacher, Pam Rojas worked with BuCu West Development Association and local school students to develop artistic tiles placed on the top of 10 landscape planters.
Public Art
21st Century Artifacts
The floors of B Gates incorporate the unique geology and geography of Colorado in “21st Century Artifacts.” Broad areas of colored terrazzo are inlaid with stone patterns, precast concrete shapes derived from fossil forms found in Colorado, and cast bronze embeds. The bronze images are selectively located throughout the floors and depict indigenous fossils, Native …
Public Art
Patterns and Figures – Figures and Patterns
“Patterns and Figures – Figures and Patterns” utilizes terrazzo and mosaic tile to create figures and patterns on the floors of A Gates. Artist Darrell Anderson has produced eight-foot squares depicting images that, when viewed from above, pop out, representing foreshortened figures of people below. The people represent the cultural diversity of travelers using Denver …
Public Art
Acumen
Boulder-based artist Garrison Roots was selected to create an epoxy resin terrazzo art floor for the new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center. To create his design, Roots layered patterns and images from nature (water, fire, tree rings and a hurricane) to create a richly colored, interlaced work that defines this public place of interaction and ever-changing …
Public Art
21st Century Artifacts
Public Art
Hereford Cows
Public Art
Cowboy on Bronco
Urban Arts Fund
Untitled (fuchsia-colored mural with Aztec images)
Artist’s Statement: The green pyramid border on this mural represents the earth, the symbol of duality and the number three. The two Mayan symbols on each side are earth protectors. In the center is the tree of life symbolizing the primordial sea and all the elements. On the left is Tonatiuh, the sun symbol. On …
Public Art
The Journey