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Welcome to the City of Denver’s Public Art Program website. Please navigate to the Public Art Opportunities page for a current list of new projects. Fill out the E-Form below to join our mailing list and receive notification on upcoming public art opportunities. Download the PDF version of our popular Public Art Guide.
Please visit the recent installation page for a more in-depth view of the newest additions to the collection, including a short video of Lawrence Argent’s, I See What You Mean (The Big Blue Bear) installation.
Mustang, a 32-foot tall cast fiberglass sculpture by New Mexico artist Luis Jiménez, made its long-awaited debut at Denver International Airport. Mustang was one of the original public art commissions for DIA from 1993. The 9,000-pound sculpture was his masterpiece—by far the largest sculpture of the artists’ career. Tragically, Jiménez died while working on the sculpture, so the final painting Mustang was completed posthumously by his studio staff and family, along with professional lowrider painters Richard LaVato and Camillo Nuñez. Once the painting was complete, the sculpture was shipped in three pieces to Kreysler and Associates in California. There, Mustang was finally assembled, reinforced and wrapped for shipment to its final home atop a windswept knoll between the inbound and outbound lanes of Peña Boulevard at DIA. The
bright blue rearing mustang with gleaming red eyes was installed permanently on a windy morning, February 11, 2008.
Click on link to hear an interview with Stephen Fleming, director of the Artist in Residence program in Roswell, NW on the life and artworks of Luis Jimenez.
Public Art Opportunity
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) is seeking artists or artist teams for a public performance art commission. There are no limitations as to the duration of the performance. The performance art must be one-of -a- kind original work specifically created for this commission and site.
For more information please download the Request for Qualifications.
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is offering free public art tours of the Colorado Convention Center, the Denver Performing Arts Complex and the artwork in the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. For times and sign up information please click link.
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