Public Art
We have both permanent and temporary installations on display throughout the year, dotted throughout our campus in Green Mountain Falls. Explore on your own, or put on a pair of headphones and be guided via an audio tour.
The importance of public art
Cultural value and community identity are fostered through public art, capturing the eye and mind of people passing through our public spaces.
Communities gain value through public art – cultural, social, and economic value. Public art is a distinguishing part of our public history and our evolving culture. It reflects and reveals our society, adds meaning to our place and uniqueness to our community. Public art humanizes the built environment and invigorates public spaces. It provides an intersection between past, present and future, between disciplines, and between ideas.
Self-guided public art tours
With a handful of permanent installation on display year-round, visiting Green Box is not just limited to the annual Festival. As the seasons change in Green Mountain Falls, so does the way our public art works appear.
Audio tour
Launched in the summer of 2022 and created by Artist-in-Resident Jessica Kahkoska, our walking audio tour allows visitors to don a pair of headphones and walk about Green Mountain Falls while learning about our public art and the history of our beautiful place.
Currently on display
There did they all go by Kristina Barker
Lake Street Display (through November 2024)
Kristina Barker captured this photo during her residency in May 2024 and notes “It wasn’t even a week into my residency before I got to witness the strongest geomagnetic storm to hit the earth in over two decades. The aurora lights and colors intensified as the hour turned to midnight. I took a moment to thank the skies for such a memorable welcome to my 40th year as the clock changed to my birthday. I was alone at every spot I stopped near rampart reservoir, hearing only coyotes a distance away. The last photo of the night I made as I was driving back to Green Mountain Falls, one last look at the remarkable sky show before the clouds returned.”
Skye by Brian Wall
Lakeview Terrace
Brian Wall is a British-born American sculptor living in California. His career stretches over seven decades from the modernist art center of St. Ives, Cornwall, in the ’50s, to the London art scene in the ‘60s, to Berkeley, California, at the height of the counterculture revolution of the ‘70s. Wall was Head of Sculpture at London’s Central School of Art and Design, a professor at the University of California, has had numerous solo shows, and his sculptures reside in many private and public collections. Wall’s one-of-a kind constructed and welded steel sculptures combine geometric elements, often created from sliced sections of industrial steel tubes or I-beams and range from tabletop scale to monumental outdoor installations.
Communication X9 by Yaacov Agam
Mountain Road Corner
Communication X9 was created by Israeli artist Yaacov Agam in 1983 and is a beloved artwork that for decades was displayed on Chicago’s prominent downtown destination, The Magnificent Mile. This summer, Green Box welcomes this diverse and colorful work to its new home at Mountain Road Corner in Green Mountain Falls. Standing at an impressive 43-feet tall, the stainless-steel tower changes appearance as you move around its three sides.
226.5' ARC x 4 by Bernar Venet
Green Box Farm Stand
Beginning with photography and mediums such as coal and tar, Venet began using steel after becoming interested in logic and mathematics. When creating his monumental steel sculptures, Venet didn’t use preparatory drawings, he used intuition to shape each curve of steel to create visually captivating forms.
Loveletter by Pard Morrison
at corner of Park and Mt. Esther Avenues
Colorado native and sculptor Pard Morrison is an active artist based in the Pikes Peak region. Morrison's aluminum fabrications, appearing both solid and apparitional at once, are based on a rational, geometric foundation, with the use of color to denote depth and space. The artist describes his works as "momentary portraits of systems that are in flux."
Keith Haring Fitness Court
Pool Park
Keith Haring was one of the most renowned of the young artists, filmmakers, and performers whose work responded to urban street culture of the 1980s. As early as 1980, Haring began exhibiting in galleries and museums around the world, but continued to participate in public projects, including literacy campaigns and anti-AIDS initiatives. Haring has been the subject of several international retrospectives.
Green Mountain Falls Skyspace, 2022 © James Turrell
Photo by Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography
Red Butte Recreational Area
Opened to the public on June 18th, our Skyspace, the first in Colorado and the first in the world to be carved into the side of a mountain, begins with an inspirational journey from the center of town through the Red Butte Recreational Area, arriving at a transcendent destination. A one-of-a-kind kinetic light and color experience will shift your perception of nature and sky through contemporary light and space – an experiential work of art unlike anywhere else in the world.
It Looks Like there Is A Party Up There, Thu Kim Vu
Inside the Lakeview Terrace Hotel - East Room
Vietnamese artist Thu Kim Vu used Washi paper, Zo Paper, Cheesecloth, and LED lights to create this installation during her July 2024 Green Box Residency. of this installation she writes " Inside the Lakeview Terrace Hotel, as one walks in, there is a sense of hidden history. The unknown stories printed on the windows by previous Green Box resident artist Molly Rideout have really intrigued viewers to be curious about what is inside and how the hotel was run in old days. My project at the hotel is more of an imagination of what it feels like if the hotel was open once again. What kind of guests would stay here? How would they encounter the space? My assumption is this wooden common room was utilized for dining, socializing, and other public events. In turn I created this series of light sculptures in different organic shapes and forms. I observed the nature and daily life of Green Mountain Falls and incorporated detailed drawings. I treat them as the first new guests of this hotel. And at night, when everything is lit up, they are having a party in that space"
EARTH.SPEAKS, brooke smiley
Adjacent to the Red Butte Recreation Area West Trailhead
EARTH.SPEAKS is a series of land-based public art projects aimed at healing through community creation of earth markers, a sustainable practice of structure building. This work centers Indigenous identity through reconnecting with our bodies, one another, and the land. Brooke will guide the community in building two earth markers, to uplift awareness of Indigenous history, present day visibility, and messages of the land.
The Managers, Molly Rideout
Lakeview Terrace Hotel
The Lakeview Terrace hotel has stood practically since Green Mountain Falls' founding in the 1880's. In 2022 Green Box writer-in-residence Molly Rideout teased from the historical archive the names and stories of the different women who ran the seasonal boarding house over the decades. The results are nine micro-essays installed in vinyl film on the front windows of the still-standing hotel. This type of installation Rideout calls "Public Writing."
Schulhof's Curve by Richard Serra
Bear Crossing Studio
With its sweep of rigorous COR-TEN steel that dramatically bisects the environment in which it stands, Richard Serra’s Schulhof’s Curve is a modestly scaled version of his imposing free-standing structures that have come to symbolize the artist’s unique brand of sculpture.
Four Orbits by Charles O. Perry
Mountain Road Corner
Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry’s work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical complexity of its genesis. Perry’s Four Orbits sculpture is dark bronze, eleven feet tall, and weighs about 5,000 pounds. It is mounted on a ten-foot stainless steel pole.
Audio Walking Tour, produced by Jessica Kahkoska
33 locations throughout Green Mountain Falls
Put on a pair of headphones and take your own walkabout tour exploring the art installations throughout Green Mountain Falls and the history of this beautiful place. Created by Green Box Artist-in-Residence Jessica Kahkoska, we look forward to visitors gleaning a new perspective on our natural and creative home.
Artists: bring your art to green box
Have a work that you think would look great in Green Mountain Falls? We are always interested in considering temporary or permanent installations, whether 2 or 3-D. Let’s talk!