This winter, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs introduces its Public Art Tours—free, one-hour tours of small segments of the City’s Public Art Collection. While much of the City’s collection is out in plain view to see and experience every day, some incredible pieces are housed indoors. These guided tours will give citizens and visitors the opportunity to venture inside venues such as the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and Colorado Convention Center to view works and hear the intimate details of their creation and installation.
Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC), 14th & Curtis Tour highlights include artwork in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House (Dale Chihuly, Herbert Bayer, Stephen Batura and John DeAndrea), the Buell Theatre (George Woodman and Vance Kirkland), atrium and exterior artwork (Fernando Botero, Victor Contreras, Jonathan Borofsky, Marcus Akinlana and John Powell) and others. This tour will gather in the atrium near the Contreras sculpture (large abstract bronze in the center of the complex) fifteen minutes prior to start time.
- Saturday, October 27, 12:00 p.m.
- Friday, November 16, 1:00 p.m.
- Saturday, December 1, 12:00 p.m.
- Friday, December 14, 1:00 p.m.
Colorado Convention Center, 14th & California
Tour highlights include artwork by Lawrence Argent, Jonathan Bonner, Barbara Jo Revelle, Eric C. Johnson, Jim Green, John McEnroe, Kirk Johnson and Jan Vreisen, William Mathews, Trine Bumiller and Bernar Venet. This tour will gather in front of I See What You Mean (a.k.a. the Big Blue Bear) fifteen minutes prior to start time.
- Saturday, November 24, 12:00 p.m.
To sign up, please contact Rudi Cerri or call 720-865-4307.